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. Billion valuation today.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 Stripe payments make up 98.5 Google and Apple payments make up 2.5%

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Businesses are shifting from rigid, consumption-based business models to flexible ones that let users pay for the goods and services they use only as much as they use them. They can use it to establish, monitor, and improve customer relationships, billing cycles , invoices, payments, and subscription plans.

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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. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. Enterprise.

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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. According to Statista, B2B sales are now 6X larger than the business-to-consumer (B2C) market.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Are you looking to monetize your blog or earn a passive income? An affiliate network connects publishers, like blog owners or influencers, with companies looking to promote their products or services. This makes them one of the most straightforward ways to monetize a blog or earn passive income. Networks can vary widely.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

Shopify, since last year, has nearly tripled in market cap driven by the rise of e-commerce, but also the digital payments and the QR code system they provide for contactless payments. We’re bringing S-M-B back with SaaS. Fintech and crypto players are changing financial services forever.

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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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Unbounce

MAY 27, 2021

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. After more than 20 years in the business, independence still matters for CD Baby.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. For example, HR and finance SaaS vendor Workday bought Scout RFP (a San Francisco startup with a team of 8) for $540 million. Sell your startup by following a quick and simple selling process.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 12, 2021

According to the 2019 CSO Insights by the Miller Heiman Group, 37.8% Your SaaS business needs a solid system for finding qualified leads and converting them to customers if it will survive and thrive. Outbound lead prospecting aims to persuade leads to use a service or a product. Contrary to blog posts, gated content is locked.

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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. we spent on consulting services was primarily design related expenses, as James Lavine began working with us. Let’s get right into it starting with how much we’ve spent on the business. The $11,123.75

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

The integrated solution will be available on the newest Arcserve Appliances in October 2019. BlueJeans video conferencing has been named the winner of a silver Stevie Award in the Customer Service Team of the Year - Computer Services & Software category in the 16th Annual International Business Awards. Feel safer already?

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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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ProfitWell

MARCH 9, 2020

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. Companies selling physical goods, digital products, and services of all kinds have turned to this business model as a way to secure repeat customers.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Benjamin Johnson over at LogRocket puts together a blog post that gives concrete examples of awkward web design and how to avoid them. Spotify x Gimlet It looks like Spotify will start riding the content-creation wave that fellow streaming services like Netflix and YouTube have found so lucrative. But before you go.

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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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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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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 started writing about my sales hacks on my first blog, maxtalkshacks.com. Today, SaaStr is a massive business and I couldn’t be happier for Jason, who has given so much back to the SaaS community.

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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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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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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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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. While a handful of tech companies like Zoom and Shopify are enjoying massive gains as a result of COVID-19, that’s obviously not the case for most.

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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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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. Buyer Enablement.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? 285: Hear 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. What questions must you ask?

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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. Well, it’s murky.

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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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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2019

I am really proud to once again be able to say that 2019 was the best year for ChartMogul up to date. The first 3 months of the year were also an active time for our blog. We also updated our popular SaaS Metrics Refresher email course. On the product side, the third quarter of 2019 saw the launch of two important enhancements.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2019

I am really proud to once again be able to say that 2019 was the best year for ChartMogul up to date. The first 3 months of the year were also an active time for our blog. We also updated our popular SaaS Metrics Refresher email course. On the product side, the third quarter of 2019 saw the launch of two important enhancements.

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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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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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FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We confirmed this by reviewing sales data from over 300 SaaS and software companies that use our billing platform. FastSpring’s billing platform supports over 3500 SaaS and software companies who have customers found in over 200 countries or territories. US End-Of-Year Trends For SaaS And Software Purchases. About Our Data.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

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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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 when you start getting into double digits, it’s usually a sign that something in your process isn’t working.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing. Billion in GMV processed, up a stunning 91% from 2019. But in contrast to Wix and Shopify, it doesn’t keep much of the revenue from merchant services itself. Rather, it charges for software subscriptions to take payments on its websites.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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