Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 4, 2019

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. billion in revenue) so it’s safe to say Jeanne and her team have helped do exactly that.

Scale 162

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. If you want to be in this niche, perhaps consider narrowing it down by choosing only to use small businesses or those from a specific region of the United States. Develop a Business Plan.

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Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Subscription Payment Features 128

FastSpring

MAY 20, 2024

As the VP and General Manager of the Stardock Software division, Brad led his team through this process and has learned some valuable lessons about doing it as strategically and easily as possible. Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your SaaS business? Recurring payment processing.

SaaS Payments 158

SaaS Payments Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 158

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). I’m an execution person.

Scale 162

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

We also show you how to personalize your billing practices with advice from our experience working with thousands of SaaS businesses. The person using your SaaS product may not have access to the credit card used to sign up. He then sent out a link to this page inside payment failure notification emails.

Merchant Services 146

Merchant Services Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 146

Stax

MARCH 18, 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. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store. This method can help you determine the best ways to reach SaaS growth within your business.

Scale 117

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

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 the SaaS business model. Recurring payments. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. Early stage.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. This is what the person would be paid annually and it has two elements; a base salary and a sales incentive held against sales, also known as variable pay.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 168

How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. Setup Pricing model and payment gateways.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 12, 2022

Unlike revenue, where more is basically always better, and expenses, where lower is basically always better, cash in is not necessarily good and cash out is not necessarily bad. However, not having a good idea of how much money is entering or exiting your business over time is always bad! Instead, it relies on accounting data.

Payment Services 95

Payment Services Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 95

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. Richman’s former company was Halp, a help desk for operations teams.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 105

Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But if you’re a B2B solution, there’s a high likelihood that businesses will be interested in being able to accept customer payments, rather than just sending them a PayPal link or to a generic payment gateway. How do you add payment processing capabilities to your software?

Payments 88

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Merchant Services 88

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is part three of a three part series on sequencing business models. In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. Incorrect incentives will lead to poor quality integrations.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Scalability Other Factors That Affect the Sales Multiple How to Make Your SaaS Business More Attractive and Valuable 1. Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. An example of synergy could be an ecommerce brand aggregator acquiring an ecommerce tool to scale the primary business. Transferability 2. Sustainability 3.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Technical Review Development Team Review Software Review 105

ProfitWell

AUGUST 18, 2020

Reliance told her that she would need to buy-out the remainder of her two years in one lump sum payment, plus the interest the company would lose over those two years, and she would have to pay an additional hefty administration fee too. The administration fee alone totaled nearly three of her monthly payments. Every person has biases.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Outsourced Development Underperforming Technical Team 111

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

Introduction You want a subscription model for your business that increases revenue and keeps customers. You think about either Stripe , a payment platform, or Recurly , a customer-driven one to handle your billing. Decide on one or both depending on how you see your business and its success. Which do you choose?

Payment Services 69

Payment Services Payment Features Payment Methods Payments 69

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My intention today is to share a little bit about our journey as a company, my personal journey as an entrepreneur, and give you something that you can take away to apply to your own businesses. It’s awesome to be back at SaaStr and be with all of you, and I’m really looking forward to this time we have together.

B2B 164

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 164

Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team. For each funding option, ask: “Is this funding option aligned with my values and goals for the business?”. What do I need funding for?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. Now that was something you found online and bought in person. They have a lot of that going on.

Software Review 148

Software Review Technical Review Development Team Review Branding 148

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. Over the past seven years, she’s been responsible for scaling Stripe’s worldwide business operations. Her team loved working for her. COO, what does it mean?

CTO Coach 164

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When shelter in place started, the conversation we’ve had internally on our team is we have to think of ourselves as Navy SEALs, where we’re at base camp right now, and we’re going to train and we’re going to work on our playbooks and do our research. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit.

Investment 207

Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 207

Baremetrics

OCTOBER 7, 2021

For example, if your conversion ratio is low, is that because your marketing team is bringing in poor leads, your sales team isn’t succeeding in converting high-quality leads, or your development team hasn’t put the best parts of your platform at the front for a successful free trial?

Payments 98

Payments Sales SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

Baremetrics

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You may be thinking, “How bad can it be?” According to our data, SaaS and subscriptions businesses lose around 9% of their MRR due to failed payments on average. A dunning process is the manner you go about recovering your customers' failed payments. Your team follows up and payment is recovered.

SaaS Payments 105

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 105

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As software pervades every sector of the world economy, the developers building it are rapidly becoming the most important buyers of technology and infrastructure in companies of all sizes. As a company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet – Stripe’s ability to connect with developers is central to our mission.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Outsourced Development 53

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. The different roles in SaaS companies: Chief Executive Officer : As the highest-ranking executive, this person ensures the company runs smoothly and employees are happy and engaged.

Sales Hiring 98

Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 98

Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!). We were looking to relaunch the user-driven, SaaS side of our businesses. I’d be the first to admit this wasn’t very effective and needed an overhaul.

Churn 71

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While their target audience and the breadth of their solutions are the key differences, vertical and horizontal SaaS also share many similarities, in particular cloud-based hosting and subscription business models. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

SaaS Payments 88

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. Q: If a new portfolio company does not already have a Customer Success team in place, in your opinion where does that fall in terms of priority of the business’ development? ChurnZero raised a $2.5

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

User Pilot

JULY 23, 2020

In his blog, we’ll show you why profitability and growth depend on retention marketing; how to measure retention; how to reduce churn rate , and how to develop a strategy for keeping and growing your customers through the critical early stages and beyond. How users feel about your company, your product and your team makes a difference too.

Retention 91

Retention SaaS Payments Strategy Payment Solutions 91

Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

However, the subscription business model cant 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. Richmans former company was Halp, a help desk for operations teams.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Churn Payment Services 52

BrightBack

AUGUST 19, 2019

Here are three ways to grow your business utilizing customer retention. Organize your teams around the customer relationship. A subscription business model requires proving a consistent return on investment (ROI) to your customers. In my experience, this is much easier said than done.

Retention 55

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Which specific aspects of your website or app frustrate them? What activities or patterns do customers exhibit just before they leave your website or app? Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Let’s take a closer look at its benefits.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. Baremetrics is a subscription analytics and insights management platform that helps businesses get hundreds of valuable metrics and insights, achieving real-time growth. Let’s take a closer look at its benefits.

Engagement 52

Engagement Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 52

Natalia Luneva

APRIL 24, 2025

Imagine cutting years off payment system setup. The number of Payment Facilitators (PayFacs) has grown 13.8% This shows how fast this model is growing. For businesses, this means they can use payment systems without starting from scratch. PayFac as a Service lets companies add payment processing to their platforms.

Merchant Services 40

Merchant Services PayFac as a Service Payment Services Marketplace as a Service 40