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Is it Really ARR? In 2021+, Yes. As Long As NRR is > 100%

SaaStr

A lot of our SaaS older times don’t quite know what to make with a lot of B2B startups these days, let alone some public SaaS companies. So many startups these days are claiming they have “ARR” from revenue that … doesn’t recur. Doesn’t ARR stand for Annual Recurring Revenue?

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Is Quickbooks Desktop Being Phased Out?

Stax

This makes the apparent new direction of Intuit, the developer of QuickBooks, symptomatic of the wider transition within the SaaS space towards cloud-based software solutions. Firstly, QuickBooks Desktop 2021 is to be discontinued from May 31, 2024. This question has been sparked by two recent announcements from Intuit.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $5 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Few SaaS leaders have gone through more post-pandemic change than Shopify and Zoom. Zoom came out of 2020-2021 with SMBs no longer growing, but a huge boost in the enterprise. SaaS growth slowed to 10% year-over-year, down from a peak overall growth of almost 100% (!) But Shopify is less and less a SaaS company because of it.

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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

Buffer Resources

We’ve shared a number of parts of Buffer’s business transparently over the years — and one piece we’ve always wanted to expand on is where your money goes when you pay for a Buffer subscription. Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Square, er Block, at $16B in Net Revenue

SaaStr

So is Square a SaaS company? The majority of its revenue is now from Bitcoin transactions, not “traditional” payments and software. And yet … and yet … its engine is all software and really SaaS. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. Going upmarket.

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The Annual Per-Seat SaaS Contract: Not Quite The Gold Standard It Used To Be

SaaStr

Q: Why do SaaS companies bill annually up front? A lot of SaaS pricing originally comes from classic enterprise software. SaaS then remixed this model by charging less in Year 1 for a “subscription”, but often more over time, especially by Year 3. So the upfront payment for a year isn’t dead. You no longer bought.

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Top 4 SaaS Valuation Metrics at Different Growth Stages

OPEXEngine

According to Bessemer ’s State of the Cloud 2021 as of this January, there were a total of 527 private unicorns (a unicorn is a private company with a valuation over $1B), with a total cumulative value of more than $1.9 According to CBInsights, as of May 2021, that number reached almost 700 unicorns worldwide. trillion dollars.