SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

I believe you, it’s true, but venture capital is a weird niche thing that… Frankly, venture capital at any stage only wants to invest in folks that are already off to the races. And that… Look, cloud infrastructure and established categories of enterprise software are close to recession-proof.

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Kellblog

MARCH 6, 2019

Enterprise SaaS has drifted to a model where many, if not most, companies do multi-year contracts on annual payment terms. Buyers typically perform a thorough evaluation process before purchasing and are quite sure that the software will meet their needs when they deploy. How did we get here? Let’s consider an example.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 74

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. Mark Suster | Managing Partner @ Upfront Ventures. We woke up February 2020 with a shock to the system and no idea what it would mean for our business. So we had a shock to the system with no idea what it actually meant. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 252

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I moved out to the East Coast of the US to go to Harvard where I majored in applied math with a focus on decision systems and artificial intelligence before it was cool. And that was my first time in enterprise software – I’d spent some time in consumer software before that and did that for a few years.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Make off-boarding simple and straightforward, enabling users to cancel within the app directly without your support team’s help.”. Venture capital-backed companies update their pricing once every 2.8 Adjusting your payment methods and currencies will bring you some gains. Lever #4: The nostalgia effect.

Payments 130

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Venture Capital 130

FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Note: If you’re expanding to new countries or continents, we can help you offer each region’s preferred payment methods and currencies. What Is Messente?

SaaS Payments 125

SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Payment Services Payments 125

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 28, 2020

As alternative financing solutions attract more attention from entrepreneurs, some VC investors are noticing more startups are turning to these options for their growth and working capital needs, many times mixing and matching RBF with a term loan, line of credit with a forward commitment, or both. Funding options by stage of growth.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

million – about half of all the cash they had on hand – to buy out their main venture capital investors after eight years since founding. Whether founders want to admit it or not, less-than-ideal funding sources like personal savings and credit cards are more popular than you’d think. Buffer spent $3.3

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

“Michael is the rare CFO who also leads up marketing, which makes him the perfect person to talk us through the company’s trajectory” As the head of Intercom’s Early Stage program for Startups, the fast-growing fintech startup is one company I’ve been keeping my eye on. billion dollars. They wanted to build something really big.

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Strategy Payment Methods Payment Services Startup 36

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. We could translate the software into Spanish. How the hell does that happen?

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

By Geoff Roberts 12 min read When we first started building Outseta we stated outright that we weren’t interested in raising venture capital—instead, we planned on bootstrapping the business and remaining independent. Each time a payment is made, the fund’s ownership stake is reduced with the founders’ ownership shares increasing.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. We have over 1,500 apps listed in our app directory, so those are with third party partners. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

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Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 129

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. Are you more excited about eCommerce? Partially, I think, for personal reasons. Obviously, the majority of the people who they were managing the shifts and the payments for who were working in February, they were not working in March or in April.

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Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Payment Methods SaaS Payments 185

Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

As Channing’s post highlights, even many prominent VCs are admitting that now might not be the best time to head down the venture backed path—and I think all the layoffs and turmoil that the tech industry is experiencing is evidence that even in good times we haven’t been thinking about building companies the right way anyways. Think SpaceX.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 68

Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

If you choose not to finance your business by selling part of it to venture capitalists, and you also do not want or cannot secure a loan, then you are left with bootstrapping. You will be funding your dream using personal savings. Bootstrapping disadvantages: You have a lot more personal liability.

Business 96

Business Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 96

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. Recurring payments.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. What I personally have seen in my little portfolio and the founders I work with is what I call the COVID beneficiaries. Look, okay, let’s say half your business sells to eCommerce, but 20% sells to live events. Are you more excited about eCommerce?

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 192

Outseta

JANUARY 10, 2020

Expenses It’s cheaper than ever before to build software—3 years into building Outseta, we’ve spent $66,326 on the business. Forte fees are payment processing expenses that have grown significantly over 2018 as we’ve processed more subscription payments. I joined a number of online communities that are rich in SaaS founders.

SaaS Payments 55

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions 55

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

I’m the founder of Blossom Capital. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. I work with Dawn Capital. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. Then we deploy the capital to build. .”

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 14, 2023

A double-booking problem emerges Named for a character role in the Netflix series, Game of Thrones , Squire set out to be a reservation system for barbershops: “Open Table for barbers”, as some have put it. The barbers still wanted cash payments too. As with any small business, he noticed she often had her hands full juggling duties.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Scale 52

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

ChurnZero secured $7 million in a Series A funding round in 2019 led by Baird Capital and supported by returning investors like Grotech Ventures. Baird Capital makes venture capital, growth equity, and private equity investments in strategically targeted sectors around the world.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

Contrary to what both proponents of bootstrapping and raising capital want you to believe, choosing between the two sides of the debate is not just a matter of personal preference. that largely determine which path is right for you and your software business. As if it’s a 50/50 call. However, I don’t believe that’s the case.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

Contrary to what both proponents of bootstrapping and raising capital want you to believe, choosing between the two sides of the debate is not just a matter of personal preference. that largely determine which path is right for you and your software business. As if it’s a 50/50 call. However, I don’t believe that’s the case.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes. Corporations have a huge responsibility in providing workforce development opportunities for their employees.

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Payment Methods Blockchain Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 52

Chart Mogul

JULY 30, 2024

Venture capital A venture capitalist (VC) is a private investor who provides funding to companies with unique products that have a wide appeal. Pros: Less risk averse than traditional methods. Like angel investors, venture capitalists don’t require fixed repayments. No large payments. Monthly payments.

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SaaS Payments Investment Payment Methods Payments 52

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Angus Davis , VC and Partner at Foundation Capital. Angus is an amazing person — who never went to college. Angus is an amazing person — he never went to college. Angus Davis: Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm.

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Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 58

ProfitWell

AUGUST 13, 2020

Ben Horowitz is the co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a private venture capital company. Our churn-reducing software, ProfitWell Retain, rolled out a new feature on Wednesday: SMS Churn Recovery. Recover payments and reduce churn ? And how to be vulnerable in a leadership role. About the author.

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team Payment Methods 52

Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

is but an experienced finance person can play a vital role in internationalisation as well. are usually also things such a person could take care of instead of the founders. unless the one you’ve hired at around $1M in ARR is learning so fast that he or she can be that person. Not sure what your subsidiary structure etc.

Sales Hiring 72

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Payment Services Finance 72

ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2024

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. SaaS businesses, meanwhile, benefit from predictable streams of recurring revenue.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Software Review Sales Hiring 52

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

By Geoff Roberts Last year Clement Vouillon of Point Nine Capital wrote an article entitled The Rise of the Non “VC compatible” SaaS Companies. It made the rounds in tech circles online. Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. Look for existing ecosystems of websites, communities and social presence that exist in that geography around your topic. “So David used the U.S. as an example: “You charge in U.S.

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It is a sign of development, showing that the business has effectively transitioned from an R&D organization dependent on venture capital to an autonomous, long-lasting enterprise. . But as more business companies choose the SaaS (Software as a Service) path, now is a fantastic time to enter this industry. .

Enterprise 10

Enterprise Outsourcing Services Scale Payment Services 10

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 23, 2020

So what’s the solution? As the CEO of Flow , a flexible project management app for teams, Daniel is working to create a productivity tool that defies conventional metrics, meaning that it simply allows you to get your most important work done without monopolizing the time you spend in the software itself. billion in 2015.

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Technical Review Payment Methods Payment Solutions Development Team Review 199

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

They were building time and expense software. I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. And that really gave us the inspiration.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 223

Backlinkfy

OCTOBER 5, 2019

We live a totally different world today, gone are the years where you'll need to have Angel or venture capital funding for you to start a business. Today, selling products through traditional brick and mortar stores are slowly depleting, due to most purchases that start with an online search.

Payment Methods 56

Payment Methods Payment Services Sales Hiring Technical Review 56

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011. Guru is the knowledge management solution that delivers the information you need when and where you need it.

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Development Team Review Software Review Management Sales Hiring 176

Outseta

AUGUST 31, 2018

We now support Stripe as a payment gateway. When we launched our subscription billing and management functionality, we initially partnered with Forte Payment Systems as our payment gateway. As a result, adding Stripe as a payment gateway very quickly became the most requested feature from our users.

Payments 40

Payments Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods 40