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A Vendor’s Guide to B2B Ecommerce

FastSpring

While we’ve been shopping for items like clothes or shoes online for years, another trend is now emerging—business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce. It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $4 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. Cloud and ecommerce may end soon, but it hasn’t ended yet. NRR of 110%+ since 2018 — sort of.

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7 Predictions for SaaS in 2018

Tom Tunguz

The SaaS fundraising market remains ebullient through 2018 as vibrant M&A and an open IPO window trigger substantial liquidity for shareholders. A while ago, I pulled up the Redpoint website from a decade ago, when the bios of the partners said things like “I invest in the internet. Machine learning fades as a buzzword.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

The main target customers of Olist include online shops, retailers seeking better placement, importers and distributors, but the platform is also useful for end customers. Listing your online business on Olist is compared to having your shop in the largest department store in the region. CEO : Vinicius Roveda Goncalves.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

If anything, this was the decade they collectively became leaders not just of the technology industry, but of industry itself – Apple overtook ExxonMobil as the world’s most valuable company by market cap in August 2011 (that month again), and then became the first trillion-dollar company by market cap in 2018.

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SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards 2019: The Top Five

SaaStr

Stripe’s software allows its customers to make and receive payments by providing the technical, fraud prevention and banking infrastructure to operate online payment systems. Qualtrics is an online survey software maker. Ryan Smith Qualtrics Founder/CEO. In 2004 he became CEO of MarkLogic where he stayed until 2010.

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How To Reduce Credit Card Fraud On Your Online Store

FastSpring

billion online with U.S. merchants in 2018 , up 15% from $449.88 Unfortunately, as growth in online payments continues to climb so do instances of credit card fraud. Governments have started taking online payment fraud seriously in an attempt to protect consumers and hold companies more accountable.