SaaStr

JANUARY 6, 2021

We also recommend diving into some of our top articles on how to succeed during the interview process and your first few months once you’ve gotten the job including: How to Succeed as a First-Time VP of Sales. 10 Rules to Being a VP of Sales in a Startup. The 5 Characteristics of a Great Sales Leader. More on this opportunity here.

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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! Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Jump to video. | Jump to transcript.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

When we announced a few weeks ago that we would be bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia, and running it in Hong Kong, many locals thanked us for choosing the city. Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands.

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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 22, 2024

But when it comes to Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) businesses, this statement stands even truer. So why is SaaS sales tax so challenging? The reason is, there doesn’t exist any single standardized system internationally to preside over SaaS sales tax. What is SaaS Sales Tax? Is SaaS taxable?

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Blulogix

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

When it comes to revenue prediction, traditional estimation tools have long been used to give a general sense of what to expect. This is where the concept of real invoice calculation comes in, fundamentally changing the way organizations approach revenue projection. Schedule a Demo Today What is Real Invoice Calculation?

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 3, 2018

Several landscape altering SaaS acquisitions will come to fruition because of cash availability from repatriation and because there are enough public SaaS companies at scale to add material revenue and market cap to buyers. That cash could be used for dividends, share buy backs and acquisitions. Microsoft buys Workday.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 20, 2024

2024 is coming to a close, and it has been a terrific year for SaaS businesses as the industry has witnessed quite a favorable growth. For SaaS companies, accounting becomes one of the most crucial processes to understand their financial and overall business health, and then make informed decisions about future steps.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

As we first looked at bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia and considered what help we could offer, we thought about localization and know-how about legal and cultural differences as some of the critical success factors. SaaS Investments: Goodera, and others. SaaS Investments: Ezetap, and others. Founded: 2001.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2021

In Malaysia, Sales and Service Tax (SST) is a consumption tax imposed on a wide range of goods and services. is much simpler for businesses compared with the previous Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime it replaced and the old SST framework that preceded GST. Service tax on digital services (SToDS).

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Stax

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Offering payment processing services is a move that makes sense for a lot of SaaS companies, particularly if your software helps your customers run their business. Adding payments to your suite of features and offerings enables you to provide more value to your users. What Is Merchant Underwriting?

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BetterCloud

JANUARY 15, 2025

With both high complexity and large volume, data within SaaS apps can be difficult to protect. Ensuring its privacy and security requires the proper infrastructure, people, processes, and practices in place. This is why security teams require SaaS security assessments. But whats in them? Insider Threats. So the stakes are high.

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Stax

JUNE 27, 2024

As a business owner, you engage in many daily transactions, from receiving customer payments to paying your bills and suppliers. But cash and checks are rapidly declining as preferred modes of payment. Brainy Insights valued the digital payments market at $102.60 billion in 2022 and estimated it to reach $510.30

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FastSpring

MARCH 16, 2023

The Swiss-based SaaS company now helps governments, enterprises, and SMBs in over 120 countries by providing maps API for web and mobile developers. MapTiler has seen significant growth in revenue in countries with active affiliate partnerships. From 2015 to 2020, MapTiler doubled the number of countries where it has customers.

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FastSpring

JUNE 6, 2024

Xsolla is a merchant of record (MoR) payment provider that serves the video game industry. The platform includes a broad feature set that provides game developers with the infrastructure needed to sell online and accept online payments globally, without having to manage localization, sales tax and VAT, or fraud prevention on their own.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

It’s especially important to note that Digital River is a merchant of record (MoR), which means that many payment service providers may not include the kind of comprehensive services you’re used to with an MoR. Three other payments options in 2024. What Makes a Merchant of Record Different From Payment Service Providers

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Whether you are trying to go green, stay organized, build great looking newsletters, or meet the most stringent regulations, document management software can make a hard process much easier. It turns a really inefficient workflow into a streamlined process with tools to identify, sort, tag, and store all kinds of file types.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 3, 2021

We’re here to tell you that all revenue is good revenue. But there are nuances that you need to know when operating your SaaS business when it comes to revenue. Those nuances come into play when understanding the different types of revenue in your SaaS business. What is Revenue?

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Stax

MARCH 6, 2024

For businesses offering subscriptions, memberships, retainers, and other recurring services, recurring billing is a powerful solution to streamline processes and ultimately enhance revenue generation. Almost everyone — 98% of consumers —has a streaming service subscription. Learn More What is Recurring Billing?

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Angela: Why Global Payments? Jeff Sloan: Thanks for having me, Angela.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

On March 27th, so about a month later, the US government passed the CARES Act, which probably you know, stands for the Coronavirus Aid Relief and Economic Security Act, which is now at three trillion dollars. I thought it’s also worth giving you some sense of scale for how much the US government takes in in revenue every year.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

But that’s easier said than done, which is why we’ve published our new book Intercom on Sales : a deep dive into the many lessons we’ve learned about how selling works at scale, covering everything from hiring tactics to the needs of modern buyers to fundamental processes for forecasting and managing deals. We have a great sales force.

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FastSpring

MARCH 14, 2023

It takes an enormous amount of time, money, and headcount for SaaS companies to handle VAT, GST, and sales tax (and any other form of indirect tax) in-house. Because of this, most SaaS companies end up calculating indirect tax outside of the U.S. Note: The information contained in this article is not to be taken as tax advice.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

This dynamic trio of SaaS experts share how to stay customer-centric and set yourself apart in today’s rapidly changing environment. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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Stax

JULY 25, 2024

Thanks to the rise of SaaS platforms, that’s no longer the case. Today, a small business is barely complete without a POS system. If you feel left out, the good news is that there’s a POS system out there ideal for your business. – Your POS system needs to support the products and services you sell.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This article will dive into the main principles of accounting for SaaS. Baremetrics can integrate directly with your payment gateway, such as Stripe, and pull information about your customers and their behavior into a crystal-clear dashboard. What Makes SaaS Accounting Different from Traditional Accounting?

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 1, 2021

But that isn’t all, if you could earn 1% risk free on that money by buying some government bonds, then the difference grows further. Baremetrics is a business metrics tool that provides 26 metrics about your business, such as MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more. This is a first approximation of the discount rate.

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Stax

DECEMBER 4, 2023

For any merchant selling products or services online, it’s always a good idea to allow customers to make payments on their platform itself—instead of redirecting them to a third-party website or gateway. In this article, we’ll discuss everything you need to know about ensuring AML compliance as a payment facilitator (or PayFac).

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 18, 2021

Invoicing is a sales process where a seller issues a commercial document to a buyer requesting payment. This document shows all products and services rendered, the payment owed, and the contact details of both the buyer and the seller. Invoicing can be done for both recurring and one-time payments.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2021

In Malaysia, Sales and Service Tax (SST) is a consumption tax imposed on a wide range of goods and services. is much simpler for businesses compared with the previous Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime it replaced and the old SST framework that preceded GST. Service tax on digital services (SToDS).

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

When selecting a funnel tool, look for customization, integrations, segmentations , and dashboard options. Here are the best funnel-tracking tools to explore: Userpilot is a product growth platform that gives you granular insights into your funnels with heatmaps, custom events, product usage tracking, and more.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

2020 was the kind of year that would make anyone in the predictions business more than a little gun shy. I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Elevate Your Business With FastSpring Contextual Customer Churn: Turning the Tide With Proven Retention Strategies The Only Thing That’s Constant With Tax Law Is Change Need FastSpring support? Enhance the user experience : Make it easy for customers to find products, navigate through the website, and complete the checkout process.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 6, 2021

Bookkeeping: What not to do SaaS metrics with Baremetrics Key Bookkeeping Terminology The importance of bookkeeping for your small business Putting your bookkeeping data to work. SaaS metrics with Baremetrics But what if you have too many receipts and invoices to be able to do that? be honest How well do you know your business?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account-Based Everything / Revenue. Annual Recurring Revenue. Account refers to a record of primary and background information about an individual or corporate customer, including contact data, preferred services, and transactions with your company. . Business Development Representative. AB Testing. Account Executive.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

The Process for Creating a Sales Compensation Plan. Here’s an example of OTE levels for a SaaS business hiring salespeople in the Bay Area: Table 2. It ties payment to the achievement of specific objectives that have been pre-determined and communicated to the employees that are on the incentive plan.

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