FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Note: Apple announced that it would be reducing the App Store fee from 30% to 15% for most developers starting on January 1st, 2021. For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. Epic Games wants to take control of their online sales with its own marketplace.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2025

Completing online payments via manual card entry can be time-consuming and off-putting for customers. Click to Pay completely removes the need to enter credit card information during online purchases, making it more convenient and faster than manual card entry. Learn More What is Click to Pay?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Hiring for sales with John Barrows.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

While we’ve been shopping for items like clothes or shoes online for years, another trend is now emerging—business-to-business (B2B) ecommerce. It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

Grew Restaurant Locations 29% Year-Over-Year to 120,000 Perhaps the most important metric at scale. Only 18% of Revenue From SaaS. Shopify and Bill both also get the majority of their revenue from financial fees and transaction fees, not software subscriptions. But Toast even more so, at 18% of revenue.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

And, when you do, do you even think about sale tax compliance? vary on how they handle sales tax and SaaS. It can be confusing to understand how and where you should charge sales tax. Let’s explore a few more ways in which sales tax compliance could impact your growing business. Here’s why you should. .

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

Join Anish Shivdasani, CEO of Giraffe, as he provides unique African experiences learned from scaling to 1M users. I’m probably the most hated person in the room right now, but please indulge me. I think if we had focused on solving a niche problem, the market’s simply not big enough to scale. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Wherever you are in your revenue journey, adopting certain growth strategies can help you keep growing fast. Finding your ICP starts with broad strokes, finding a few customers, and talking to prospects. Build your sales, marketing, customer success, and product development efforts around the needs of your ideal client.”.

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

Usage-based economics is different from traditional subscription-based economics because of how you generate revenue. In the gym scenario, the customer’s payment acts as a deposit rather than a subscription fee. The gym recognizes the revenue when the customer comes in and uses the facilities. . Take the example of a gym.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

We put together a basic 50/50/25 VP of Sales comp plan early on at SaaStr, and it seemed time for an update. Incentives are critical, and the VP Sales will likely be the Seemingly Most Expensive hire you ever make. A few basic ground rules so your VP of Sales is a guaranteed win-win hire – not a stressor: No best efforts cr*p.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 10, 2022

With lockdowns preventing in-store experiences, shoppers have gravitated towards brands that can provide the best online experience possible. And, as society reopens, it is vital to maintain ease of movement between in-store and online channels – not just for your customers, but for your teams. Proactive engagement.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Jonathan joined Toast as the SVP of Sales in 2017. A Glance at Toast’s Hypergrowth Journey When Jonathan joined Toast as the SVP of Sales, the company was Series B with $20M in ARR. Toast is a vertical software embedded payments solution for restaurants in the U.S. The ones they met in person closed at a 3x rate.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Part of this can be attributed to the SaaS model’s unique aspect of relying primarily on future revenue. Take a traditional business, like a furniture store.

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SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2021

BigCommerce is an interesting eCommerce case study on many levels. Driving existing customer revenue up more than new logos. BigCommerce, like many SaaS vendors at scale, is doing a better job at getting more revenue out of existing accounts than adding new ones. Payments partners are the biggest part of this.

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Payrix

JANUARY 10, 2025

Ian Hillis welcomes David Blair, Senior Director of Product Management at Worldpay for Platforms, on PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments podcast to explore the critical roles of merchant underwriting and onboarding for software providers. This personalized approach not only improves efficiency but also enhances the overall merchant experience.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The payments landscape and how it affects businesses trying to grow in Asia. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. For those that might not be familiar, FastSpring is a merchant of record platform that combines all the essential tools you need to scale a digital goods business.

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2024

Product-led outperformers generate ten percentage points higher in ARR and 50% higher in valuations than sales-led growth outperformers. How do you scale PLG? How do you build a stellar developer experience and continue to scale when the user base skyrockets overnight? What does scaling Enterprise ARR mean?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 30, 2023

They focused on building a payment platform that empowers international talent and independent contractors to get paid on time in a compliant way while also ensuring that companies can hire international talent and make payments efficiently. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling and VC funding. But I think going to your point, Nathan, what folks miss a little bit is how much crap VCs are digging out of, and that leads to a lot more hard nos. Have revenue, but early, so like 50K ARR after two months of charging for a product.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. In this talk, Claire will share these and other lessons for scaling high-growth organizations. I’m an execution person. Know your forever user.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

As SaaStr Europa 2022 drew to a close, attendees took one more opportunity to ask Jason questions about topics like how to navigate the current market, the future of work, playing in a crowded space, and hiring your first VP of Sales. It was funny for Henry to say he segmented his sales team at 80 million in ARR. Transcript.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 6, 2018

Sales has changed. Messaging and live chat are the new medium for initial sales conversations, not the phone calls or forms of old. Since we launched our live chat for sales product , the people reaching out to us to learn more are sales decision-makers. They’re VPs of sales, sales directors and CROs.

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FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

Are you still making assumptions about your B2B go-to-market motion — assumptions that ignore B2C selling methods — that are limiting your growth potential? And that decision shapes their product and sales processes for the life of their company. Covid has poured gas on an already raging ecommerce phenomenon.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

It requires thinking at a different scale. “The reason why businesses grow is they’re in a great market” It’s this approach to scaling their business that has enabled Paddle to achieve 2475% revenue growth over the last four years. . Product, marketing, and sales are table stakes for growth. Salesforce?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. One, it starts high up in the sales process, right? You need to discover in the sales process. We’ve got a lot of training to do with our sales teams to get them to start to speak in these types of terms versus feature function.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2021

Close say a $125k contract, even after a healthy sales commission, that’s $100k+ in the bank right now! bills, “payment terms”, and often, repeated follow-up. Most start-ups don’t have a good enough finance person or firm to be good at collections. Annual contracts require P.O., So for sure, do that.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

Weave started off as a dental ERP and comms platform (including VoIP / phone), and then expanded beyond that as it scaled. It’s a tough outcome for a team that is working hard to scale well into the nine figures of ARR. Historically, Weave gave away several “free” phones with each new account.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. 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.

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Stax

JULY 9, 2024

More and more, cash-only businesses are falling by the wayside, unable to keep up with consumer demand for convenient electronic payments. The world of Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) payments is vast, spanning just about every payment method you can think of. What is an Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) Payment?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2023

Finix makes it easy for software platforms of all sizes to process payments while increasing revenue and reducing cost. Finix is trusted by startups and publicly traded companies alike to build and scale their payments infrastructure.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

As an ecommerce seller, you’ll find yourself making a lot of choices. But out of the plethora of answers you need to figure out, choosing the best ecommerce platform remains the most crucial. Although Shopify and Wix have overlapping features, Shopify edges forward in the race if you’re specifically looking for ecommerce functionality.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2022

However, there are certain aspects of collecting recurring payments that you would still be responsible for when using Chargebee, such as: Connecting to payment gateways manually. While Chargebee supports several different payment gateways, you have to set up and configure each one. Remitting taxes at the end of the year.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Businesses may never know how much revenue might be leaking from overlooked nooks and crannies. The purpose of the revenue growth management strategy is to steer a business in an organized, and sustainable direction. In this blog, you will find out the meaning of revenue growth management, its importance, components, and challenges.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

.” So what are maybe one or two things you want to give as advice to founders who are doing sales in the very early stage, the first couple of million ARR, that you feel are super useful in that stage in kind of trying to develop that, I think that sales muscle, if you will. If you don’t have two, who do you hire?

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

You have a presentation online that’s called Unsexy, which you’ll have to explain to me later. Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. Next up, we’ve got Nicolas Dessaigne.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With nine figures in revenue, Ariel and SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin talk about all things Navan, rebranding when you have brand equity, building B2B software for people, pricing and business models, and much more. But, if you have a founder leading the way, it can be successful. The “why not” was obvious.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

Secrets to Aligning Marketing and Revenue Strategies with Marqeta’s CMO. How to Move Upmarket and Serve Multiple Customer Segments at the Same Time with Square’s Global Head of Sales. Ashley Grech, Global Head of Sales @ Square. The Hidden Costs of Scaling with Guru’s CEO and Airtable’s CMO.

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