SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With nine figures in revenue, Ariel and SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin talk about all things Navan, rebranding when you have brand equity, building B2B software for people, pricing and business models, and much more. They learned from some of the biggest in SaaS — Aaron Levie and Jeff Lawson. Should you push more on GTM?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

An ICP aligns your product, sales, marketing, service, and executive teams to all focus on your highest-value accounts. Brex then scaled its payments business quickly. Then, it built an entire ecosystem around it, soon launching Shopify payments, an embedded payment tool that quickly became the largest piece of the business.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

The SaaS industry has seen explosive growth in the past decadeand this is expected to continue this year. Data cited by Statista shows that the software as service is expected to hit $299 billion by the end of 2025. Part of this can be attributed to the SaaS model’s unique aspect of relying primarily on future revenue.

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FastSpring

MARCH 6, 2019

One challenge many online merchants face after they’ve finished developing their product is figuring out how to easily accept payments on their online store. But navigating the complex world of online payments for the first time is challenging work. shop confidently knowing that their bank and payment card information is encrypted.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 81

FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack.

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Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Software Review 147

FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

We don’t have to look far to find examples of B2B SaaS companies that have found traction using a self-service or product-led motion. In fact, it’s telling that the number of publicly-traded PLG-led companies nearly quadrupled between 2015 and 2020. What does that mean exactly? How B2B and B2C Are Converging.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

The 80s and 90s were all about physical purchasing and installation of software CDs and floppy disks. Embrace self-service: Your development teams are embracing the self-service philosophy – your teams can focus on product adoption and self-service enablement. So pick accordingly. #1 1 Intercom. 3 Frontegg.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As the popular saying goes ‘‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it,’’(Bolsinger 2015). In today’s competitive SaaS landscape, Customer Success has emerged as a vital strategic asset, driving revenue growth and long-term profitability. This shared understanding facilitates strategic planning and resource allocation.

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Customer Success Payments 52

SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

At the very first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , we picked 3 break-out leaders at $5m-$10m, and added Nick Mehta from Gainsight. Here’s a chance to look back at 4 pre-IPO SaaS leaders today, and how they were doing and what they were thinking in the run up to $10m ARR. web services. How did they do? All of them! CEO of Algolia.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the lessons I, along with many other founders and investors, have learned in my roughly 15-year journey in SaaS investing is that most businesses adopt new technologies at a painfully slow pace. ServiceTitan, a leading vertical SaaS for home services, penetrated 1% of its core TAM of 900,000 home services businesses.

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AI SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence 119

FastSpring

MARCH 16, 2023

From 2015 to 2020, MapTiler doubled the number of countries where it has customers. The Swiss-based SaaS company now helps governments, enterprises, and SMBs in over 120 countries by providing maps API for web and mobile developers. If you are interested in adding maps to your website or apps, you can get a free trial.

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Payment Methods Payments SaaS Payments Social Media 148

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The solution? Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. While it’s a trend across sectors, it’s picking up steam in tech where companies are looking to deliver more complete solutions to consumers. Micro startup acquisitions.

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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. Let’s say you have developed an app that provides enough value to potential clients that you can charge money for its use. Payment ii.

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Payment Features Payments Payment Solutions Subscription 95

yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

When it comes to sales technology quite often sales tech isn't picked based on what YOU need, but based on what your network have been using for their sales process. What you should be making decisions based on is, which sales processes generates the best outcomes you're after - and for your customers.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. You’ll get lots of content from us along with advice for your sales process. Which sales tools best support your sales process?

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app. Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Features Payments 98

All that Saas

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Formerly known as e-wallets, digital wallets use mobile apps that store credit or debit card details from one place. The Best Digital Wallets for Online Payments in 2021. Started in 2015, this top digital wallet gives its users a smart card and an app that lets the user aggregate and manage all their bank cards from one place.

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yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey and to generate your desired outcomes? Which sales tools best support your sales process? Which sales processes generate the outcomes you're after and which tools best assist you in doing so? Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. During 2019 many of the larger providers of sales solutions have spoken of a "rapid consolidation" happening in the sales tools space. Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey?

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. During 2019 many of the larger providers of sales solutions have spoken of a "rapid consolidation" happening in the sales tools space. Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey?

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 103

yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. You’ll get lots of content from us along with advice for your sales process. Which sales tools best support your sales process?

Scale 100

Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions Sales Recruiting 100

Chart Mogul

JULY 24, 2018

Subscription businesses are experimenting with hybrid billing models, mixing recurring revenue with one-time payments. In the enterprise software market, the move to a recurring revenue model is effectively complete. Infrastructure (SaaS + transaction costs). Enterprise (SaaS + professional services).

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Payment Features Subscription Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 76

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Payment Structure: 3 payments (at close, 12 months & 18 months). It was kind of fun seeing something succeed like this, especially after 15+ years building software! He was building various software companies and I did some design work for him. How we got here. A year and a half ago, I started entertaining offers.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And there’s more and more bifurcation between the ‘haves’ – the fast growers – and the ‘have nots’ of SaaS than ever before. For publicly traded companies that are growing 50% or faster, median valuation multiples have increased by an incredible 649% between 2015 and August 201. Today growth appears to be all that matters.

Payment Services 80

Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

FastSpring

OCTOBER 10, 2018

From the moment they start viewing your products to the end of the checkout process, customers expect product descriptions in their native language, prices reflected in their local currency with any applicable taxes included, and a wide variety of accepted payment options to make paying for their products easier.

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Payment Methods Payments Scale SaaS Payments 75

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, and digital products businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and consumer support. Changelog posts from 2015-2020 are available on the archived post located at the bottom of the changelog posts displayed.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium in SaaS is old news. The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. Freemium appeared to be declining in popularity and, when it was in place, drove next to zero new ACV for most SaaS companies.

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Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 25, 2023

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Subscribe now The 10Y and Software Valuations Much has been written about the 10Y, and interest rates more broadly, and their impact on software valuations. At the most base level interest rates are the ground truth of software valuations.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

When it comes to IPOs, 2021 was an excellent year for SaaS companies. Accelerated digital transformation across industries put SaaS companies firmly on the hypergrowth path. According to Gartner , the SaaS industry has grown from $35 billion in 2015 to $145 billion in 2021. Focus on a multi-year horizon.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions SaaS 52

Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As the popular saying goes If you cant measure it, you cant manage it,(Bolsinger 2015). In todays competitive SaaS landscape, Customer Success has emerged as a vital strategic asset, driving revenue growth and long-term profitability. Example: Introducing a customer health monitoring system may require substantial initial funding.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services SaaS Payments Customer Success Payments 52

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s when it occurred to him: the process of scheduling an appointment with the barber was the same as it was 20 years ago. A double-booking problem emerges Named for a character role in the Netflix series, Game of Thrones , Squire set out to be a reservation system for barbershops: “Open Table for barbers”, as some have put it.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Scale 52

All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

Influencer marketing platforms are a great solution to engage with your audience in the right way. To save your time and make your decision process easy we have reviewed some of the best platforms. With a handful number of useful tools, the software helps you connect with the right influencers for your brand. Key Features.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

We also added cash flow charts back in 2015, but these only show how much money has been received from customers in any given period. There didn’t seem to be any suitable product on the market that could bring all this data together and automate the process of calculating revenue recognition schedules.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

in 2015 to €5.32 In the SaaS world, businesses generally aim to drive higher ARPA through add-ons and paid upgrades as the product matures. “Our Ad-Supported Service serves as a funnel, driving more than 60% of our total gross added Premium Subscribers since we began tracking this data in February 2014.”

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Metrics Payments EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) SaaS Payments 75

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 19, 2017

On our blog we also explored the topic of moving up market in SaaS and how businesses might tackle this without losing their soul. February in the SaaS world means one thing: The SaaStr Annual conference. We published The Ultimate SaaS Founder’s FAQ eBook, available as a free download. Read more here.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Scale 58

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

We’ve been doing these SaaStr events since 2015, the SaaStr Annual. We can only process so much change, and I feel like we’ve been through three worlds since early March. I think it’s, in SaaS, in cloud, if you define it that way, I think it’s about 15 to 20%. Sorry, I’ll come back to this.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 216