Payrix

OCTOBER 1, 2024

In the latest episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments Podcast, host Ian Hillis sits down with Candice Raybourn, Head of Partner Activation at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms, to discuss the crucial topic of PCI compliance. What is PCI DSS? Candice explains the basics of PCI DSS. The shift to PCI DSS 4.0

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Baremetrics

MAY 4, 2020

The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. According to our data, SaaS and subscriptions businesses lose around 9% of their MRR due to failed payments on average. I’m talking about involuntary churn. Just how much damage is involuntary churn causing?

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. When you optimize application logic with DBMS stored procedures (thanks, Oracle) or object-relational mapping. Expanding LAMP stack apps by mixing of Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Haskell (I could go on…). The inputs to learning are speeding up fast.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 22, 2020

While much of this was fueled by the strength of their offerings and the rise in ecommerce as a whole, at FastSpring, we rolled out a program to proactively assess and help optimize all facets of our customers’ ecommerce experience and rolled this program out to many of our largest customers. We acquired SalesRight.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Our new Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andra Milender defected from a medical career track before finding her footing on a technology path. She’s looking forward to helping BetterCloud scale and become one of the most reliable solutions that customers use. What does your role as the CTO entail?

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2021

For those who don’t know him, Will has over 10 years of experience in the likes of Yahoo, Digg, Uber, and Stripe, and he’s currently the CTO of Calm , the mindfulness app that helps millions of people to lower their stress levels and sleep better. That question has been on Will Larson ‘s mind for a long time.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

This allows anyone building an app that applies blockchain technology to do so by building directly on top of QuikNode’s globally distributed Web3 infrastructure. While blockchain technology was spearheaded by Bitcoin starting from 2008, using the technology for other applications became popularized around 2017.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Firstly, in the past five years, there’s been an explosion of technology companies — Scott Brinker’s team at ChiefMartec produce the dizzying Martech supergraphic each year. And with that, more data disintegration. This is marketing.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. However, as the company grew, their systems started to fail all the time, prompting the team to re-think their approach and look for a scalable solution. Early in 2019, I had an epiphany moment.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. Pricing Low-Touch SaaS: How to Approach Pricing and Packaging a New SaaS App, by Example. How to Screw Up Your Software Pricing and Packaging Completely. Interesting data compiled by Ibbaka.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. I’m more of an infrastructure person. Why don’t you put them on a card?

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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.

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All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Today, we are going to review Fyle , an online expense management software for modern businesses. Don’t trust technology with your finance expenses? Let’s face it, even the top-notch expense management software can fail your employees if they don’t use it, but it also has to be easy and simple to use. Enterprise.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A thanks to [Marsh 00:00:34] for stepping in at the beginning of the month, and a great session with our own Jason Warner and Adrian, the CTO of Zendesk. Lionetti, the CMO at Confluent, and most recently, the CTO from Zendesk, Adrian. Who is this person? Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You can come up to me after this and I can give you a list of 10 people, but find somebody that’s been a VP of Sales before successfully in a startup, scaled that to some level of success and make that person sort of an independent arbiter of that process. And then the next morning you wake up and you’re thinking about solutions.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. The biggest, in August, we turned 10.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. So if you’re a software founder in that stage, come talk to us. Evgenia : Personally, I don’t think so. Evgenia : Hi.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In this post we dive into understanding the billing iceberg effect and what to consider when determining if you should build or buy your recurring billing solution. If we had used any other system, we would have had to write the code ourselves to handle our usage based billing. Time Is Money: Focus On Your Core Competencies.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 5, 2023

Improving Customer Experience through Technology Delivering exceptional customer experience is paramount in the hospitality industry, and technology plays a crucial role in enhancing guest satisfaction. Technology integration enables automation and streamlines processes, leading to increased efficiency.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. In 1995, while a high school student Rhode Island he was an early employee at Intelecom Data Systems, one of America’s first commercial internet service providers and website developers.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. However, as the company grew, their systems started to fail all the time, prompting the team to re-think their approach and look for a scalable solution. Early in 2019, I had an epiphany moment.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

First strategy here is to build the relationship on a human level , and I think one element of that is you’ve got to get in person. It doesn’t always have to be in person, but at the very least you’ve got to utilize video and you’ve got to utilize personal charisma and you’ve got to build trust with that person.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. Spending or hiring ahead of budget to try to juice growth weren’t options in this model and we’d be forced to grow the way we wanted to: sustainably, with a focus on creative, long-term solutions for our customers and team,” said Savage.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

They were building time and expense software. I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. And that really gave us the inspiration. You’re dot com.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Yousuf Khan: Well, the CIO is fundamentally owning the business technology function of the company. And by business technology function I want to define that because sometimes there’s a overlap with the CTO from an engineering side. Software by nature is an imperfect industry, right?

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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. So we cracked open a basic programming book and we started learning how to write our first lines of software together. He had a sense for it.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. You've probably become a worse person. You seem like a pretty good person. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. It's the thing that I spend pretty much all of my non-family time, non-personal time on. Sam: Got it. Shaan: Yeah.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

It's going to trigger every OCD person that watches this [inaudible 00:00:35]. You've probably become a worse person. You seem like a pretty good person. Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. It's the thing that I spend pretty much all of my non-family time, non-personal time on. Sam: Got it. Shaan: Yeah.

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User Pilot

MARCH 30, 2025

You launched a new app, and youre excited to see how its performing. Ive seen various online forum discussions where people often share short-term fixes like heavy marketing or minor feature tweaks, hoping to retain more users. Why is your mobile app user retention declining? What is a good retention rate for apps?

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Scytale

DECEMBER 22, 2024

In this article, well break down the key differences between NIS2 and DORA, explore what they mean for your operations, and highlight how compliance automation software can simplify the compliance process for both frameworks. Scytale streamlined the process by providing expert-driven technology.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46) 57:57) The effectiveness of in-person field events and road shows. (52:25) 52:25) Why in-person sales environments are crucial for early-career development. (53:46) 57:57) The effectiveness of in-person field events and road shows. (52:25)

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners, a $1B AUM early-stage venture capital firm in New York that has backed category-defining companies such as Chief, Alma, K Health, Latch, Alloy, Dandy and Vestwell. Sense of it.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

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