SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

So one of SaaStr Fund’s latest investments is Mangomint, a vertical SaaS platform for spas and salons. There are multiple vendors in different segments, including Mindbody which IPO’d a SaaS generation ago and then taken private in a $2B Vista acquisition. And why is Vertical SaaS thriving today? Pretty cool!

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2023

Rewind The Clock — How Did We Get Here Most small businesses in pre-2010 didn’t have computers in their store or restaurant. Throw in the rise of social media and mobile web payment systems like Stripe and Braintree, and something revolutionary was at our doorstep. Everyone was stuck in place and online was the answer.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Latin American SaaS landscape is hustling and bustling, having seen more IPOs in the last 6 months than the previous 20 years combined. 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. CEO : Tiago Dalvi.

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SaaStr

MARCH 25, 2021

BigCommerce is an interesting eCommerce case study on many levels. Shopify is #1 in so many market segments, but for “bigger” SMBs BigCommerce (and perhaps less-custom enterprise deployments) is arguably #2 to Shopify. It’s done it by going more upmarket, and better monetizing partners and services.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So, despite SaaS multiple and the public markets being at near record highs, we’ve seen things start to … wobble a bit overall in tech: The WeWork IPO simply failed , and the Peloton and Direct Smile IPOs were broken. One of the greatest SaaS companies of all times, but still, it turned out to be mortal. Slack is mortal.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2023

In a special session of Workshop Wednesday, Gorgias Founder & CEO Romain Lapeyre and Gorgias VP of Sales & Partnerships Aasif Osmany share their learnings, advice, and hacks for optimizing your sales process. For example, Gorgias knew they were targeting not only eCommerce but also customer service. Sign up for free.

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Stax

MARCH 17, 2025

The best ISVs go beyond simply providing merchant services. Talk to sales Why Enable PayPal for Your Merchants? Adding PayPal to your list of accepted payment methods opens up a range of benefits for you and your merchants alike. They also invest in their client’s success and help them thrive.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

It’s something we don’t see too often these days, as $200m+ ARR sort of became the new floor to IPO in SaaS. Weave started off as a dental ERP and comms platform (including VoIP / phone), and then expanded beyond that as it scaled. Many SMB SaaS companies struggle to hit 100% NRR and 80% GRR.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 27, 2022

Small tweaks to your SaaS billing practices can make a huge impact on the customer experience. For example, Jon Torres — a digital marketing consultant specializing in SaaS commerce — noticed that, for some of his clients, refund requests spiked around renewal time. “It 7 growth hacks from the SaaS experts. Learn more here.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

They learned from some of the biggest in SaaS — Aaron Levie and Jeff Lawson. Before Navan, there were different apps for managing expenses, events and meetings, payments, etc. The new app was extremely customer-focused and solved problems for people, like Doordash or Netflix might do, but within Enterprise and SMB.

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Payrix

MARCH 12, 2024

Embedded Payments have become a popular initiative among vertical specific software companies looking to deliver a more seamless customer experience, introduce new revenue into the business, and stay competitive in today’s digital world. We knew just the person to talk to — Andy Meadows, Head of Partner Success at Payrix.

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Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

Before joining Worldpay for Platforms, he was CRO at Chargebee, a subscription revenue management platform that manages billing subscriptions and payments for companies throughout the world. During his tenure, Chargebee experienced high growth, scaling from processing about $3 billion in revenue to $13-14 billion.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky.

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Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

I’ve been fortunate to work in a number of SaaS businesses in my career. In the case of a B2B SaaS company, your Go To Market model outlines the way in which you acquire customers. Some of them, like InVision and SafetyCulture, seemed to just grow naturally without any help. In others however, growth has seem like a slog.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Nothing scares away new business like hard-to-reach customer service or disorganized sales calls. Forget about the requirements of a physical office space, infrastructure, or even a business phone system. I make calls when I’m thinking about committing to a new product or service. Lots of people do. One dropped call.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 2, 2019

50 B2B software marketplaces listed & four observations 50 Shades of SaaS App Stores - Spreadsheet If you’d like to be notified of our next posts you can subscribe to our newsletter. As the SaaS industry is reaching maturity, the app store model is becoming increasingly important. a security audit).

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

When it comes to sales technology quite often sales tech isn't picked based on what YOU need, but based on what your network have been using for their sales process. What you should be making decisions based on is, which sales processes generates the best outcomes you're after - and for your customers.

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yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey and to generate your desired outcomes? Which sales tools best support your sales process? Which sales processes generate the outcomes you're after and which tools best assist you in doing so? Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. You’ll get lots of content from us along with advice for your sales process. Which sales tools best support your sales process?

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Account refers to a record of primary and background information about an individual or corporate customer, including contact data, preferred services, and transactions with your company. . Accounts Receivable refers to the amount of money yet to be collected from your customers who purchased a product or subscribed to a service.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey? Which sales tools best support your sales process? Sales Tools for Professional Sales. What do we mean with "best"? Other CRMs.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey? Which sales tools best support your sales process? Sales Tools for Professional Sales. What do we mean with "best"? Other CRMs.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. You’ll get lots of content from us along with advice for your sales process. Which sales tools best support your sales process?

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Gross Margin should take into consideration any support, installation, and servicing costs,” Skok says. Hubspot Focused On LTV to Scale Its SaaS Company. Almost a decade ago, SaaS company HubSpot focused on improving its LTV:CAC ratio in hopes of expanding. In doing so, their LTV tripled. Here’s an example.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 29, 2019

But that’s easier said than done, which is why we’ve published our new book Intercom on Sales : a deep dive into the many lessons we’ve learned about how selling works at scale, covering everything from hiring tactics to the needs of modern buyers to fundamental processes for forecasting and managing deals. Everybody was on the same page.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2019

As one of the most difficult markets to enter and succeed, how can new and old SaaS providers win with SMBs? So whether you’re aspiring to be a small business owner or you support them personally or financially, they impact all of us and it’s an important part of our economy. Representing 98% of all U.S.

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Payrix

JUNE 25, 2024

Embedded Finance is more than just a buzzword; it represents a fundamental shift in how financial services are delivered and consumed today. Ian Hillis, Head of Growth at Worldpay for Platforms discusses this new term and what the opportunity may await software providers on our latest episode of PayFAQ: The Embedded Payments podcast.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you created your SaaS product to help solve a problem you had or because you wanted some extra income, the truth is that your SaaS business is a valuable asset. Running a profitable SaaS business allows you to take control of your own schedule - some would even say your life! We’d hate for that to happen to you.

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FastSpring

JUNE 11, 2024

FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including software management, VAT and sales tax management, global payments, and consumer support. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. I love that.

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User Pilot

JUNE 29, 2022

You can also use gathered data to create personalized in-app experiences for customer segments, therefore, increasing customer satisfaction. This data enables product managers, customer success, and marketing teams to detect friction points and unravel product growth opportunities. What are the benefits of customer segmentation tools?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 15, 2021

Tempo on the sales call and in the sales process is everything for us. An SDR/BDR can take the best notes in the world and will probably only be able to communicate 20-30% of what’s really happening, and can’t communicate much about the prospect’s personality, tone, or demeanor—all of which are critical. You’re losing tempo.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 21, 2019

SaaS businesses have seen unprecedented growth in the past few years. In a recent survey , BetterCloud reported that 73% of companies say nearly all their apps will be SaaS by 2020. For businesses across the globe, the ability to purchase a SaaS product in their local currency makes that software much more accessible to them.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Instead of selling face-to-face, inside sales utilizes all the communication tools that modern salespeople have at their disposal: Phone. Inside sales may be used by any sales team, but it’s one of the top sales models in B2B, especially for SaaS and tech. It may be done over the phone, Skype, email, web conference….

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you look back on February 5th, 2019, which was the SaaStr Annual, hopefully many of you were there in person, we gave the state of the cloud presentation and talked about the power of the industry, and the power that’s been building in terms of market capitalization of just the public cloud companies and what they show.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I Set up a demo or try it out for yourself. Jump to video.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. The benchmark customer churn for SaaS for SMBs is 5%. Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!).

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