Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Amplitude counts Cisco, Adidas, PayPal and CapitalOne amongst its customers. Sales Efficiency. -. The first is sales efficiency. The company spent $47m in 2019 on sales and marketing, and $52m in 2020, an increase of $3m or 6%, while growing revenues 49%. The 2020 sales efficiency is 0.54. Revenue, $M.

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Benchmarks Metrics PayPal Enterprise 282

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

A ways back we noted a great rant by David Marcus , now of Facebook, and previously President of PayPal. Complaining his employees weren’t using PayPal apps. But PayPal isn’t Google. I’m not sure it’s something your sales reps would ever use if they didn’t have to sell it. Or Facebook.

VP of Engineering 220

VP of Engineering Customer Support PayPal Healthcare 220

SaaStr

APRIL 12, 2021

The biggest mistake folks make when they go to hire a VP of Sales is hiring a top AE that's never really built a team. But it does not remotely prepare you to be a VP of Sales on its own. How to Succeed as a First Time VP of Sales. A top SDR that wants to skip the AE part and be your Director of Sales.

Sales Hiring 337

Sales Hiring PayPal Growth Hacking Startup 337

SaaStr

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Rattle is building a magical combination between Salesforce and Slack that lets the sales team track and update Salesforce all while sitting in Slack. Chargebee integrates with the leading payment gateways like Stripe, Braintree, PayPal etc. Panther helps remote startups hire anyone, anywhere, in just a click.

Payment Features 256

Payment Features Payment Services Payments Sales Hiring 256

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

While there is a plethora of payment platforms to consider, Stripe and PayPal should be at the top of the list. If you’re trying to decide between Stripe and PayPal, you may arrive at a difficult crossroad. Overview Both Stripe and PayPal have exceptional payment processing capabilities, but their features don’t stop there.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Merchant Services 93

FastSpring

MARCH 6, 2019

For some businesses and online merchants, PayPal may be the payment method of choice and that’s totally acceptable. But if you’re solely depending on PayPal, you could be leaving money on the table. Check out our list of the best Paypal alternatives that you need to have on your site today! PayPal, why it works.

Payment Methods 84

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 84

SaaStr

AUGUST 11, 2022

Especially if you spend 50% of your revenue on Sales & Marketing, it can take many years to really get profitable in SaaS. Ok now let’s look at some pure-play Fintechs: PayPal: 47% Gross Margins. HubSpot: 80% Gross Margins. Datadog: 78% Gross Margins. Zoom: 75% Gross Margins. But what they did take, was very profitable.

SaaS Payments 310

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payments Payment Solutions 310

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2022

Calendly works with Google, Office 365 and Outlook calendars and apps like Salesforce, Stripe, PayPal, Google Analytics, GoToMeeting and Zapier for a seamless user experience. They can also add interactive guides, share or embed the experience, integrate with their existing sales and marketing stack, and track and analyze usage.

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 258

GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Artificial Intelligence Enterprise readiness Azure 258

Neil Patel

JANUARY 11, 2023

Article sponsored by PayPal. When we talk about leaders in the contactless payments space, we must talk about PayPal. With a user share of 82%, PayPal is the most used online payment service in the U.S. Let’s dig into why this is important and how PayPal enterprise solutions can help. I’m not the only one who thinks this.

PayPal 80

PayPal Payment Solutions Payment Methods Merchant Services 80

SaaStr

JUNE 21, 2020

2: “The Cadence: How To Turn Your SaaS Startup into an Army” with David Sacks, Craft Ventures and ex-CEO Yammer and ex-COO of PayPal. 5: “Jyoti Bansal and The AppDynamics Story: From Idea to $3.7B” The inside story of Cisco buying AppDynamics for $3.7b, and Jyoti learning to love sales as an engineer.

Scale 246

Scale PayPal Cloud Startup 246

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Head of Sales. VP Sales (45 Employees). billion in 2012.

CTO Hire 278

CTO Hire Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO 278

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Intuit, Microsoft, Adobe, PayPal. Slack added a big enterprise sales team. Zoom always had a sales team, and is going more enterprise. And they all have real, large, traditional SaaS sales teams. So just don’t fear adding a sales team, and driving up your ACV and value over time, if you start Freemium.

Business Model 286

Business Model Scale Business PayPal 286

SaaStr

JULY 3, 2020

David Sacks (Yammer, PayPal) shares how to navigate from 50-500 employees. Rather than having this erratic schedule around hitting sales targets, or hitting releases, that there’s a feeling that just quarter after quarter the company keeps shipping and selling. The first system is what I call the sales finance system.

Software Review 260

Software Review Scale Systems Review Startup 260

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

So, the company starts getting divided up into functional areas, or silos, product management, sales, customers support, marketing and so on, and this siloing of the org chart I think means that not everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and there’s a general feeling of disorganization or chaos in most startups. billion dollars.

Startup 286

Startup Software Review Scale Systems Review 286

SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.

Merchant Services 274

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 274

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Used “dollar airdrops” PayPal deposited $10 into each new user’s account when registering in their first growth phase. Sales Efficiency. In 2021, I estimated that airdrops were 4-7x as expensive as spending venture dollars on sales & marketing. Campaign Cost. Cumulative Trading Fees.

Blockchain 208

Blockchain PayPal Startup Pricing 208

FastSpring

JANUARY 19, 2023

When NitroPack was first getting started, they used PayPal to accept and process payments. “It Why NitroPack Couldn’t Scale PayPal NitroPack faced two issues trying to scale using PayPal. With PayPal, You’re Not Automatically Sales Tax and VAT Compliant The biggest issue was tax compliance. The problem?

Merchant Services 147

Merchant Services Payment Services Payments Payment Features 147

SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

Software businesses, for the most part, require heads to grow a business through sales reps or customer support. Bravado network is like LinkedIn for sales reps, where you can survey different sales professionals on their work. Not having those people in place also leads to profitability. Have We Bottomed Out?

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Venture Capital Management Scale AI 293

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Article sponsored by PayPal. Several tools and apps offer this feature, including PayPal with their Pay in 4 option. PayPal’s offering integrates with the PayPal wallet, allowing users to easily manage payments. Familiar options like PayPal may increase consumer trust, which may increase sales.

Payment Methods 134

Payment Methods Payments Merchant Services PayPal 134

SaaStr

MAY 30, 2020

This was a great session from NewNewVenture.com this week where David walks us through what he learned at Yammer, PayPal and more on how to navigate from 50-500 employees. “Scaling up Sales Managers: 5 Mistakes New Leaders Make with CircleCI” This session from SaaStr Europa exceeded all my expectations. Watch it. #2:

Scale 217

Scale PayPal Investment Scaling 217

Payrix

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Check verification Process that screens checks and check-writers against a negative database at the point-of-sale (POS) when the customer presents a check as payment. Duplicate checking The policy and procedures that prevent identical sales records from being processed. eCheck, PayPal, etc.)

Payment Services 147

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods 147

Stax

MARCH 27, 2025

Talk to sales Understanding EFT: The Umbrella Term for Digital Transactions Ever paid for your coffee with just a tap of a card or received payment from a customer thousands of miles away? Clients only need to swipe a card at your point-of-sale (POS) terminal or enter their bank account number into your website (Initiation).

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 88

FastSpring

APRIL 23, 2024

Braintree by PayPal. FastSpring is an experienced merchant of record that provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, and digital goods businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and consumer support. digital wallets (Apple Pay and Google Pay), and — of course — PayPal.

Payment Methods 139

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions 139

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

PayPal has continued to skyrocket, and then, of course, Zoom replacing ServiceNow in the top five from 2020, as Zoom meetings, Zoom backgrounds, and for all of us, even a little Zoom fatigue is becoming a necessary and important element of our every day.

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Cloud Scale Payment Methods Payment Solutions 273

SaaS Metrics

JANUARY 31, 2022

Speed of application and eligibility When you meet some basic requirements, you may qualify for a PayPal Working Capital loan. A PayPal Business account must be less than 3 months old and must generate $15,000 in sales per year or a Premier PayPal account must generate $20,000 per year. None of the.

PayPal 52

PayPal Metrics SaaS Sales 52

SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2021

In this episode, David Skok , General Partner @ Matrix Partners , uncovers the crucial step missing when it comes to finding product-market fit for B2B companies, how to set-up your sales team for success early on, and what metrics really matter when it comes to a payback period. Finding the right VP of Sales can be an especially hard task.

Scale 286

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling B2B 286

Stax

OCTOBER 13, 2024

However, as your business grows and you start needing more advanced features like inventory management, sales tracking, or multi-user access, Quicken may become limited. QuickBooks, on the other hand, offers features like sales tracking, cash flow management, account payable and receivable management, and more.

Payment Methods 88

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services 88

FastSpring

JANUARY 9, 2023

PayPal for Business: Available on Major eCommerce Platforms. While it’s true that, historically, SaaS and ecommerce companies didn’t always have to pay VAT or sales tax, that’s no longer the case. They previously experimented with platforms like Stripe and PayPal. Paddle: Payment Infrastructure Platform.

Payment Methods 147

Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Features 147

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

Keith began his career in the industry as a senior executive at PayPal and subsequently served in influential roles at LinkedIn and as chief operating officer of Square. Early teams of PayPal, LinkedIn, Square, and now GP at Khosla Ventures. And you’ve been on the early teams at several companies now: LinkedIn, PayPal, Square-.

Merchant Services 222

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 222

SaaStr

JULY 2, 2022

We’ve have 1000+ 1:1, 1:2, 1:4, 1:16 and 1:24 sessions with top revenue, sales, and product leaders, and subject matter experts. We have great tracks, content, braindates, and mentoring sessions for Sales, Marketing, Product, Success and Engineering leaders. Lunches for Sales, for Marketing, for CS, for Product, for Ops and more.

Scale 255

Scale Sales Hiring PayPal Scaling 255

FastSpring

APRIL 8, 2021

Remember when PayPal first came on the scene? But 2000 was a big year for PayPal. So, if you take away the credit card option, you’ll lose those sales, which will hurt your conversion rate. Well, you might not because you were probably in high school … or maybe even elementary school. In March of 2000, they hit 1 million users.

Payment Methods 148

Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions PayPal 148

Neil Patel

JANUARY 4, 2021

This can be enticing for Instagram users and e-commerce shops who want to keep their interaction, from discovery to sale, right there on Instagram itself. When you purchase something from shops on Instagram, you’ll need to submit your credit card, debit card, or PayPal information to use Facebook Pay to finalize the transaction.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments 145

FastSpring

APRIL 16, 2024

Increased Conversion Rates: Capture more sales with a payment method familiar to millions of buyers in Brazil. Enhanced Localization: Provide a trusted and familiar payment method to users in Brazil and show commitment to the Latin American market. Learn more about Pix in our docs. For more details, take a look at our documentation.

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Payment Methods Payments Payment Services PayPal 158

FastSpring

JULY 25, 2019

Ecommerce sales are already growing at an alarming rate. One question that gets asked frequently, is when online businesses should consider switching from accepting payments through a payment solution like PayPal and transitioning over to a comprehensive ecommerce platform. You’re Ready to Sell Globally.

Payment Methods 60

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services PayPal 60

FastSpring

DECEMBER 12, 2022

PayPal is both a payment processor and a popular digital wallet (not a MoR). PayPal supports online businesses and brick-and-mortar businesses. PayPal’s services include: QR code and POS systems. As a payment processor, PayPal uses one merchant account for all of its customers and then pays you out of that account.

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Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 148

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Square PayPal FIS Stripe Payline Data Fiserv BitPay Adyen Dharma Merchant Services Fattmerchant. Digital wallets like PayPal, Google Pay or Apple Pay have become extremely popular. The reason being, the longer your payment processor is down, the more sales you lose. The Top 10 Credit Card Processing Companies.

Payment Services 126

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Technical Review 126

Sales Hacker

MAY 22, 2020

We have product-qualified leads , marketing-qualified leads, sales-qualified leads, and many more. As someone who works in sales, handling all these types of leads can be overwhelming and exhausting. How to qualify and nurture SALs through your sales funnel. What Are Sales Accepted Leads? How to generate SALs.

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Payment Methods SaaS Payments Sales Payment Services 128