Payment Methods Product Marketing Venture Capital 
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. Venture capital is a tool and a commitment, not an outcome.
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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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. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products. For Stripe, again our core product is an API.
ProfitWell
DECEMBER 4, 2019
Recurring payments. The software-as-a-service business model involves providing a subscription service, so you will have to worry about getting payments every month/year as opposed to only once. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware.
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. To build the initial team, to build the product, to build the initial go to market, to build the first customers and to build the ARR, the starting.
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. Networking.
ChurnZero
APRIL 27, 2021
In the frenzy that comes with finding early-stage product-market fit, the pattern I often see (unfortunately) is that companies speed along, drinking from a firehose and closing new accounts. ChurnZero secured $7 million in a Series A funding round in 2019 led by Baird Capital and supported by returning investors like Grotech Ventures.
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