Chargify

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Over the last decade, recurring revenue has emerged as the preferred model for businesses moving beyond transactional commerce. While the first generation of recurring revenue was defined by simple subscriptions—think Netflix’s original “one-size-fits-all” $7.99 From Static Subscriptions To The Relationship Economy.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Some of that is by launching add-on products that can be priced as subscription fees or transactional per conversation. They just happened to launch AWS and ended up capturing way more value just in themselves than the entire on-prem storage market before them. Take out your P&L or metrics dashboard and go through every metric.

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

I also want to mention – I use this blog as somewhat of a personal journal. In the short term, enjoy the ride as the chase continues 😊 Kind of related to all of this - we now have seen the Q4’s from AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

And it’s one of the three large cloud vendors that we all know: Microsoft, AWS, and Google. AWS’s marketplace has seen 1.5 million subscriptions transacted and Google’s marketplace has seen 3X growth in SaaS sales. Like I said, we run 100% of our platform on AWS, so the fit was great.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Our mission is to build the world’s most powerful subscription analytics platform for the SaaS community. Building the leading subscriptions analytics platform means listening to our customers, and implementing changes to the product that bring them the most value. What’s new in ChartMogul in 2021? ChartMogul is a product-led company.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Then, we moved to a more customer-friendly model with SaaS and subscription-based pricing. What’s evolved over the years and is driven by hyper-scalers like Google Azure, AWS, Twilio, and Stripe is the consumption-based model. Rather than compensating based on ARR, it’s based on a volume and quality-based metric.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 11, 2022

For example, technology companies like AWS, GCP, and Snowflake offer no contracts for customers interested in using their self-service option or beta-testing the solution. Many companies want to migrate their subscription or perpetual business to consumption pricing models; however, it doesn’t always result in incremental business.

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How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Amazon SES is more suited for sending bulk transactional emails, but in this blog, I will suggest some leading Amazon SES alternatives for sending both transactional and promotional emails. Amazon also offers you the option to access the API using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or the AWS Software Development Kit (SDK).

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Ashley Smith, Venture Partner at OpenView provides insight on what investors are looking for in product metrics and growth indicators so you can capitalize on your product’s story for funding. Many of our users begin their journey with Slack on our free subscription plan. Want to see more content like this? Product led growth.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 29, 2020

In this blog post, we’ll walk you through how the Rule of 40 works, and teach you how to calculate your Rule of 40 number. Some companies choose to look at total revenue, but if you offer one-time services on top of monthly subscriptions, then looking at monthly recurring revenue will give you a more accurate picture.

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Chargify

JUNE 3, 2020

With the launch of Tesla’s Autopilot Full Self-Drive feature subscription service coming by the end of 2020, this could be the start of a shift in the way the automotive industry does business. Subscription based billing is not new to consumers, everyone from Spotify to Netflix to gyms have been using this model for a number of years.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

I’m looking at it and I’m like, “Who’s got the Wall Street Journal subscription? For us, it’s been, “Migrate things that you have on invoice over to card.” We can save companies $100,000 on their AWS bill. Everybody wants to save $100,000 on their AWS bill right now.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

One of the most famous lines from Citizen Kane is, “It's no trick to make an awful lot of money, if that's all you want is to do is make a lot of money.” Subscription. The subscription model is the “vanilla” SaaS revenue model, not that there’s anything boring about a well-worked subscription plan. Advertising.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Churn is the enemy of subscription-based businesses; it measures the rate at which your hard-won customers cancel their subscription to your service. Making subscription renewals difficult with ineffective outreach, login pages or simply payment issues that go unnoticed. ” Craig Soules, CEO/Co-founder, Natero. .

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

I’m going to skip by my life story, and how I grew up as a small child in India, and how the dusty streets influenced my take on unit economics, and SaaS subscription models. ” Now, years later, millions of dollars later, we wrote a book, have a blog that gets two million visits, had an event that had 14,000 people last year.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2021

However, there are multiple factors at play and we will look into them individually in this blog. E.g. deploying an overlay network on top of public cloud services like AWS, Google cloud or Alibaba cloud. The two SaaS growth levers explained in this blog cannot be simplified further. SaaS is a growing industry. Wrapping Up.

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Sylvia Ng

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Understand the difference between data, metrics, and KPIs. Work across the stack: mostly Python/Flask, PostgreSQL, JavaScript (React/JQuery/Backbone) and working with AWS. Work closely with the CEO to realize vision for data infrastructure and business intelligence tools and hit subscription goals. Google Analytics, Clicky).

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Cassie spent the first pre-SaaS chapter of her tech career in growth roles in subscription and marketplace businesses (TheLadders.com, GLG). are just as critical as understanding the fundamental SaaS metrics such as LTV/CAC, payback, etc. Emmy has spoken at major events and has been featured on several sales-related podcasts and blogs.

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