SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2021

Shopify is #1 in so many market segments, but for “bigger” SMBs BigCommerce (and perhaps less-custom enterprise deployments) is arguably #2 to Shopify. It’s much smaller than Shopify, at $170m ARR vs $3B+ ARR, but it’s still plenty big for us to learn a lot from this big but not #1 player in the market.

Outsourcing Services 295

Outsourcing Services Payments Merchant Services SaaS Payments 295

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky. And so while the churn I don’t want to minimize it, stable base of revenue should be able to maintain that through the year. How do we make them feel part of the team and integrate them? Companies tend to stick around.

Sales Hiring 216

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 216

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

Sales Recruiting 106

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Scale 106

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account-Based Everything / Revenue. Account-Based Marketing. Annual Recurring Revenue. Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) is the value of contracted, often subscription-based revenues normalized for one calendar year. AB Testing. Account-Based Selling / Sales Development. Account Development Representative.

Scale 105

Scale Payment Methods Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments 105

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Employees on variable compensation will receive their base salary in typical payroll payments, while their variable component will be paid at a separate pay period (e.g. That is to say the goals (revenue, profit, customers, etc.) You should really pick one metric like revenue vs trying to incentive multiple high level metrics.

Compensation 99

Compensation Sales Hiring Sales Payment Services 99

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

Sales Recruiting 61

Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale 61

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Price/Revenue Ratio. Source: SEC filings – weighted average by company revenue. Many factors drive the high-growth of SaaS companies, including higher market adoption of SaaS and the structural advantages of the recurring subscription revenue model – see Why SaaS Companies Grow Faster. Public SaaS Companies. -8%.

SaaS Payments 59

SaaS Payments SaaS Scale Customer Lifetime Value 59