SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. Vindi is a PCI-certified online payment platform for recurring billing. The tool supports multi-currency billing and electronic invoicing. Founded : 2014.

SaaS Payments 257

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

We’ve shared a number of parts of Buffer’s business transparently over the years — and one piece we’ve always wanted to expand on is where your money goes when you pay for a Buffer subscription. Since 2014 our team has grown from 34 to 78 team members.

Merchant Services 98

Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Features Payments 98

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Between 2014 and 2020, Zoom rapidly expanded its product portfolio, adding features like Zoom Rooms, Zoom Phone, and multiple add-on packages. Flexibility: Companies offer a range of subscription options to cater to diverse customer preferences, including hybrid models and value-add services.

Pricing 112

Pricing Scale SaaS Technical Review 112

ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Nowadays, it seems like you can buy just about anything on a recurring monthly plan: razors, clothing, knick-knacks, candles, etc. Over the past decade, ecommerce subscription companies have doubled down on the subscription model to monetize their relationships with customers. What are ecommerce subscription companies?

Payment Methods 12

Payment Methods Payments Payment Features Merchant Services 12

Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker.

Payment Solutions 113

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Social Media 113

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 26, 2014

To get a sense of the broader trends in YC companies, I’ve compared the Winter 2012 class and the Spring 2014 class by sector (consumer v. enterprise), segment (ecommerce, education, social, gaming, delivery) and by revenue model (subscription, ads, transactional). In 2014, enterprise startups were 57% of the class.

Marketing 100

Marketing Scale Education Trends 100

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Subscriptions have slowly become a significant part of our lives. Not only are subscriptions and automated billing services more convenient for our customers, but it also gives our businesses stability through recurring revenue. In other words, technology takes over the mundane task of collecting payments from your customers.

Merchant Services 78

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Features Payment Methods 78

Chaotic Flow

MARCH 25, 2014

At the time, SaaS investors and executives were still getting their heads around the SaaS recurring revenue business model, so there were very few resources to turn to for support. A SaaS business is different because of the recurring revenue subscription model. Fast forward to today. What makes a SaaS business different?

Metrics 156

Metrics Business SaaS Scale 156

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In the past months, he has offered a pricing teardown to every subscription business you can think of, from Spotify and Netflix to NYTimes and Match.com.Patrick’s professional experience is diverse and curious: his first job was at the U.S. Then he was on to a new adventure: founding Pipefy in 2014.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 1, 2019

The new SaaS model is subscription revenue-driven, which begs the question: what is a conversion today? It’s not just SaaS; subscriptions are taking over. And that’s not even the only one from Japan; there’s actually at least 18 different Japan subscription boxes. ” And that’s probably the biggest shift.

Retention 223

Retention Onboarding Subscription Payment Features 223

Stax

AUGUST 26, 2024

Talk to sales Let’s start at the beginning Stax—then called Fattmerchant—launched in July 2014 and was immediately viewed as a disruptor in the payments space due to its subscription-based model and transparent pricing for SMBs. “I’ve been at Stax for 8 years now. .”

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services Stax Payment Solutions 88

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 26, 2015

The Information reported last week that in 2014, only 11% of tech IPOs in 2014 were profitable when they became publicly traded companies, an all time low stretching back to 1980, when the figure was 88%. Some like LinkedIn do this in spectacular fashion, charting more than $569M in 2014 cash from operations.

Startup 100

Startup Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 100

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 1, 2017

Let’s look at some of the key metrics and then compare AppDynamics to NewRelic, a close competitor which went public in late 2014. They sell their APM software as a perpetual software license in addition to a subscription (SaaS). First, Subscription generated 80% of the revenue in 2014. of revenue).

Benchmarks 100

Benchmarks Metrics Software Review SaaS 100

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 9, 2015

The upsell rate was 36%, 31% and 30% for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively. Our upsells are primarily derived by an increase in the number of seat licenses purchased by our customers and are also derived from the addition of other subscription services. Renewal rate.

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Churn SaaS Retention Startup 100

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 6, 2015

In 2014, the median startup grew at 85% CAGR before going public. In 2014, a startup needed $54M. Also, subscription revenue models have become broadly adopted in enterprise and some consumer segments, which provides revenue predictability. US VC backed startups in 1998 grew revenue 63% per year on average.

Startup 100

Startup Acquisition Trends Enterprise 100

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

We created and served up apps via the cloud on a subscription basis. I had breakfast with Dug Song, our CEO and founder back in 2014, and something he said to me hit me in the gut. I would argue it was one of the first SaaS companies of its time, but back then we called it an ASP, an application service provider.

Scale 294

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 294

SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

2014: $500k rev. If you’re handling multiple invoices from different customers that come in different formats, you can keep hiring more finance people or you can have robots augment your finance people. We will do four and a half times what we did last year and be able to be a half a billion dollar AI company in about 18 months.

Sales Hiring 274

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 274

Tom Tunguz

JULY 14, 2015

Bloomberg, provider of the eponymous financial information terminals, generates roughly $10B annually in subscription revenues, and is wildly profitable. Incidentally, this is the reason Google created a new type of share called Class C in 2014 that lacks voting rights, so activists couldn’t influence the company.

Compensation 110

Compensation Finance Forecasting Communication 110

FastSpring

APRIL 1, 2021

Are users automatically billed or signed up for recurring payments? Once the trial ends, you send them an email or in-app prompt that directs them to a paid subscription link. Is it flat-rate, usage-based, tiered, or per-user pricing? Is there an activation or implementation fee associated with your product?

Payment Solutions 138

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Strategy 138

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

We abstracted the way a lot of the complexity of payments. When I joined Stripe, we only had … So that was in 2014, at the end of 2014, we only had one marketers, and three people in sales. This photo’s from 2012, and I joined, as I said, in 2014. I think it was end of 2014. So this photo is a classic.

Scale 160

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 160

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 21, 2015

Above, the line chart shows the astounding growth in the number of Adobe Creative Suite subscribers from the launch of CreativeSuite 6 in mid-2012 through March 2014 growing at 31% per quarter to 3.97M in their last quarter. Only 30 months after launch, subscription revenues have outpaced license revenue at $2.1B respectively.

SaaS 100

SaaS Travel Education Software 100

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The chart above shows the subscription revenue is roughly at $150 million and professional services revenue is about $35 million this year. Second, new customer contract value has more than doubled from $77,000 in 2014 to $169,000 in 2016. Today, the business generates nearly $200 million annually in revenue, and is growing at 70%.

Metrics 100

Metrics Benchmarks Scale Finance 100

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

That’s why, every year, since 2014, we at Bowery Capital have published a Startup Sales Stack Report as a guiding framework for founders and sales leaders evaluating their sales stack. This means responding with greater flexibility, offering shorter billing cycles, subscription pauses, or creative discounts for longer contracts.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Scale Trends Startup 133

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2019

From Twitter, I ended up going to Slack in 2014, about six months after it launched. Kaitlin: Turning our attention to your time at Slack, you joined in 2014, as mentioned. Kaitlin: I’m sure it’s changed over the years, certainly since 2014. This was 2008, and by the time I left, I think there were 3,000 employees.

Scale 168

Scale Scaling Engineering Airlines 168

Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

Spotify's recent F-1 filing is packed full of metrics and insights into both consumer subscriptions and the streaming music industry. Spotify’s filing gives us a rare look into the metrics of a large-scale consumer subscription business. This is likely due to family subscriptions and internationalization. Customer Churn Rate.

Metrics 75

Metrics Payments EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) SaaS Payments 75

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

MAY 5, 2014

They are promising to deliver some benefit over the life of the subscription. See "Listen to your SaaS customers," March 2014) Wrong mail to the wrong person = wrong result When a SaaS marketer sends out an email to a prospect before they know anything about the prospect, they’re off to a bad start. What challenges do they face?

Acquisition 100

Acquisition Business Model SaaS Subscription 100

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Koachee is a platform that helps you connect to clients by providing you a marketplace and the tools you need to succeed, such as: client booking and scheduling marketing tools invoicing run in-app communication. Founded in 2014, Decorist is a B2C niche marketplace specifically for interior designers to sell their design services.

Marketplace as a Service 139

Marketplace as a Service B2C Payment Services Payments 139

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

million in 2014.). I’m going to skip by my life story, and how I grew up as a small child in India, and how the dusty streets influenced my take on unit economics, and SaaS subscription models. We had a notable funding round in October of 2014. million in 2013 to $115.9 Of course, no success story is without its obstacles.

Part-Time VPE 290

Part-Time VPE Technical Cofounder CTO Hire New CTO 290

OPEXEngine

MAY 3, 2022

Deferred Revenue for SaaS companies is the contractual obligation to deliver the SaaS product for the period invoiced. 2014-09, Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) number 606: “Revenue From Contracts With Customers,” which was required for public companies with annual periods that began after December 15th, 2017.

Deferred Revenue 59

Deferred Revenue Metrics SaaS Payments Payment Features 59

ChurnZero

AUGUST 17, 2021

As you can see popularity around Customer Success started to grow more steadily in 2014, and since has really taken off, and continues to go up to this day. So, let’s take a look at interest in “Customer Success” as a search term on Google over time. .

Trends 98

Trends Customer Success Software Review Churn 98

Stax

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Request Quote Upgrade Your Legacy Equipment for Mobile Payments The world’s foremost mobile phone manufacturers, Apple and Samsung started to foster the use of mobile payments as early as 2014 and 2015, respectively. What Can You Do to Adopt These Mobile Payments Solutions?

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Services Mobile Payments Merchant Services 88

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Founded 2014 in Munich, Germany, Loyalty Prime has quickly developed itself into a leading loyalty program tech provider, serving blue-chip companies around the globe from a wide range of industries. In addition to Prime Cloud’s rich feature-set, clients also benefit from Loyalty Prime’s extensive customer loyalty consulting expertise.

Generative AI 90

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

Point Nine Land

MAY 11, 2023

Intuit, Adobe, Oracle, and a few other older software companies have managed to transition to a subscription-based business model. Salesforce, for example, has acquired several AI startups starting in 2014, and Zendesk released an ML-powered chatbot in 2016. So AI has been on the agenda of SaaS leaders for some time.

Generative AI 128

Generative AI AI B2B Software 128

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

But back to the product side, adopting PLG means creating the optimal user journey to engage the customer from the login stage onwards – seamless login, onboarding, subscriptions plans, built-in security, and support features all need to work in tandem to create the best results. Best For: Subscription Management, Billing.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

User Pilot

JANUARY 12, 2024

In this example, the bar chart compares the number of standard, free, and enterprise invoices created over the last 7 days. A horizontal bar chart comparing invoice creations on Userpilot. You can easily see that sales peaked in April 2015 and were lowest in November 2014. Analyzing event distribution over multiple platforms.

Data 105

Data Scale Payment Features Trends 105

Buffer Resources

APRIL 10, 2024

In 2014, making money on social media was a feat for a select few people like travel creator Gabby Beckford ( @packslight ), who made $2,000 for six Instagram posts in the same year. You can promote your subscription offerings on Instagram and direct your followers to your chosen platform to sign up.

Payments 118

Payments Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service Payment Services 118

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

New Relic charges by the server - the more computers monitored, the greater the subscription fee. The company reported $63M in trailing twelve months’ of revenue in their 2014 fiscal year which is right at the median. New Relic processes this data and provides interactive reports to identify underperforming code. to $28.4M.

Benchmarks 100

Benchmarks Underperforming Technical Team Metrics Sales Hiring 100