FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds. Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 148

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

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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. In their case, the cash that Messente generated from these early sales enabled them to pay salaries quickly, which meant they could keep their doors open and the ideas flowing. What Is Messente?

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Equity financing is a method of capital raising via the selling of stock. They may need cash to meet immediate financial obligations or have a longer-term objective and require capital to invest in their development. What is the difference between Equity Financing, Loans, and Venture Capital Funding?

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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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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Venture capital-backed companies update their pricing once every 2.8 Adjusting your payment methods and currencies will bring you some gains. Make sure to expand on those attributes in future product iterations. Lever #5: Monetization. Pricing is another vital lever in your business.

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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.

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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. Did they come through a paid channel?

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. This episode is an excerpt from Aileen and Jason’s session at SaaStr Summit: The New New in Venture. 347: Ready to hire your first VP Sales? Are you more excited about eCommerce? Partially, I think, for personal reasons.

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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 210

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

We’re an early stage venture capital firm focused primarily on B2B SaaS and B2B marketplaces. What about pipeline development, sales cycles, pricing, payment terms, other changes in customer behavior or user behavior? I’ll talk about the topic of fundraising during a pandemic.

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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

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. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

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Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 129

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.

Business Model 54

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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

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. Evgenia : Personally, I don’t think so. We started the fund last year, actually. ” That’s not proven. .”

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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. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast. About Angus Davis & Foundation Capital [1:45]. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20].

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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. Scorpio Ventures goes out to a series of limited partners (LPs) and pitches their ability to pick great startups. As if it’s a 50/50 call.

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. Scorpio Ventures goes out to a series of limited partners (LPs) and pitches their ability to pick great startups. As if it’s a 50/50 call.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

Outseta

JANUARY 10, 2020

Forte fees are payment processing expenses that have grown significantly over 2018 as we’ve processed more subscription payments. Needless to say, this is strong evidence that you don’t need millions and millions of dollars in venture capital to build a large scale SaaS application. 2017 2018 2019 Total.

SaaS Payments 55

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions 55

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Other signs of explosive growth potential at this early stage are a highly efficient sales motion, though this is most often still a work in progress at this stage. Interest from channel partners and sales via channel partners can be another meaningful indicator. . I’ve seen this so many times that is has become predictable. .

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Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

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

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. Indie.VC - Indie.VC

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2024

SaaS enables customers to trade the large capital expenditures associated with traditional enterprise software for smaller operating expenses: a lower cost of entry, and minimal IT infrastructure to manage. A chief customer officer is an operational role responsible for all customer-facing activity post-sale.

Development Team Review 52

Development Team Review Technical Review Software Review Sales Hiring 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

We need this money to get sales and marketing going. So I just see this so many times you’ll see a deck, we need this money to get sales and marketing going. But I guess if you haven’t raised venture capital before, a few maybe obvious and annoying things to know, but maybe I’ll throw it out.

Scale 245

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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. . Important enterprise sales terminology that every B2B SaaS company should be aware of. What makes enterprise clients different? .

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online. And for me as I mentioned BigMachines is a very personal problem. We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 231

FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Start with your existing sales and see where there’s interest from existing buyers. Look for existing ecosystems of websites, communities and social presence that exist in that geography around your topic. “So An easy place to start is to translate a landing page that explains your products and how to get in touch with sales.

Payment Methods 78

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

It seems like while there’s been a lot of discussion in the SaaS community about the right time to bring on a VP of Sales or VP of Marketing (with the best advice coming from Jason himself¹), the finance department hasn’t attracted as much attention yet. are usually also things such a person could take care of instead of the founders.

Sales Hiring 72

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Payment Services Finance 72

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And I ended up as the SVP of Small Business at Intuit, where I was responsible for all of Intuit’s products and services for small businesses, like QuickBooks Accounting, payroll, and payments. Along the way, I guess I should say, on the personal side, I met my husband in business school. Finding our North Star.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world. Sales Process Engagement. Metering / Billing / Payment Process. Customer Success-driven Sales. Designing a Sales-to-CSM Handoff that Actually Works. Sales is Part of Customer Success.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners, a $1B AUM early-stage venture capital firm in New York that has backed category-defining companies such as Chief, Alma, K Health, Latch, Alloy, Dandy and Vestwell.

Scale 82

Scale Technical Advisors Sales Hiring Technical Review 82

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

A few days ago I had lunch with some friends, all of them softare and Venture Capital veterans, who I all know from the early days of the 21st century. Sales ? Don’t beat your head against a brick wall – Cluster your target market. 11 and Neuer Markt aera. Approach your customers.

Underperforming Technical Team 94

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The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

A few days ago I had lunch with some friends, all of them softare and Venture Capital veterans, who I all know from the early days of the 21st century. Sales ? Don’t beat your head against a brick wall – Cluster your target market. 11 and Neuer Markt aera. Approach your customers.

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Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 52

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Think of it this way: Every video you publish is like hiring both a tireless marketer and sales rep who work 24/7, never ask for a raise, and keep getting better at generating demand over time. More for your eardrums Joe DiMento is the Head of Go-To-Market & Industry Partnerships at Bain Capital Ventures.

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B2B Scale Sales Hiring AI Search 83