SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SVB collapsed, market multiples are down, yet the IPO window is re-opening, and we have a platform shift to AI that’s exciting everybody. The Macro Impact On Public Cloud Software Over The Past Year Cloud stocks dropped in 2022 in a severe market pullback event that Bessemer Venture Partners call The SaaSacre. Let’s find out.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The company is an AI platform that empowers teachers to give instant, personalized feedback to students, based in San Francisco. We were really impressed with Class Companion’s founder Avery Pan’s clear vision and mission to help teachers leverage AI to improve education. Our current set of funds totals $3.4B. #3.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

In enterprise healthcare, there are many “Jobs to be Done” (JTBD) for AI. To this end, we present the first part of the 6th episode of the Digital Health Go-to-Market Playbook series –Commercializing AI in Healthcare. The tasks are labor-intensive, with low historical adoption of traditional software products to facilitate them.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2024

This was precisely my experience upon meeting Toni and Carlos, the founders of Embat, in an area we’ve extensively have been exploring: treasury management and payment automation. Embat is building the next-generation treasury management software. It’s one of the top 3 pain points of mid-market and enterprise CFOs.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The payments landscape and how it affects businesses trying to grow in Asia. If you’re not sure how to kickstart growth for your digital products or software business in Asia, listen or watch now! Before joining FastSpring, I spent quite a number of years within the payments industry.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments 192

Subscription Flow

JUNE 26, 2024

Did you know that the Dutch payment processing company Mollie was only able to raise $100 million in 2020 as its growth tech investment? Lo and behold, in no time Mollie became the third largest European payment processor (after the fellow Dutch company Adyen and the London-based Checkout.com). So what happened?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

What do enterprise buyers in healthcare care about most when evaluating AI products? In Part A , we outlined the paths to generating unique value for the healthcare system and patients. We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Getting the best inventory management software for your business will make all of it a reality. And if that isn’t enough, the software tool can also help you reduce operating costs, increase revenue, and most importantly, ensure greater customer satisfaction. How to Choose the Best Inventory Management Software for You.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Data cited by Statista shows that the software as service is expected to hit $299 billion by the end of 2025. Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. More on that later.

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Stax

APRIL 30, 2024

Whether you run a small online store or a major brand, accepting electronic payments is a must for all businesses. According to Onbe, 73% of consumers prefer using digital payments like cards and payment apps. But to seamlessly receive these payments as a merchant, you’ll need merchant processing services.

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Stax

JANUARY 17, 2024

Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments are a type of electronic bank-to-bank payment system in the US. Unlike payments facilitated by card networks like Visa or Mastercard, ACH payments are managed by a body called the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA). Let’s get started.

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Stax

JANUARY 23, 2025

The merchant underwriting process is a critical step that payment processors and financial institutions use to assess the risk associated with onboarding new businesses. Merchant account underwriting is the evaluation process payment processors use to assess whether a business meets the criteria for accepting credit card payments.

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Stax

JUNE 18, 2024

In a subscription business model, customers pay a recurring fee in exchange for a product or service. This could be a subscription box, a SaaS (Software as a Service) product, or even just a streaming platform like Netflix. But managing subscriptions effectively and freeing up time and resources for expansion is no picnic.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. It is if you took LinkedIn, combined it with the app platform from Salesforce, and looked at the domain, which is supply chains. Third parties are developing apps for our platform.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

This article will look at the most successful SaaS companies, so you can decide if you want to invest in them for your business. TL;DR A SaaS product delivers software remotely, reducing the need for local installation, maintenance, and updates.

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Released in 1979, VisiCalc was the first “killer app” of finance (on the Apple IIe!), and one of the things that allowed KKR and other early firms to model outcomes and make so much money. Generative AI is likely going to usher in a far more profound method of company transformation. billion, against almost $2.8

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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. Recurring payments.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

They discussed the wide-ranging implications that generative AI will have across fintech and how it will boost jobs, rather than replace them. Alex Immerman: If 2023 was the year of efficiency, 2024 is the year of generative AI. My general view is that every part of AI will be way better next year. Mind sharing?

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Baremetrics

MAY 13, 2021

Cash flow modelling software lets you use historical data from a time period to develop a forecast of your incoming cash from revenue. For SaaS businesses, you use your contraction monthly recurring revenue (MRR) , churn, and average revenue per customer in addition to other transaction data to predict your future cash flow.

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 78

Stax

AUGUST 22, 2024

Digital payments are increasingly becoming the norm. According to Forrester’s data, digital payments are the most used payment method today, with 69% of American adults using them to make payments online. Businesses must therefore adapt and be able to accept such payments.

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Subscription Flow

JUNE 26, 2024

Did you know that the Dutch payment processing company Mollie was only able to raise $100 million in 2020 as its growth tech investment? Lo and behold, in no time Mollie became the third largest European payment processor (after the fellow Dutch company Adyen and the London-based Checkout.com). So what happened?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Has been CEO before, was CEO of Alfresco Software and long career in software and comes in, I think, with a lot of passion for customers and customer success, which I’m excited to hear about and also comes in live streaming, my understanding is from a boat right now, right Bernadette? So they kind of got that wrong, right?

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some solutions, like Slack or Microsoft, are useful for any kind of business. What is Vertical SaaS?

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 29, 2024

With the combination of diligence solutions (e.g., We also sought the advice of several software providers who work with fintech borrowers to get their best approaches to managing one or more debt facilities. Certain software and services providers have the ability to do all 3; other times the roles are divided.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

What does the future hold for B2B software? Focus on more flexible business models. One is connected to the payments business and what my company, Flywire, does, and the other is related to how organizations manage themselves. Employee engagement software is another interesting area for SaaS.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 12, 2022

This article is one such list, where we take a deep dive into cash flow modeling for SaaS businesses and the software that can help you do it. Cash flow modeling is a necessary but complicated task. In this article, we are going to summarize the six tools you should consider for cash flow modeling in 2022.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. I want to talk about how we got to the business model that we have at Lambda School because it’s one of the things that separates us from other schools. And when we got to that point, the solution was really simple. Want to see more content like this?

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This year, topics ranged broadly from incorporating AI to deliver world-class consumer experiences to defining and measuring different forms of community-powered growth. Historically, the factor that most people use as a heuristic is the business model. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here. B2B requires suite expansion.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Since its introduction, the SaaS business model has grown in popularity and transformed many industries. Why are SaaS software adoption rates among businesses so high? These features make it easier for SaaS users to scale their businesses as they expand and help them run more productive businesses.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. The period refers to a month or year depending on which payment option you offer or which of them is more popular. Software companies that serve large organizations experience a 6-10% churn rate.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Many software and applications are there that claim to boost the performance of your business, but today, the focus of businesses is such technology that can ensure growth in the long run. Customer Relationship Management ( CRM ) software are the ultimate solution to help you.

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ProfitWell

JULY 20, 2020

SaaS companies run on a dynamically different business model compared to traditional companies. The following are some of the reasons why a SaaS financial audit is different: Recurring payments. Long-term payment structures. This is because most payment structures are long term; they span several months or years.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

The SaaS business model is heavily dependent on sustaining an ongoing customer relationship. A proper SaaS renewal management system tracks user behavior to identify customers at risk of churning. At this stage, your goal is to help the customer justify the payment as they approach the renewal date.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

The subscription model is booming. Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software. A subscription company is a business that sells their products on a scheduled time basis. A subscription company is a business that sells their products on a scheduled time basis.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This is a mobile solution for SMB’s to send an invoice and get paid. I think it’s such an interesting window into the company’s business model and I bucket companies into one of three buckets. They’re overwhelmed by the payment decision of which plan to buy. It’s a visitor check-in solution.

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SaaSHolic

APRIL 24, 2023

AI offers opportunities for tech-forward solutions in Brazil’s financial infrastructure, catering to previously uneconomical customer bases. For example, Toast, a company that offers vertical software for restaurants, has expanded into lending.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Models and Fundamentals. The New Solution Selling. Leveraging transparency and vulnerability in your presentations and your negotiations leads to faster buyer consensus, larger deals, faster payments, longer commitments and more predictable sales forecasts. The New Solution Selling. The Transparency Sale.

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