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. That includes: A global focus. Professional moderation.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 148

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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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The solution? While it’s a trend across sectors, it’s picking up steam in tech where companies are looking to deliver more complete solutions to consumers. The startup built a cloud-based office procurement system that helps customers streamline supplier management. Micro startup acquisitions. A much softer blow.

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Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

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? Were they delivered?

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SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Payment Services Payments 147

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

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

Payment Methods 164

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 164

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. If you include the payments, the rate is 95%.

SaaS Payments 74

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 74

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

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. This capital can also greatly accelerate the progress and trajectory of the business with resources that others may not get for years down the road. Venture Capital.

Finance 111

Finance Startup SaaS Payments Payment Methods 111

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

You may have heard of Revenue-based financing (RBF), venture debt or hybrid structures blending a revenue or profit share concept with an equity ownership stake. Or, maybe you haven’t and are still thinking your only options are to bootstrap or pursue angel and/or venture capital. Who is it for? Simplified RBF. Once the 1.5x

Finance 85

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 85

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 191

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.

Payments 133

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 133

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.

Payment Methods 68

Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 68

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.

SaaS Payments 102

SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments SaaS 102

Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

Paying monthly for your software needs can be a lot better on your cash flows than buying a lot of expensive packages outright. If you both provide valuable software, maybe this is a good way to reduce your cash expense. Pay suppliers that offer an early payment discount first. Cisco Systems Inc. Dell Computers eBay Inc.

Business 96

Business Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 96

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

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

Michael and his team created a lucrative reward system for startups , which they were able to do through group purchasing (taking advantage of a vertical that allowed them to buy software packages). What actually made me most comfortable was when they said they were building their system like a ledger, so it can’t be messed up.

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Strategy Payment Methods Payment Services Startup 36

SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. 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. There’s no technology, they need money to actually build software.

Part-Time VPE 200

Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Payment Methods SaaS Payments 200

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. Evgenia : Hi.

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New CTO Sales Hiring B2C CTO Hire 182

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.

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Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

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. 2017 2018 2019 Total. 2017 2018 2019 Total.

SaaS Payments 55

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions 55

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. Dave had found his niche and Squire was born. But it didn’t go well.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Scale 52

Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

You may have heard of Revenue-based financing (RBF), venture debt or hybrid structures blending a revenue or profit share concept with an equity ownership stake. Or, maybe you haven’t and are still thinking your only options are to bootstrap or pursue angel and/or venture capital. Who is it for? Simplified RBF. Once the 1.5x

Finance 52

Finance Payments Revenue Payment Solutions 52

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.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. Slack reached $100M in ARR just two and a half years after launch and Dropbox got to one billion dollar in ARR within ca. eight years. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring SaaS Payments Scale 106

ProfitWell

APRIL 27, 2020

Today, we're pushing for discounted plans, adopting more flexible payment terms, and turning your product into a marketing channel. Our friend Kyle Poyar , VP of Marketing Strategy over at OpenView —the expansion stage venture capital firm—says it’s time to revisit your pricing. Pricing, let's talk.

Payments 59

Payments Technical Review Scale Venture Capital 59

Point Nine Land

MAY 20, 2021

Larger organizations sometimes use outdated software providers that sometimes are nothing more than a UI layer that leverages similar outsourced service providers (btw?—?there’s Enter Pento… Beautiful software + end to end automation = Pento ? there’s an $80Bn giant elephant in this room and it’s called ADP ). Infrastructure? —?by

Outsourcing Services 52

Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

that largely determine which path is right for you and your software business. In Moz Founder Rand Fishkin’s brilliantly open and honest book Lost and Founder , he uses an example VC fund called “Scorpio Ventures” to outline some of the fundamentals of how venture capital firms work. They raise a $400 million fund.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

that largely determine which path is right for you and your software business. In Moz Founder Rand Fishkin’s brilliantly open and honest book Lost and Founder , he uses an example VC fund called “Scorpio Ventures” to outline some of the fundamentals of how venture capital firms work. They raise a $400 million fund.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

Point Nine Land

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Handling an increasing percentage of this large payment volume has been a massive driver of Jobber’s rise from its humble beginnings to becoming the leading operations management platform for home service businesses. Vertical SaaS companies that generate payment revenue on top of a SaaS subscription fee are one example.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services 52

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Aileen Lee: And so, I think for a lot of states and regulatory agencies and businesses that have been pushing back to enable remote work, they’re going to have to change a lot of stuff and that’s going to take … A lot of investment’s going to happen in software. ”, we are going to have more unicorns.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 216

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

OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Where are venture investors focusing their technology bets? Venture investors’ horizontal inclination is no surprise in either cloud segment.

Technology 40

Technology Venture Capital Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments 40

OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Where are venture investors focusing their technology bets? Venture investors’ horizontal inclination is no surprise in either cloud segment.

Technology 40

Technology Venture Capital Artificial Intelligence SaaS Payments 40

Scytale

JANUARY 22, 2024

Access to Funding Venture capital funding is a critical part of the startup journey, and non-compliance can hinder a startup’s ability to acquire the resources necessary for growth and expansion. Compliance requires creating security standards, implementing controls, monitoring systems, and remediating any issues.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services compliance Startup SaaS Payments 52

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. The goal is to design a site where potential customers can quickly connect emotionally and find conversions like shopping carts, checkout, and secure payment options.

Payment Methods 56

Payment Methods Payment Services Sales Hiring Technical Review 56

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