SaaStr

JULY 30, 2024

Selling to Developers Let’s look at software developers as your target customers, as users and buyers. Most software developers are skeptical. When building developer-focused products, usage can skyrocket at any point, so you have to ensure your systems can handle it. Can your product handle the system if disaster happens?

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 17, 2024

"Singular events can distort reality, but ChartMogul helps us see the bigger picture", says Patrick Craston, Intruder's CTO. Their system helps businesses spot and fix security problems quickly. Patrick initially attempted to build a custom solution for reporting. What is Intruder? It’s far more complicated than it seems.”

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Stax

AUGUST 19, 2024

Stay Payments , a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Valentin Neiconi as Chief Risk Officer. “In an era where technology shapes the future of payments, Stax’s vision to revolutionize embedded payments aligns perfectly with my passion for risk prevention,” said Neiconi.

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Stax

AUGUST 26, 2024

The year 2024 is a special one for everyone at Stax because we’re celebrating a decade of transforming the payments industry and supporting our merchants and partners with innovative technologies and unwavering support. We wanted to provide value to other players in the payments ecosystem, so we launched PayFac solutions in 2019.

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Stax

AUGUST 14, 2024

Experienced payments and sales executive joins Stax leadership team to drive accelerated growth for Stax Connect and embedded payments. Stax Payments , Inc., a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Jeremy Krahl as the SVP, ISV Business Development. and Canada. and Canada.

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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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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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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. Expanding LAMP stack apps by mixing of Java, PHP, Python, Ruby, Haskell (I could go on…). Stories evolve as customers use the software, as new technologies emerge, as market behaviors come and go. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ).

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Many of their software solutions sold by our customers facilitate remote work environments, and most customers have expanded their customer bases meaningfully during the pandemic. We are enhancing nearly all aspects of our ecommerce and payments capabilities to make our customers even more successful. We acquired SalesRight.

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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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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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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. This unbalanced cycle of blockchain app developers not having the infrastructure they need is happening again today. Reduce failed payments. Table of Contents.

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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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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? This is not a winnable solution.

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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.

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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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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

When the company was first founded, two of its co-founders, Wade and CTO Bryan were freelancing on web projects and soon noticed a pattern around their clients who were asking for more and more integrations built from one app to another This is where the idea for Zapier was born.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. In this special episode, we sat down with Zanade to talk about allyship, empowering Black-owned businesses, and what it takes to change deeply seated systemic issues and affect policy at a national level. There is so much knowledge in the sales CRM systems.

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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. ” Everyone wants to do software. Evgenia : Hi.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 5, 2023

Technology integration enables automation and streamlines processes, leading to increased efficiency. Property management systems centralize operations, encompassing reservations, inventory management, housekeeping, and more. By collecting and analyzing guest data, hospitality businesses can make data-driven decisions.

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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. Seema: You’ve obviously been in the payment space for a long time. And we were tiny.

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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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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. Excited to be back emceeing. That was the start of the Month of Scale. ” Who doesn’t?

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Don’t just check the box because the retained search firm wants to get the second half of their payment. And then the next morning you wake up and you’re thinking about solutions. QUESTION 6: My company is a very technical product and somebody serious software and it’s a new category you were creating like scratch.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Welcome Graneet Since Pawel and Christoph’s investment in Clio (which provides legal firms best in class software to run their business and was Point Nine’s #1 investment (!!)), our vertical SaaS portfolio has only grown further. It’s time for beautiful cloud software to take over. Hundreds of thousands in Europe.

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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. In-app live chat support.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2020

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. We invest in technology companies typically at the earliest stages. We were part of the office of the CTO. Sam Jacobs: Wow.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

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. Further Reading SparkToro Raised A Very Unusual Round Of Funding & We’re Open-Sourcing Our Docs ?.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

The sales strategy required to win over a small business owner will be drastically different from the strategy required to convince an experienced CTO of your subscription’s value. The length of a contract defines how often subscription payments recur. Retain : our automated churn-reduction software. Contract length.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

I demand payment upfront. Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever. If you just get busy and get out there and put energy into systems, that is going to expose opportunities. Put your money where your mouth is when you’re trying to overcome no brand in market.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. He’s actually part of the reason I decided to partner with the founder of SteelBrick Max Redmond and Max had built a great CPQ app, but not a lot of the world had heard of it except for Lars.

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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? What do you think?”

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

So my father sat down with me in our basement, and I remember working in this makeshift workstation that we built together and we learned how to code, because back then there weren’t a lot of applications, there weren’t a lot of games, a lot of software to be used, so we actually had to create it ourselves.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. Shaan: In your system preferences, I think you can turn down the mic-. It's like anytime something new comes along, there will be people that are trying to game the system, whatever. So every software company that ever was has always said, "Our product is intuitive and easy to use."

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

Is your title CTO? Dharmesh: Yes, CTO. Shaan: In your system preferences, I think you can turn down the mic-. It's like anytime something new comes along, there will be people that are trying to game the system, whatever. So every software company that ever was has always said, "Our product is intuitive and easy to use."

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