SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

It’s part of doing business! States are consistently looking for ways to generate more tax revenue, and a fast-growing company (or industry) can provide excellent opportunities. Our first introduction to sales tax was dealing with it as a liability,” CTO and Co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson says. “We

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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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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. What does your role as the CTO entail? You wear all hats as CTO. The definition of CTO is so broad and that’s what I like about this role! Go Yankees!

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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. You have to reconcile different currencies, deal with fluctuating conversion rates, and convert annual payments into monthly revenue. What is Intruder? It’s far more complicated than it seems.”

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Wade Foster is Co-founder and CEO of Zapier, a SaaS company that allows users to integrate web applications they use. At the time the duo had founded Pagar.me, a payment processor. Deep Dive Session: “How to make legal part of your strategic revenue team” Gitlab VP of Legal Jamie Hurewitz. The Deep Dives ??.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 22, 2020

On average, our customers’ revenue grew by nearly 20% relative to 2019. We are enhancing nearly all aspects of our ecommerce and payments capabilities to make our customers even more successful. For the first time, we will process over ten million transactions in 2020. We helped facilitate record growth for our customers.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Provide a platform, not a tool, that can be a consolidator and something that can drive costs, but still have all the features necessary to get the business results. Jay Snyder: We talked about needing to have an understanding of a customer’s business, their drivers, and also ensuring adoption or the business case breaks.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. The B2B SaaS arms race will be won by those who can consistently translate technical debt into development versatility: adding new features, integrating new data sources and workflow integrations, trying new technologies, retiring locked-in dependencies.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

After four months of an unprecedented global crisis, SaaS companies are bouncing back while product led growth businesses are trading at almost 2x higher revenue multiples they started with. About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms.

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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. Their job is to enable go-to-market teams through "joining the dots" between tools, teams & data, optimizing the business rules that drive growth. Selling has changed since Predictable Revenue was published.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

While Baremetrics was fulfilling the desire for public transparency, internally the team was using Looker almost exclusively to track and report revenue metrics. I realized we had better data in the first 2-3 years of the company when we were using improvised solutions, than with our sophisticated business intelligence platform.

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Baremetrics

MAY 4, 2020

And if you’re not careful, it can slowly eat away at your revenue and bleed your company dry. The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. dunning emails) to customers when their payments fail is your best bet at recovering that lost revenue.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Revenue growth rate : This measures the rate at which the company’s revenue is growing over a specific period. A higher revenue growth rate generally indicates positive business performance. A lower MTTR indicates a more efficient incident response and resolution process.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

When business picked up later that year, the team decided to go full-time and raise money. After some initial success and revenue growth, QuikNode received additional interest from investors for a new round. To continue fundraising, it was clear that QuikNode had to dial deeper into business metrics. Reduce failed payments.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

To add to this, B2B marketplaces tend to have various different business models (commission, SaaS, not monetizing in the beginning), which makes it very difficult to come up with one-size-fits-all metrics for each funding round. As a result, we could not collect as many data points as we do for our SaaS napkin.

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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. And I just I fell in love with that whole process of providing infrastructure to Facebook.

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Valerian Tech

JULY 5, 2023

Additionally, implementing guest engagement platforms and smart room technologies enables guests to control in-room amenities and services effortlessly. Increasing Efficiency and Streamlining Operations Efficiency is vital in managing the complex operations of a hospitality business.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So if you need to wait longer, if you need to prepare your board for a longer process, don’t just check the box because the board told you to. Don’t just check the box because the retained search firm wants to get the second half of their payment. QUESTION 4: Comp range in OTE as a function of your current revenue.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

Subscriptions are built on ongoing relationships with customers, so companies selling subscriptions need to understand how to monetize this relationship on a recurring basis. One of the best examples of this type of sales is Netflix—its pricing strategy paved the way for many modern subscription platforms. Contract length.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Essentially, we wanted to understand the truth behind why recurring revenue businesses grow, what contributes to that growth, and how we can replicate that growth for our users. After all, the only way to crack the subscription growth code is to understand businesses at the deepest level, and we never wanted to do this alone.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. For companies who build their own billing integration, they ultimately invest substantial resources in ongoing development work and an arsenal of various third party tools to keep up with their growing needs.

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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. If I look at where we’ve invested in companies, we’ve done a Series A where there’s no revenue and we’ve done a Series A where there’s mid-single digit recurrent revenue.

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TurnKey Labs

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In the global tech industry, the ability to seamlessly integrate talent from around the world is not just an asset, it’s a necessity. However, as any seasoned CEO or CTO would jest, managing a cadre of independent contractors scattered across the globe isn’t all clicking send on emails and watching the magic happen.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. 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.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

While Baremetrics was fulfilling the desire for public transparency, internally the team was using Looker almost exclusively to track and report revenue metrics. I realized we had better data in the first 2-3 years of the company when we were using improvised solutions, than with our sophisticated business intelligence platform.

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All that Saas

DECEMBER 24, 2021

QBO self-serve integration. QBO self-serve integration. All the benefits of Business, plus. We liked the fact that we could add our email to the Fyle expense tracking software to keep the business expenses updated. HRMS Integrations. Universal statement parser to import statements for reconciliations. Auditor Role.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Today’s sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best. We were part of the office of the CTO.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Curious how he felt reflecting on the decision to raise angel money - a decision that ultimately resulted in Wistia needing to take on $17M in debt - I asked Wistia Co-founder and CTO Brendan Schwartz if he’d do anything differently. of revenue at the time and the business was valued at $60M - a valuation multiple of 13x revenues.

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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. But whatever that person’s title is, enlist them in the sales process. Again, I am a cofounder at Kronologic, we are a calendar monetization engine. It’s helpful early on. Enlist the co-founders (06:34).

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 1, 2019

When HubSpot first launched its culture code, Dharmesh Shah, CTO and Founder of HubSpot, felt it was important to share it with candidates. While getting everyone on board with culture might feel exhaustive or you might feel like “that” company, it's the down payment for making a strong culture for the long haul.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Stax Payments , a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Mark Sundt as Chief Technology Officer. As CTO, Sundt will accelerate the delivery of new products, features, and functionality that unlock and drive increased value for Stax customers and partners. and Canada.

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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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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. But my co-founders has done an amazing job, creating a scale platform that now has 600,000 reviews and 3 million SaaS software buyers coming every month looking for products like yours.

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Stax

AUGUST 19, 2024

Risk and fraud executive brings over a decade of experience to elevate processes to drive more frictionless experience for merchants and partners. Stay Payments , a leading payment technology provider, has appointed Valentin Neiconi as Chief Risk Officer. and Canada.

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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. Number two, as a result, they have a much better impact on the revenue side.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 8, 2021

At the same time, the industry is known for delays in projects and in payments, and small companies often struggle with cash management as they deal with multiple projects at the same time, relying mainly on excel and word to issue budgets and invoices, as well as manage their receivables across several projects.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. The first few dozen courses that we published on the platform were authored by the Pluralsight co founders. .” So we built it quickly and we shipped it.

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