The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

As I wrote in the original post: It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction.

SaaS Payments 217

SaaS Payments Headcount SaaS Payment Methods 217

FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack.

Payment Services 147

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Software Review 147

The Angel VC

MARCH 22, 2012

It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction. If you like it, tweet it! ]

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Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Solutions 189

Stax

AUGUST 16, 2024

In this landscape, embedded payments have become a great way for SaaS companies to provide value-added services on top of their core offerings to customers. With the plethora of options available, choosing a payment provider and integrating payments into your existing SaaS product can seem daunting.

Payments 88

Payments Embedded Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 88

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. That’s why most businesses turn to tax software and/or tax consultants to help them manage indirect tax.

Payment Solutions 117

Payment Solutions Merchant Services SaaS Payments Payment Methods 117

Stax

JULY 1, 2024

Whether you’re a startup or an enterprise-level business, efficient payroll software is essential. Yet it isn’t always cost-effective to hire an in-house team to manage payroll, especially for businesses with a small headcount. Factors to consider when choosing a payroll software include headcount, budget, and tax compliance.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Payment Services Payment Methods Payments 88

Payrix

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast. We’ve seen it far too often.

Payments 100

Payments Merchant Services Embedded Payments Payment Services 100

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2022

This is especially important for small teams, where you need to operate at a scale far beyond your headcount (without burning out your team by working around the clock). Using Brex also saves time for your finance team (or, depending on headcount, your finance person ??) Look for tools that can scale with you.

Scale 163

Scale Payment Services Startup AWS 163

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 26, 2022

These are activities such as searching for information, switching between apps, and chasing status updates. “68% 68% of employees spend at least 30 minutes a day switching between apps. Use automation to make your headcount count for more. This doesn’t just slow your business down; it slows your customers down, too”.

Payment Methods 118

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services 118

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. But for some reason this is precisely what the 99% of software companies are doing when they implement the SDR/AE sales model. We just were never going to get that headcount. Was it enjoyable?

Scale 162

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Payment Services 162

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. And that is you’re seeing a bit of a separation in those companies that have really the stickiest, most critical solution. And this is highlighting something that we’re really seeing across the board.

Sales Hiring 217

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 217

Sales Hacker

JULY 16, 2020

Tech integrations make for a very natural narrative about why and how solutions should be co-sold together or cross-sold into each other’s customer bases. Customers value the ability to build their own solution stack , and they routinely look to their existing vendors for help. Middle of the funnel: warm your cold deals.

Scale 127

Scale Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 127

FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

Zuora is a recurring billing and monetization solution for: Subscription management Revenue recognition Payment collection Quotes And more… However, Zuora has one main shortcoming — it doesn’t handle sales tax or transaction liability for you. So, in the following list, we share how easily each solution integrates with other software.

Payment Services 78

Payment Services Payment Methods Payments Merchant Services 78

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

But Tara Bryant, SVP of Sales at Pipedrive, thinks this is a mistake if you don’t have the right processes, systems, and metrics in place first. When I started, they had a big growth plan as far as headcount, but they were a little bit looser on processes and cadences and things like that framework I was talking about.

Scale 172

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Payment Services 172

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

return on investment is returned, you have no further payment obligation and you have retained your equity ownership while growing. the loan) will be paid back and a return cap will be achieved over time (24-36 months) based on monthly payments delivered as a % of your cash revenue. Once the 1.5x 2 Main approaches to RBF.

Finance 85

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 85

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Zapier’s support organization currently stands at close to 100 in headcount – almost a third of the entire company. We listened to them to try and understand what they needed to succeed, whether that was a break in their payments, or to automate further because they were now working from home. Balancing technology with a human touch.

Payments 118

Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods 118

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2020

If you’re able to identify the customers who had really explicit pain with their prior provider that drove them to choose your solution, these are going to be really great customers to enlist as advocates as well. It’s almost like a point system where if you do this, then you get Y. What am I going to get?

Scale 191

Scale Payment Services Sales Hiring Payment Methods 191

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. Like a large tanker at cruising speed that cannot quickly take a turn, a startup with a fast-growing headcount and a high burn rate loses some of its ability to quickly react to new information, new insights, or changes in the market.

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Scale 106

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. We could translate the software into Spanish. How the hell does that happen?

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaSX

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

For many startup software companies (and their founders), an early capital-efficient approach to growth can make a huge difference in the long run. Ideally, as a company scales, headcount doesn’t scale exactly in tandem. Ah…you know there can’t be a B2B software article that doesn’t mention churn, right?

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Software Review Software Payments 52

Sales Hacker

MAY 15, 2023

New data about buyer psychology in B2B software purchases from Datanyze found that more than 50% of buyers would respond to cold pitches from people they know in person or from LinkedIn.) Keep the costs down Headcount is expensive. You’ve got the connections and authority. And this is a big deal. Need a proof point?

Sales Hiring 104

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services Payment Services 104

The SaaS Garage

JULY 28, 2021

Contentful, formerly known as a UI-free content management system (headless CMS), now views itself in a broader light. as Twilio served the communications market and Stripe the payments space, Contentful wants to handle the world’s digital content. In more practical terms, Contentful doesn’t want to help companies build apps.

API abstraction (application programming interface 52

API abstraction (application programming interface Payment Solutions Payment Services Payment Methods 52

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

return on investment is returned, you have no further payment obligation and you have retained your equity ownership while growing. the loan) will be paid back and a return cap will be achieved over time (24-36 months) based on monthly payments delivered as a % of your cash revenue. Once the 1.5x 2 Main approaches to RBF.

Finance 52

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 52

SaaSX

JULY 26, 2020

A sales operations manager makes your sales team more effective, so you get more done with fewer headcount. ” or “Can I wire payment?” The startup sales operations manager acts as a right hand to the sales leader. In the early days when the sales team is small, this role is tactical, operational, and strategic.

Sales Recruiting 64

Sales Recruiting Technical Review Scale Startup 64

ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

Dave Kellogg , the consultant, advisor, and blogger with an expertise on enterprise software startups—author of the cleverly titled Kellblog —recently posted a piece on Coronavirus and its correlation to CEOs everywhere. And I think ‘no sales’ sort of became to Atlassian what ‘no software’ was to Salesforce in, sort of, this rallying cry.

Sales Hiring 59

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 59

User Pilot

APRIL 7, 2022

Use story mapping before designing and coding the final solution to visualize potential user flow and put brainstormed ideas on paper. Qualitative UX data analytics tells the logic of the user experience with a web app. UX-Analytics-Instead-of-App-Analysis. Tag features and track engagement with Userpilot. What is UX analytics?

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Data Payment Solutions 52

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. Like a large tanker at cruising speed that cannot quickly take a turn, a startup with a fast-growing headcount and a high burn rate loses some of its ability to quickly react to new information, new insights, or changes in the market.

Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

ChurnZero

MARCH 22, 2019

It’s especially great if you get payment up front and then know that customer is profitable from that point on. . We had one of our portfolio companies with 60% of their headcount reporting up through CS, and that’s how they focused and was the culture of the business. Because ACV is important, vertical vs. horizontal is important.

Retention 61

Retention Payment Methods Outsourced Development SaaS Payments 61

USIO

APRIL 11, 2025

Manual payment processes dont just slow you downthey hold your entire operation back. Despite advances in automation, too many businesses are still navigating clunky systems, delayed transactions, and costly inefficiencies. At Usio, we believe payments should work for your businessnot against it. More vendors. More invoices.

Payment Services 130

Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods 130

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 19, 2024

ServiceTitan’s success has revealed the retail & instititutional demand for high growth software. Software & data engineering teams continue to fuse. This opens to the door to 30% more token listings & a successful consumer app built on a web3 stack. Here are my predictions for 2025. The IPO market rips.

AI Search 198

AI Search Payment Solutions Payments AI 198

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Where you started to see the 1st B2B enterprise software businesses being built here and sailed through was 1 of those early businesses that we sold enterprise marketing technology solutions. And so we had just an amalgamation of challenges 1, which is our ability to scale the systems to support. So 2013 was sort of this era.

Scale 83

Scale Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Technical Review 83

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

I love to see leaders implementing this kind of best in breed solution for their teams, allowing them to simplify and intern speed up efficiency. Um, if you would like, we can instantly switch segment out for our company’s, um, software and, um, uh, and we’ll give you two more for years. I need B2B SaaS software now.

ChatGPT 87

ChatGPT AI Payment Methods Payment Services 87

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

It includes a breakdown of the Sales AI landscape, adoption of GenAI and Sales software across buyer groups. We owned the long tail of search terms around construction lien rights and payments. Thats why HG Insights created The Next Generation of Sales AI report to calm the FOMO and help you bring AI to your GTM teams.

Scale 116

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling CTO Coach 116

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

JULY 24, 2018

I’ve been working within the software as a service (SaaS) industry for more than five years now. The number of employees when things get particularly troublesome are three, 10, 30, 100, 300 and 1,000 - before company headcount hits these milestones you’ll need to rethink how you operate.

SaaS Payments 131

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Services Business 131