SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Can the market really support 300+ SaaS and Cloud Unicorns ? And more are coming: Putting aside oldies like Adobe and PayPal, now Atlassian , Snowflake , Shopify , Square , ServiceNow and Salesforce (maybe an oldie) all are worth over $100 Billion. Unicorns and even Decacorns are all we talk about in SaaS today. Does it make sense?

PayPal 298

PayPal SaaS Cloud Marketing 298

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Amplitude counts Cisco, Adidas, PayPal and CapitalOne amongst its customers. Both the ACV and large customer contribution are increasing with time suggesting the company continues to focus up-market. The company spent $47m in 2019 on sales and marketing, and $52m in 2020, an increase of $3m or 6%, while growing revenues 49%.

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Metrics Benchmarks PayPal Enterprise 289

SaaStr

DECEMBER 2, 2021

They help B2B SaaS marketers turn organic search into a source of repeatable revenue through software and coaching. Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal etc. Demandwell is redefining the space to drive results. There’s no reason you shouldn’t hire the brightest, most talented people.

Payment Features 262

Payment Features Payment Services Payments Sales Hiring 262

SaaStr

AUGUST 11, 2022

Especially if you spend 50% of your revenue on Sales & Marketing, it can take many years to really get profitable in SaaS. Ok now let’s look at some pure-play Fintechs: PayPal: 47% Gross Margins. Datadog: 78% Gross Margins. Zoom: 75% Gross Margins. This isn’t to say SaaS is always wildly profitable.

SaaS Payments 320

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments Payment Solutions 320

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

However, with so many of these payment platforms on the market, how are you supposed to choose? While there is a plethora of payment platforms to consider, Stripe and PayPal should be at the top of the list. If you’re trying to decide between Stripe and PayPal, you may arrive at a difficult crossroad. Table of Contents.

Payment Methods 93

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Merchant Services 93

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2022

Calendly works with Google, Office 365 and Outlook calendars and apps like Salesforce, Stripe, PayPal, Google Analytics, GoToMeeting and Zapier for a seamless user experience. Reprise is the only complete demo creation platform that go-to-market teams turn to when they need to create live and guided demo experiences.

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GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Artificial Intelligence Enterprise readiness Azure 264

Tom Tunguz

JULY 16, 2024

PayPal’s stablecoin has more than $0.5b Allium ingests & normalizes web3 data & works with leaders in the space including Visa to drive transparency into stablecoins, Stripe to fight fraud in payments, Grayscale to enable broader adoption of web3 in the public market, and Phantom to provide the most secure wallet for users.

Blockchain 240

Blockchain Merchant Services Payment Solutions Investment 240

Neil Patel

JANUARY 11, 2023

Article sponsored by PayPal. When we talk about leaders in the contactless payments space, we must talk about PayPal. With a user share of 82%, PayPal is the most used online payment service in the U.S. Let’s dig into why this is important and how PayPal enterprise solutions can help. Marketing technologies (i.e.,

PayPal 80

PayPal Payment Solutions Payment Methods Merchant Services 80

SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2021

A director of marketing experienced in one area (e.g., corporate marketing or growth hacking) insisting on being your CMO. The same with a double-stretch marketing leader. Start with the Paypal-style of a “barrel” role. A VP candidate stretching 2+ levels up the experience ladder.

Sales Hiring 340

Sales Hiring PayPal Growth Hacking Startup 340

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. Positions Needed: Enterprise AEs, Mid-Market & SMB AEs, SDRs, Sales Ops, Sales Engineer. Head of Marketing. VP Marketing (15 Employees). Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2

CTO Hire 290

CTO Hire Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO 290

SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Weighted by market cap, 80% of public Cloud and SaaS companies are still in the SF Bay Area: There are many ways to slice this data. You could remove Adobe and Paypal, and then it would be 70/30. . — almost all of which are in the Bay Area, too. You could add in Microsoft, Amazon and Google and it would plummet to 50/50.

PayPal 237

PayPal SaaS Cloud Scaling 237

SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2020

2: “The Cadence: How To Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army” with David Sacks, Craft Ventures and ex-CEO Yammer and ex-COO of PayPal. 8: “Lessons From a Second-Time Founder: How Brex Went From 0 – $1B in Under 2 Years” A lot of lessons about marketing and scaling that are different than you might expect. #9:

Scale 246

Scale PayPal Cloud Startup 246

SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

Logan Bartlett, Managing Director at Redpoint Ventures, shares their yearly “State of the Market” report to understand what is and isn’t happening in venture capital today. 2024 is the tale of two markets, so let’s get into some of the data. That 71% compares to only 19% for the rest of the market. It was 10.8

Venture Capital 305

Venture Capital Management Scale AI 305

SaaStr

JULY 3, 2020

David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. First, I was the founding era CEO of PayPal during the PayPal Mafia period, and I was a self taught product person, I learned how to do product management operations there. And, the second system is what I call the product marketing system.

Software Review 269

Software Review Scale Systems Review Startup 269

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Airdrops may be one of the most prevalent forms of marketing in web3. Today, UNI tokens’ market cap tops $5b. Marketers bet loss-leader campaigns like airdrops generate more revenue than the cost of the campaign. years payback on marketing dollars invested. Uni Airdrop Cumulative. That implies about 5.9

Blockchain 214

Blockchain PayPal Startup Pricing 214

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

Shopify, since last year, has nearly tripled in market cap driven by the rise of e-commerce, but also the digital payments and the QR code system they provide for contactless payments. Zoom’s market cap grew over 4X to reflect that. Each of those, independently, are massive market cap drivers for their businesses as well.

Cloud 285

Cloud Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions 285

SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.

Merchant Services 274

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 274

FastSpring

MARCH 6, 2019

For some businesses and online merchants, PayPal may be the payment method of choice and that’s totally acceptable. But if you’re solely depending on PayPal, you could be leaving money on the table. Check out our list of the best Paypal alternatives that you need to have on your site today! PayPal, why it works.

Payment Methods 66

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 66

Neil Patel

AUGUST 30, 2021

Article sponsored by PayPal. Having Gen Z representatives on your marketing team ( or in the firms you use ) will help you hit the right tone. This is why offering BNPL options, like PayPal’s enterprise BNPL , is crucial for attracting the Gen Z market. Here are five ways to attract and keep Gen Z customers.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods PayPal Social Media Advertising 145

SaaStr

MAY 30, 2020

This was a great session from NewNewVenture.com this week where David walks us through what he learned at Yammer, PayPal and more on how to navigate from 50-500 employees. “How to Market to Customers Small, Medium, Large & Extra Large” A SaaStr classic with the prior VPM of Box, Lauren Vacarrello. A classic already.

Scale 227

Scale PayPal Investment Scaling 227

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

So, the company starts getting divided up into functional areas, or silos, product management, sales, customers support, marketing and so on, and this siloing of the org chart I think means that not everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and there’s a general feeling of disorganization or chaos in most startups.

Startup 299

Startup Software Review Scale Systems Review 299

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Article sponsored by PayPal. Several tools and apps offer this feature, including PayPal with their Pay in 4 option. PayPal’s offering integrates with the PayPal wallet, allowing users to easily manage payments. Familiar options like PayPal may increase consumer trust, which may increase sales.

Payment Methods 134

Payment Methods Payments Merchant Services PayPal 134

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Intuit, Microsoft, Adobe, PayPal. Enough not to churn. In VSB or SMB business apps, you can get to one million paying customers — but you really, really need something broad-based to get there. But there are not too many with 1,000,000 paid business customers, or 50m truly active users. Hubspot sells to SMBs and just passed $1B in ARR.

Business Model 299

Business Model Scale Business PayPal 299

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

With more customers expecting a hyper-personalized, real-time experience, the demand for AI technology in marketing has never been greater. It makes sense, then, that so many marketing AI tools and software are targeting the conversion funnel. Here is a deeper look at nine of the top AI tools for successful marketing funnels.

AI 139

AI Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods 139

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

meeting other fintech marketers, or getting funded), and it will automatically make matches for you! These are larger roundtables with top executives from top tech leaders from Box, Adobe, Zoom, VMWare, Coursera, Paypal, Zendesk, Proofpoint, Segment, Quizlet, Tile and more and are highly rated.

PayPal 53

PayPal Mobile Engagement Engineering 53

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2020

Underserved Markets for SaaS Companies with NextGen Venture Partners, Precursor, Unusual Ventures and Backstage Capital. Underserved Markets for SaaS Companies with NextGen Venture Partners, Precursor, Unusual Ventures and Backstage Capital. CEO of Yammer and COO of PayPal, he now runs $500m+ Craft Ventures.

Trends 251

Trends Venture Capital Scale PayPal 251

SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2021

Whether it was our interview with Podium’s Eric Rea on how he scaled with a team outside the Bay Area before it was really considered an option, or TripAction’s Megan Eisenberg on how to prioritize trade-offs in marketing without sacrificing pipeline, we’ve covered the gambit of relevant topics throughout the year. .

Scale 298

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling B2B 298

Neil Patel

MAY 7, 2021

One of a for-profit business’s best investments is often their online marketing strategy. Let’s take a look at how nonprofit marketing strategy is different from for-profit strategy and how nonprofit corporations may be able to better reach their goals by further leveraging digital marketing. Think about your messaging.

Payment Methods 128

Payment Methods Marketing Social Media Sales Recruiting 128

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.

Merchant Services 222

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 222

Stax

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Research shows that 64% of small businesses use accounting software and the market for accounting software solutions is projected to be worth $4.3billion by 2023. There are many good products in the market that provide you with all of the features you need, but we will only focus on Quicken software and Intuit’s QuickBooks Online.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services 88

SaaStr

JULY 2, 2022

We have great tracks, content, braindates, and mentoring sessions for Sales, Marketing, Product, Success and Engineering leaders. Lunches for Sales, for Marketing, for CS, for Product, for Ops and more. We have big discounts on team packs for a reason — Annual is even better when you bring your team. Do the next one at Annual!

Scale 261

Scale Sales Hiring PayPal Scaling 261

FastSpring

JULY 25, 2019

One question that gets asked frequently, is when online businesses should consider switching from accepting payments through a payment solution like PayPal and transitioning over to a comprehensive ecommerce platform. For some businesses and online merchants, PayPal may be the payment method of choice and that’s totally fine!

Payment Methods 60

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services PayPal 60

SaaStr

OCTOBER 13, 2019

1B+ Market Map: The World’s 326 Unicorn Companies In One Infogra phic. PayPal withdraws from Facebook’s libra cryptocurrency. For this week, here were the top cloud stories according to you , perhaps some that you missed: The founder of SoftBank-backed hotel startup Oyo is buying back shares in his company in a $1.5 billion deal.

Scale 153

Scale Cloud Scaling PayPal 153

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Square PayPal FIS Stripe Payline Data Fiserv BitPay Adyen Dharma Merchant Services Fattmerchant. Digital wallets like PayPal, Google Pay or Apple Pay have become extremely popular. 2 – PayPal Commerce Platform Review — The Best for Individuals & Low-Volume Sellers. The Top 10 Credit Card Processing Companies.

Payment Services 126

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Technical Review 126

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2022

74% of consumers are at least somewhat likely to buy from brands based on experiences alone and those experiences now need to transcend on and offline, across sales, marketing, and support – but don’t feel overwhelmed! Operating across different markets can be tricky, but today, more than half of online shoppers are buying cross-border.

Payment Methods 219

Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 219

The Angel VC

JANUARY 11, 2013

In a business context, unscalable hacks are actions that you use to dramatically decrease time-to-market, solve chicken-egg-problems or overtake competitors, all the while knowing that you can't operate like this forever. In some cases the success of these hacks can be a make-or-break factor for a startup.

PayPal 119

PayPal Payment Solutions Scale Payment Methods 119

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Equally appealing to sellers is the marketing tools Bonanza provides. These give you access to valuable data about product performance, allowing you to spot trends, optimize listings, and better market your items. Improved branding through eBay stores and marketing materials. What makes eBay stand out, though, is its auctions.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payments Marketplace as a Service Payment Services 145