FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

What makes a company choose one SaaS payment processing provider over another? In my conversations with software developers and technical founders over the years, I’ve heard how complicated these tech stack choices are to make. For example, at FastSpring, we have a lot of data about online shopping carts. Is it the interface?

Payment Services 147

Payment Services SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 147

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.

SaaS Payments 246

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 246

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. We put it online, $10,000, and we started talking to our customers. We taught a free class, got 7,000 people in the free class, and I started emailing everybody in that class individually, personalized emails, one by one, a thousand a day.

Acquisition 162

Acquisition Software Review Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 162

Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Indie.VC (V3) Website: [link] Key Personnel: Bryce Roberts Revenue Requirement: Post revenue, but no minimum requirement. Each time a payment is made, the fund’s ownership stake is reduced with the founders’ ownership shares increasing. Equity Stake: Yes, but diminishing to 10% of Indie.vc’s initial equity stake. Earnest Capital.

SaaS Payments 102

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company.

Payment Services 176

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 176

User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2025

Stripe: Product Manager, Local Payment Methods Cost Optimization Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies, from the worlds largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups, use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Retention Churn 52