Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The ultimate goal of any developer with an idea for some useful software is monetization. Software monetization is simply the act of generating revenue from software. Baremetrics provides an easy-to-read dashboard that gives you all the key metrics for your business, including MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

A few of the leading companies in the Cloud 100 list, as put together by Forbes, of leading enterprise software companies are in industry verticals and just on the Salesforce platform, the three most valuable companies built on the platform were industry-vertical companies, including nCino, Vlocity, and Veeva. How did you manage that?

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 215

FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. What Is Messente? Were they delivered?

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SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Payment Services Payments 147

Stax

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This may be concerning for certain types of businesses as they need to spend more to process credit and debit card payments as compared to cash. Clearly, the monthly fees that businesses typically pay to accept card payments can eat away a significant portion of their revenue and overall profits.

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In today’s competitive SaaS landscape, Customer Success has emerged as a vital strategic asset, driving revenue growth and long-term profitability. However, to fully unlock its potential, companies must go beyond qualitative insights and bring data into the decision-making process within Customer Success ranks and investments.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

In this conversation, a16z General Partner Angela Strange talks with J eff Sloan, former CEO of Global Payments, about how he was early to spot significant industry trends, how to make bets that move an organization, and the sea change that AI represents for the financial services industry. Angela: Why Global Payments?

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 81

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Founded: 2013. GIC manages a diverse portfolio, including investments in high growth tech businesses. BEENEXT is a Singapore-based VC investing in fintech, platforms, payments and SaaS businesses. Founded: 2013. Founded: 2013. Size of fund: $278.6M. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed. Founded: 1981.

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SaaS Payments Venture Capital Payment Services Telecommunications 190

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Instead you should focus on Natural Rate of Growth (NRG) to determine the percentage of recurring organic revenue. This metric is a strong future revenue indicator. It allows your users to engage more with your platform thanks to customizable product tools, targeted messages and email sequences. 3 Frontegg. This is not all.

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Stax

DECEMBER 20, 2023

By following these simple tips, you’ll be able to secure credit card processing rates that make big businesses jealous. Learn More TL;DR Not all credit card processing companies are created equal. Look for transparency in pricing, no hidden fees, and options that suit your specific business needs.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Have revenue, but early, so like 50K ARR after two months of charging for a product. People were so excited about SaaS when public companies were trading at 30 to 50 X revenue that they would want to take that meeting. Now, revenue’s coming in looking good. Last year offered checks of between five and 10, early.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 percent of our total revenue and 83 percent of our fees. Google and Apple payments make up 2.5% of our total revenue and 17 percent of our fees.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Features Payments 98

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Giraffe is a mobile job matching platform that helps medium skilled workers get access to opportunities and helps businesses to recruit staff faster, and easier, and more affordably than any other way. Our first MVP was actually an SMS based app where job seekers would send six SMSes in order to register on our platform.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. These businesses usually consist of 2 to 3 people, and companies are taking bets on their products that aren’t even fully realized yet. The platform is free, private, and has no middlemen.

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FastSpring

JUNE 19, 2019

Data is now fundamental to how people work & the most successful companies have intelligently integrated it into everyone’s daily workflow,” he said. Alibaba Executive Vice Chairman Joe Tsai said millions of small businesses are now using the platform. 50% of the world’s population is now using the Internet.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

As of 2013, 70% of searchers used the “ click-to-call ” function directly from the search engine result pages (SERPs). Google also realizes that your business is ‘special.’ And, it released an algorithmic update, in July, 2014, to favor local businesses for neighborhood-focused mobile device queries. So far, so good.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

To offset the mostly one-time payment from customers, Tableau employs a land-and-expand strategy. The company went public in 2013 and we’ll use data from their S-1 through 2013 to benchmark the business. In the next seven charts, we’ll explore how Tableau built their business.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Back in 2013, the entrepreneur founded and single-handedly organized B2B Rocks , a SaaS conference that today gathers over 1500 founders, investors, and industry leaders. When it comes to document and data collection, the future will involve fewer documents and more direct, automated connections between platforms.

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Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review 118

Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range. The nature of the business changed, so why shouldn’t the multiple change with it? 2020 Predictions Review. Data quality?

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Baremetrics

JUNE 27, 2021

Using the wrong metrics, using them in the wrong way, or overlooking the crucial ones can be a disaster for your business. There are so many business metrics platforms out there that it becomes hard to choose the one you actually need. By the end of the article, you will have a clear overview of both these platforms.

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SaaS Payments Payments Merchant Services Payment Features 69

Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic. However, after a 2013 lawsuit, card companies started allowing businesses to charge customers a fee for using credit cards.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Point of Sale 88

Stax

JANUARY 24, 2024

Credit cards remain a favored way of making payments among customers. However, the idea of applying a credit card surcharge to offset the processing cost of credit cards has always been a hotly debated topic. However, after a 2013 lawsuit, card companies started allowing businesses to charge customers a fee for using credit cards.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Point of Sale 88

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For other businesses, an expansive blog-style platform reaps the full benefits that content marketing has to offer. We’ve taken the approach of sharing every piece of our journey, so it may help other SaaS businesses out there take their first big leaps, and that’s worked very well! Take Baremetrics for instance.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

A: I joined the company in 2013. FastSpring’s core business. FastSpring sits at the intersection of three core areas: software and subscription billing, payments, and ecommerce. We’ve mostly grown from inbound leads and were doing about $8 million in revenue…I like to call it the teenage years. A: Absolutely.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Eventually, the company needed to layer in new advertiser focused loops to monetize, but I’ll skip that detail for now. The company requires either new growth loops or new products to acquire, retain, or monetize better. The entirety of Pinterest for the first few years I was there was tuning these loops in one way or another.

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Payments Scale Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 63

All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

In this roundup, we are going to have a look at some of the best Influencer Marketing Platforms that you can use to connect with the right influencers, manage campaigns, measure analytics, and a lot more. Influencer marketing platforms are a great solution to engage with your audience in the right way. dollars in 2018. Influence4you.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

Look at Snowflake and GitLab and ZoomInfo, growing almost 60% at a billion in revenue. I’ll tell you, of all the founders I’m impressed with, I’m most impressed with founders that I meet and I’m like, “How you doing”, “Well, I’m at 2 million in revenue and I’m going to grow 2.5

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Stax

AUGUST 1, 2024

Did you know that the delinquency rate for small businesses has reached a record high owing to inflation and declining revenues? One way to do that—though often overlooked—is to optimize their payment processing to reduce fees associated with credit card purchases.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Stax 88

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 2, 2019

Travis Todd is a co-founder at FullContact, but in his current role, he is fully dedicated to Contacts+ as the team’s Head of Revenue. Contacts+ has a platform with applications that are available on the web, iOS, Mac OS, and Android — and also has extensions that work with the Chrome browser along with a number of integrations.

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Churn Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 12

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

If your eCommerce business needs an online payment processor, perhaps you're considering Stripe vs. Braintree. Online payment platforms make it possible to send and receive payments. Keep reading for an overview of Stripe vs. Braintree, as well as how Baremetrics can expertly analyze data from both platforms.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 59

All that Saas

OCTOBER 12, 2021

For the past couple of years, COVID-19 has steadily made the financial sector take 360 degrees by integrating tech to evolve buying and spending. The Best Digital Wallets for Online Payments in 2021. Curve gives you a 30-day period to move past payments between cards. Download: Android | iOS. Download: Android | iOS.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Services 52

Stax

APRIL 4, 2024

According to Forbes , 32% of consumers use it as their primary payment method. But as great as they are for consumers, merchants know that accepting credit card payments comes with added costs in the form of processing fees. The processing fee can be a fixed value or a percentage and varies among card brands.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

This knowledge makes it easy to predict revenue growth for the future and track how customers’ perception of value changes over time. When you see how the subscription-based economy helps both companies and customers, it’s easy to understand why this business model is continuing to gain traction across the board.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2023

We did some hacky stuff, turning virtual assistants in the Philippines into SDRs, leveraging ToutApp (one of the first sales engagement platforms), and building web scrapers via Upwork to assemble endless leads lists. The meetups led to our first-ever, 300-attendee Sales Hacker Conference in San Francisco in September of 2013.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 2, 2019

Travis Todd is a co-founder at FullContact, but in his current role, he is fully dedicated to Contacts+ as the team’s Head of Revenue. Contacts+ has a platform with applications that are available on the web, iOS, Mac OS, and Android — and also has extensions that work with the Chrome browser along with a number of integrations.

Churn 52

Churn Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods 52

GetUplift

JANUARY 19, 2023

In fact, back in 2013 these personalization tactics contributed to 35% of Amazon’s sales. In addition, Amazon uses your browsing history on the platform to suggest other products and add-ons that may interest you (e.g Personalization is still a big part of the Amazon experience today.

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BitPay

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

For some context, let’s look at previous halving years: 2012 Bitcoin halving, new all-time high in 2013 2016 Bitcoin halving, new all-time high in 2017 2020 Bitcoin halving, new all-time high in 2021 Why should your organization care about any of this? Integrate crypto payments into your business operations.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

He has been a partner at Y Combinator since 2013, advised hundreds of startups, and has been active in promoting diversity efforts among startup founders. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. We were always extremely transparent about our cash in hand, our months of runway, our traffic, our revenue.

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