SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

Secrets to Aligning Marketing and Revenue Strategies with Marqeta’s CMO. The financial services industry – banking, lending, insurance – has long benefited from deep competitive moats that limited competition and stifled innovation. Now with digital finance, innovation is occurring at lightning speed. with Notion Capital.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SVB collapsed, market multiples are down, yet the IPO window is re-opening, and we have a platform shift to AI that’s exciting everybody. At the peak of bull market exuberance at the end of 2021, a 1% improvement in revenue growth had the same impact on valuations as a 6% improvement in free cash flow margin. Let’s find out.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

OpenAI’s Head of Sales, Aliisa Rosenthal, joined OpenAI a year and a half ago — before ChatGPT launched. In 2021, they trained GPT3 on Github repositories, produced a model that could code, and released embedding that allowed people to vectorize language and search across it to perform recommendations.

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Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

Everything is done under one platform. And it’s all thanks to embedded finance and embedded fintech. Embedded finance isn’t entirely a new concept. Airline credit cards, payment plans for costly items, and car rental insurance are forms of embedded finance that have been around for a while.

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Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

When it comes to software, success doesn’t hinge on innovation alone. No one knows this better (or more intimately) than a software company Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space.

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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. This helps SaaS businesses enhance their customer experiences and drive loyalty and profitability. The demand for embedded payments is huge.

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Stax

MARCH 15, 2025

As a result, SaaS businesses need to become more innovative in how their platform features and product offerings address their user’s unique operations and set of business needs. Enter payment monetization. But how exactly should a SaaS company monetize payments?

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2023

At SaaStr, our partners are an integral part of our events. Carta is a platform that helps people manage equity, build businesses, and invest in the companies of tomorrow. Our vision is a world where everyone has the power to innovate without limits. Grab tickets here. Grab tickets here. SAP for Startups?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 1, 2022

With the world’s most distributed compute platform — from cloud to edge — we make it easy for businesses to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away. That’s why innovative companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences.

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

CircleCI is a cloud-based continuous delivery platform that helps software delivery teams build, test, and ship changes to their applications. Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, leverages his experience marketing to software developers to discuss the merits of moving from a subscription-based to a usage-based business model.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Businesses may never know how much revenue might be leaking from overlooked nooks and crannies. The purpose of the revenue growth management strategy is to steer a business in an organized, and sustainable direction. After all, no business wants its success to be short lived.

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

No matter how innovative a product might be, a business can only succeed if it enables its customers. But, as a business grows, teams may find that this success hinges on overcoming one final hurdle: building a financial stack. What makes a SaaS business so hard? Platforms-as-a-service.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

As you work to expand your SaaS, software, mobile games, or other digital product business worldwide, having the right payment methods available to global customers is key to ensuring they all feel comfortable purchasing. If you want to offer more payment methods around the world, don’t miss this episode of Growth Stage.

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Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Back to customer stories A cut above the rest Why Real Green Systems, the leading software platform for lawn care businesses, chose Payrix. 37 years later, Real Green is the innovative leader in software for the industry. 37 years later, Real Green is the innovative leader in software for the industry.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 31, 2019

By Chelsea White, Integrated Solutions Marketing Manager, CardConnect. In a world where speed is imperative, business owners can’t afford to be anything but efficient. Fully integrating payment acceptance into your SaaS offering is an excellent way to empower them to do just that. Improved Business Operations.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Set to take place on October 28-29 at Convene in the heart of San Francisco, this event promises to be a melting pot of ideas, innovations, and opportunities for game developers and industry professionals alike. At FastSpring, we’re more than just a payment provider — we’re your partner in growth. Go D2C with confidence.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

From October 1-2, we’ll be at the heart of the action at Wanha Satama in Helsinki, Finland, showcasing our commitment to supporting game developers worldwide with cutting-edge payment solutions. As your trusted partner in D2C payments, we’re pulling out all the stops to make your experience unforgettable.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 28, 2023

At a recent Workshop Wednesday , SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin answered the community’s most pressing questions about SaaS — from investor appetites and IPOs in 2024 to managing and hiring a Head of Sales as a solo founder to AI and the future of customer success. People build more products in sales, which spurs more innovation.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Enter the platform company. Or if you’ve ever gotten a 2 cent and a 4 cent deposit into your account as you’re trying to set up direct deposit or payments transfers, that’s a pre-Plaid world. Zach : So in our back end, we’ve integrated with about 10,000 financial institutions in the U.S. Zach : About 260.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Ceci Stallsmith – Director of Platform Marketing @ Slack.

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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.

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FastSpring

MARCH 3, 2023

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. From testing out plugins to setting up new payment methods, maintaining Stripe can be very time-consuming. This often happens when your setup requires complex integrations that are difficult to maintain.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 26, 2024

By Inga Broerman Building a Competitive Edge Through Channel Partnerships In an increasingly competitive subscription economy, channel partnerships have become a beacon for businesses seeking scalable growth and sustainable revenue streams. Billing software with advanced integration capabilities plays a pivotal role in enabling this.

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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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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

ContaAzul is a business management platform for small businesses created in Brazil. Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. Vindi is a PCI-certified online payment platform for recurring billing.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

consumers using cash for purchases , choosing the right payment terminal for your business is more important than ever. Businesses need to streamline the entire payment process by offering customers a payment setup that’s fast and convenient for credit card transactions. What is a Fully Integrated Terminal?

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User Pilot

APRIL 3, 2024

Are you being innovative in your product? Product-led innovation focuses on creating the best product for your customers. TL;DR Product-led innovation emphasizes improving the product to attract customers, reducing reliance on marketing for growth. A diagram showing how product-led growth works for product-led innovation.

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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! Before joining FastSpring, I spent quite a number of years within the payments industry.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

Who doesn’t want to be innovative? But what is product innovation in the first place? The Wikipedia contributors define product innovation as “the creation and subsequent introduction of a good or service that is either new, or an improved version of previous goods or services.”. And how does it play out in real life?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Built out a bunch of the orb across product, data, analytics to do much of the same work, to drive retention and monetization.

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How To Buy Saas

MARCH 18, 2025

In this blog, youll discover the significant benefits of SaaS tools and platforms for game developers, the latest SaaS tools, and different challenges and opportunities. Lowered expenses: SaaS tools, as a part of your business infrastructure, require no hefty upfront payment. Promises issue tracking and CI/CD capabilities.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

The story of payment processors begins in 1998 when Confinity (later X.com, but you probably know it as PayPal) was released. This early payment processor did very little and wasn’t all that important to global commerce. That history might be interesting to some, but the real questions are: What are payment processors?

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Before we look at the promised SaaS revenue models, let’s get a couple definitions out of the way. We need to differentiate among three similar sounding but very different concepts: revenue stream, revenue model, and business model. Revenue stream: This is a single source of revenue for a company.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

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. It is based on blockchain and allows businesses to take care of their finances on a number of platforms and in multiple currencies. Founded : 2013. TradeGecko.

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FastSpring

JULY 17, 2024

Join us in Shanghai at ChinaJoy and discover how we can help you unlock the full potential of your video game sales! Spend less time managing your payments and compliance and more time making great games! With a massive and engaged player base, China represents a lucrative opportunity for growth and innovation.

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Stax

MARCH 13, 2025

Credit and debit cards have become the preferred payment methods for many, and it isn’t hard to see why. This small rectangular piece of plastic enables customers to ditch bulky wads of cash, making payments easier and safer. However, this convenience comes at a cost, mainly for businesses. But there’s more to it.

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Stax

APRIL 17, 2025

At the heart of this transformation is a growing ecosystem of Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) building applications that plug into broader platforms and solve specialized problems. As these ecosystems evolve, ISV partnerships have become essential for companies looking to scale, reach new markets, and offer integrated ISV solutions.

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