SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I’ve learned a lot about just the financial system at scale. Chase Merchant Services that we’re now a part of processes $1.2 And Jay was sort of our solution to that process.

Payment Services 182

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 182

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

“It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps.

Payment Solutions 135

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 135

Stax

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Accepting payments is the most important functionality that a business needs to start selling. But to accept payments seamlessly and securely, you need a merchant account. A merchant account refers to a business bank account that allows businesses to accept electronic payments for goods and services.

Merchant Services 88

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 88

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 30, 2020

An affiliate network connects publishers, like blog owners or influencers, with companies looking to promote their products or services. Affiliate networks work as a marketplace for affiliate programs. What types of products and services are your readers likely to be interested in? What is an Affiliate Network?

Merchant Services 140

Merchant Services Payments Payment Methods Marketing 140

Unbounce

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In 2019, small businesses spent between $9,000 and $10,000 per month on PPC , with Google making an average of $116.5 As the name implies, purchase intent is when a consumer shows signs of being ready to buy a product or service. You can use a hierarchy system to leverage the use of your keywords. Image courtesy of Kajabi.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments AI Search 145

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

AWS 98

AWS Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 98

Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Released in 1979, VisiCalc was the first “killer app” of finance (on the Apple IIe!), Lockheed Martin makes F-35s by assembling atoms, and has a 13% gross margin; Salesforce makes software by assembling bits, and has a 74% gross margin. With this faster method of calculating, what might have taken weeks could now take seconds.

VP of Engineering 91

VP of Engineering AI Payment Methods Generative AI 91

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

If you’re short on time, here are some quick takeaways: From Superhuman to bedside lamps, we look at the products and technology that defined 2019. Des: This is our 2019 look back where we’re going to talk mostly about things that happened this year, and indeed this decade. The products that defined 2019.

Payment Methods 118

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Technical Review Technology 118

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Try as he might, he couldn’t find a solution to get around it. If you’re short on time, here are a few quick takeaways: If you’re starting a business, make sure you have the technical skills to build, manage, and grow your services internally. It was a real problem for me – I couldn’t find a solution.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Software Review Development Team Review Systems Review 118

Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Board Seat: No Investment Docs: [link] Application Deadline: March 1, 2019 Apply Here: [link] Indie VC is the OG on this block and describes itself as “growth revenue for post-revenue companies.” Each time a payment is made, the fund’s ownership stake is reduced with the founders’ ownership shares increasing.

SaaS Payments 102

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

Your customers want to buy online more than ever, whether that’s for a $10 million system or a last-minute birthday present. McKinsey notes that B2B decision-makers are pushing to e-commerce and e-commerce-like sales cycles, and up to 80% prefer either digital self-service tools or to contact teams remotely.

Outsourcing Services 90

Outsourcing Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Transportation 90

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

We have written already that the emerging online marketplaces have changed dramatically event tickets selling process in the recent decade. The Marketplaces for Selling tickets online Nevertheless, digital marketing is not what we intend to focus on at present. support service. mobile application integration.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 40

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Customers of these SaaS companies also referred to as “Small and Medium Businesses” or SMBs, need the same software solutions as Enterprise companies but have resource constraints that prevent them from using the top SaaS vendors. The most common strategies are Direct Sales, Inside Sales, eCommerce Marketplaces, and Partnerships.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

OTT (Over the Top) streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, and a plethora of others have pushed subscriptions past an industry fad and into becoming an industry onto itself that is very likely to grow. With WooCommerce Subscriptions, you can create and manage products with recurring payments?—?payments are also responsible.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Payments Payment Features Subscription 40

OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

That’s triple the rate of 2020 (100%) and double that of 2019 (165%). . 95% of the world’s population lives outside of the US and (naturally) they need business software to power their working lives. For many of today’s leading SaaS companies, software has become a revenue stream rather than the revenue stream.

Payment Services 80

Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

ChurnZero

DECEMBER 14, 2023

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. In a sense, it was originally more like a lead generation service, or marketplace for barbershops. But it didn’t go well.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Scale 52

Backlinkfy

JULY 30, 2019

as of May 2019. Amazon also hosts a marketplace wherein other Internet purveyors may display and sell products, and offers several software-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions for business. The marketplace charges a fee for merchants based on the sell of a listed item.

Payment Methods 40

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 40

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. You might sell it through Facebook marketplace.

SaaS Payments 293

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 293

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. Why does Eric believe that the bar for execution in SaaS in 2019 is so much higher than in 2009? How does Eric think about goal and KPI setting with a much larger team?

Sales Hiring 164

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting 164

SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. As difficult as SaaS companies can be to build, that can go double for things like setting up billing systems and automating revenue. Platforms-as-a-service.

Payment Features 259

Payment Features Payment Services Outsourcing Services Payment Solutions 259

Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

The Wikipedia contributors define product innovation as “the creation and subsequent introduction of a good or service that is either new, or an improved version of previous goods or services.”. Note: These are written with SaaS and software products in mind, although many of the principles apply to other types of products as well.

Innovation 105

Innovation Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments 105

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

Take HubSpot, for example: over the last five years, they’ve grown their app marketplace from 40 to 350 integrations. In a 2019 earnings release, HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan characterized the company’s evolution as one from “an all-in-one suite to an all-on-one platform.”. Today they boast more than 20 integrations.

Underperforming Technical Team 183

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Payments Payment Services 183