SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. Now, unfortunately there are a lot of constraints in Africa, major constraints when you’re talking about setting up and scaling a startup. Well, you have to build a direct sales force. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Just like filing your income tax returns or hanging that state-mandated safety poster up in your break room, sales tax is a back-office pain point, not a profit center. . That makes sales tax compliance easy to ignore… until it becomes a problem. . Why is sales tax such a pain for SaaS companies? There are a few reasons.

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Merchant Services Scale Technical Review Sales Hiring 178

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

However, that doesn’t necessarily mean a “pivot”, but more often the evolution is a shifting business model as the company scales and the user base grows and changes. It’s all too easy to make the mistake of adopting a pricing model that is ill-suited to other aspects of your company, such as the go-to-market strategy or sales strategy.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Subscription-based model Subscription pricing is the most common model used by both horizontal and vertical SaaS providers.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

SaaStr

MAY 25, 2022

How do you make your fledgling business seen and heard in a competitive business marketplace? He also shares some eye-opening insights on how Expensify scaled over the years. Expensify scaled by breaking through the clutter. These professionals had to earn their spot by selling Expensify subscriptions.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Advertising Business Model 245

Stax

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Consider the average transaction size and volume your business handles, as some processors are better suited for larger transactions, while others are ideal for high-frequency, low-amount payments. Does your business model include recurring billing? Need to send invoices or only take payments at a point-of-sale?

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Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

Payrix

JANUARY 30, 2024

Storable , the leading provider of all-in-one software for the self-storage industry, has a vision for its payments solution that is reminiscent of the industry it serves. While the decision to embed payments was an easy one, the process of choosing payment options that meet ever-evolving customer needs is ongoing.

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Payment Services Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 130

SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

We will gather 300 leading SaaS founders, executives and investors for three days packed with opportunities and rich exchange of knowledge to push the whole ecosystem forward. Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others.

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Stax

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Without a merchant account, it’s very difficult to ensure consistent cash flow or manage multiple sales channels effectively. Moreover, many merchant accounts today come bundled with a payment gateway, another crucial component of the online payment process that streamlines transactions and protects against fraudulent activity.

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Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 88

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. If not, they usually charge some sort of lead generation fee to the supplier.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model Business Underperforming Technical Team 106

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

But we wanted to hear directly from technical founders and software developers about what you look for in a SaaS payment processing service. Here are ten questions that came up over and over again in our conversations: Evaluation Checklist: 10 Questions for SaaS Payment Processing. Is it the interface? Integrations?

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Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 119

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. For customers, the process of looking for apps to download usually takes place in one of the four leading app marketplaces; Google Play, Apple App Store , Windows Store, and the Amazon App Store. Is it safe? Let’s go ??.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Merchant Services SaaS Payments 121

Stax

AUGUST 20, 2024

TL;DR Embedded finance integrates financial services into non-financial business processes, while embedded fintech integrates fintech solutions into the processes of an institution in the finance industry. This infrastructure helps businesses provide financial solutions, such as digital payments, directly on their websites or mobile apps.

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Methods Finance 88

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

We’ve gathered LatAm’s leading SaaS founders, executives, and investors – as well as a few international faces – for an unbeatable few days of knowledge and networking. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova. Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. This wasn’t the case.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 228

CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 20, 2022

By collecting accurate data and comprehensive information about your customers, you can improve retention, uncover additional sales opportunities, and boost your customer health scores. For without it would be impossible to deliver value to your customers at scale and meet your business goals. Turn down the churn rate.

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How To Buy Saas

JULY 2, 2024

Top Spots to Find Them Freelance Marketplaces and Platforms to Hire Email Marketing Specialists 1. Platform Savvy Today’s email marketing landscape is packed with powerful platforms or email service providers (ESPs) like Mailchimp, SFMC, Klaviyo, Braze, and Marketo among others. Toptal Pros: Cons: Pricing: 2.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. Prospective customers have to be educated. This is episode six of Scale , a brand new podcast series on moving from startup to scale up.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Sales Hiring 112

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

With a $60 billion market in which to grow, these companies recognize that smart use of partnership channels can help them scale up while creating a win-win-win ecosystem for the company, the partner, and the customer. These are often built with agencies, consultants, and managed-service-providers (MSPs) in mind. Effective Scaling.

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Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we’ve got a fantastic episode for you. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. Sales enablement is easy.

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Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 111

Sales Hacker

APRIL 6, 2022

Sales teams often struggle with configuration of price quotes when dealing with complex products or services or large product catalogs. Sales teams are often forced to use manual processes that result in errors, inaccuracies, and wasted time. What is CPQ? CPQ stands for Configure Price Quote.

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Scale Software Review Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development 95

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Amir will lead all post-sales functions, helping customers use the full scope of their products and services to unleash the power of CentralSquare in their communities. ” Bill comes to ComplySci with over 15 years of building and scaling customer experience teams in high growth SaaS companies.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Outsourcing Services Technical Review 98

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

Ep #402: Mårten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne, explains their innovative approach of packaging customer value derived from a variety of activities into an annually recurring subscription offering that delivers outstanding value to customers while simplifying the buying process and the customer journey.

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Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Scale 142

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

An additional non-financial constraint is a fact that these customers typically lack experience in software procurement and implementation, and this adds friction to the sales cycle. Customer success is usually staffed by a mix of customer support, sales, and engineering folks contributing some portion of their time to the Cost of Revenue.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

They’re a highly useful marketing tool for drawing traffic, generating leads, and making conversions. The more (positive) reviews and testimonials you have, the more likely prospective customers are to put their faith and money in your services. B2C” businesses sell goods and services directly to consumers.

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Software Review Technical Review Scale Merchant Services 127

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

If you’re familiar with what a CRM is already, then you intuitively know that an enterprise CRM is basically a CRM solution tailored to larger (enterprise-level) companies with complex processes and large sales teams. Sales enablement. Lastly, an enterprise CRM platform is able to support more than just the sales organization.

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Payment Solutions Enterprise Scale Payments 89

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This shift necessitates businesses to reimagine their monetization strategies , moving beyond traditional one-time sales to models that emphasize recurring revenue and subscription-based services.

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Marketplace as a Service Scale B2B Payment Features 52

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

One of the biggest challenges businesses face when they grow is scaling effective , autonomous and quick decision-making. Google, Apple and HubSpot are just three examples of industry-leading companies which use mental models to aid quick decision-making. Again, it was an easy to use model which scaled effective decision-making.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Neil Patel

APRIL 22, 2021

Advanced ad targeting capabilities means access to high-converting consumers who are more interested in the products or services you offer. Video is a leading driver in programmatic advertising. It lets marketers access private marketplaces or get ad space from thousands of websites with the click of a button. More Transparency.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Eventbrite was historically a 50% sales and 50% self-service business. So, as we decided to take a bet on building an intuitive, self-service experience instead of masking user experience issues with human support, we really had to confront Belsky’s product lifecycle for the first time. Sounds expensive. Let’s cover each below.

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Scale User Experience Underperforming Technical Team Marketplace as a Service 139

Navint

JANUARY 29, 2019

Highlight Video: Explaining the Subscription Economy: Why Your Company’s Future May Depend On It. The topic, of course, was the subscription economy and Tien’s new book, Subscribed. As the leading consulting firm that has a practice dedicated to subscription and recurring revenue businesses, Navint sponsored the event.

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Subscription Payment Features Marketplace as a Service Scale 53

OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace. Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . Obviously, subscription revenue growth rates are valued differently at different sizes.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payments Payment Services 98

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. How are prospects going to move through the buyer’s journey? . At what point will you introduce Sales into the buyer’s journey? .

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User Pilot

JULY 9, 2024

Hubspot : Best for comprehensive inbound marketing, sales, and customer service solutions. Zendesk : Best for scalable customer support and service management across multiple channels. Hubspot’s lead gen dashboard. Salesforce : Best customer experience software for AI-powered personalized marketing automation.

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Software Review Software Management Business 76

Totango

APRIL 25, 2022

An inspiring customer journey is one where your customers’ experience with your product, service and organization as a whole is so memorable and engaging that your company’s teams are inspired and excited to produce the same experience for all of your customers! Scale Your Journey, Not Your Platform. What are you waiting for?

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Customer Success Communication 89

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Product-lead growth continues to be one of the best ways to rapidly scale a software company, and best practices are increasingly shared and understood. Fully embracing usage-based pricing rather than traditional seat-based subscriptions is analogous to making the transition from on-prem to SaaS in the first place.

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Pricing Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82