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

APRIL 6, 2021

Growth fueled by the addition of transactional revenue, not SaaS revenues. Olo’s explosive growth in the past 24 months prior to IPO wasn’t fueled so much by its SaaS revenue, but by transaction revenue as part of orders. As last as 2018, 93% of Olo’s revenue was pure SaaS.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Are you looking to monetize your blog or earn a passive income? This is a complete guide to choosing the right affiliate network for your platform, including what an affiliate network is, why you should consider joining one, and a rundown of the top networks on the market. What is an Affiliate Network? Networks can vary widely.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But based on the number of requests for worst-case scenarios we've gotten from customers in the past two weeks, there's a non-zero chance you are losing sleep over this if you are a SaaS founder. We want to help, and I believe my experience with other SaaS companies may be useful to you as you plan out your company’s new future.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. As of 2019, B2B ecommerce sales globally have surpassed $12 trillion in revenue. How businesses can take advantage of the growth around B2B Ecommerce.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There are many ways to classify SaaS companies, but differentiating companies based upon who their customers are presents the best approach for measuring performance and driving success for SaaS businesses. Business to Consumer (B2C). SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. Enterprise.

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Unbounce

MAY 27, 2021

After more than 20 years in the business, independence still matters for CD Baby. That means anyone can use their service—from Grammy-winning artists to newbies who recorded a song on their laptop. Artists upload their music, send all the metadata required for proper tracking and payment, and the rest happens on the CD Baby portal.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The issue is that most SaaS start-ups are terrible at collecting cash that doesn’t come from a payment gateway. jasonlk) February 15, 2019. They hook up a payment system when they start as self-service, and the cash magically flows into the bank account. And add some services. And often after.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. These businesses usually consist of 2 to 3 people, and companies are taking bets on their products that aren’t even fully realized yet. The platform is free, private, and has no middlemen.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 12, 2021

According to the 2019 CSO Insights by the Miller Heiman Group, 37.8% of businesses struggle with lead generation. Your SaaS business needs a solid system for finding qualified leads and converting them to customers if it will survive and thrive. Contrary to blog posts, gated content is locked.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS companies have transformed the way global businesses work. Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. In this blog we’ll talk about SaaS business and top 50 SaaS companies in 2020.

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Outseta

JANUARY 9, 2019

I hope this is a useful barometer of progress for other bootstrapped SaaS start-ups with equally ambitious projects. Let’s get right into it starting with how much we’ve spent on the business. we spent on consulting services was primarily design related expenses, as James Lavine began working with us. The $11,123.75

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

This global alliance marks the industry’s first means to assure mitigation of cyber-attacks through complete, multi-layered data security and protection, combining threat prevention technologies with onsite/offsite business continuity capabilities for an all-in-one solution that can be deployed in 15 mins. Feel safer already?

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2023

This is when startups were for nerds, and Ivy League grads were still going straight into investment banking instead of SaaS sales. I was the eighth hire and the first person focused exclusively on scaling the sales side of the business. I started writing about my sales hacks on my first blog, maxtalkshacks.com. I said yes.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

It often seems as if traditional strategy development processes have no place in the fast-moving, always changing technology industries. It’s not really surprising that so many tech company executives punt on the traditional corporate strategy process. What they don’t do is get bogged down in process or complexity. At a Glance.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 9, 2020

The subscription business model has seen an immense rise in popularity in recent years, and with good reason. The subscription-based economy grew 350% between 2012 and 2019, and subscription businesses grew revenues about five times faster than S&P 500 company revenues during that time. billion in 2019.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

I’ve worked at multiple high growth SaaS businesses as a growth leader, and the data we’re seeing right now … This is from … is that CAC is increasing both in B2B and B2C, and you’re going to see how that relates, right? What’s the essential marketing stack every SaaS should have regardless of size?

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Focus State by LogRocket Making your website accessible to everyone seems like a no-brainer, but when your business is in all-hands mode (we know it well), something like adding in a focus state slips through the cracks. Slack Forgoes IPO Messaging platform Slack makes moves toward going public. But before you go.

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OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It was one instance in which the company adjusted EBITDA to meet its short-term needs while masking a longer-term leverage problem that came to a head in 2019 when it had to pull its IPO because of valuation concerns. “People didn’t believe in community-adjusted EBITDA,” he said, but that didn’t stop them from investing in the company.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Enter the platform company. This is Zach from Plaid and I guess … well, it’s interesting because you’re not a SaaS company, we’re at Saastr … but we’ll talk about what it’s like to not be a SaaS company at SaaStr. Zach : SaaS-ish. Ari : SaaS-ish. That’s pre-Plaid.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

SALES STACK 2019 SALES TOOLS FOR. 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.

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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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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Since the original version of this post from early 2017, we’ve worked with many more SaaS companies and a common theme has been moving companies from a starter template to a more robust financial model. This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Built out a bunch of the orb across product, data, analytics to do much of the same work, to drive retention and monetization.

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SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2021

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. The Covid Boost for SaaS. But likely it’s below 100% excluding payments.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Weaker demand, slower sales cycles, and customer insistence on pricing concessions and payment deferrals have conspired to cloud the outlook for many tech companies’ growth. For certain businesses, COVID-19’s impact on revenue was immediate. Forecasting Growth in a Pandemic: A Difficult Job Just Got Harder.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

SALES STACK 2019 SALES TOOLS FOR. 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.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Over $500,000 revenue per employee. Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing. Billion in GMV processed, up a stunning 91% from 2019. Billion in GMV processed, up a stunning 91% from 2019. Rather, it charges for software subscriptions to take payments on its websites.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2021

1M in ARR per employee could be a new efficiency record at IPO for SaaS. Their tiniest customers still have higher churn, as with almost every other SaaS company. Like Bill, it took the process seriously and became a licensed money transmitter itself. Growth of only 10% in 2019 to 2020 — but then exploded!

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

?. Manual document collection is not exactly what you would call a seamless process. Back in 2013, the entrepreneur founded and single-handedly organized B2B Rocks , a SaaS conference that today gathers over 1500 founders, investors, and industry leaders. SaaS-struck. Where does your interest in SaaS and tech come from?

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We confirmed this by reviewing sales data from over 300 SaaS and software companies that use our billing platform. We discovered that Q4 is by far the best-performing quarter of the year for both business and consumer sales. In November, software companies see 11% to 24% over the average monthly revenue. About Our Data.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

I spent over a week speaking with different SaaS founders and marketers about how they successfully reduced churn for their business. churn by doing something every SaaS business should be doing, but most don’t. But there’s also revenue churn, which is arguably even more important. of his customers. What is churn?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? Loving our podcast content?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Rob made his way into the world of SaaS as a product manager and how that led to his founding Salsify over 8 years ago. * How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers? Harry Stebbings: Not at all.

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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. During 2019 many of the larger providers of sales solutions have spoken of a "rapid consolidation" happening in the sales tools space. Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey?

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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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