SaaS

WooCommerce Payments offers a more unified eCommerce experience, better feature parity with Shopify

Brian Krogsgard

February 26, 2020

WooCommerce Payments offer an in-dashboard, single-account experience for WooCommerce store owners to manage all transactions.

Elementor has raised a $15 million Series A, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners

Brian Krogsgard

February 25, 2020

PlanetWordPress News

Elementor has raised a $15 million Series A to help them take the extremely popular page building tool to the next level.

Churn

Brian Krogsgard

February 21, 2020

Business

Most businesses deal with churn, even the ones that don't call it that. Businesses with recurring revenue deal with churn most directly. We want to keep the customers we have. We want them to renew over and over again —…

Steve Burge offers some insightful thoughts…

Dan Knauss

November 16, 2019

Steve Burge offers some insightful thoughts on collaborative editing in Gutenberg and what that might be like in the future. 🔏 Steve notes that it might be quite a challenge when this feature is tackled in "Stage 3" of the Gutenberg…

Salesforce Ventures invests $300 million in Automattic, at a $3 billion valuation

Brian Krogsgard

September 19, 2019

BusinessPlanet

Salesforce Ventures has invested an incredible $300 million as the sole investor in Automattic's Series D, their first raise since 2014. Total investment is now $491 million over 15 years.

WooCommerce vs Shopify: A battle for ecommerce platform dominance

Jonathan Wold

August 1, 2019

BusinessDraft

Shopify has a lot going for it. WooCommerce, though, is the better platform for ecommerce on the Open Web.

🎙️ Here are a few podcasts…

Dan Knauss

April 26, 2019

Business

🎙️ Here are a few podcasts I've enjoyed recently: Matt Medeiros interviewed Craig Hewitt and Dave Rodenbaugh of RogueStartups. They discussed how business owners operating within the WordPress ecosystem and the SaaS world view "the economy of plugins" as opposed…

Rob Hope interviewed Ghost founder John O’Nolan…

Brian Krogsgard

April 12, 2019

Rob Hope

Branching out: An interview with Peter Suhm

Dan Knauss

February 22, 2019

BusinessPlanet

You may know Peter Suhm as the man behind WP Pusher, a plugin that lets you securely deploy your plugins and themes directly from GitHub, Bitbucket or GitLab to any WordPress site on any type of hosting.

Children say his superpower is love: an interview with Topher DeRosia

Dan Knauss

February 15, 2019

HostingPlanet

Topher DeRosia took some time to reflect on HeroPress and recount his own path to WordPress, the long and winding road of freelancing, and his role as a developer evangelist for BigCommerce.

Automattic has announced Newspack by WordPress.com,…

Brian Krogsgard

January 18, 2019

Automattic has announced Newspack by WordPress.com, describing it as a "next-generation publishing platform" that's "aimed at small- and medium-sized news organizations." The main site is accepting applications for charter participants, who will receive free service until January 2020. Beyond that…

Interview with Matt Mullenweg on Gutenberg, WordPress, and the future

Brian Krogsgard

December 12, 2018

BusinessDraft

I am joined by Matt Mullenweg to discuss decision making, Gutenberg, core WordPress processes, Automattic's business, and more.

An interview with Zach Tirrell, Director of Product at Modern Tribe

Dan Knauss

May 10, 2018

DesignWordPress News

Modern Tribe takes event calendars into the cloud with Loxi, their first SaaS offering. Learn all about it from Zach Tirrell, their director of product.

Marketing and positioning WordPress products — Draft podcast

Katie Richards

March 2, 2018

DraftHosting

This week BK and BR discuss a number of different aspects surrounding marketing and selling WordPress products and services.

I stumbled across this guide from…

Brian Krogsgard

October 5, 2017

I stumbled across this guide from Yohann Kunders that tackles the complex and critical parts of a SaaS ecommerce and billing system. It's worth a read if you know you'll be dealing with the "insanity" of scaling such a system…

Taking a new product from concept to launch

Brian Krogsgard

October 5, 2017

BusinessDesign

When you launch a new project there’s always a buzz of excitement, hope, and relief, but also that of fear of failure and disappointment. This is something I’ve experienced for all the projects I’ve been part of over the past…