Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. But not all SaaS products are alike. Other types of SaaS are relevant only to companies in specific industries.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. Here in Silicon Valley you have Google, and Facebook, and a ton of other massive organizations that are just churning out people who then go on to found other startups.

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FastSpring

JUNE 6, 2024

Xsolla is a merchant of record (MoR) payment provider that serves the video game industry. The platform includes a broad feature set that provides game developers with the infrastructure needed to sell online and accept online payments globally, without having to manage localization, sales tax and VAT, or fraud prevention on their own.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. Why do developers love SaaS products?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

In SaaS, #1 most common misfire, with a bullet, is the VP/head of sales. Because in SaaS start-ups, it seems like the majority of first VP Sales fail. First, in this post, I want to outline what a VP of Sales in a SaaS company actually does. OK, adding in churn, you’re going to have to add another >$1m+ ARR … quickly.

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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

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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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. And if you look at churn, so in Q1, starting to see some early signs of churn.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a lot of SaaS companies, by the way, from Denmark if you haven’t noticed. Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. Tradeshift Pay is an entrant payment solution for supply chains, meaning no matter where your supplier is in the world, we can make sure they get paid.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Choosing which revenue model works best for your SaaS business, though, is not easy (even if that's all you want to do is choose a revenue model for your SaaS business). The subscription model is the “vanilla” SaaS revenue model, not that there’s anything boring about a well-worked subscription plan. Advertising. Pay-Per-User.

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

No matter how innovative a product might be, a business can only succeed if it enables its customers. Suzanne Xie kicked off her journey in SaaS as the Founder and CEO of Lightwell. What makes a SaaS business so hard? You can deploy subscriptions as a service, billing as a service, fraud prevention as a service.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2020

Just look at subscription analytics startup ChartMogul whose brand and product are now a household name in the SaaS community. Looking around at the market, Nick saw an appetite for content about growing a SaaS business. Tomasz Tunguz and David Skok – they were publishing a lot of content around SaaS metrics and these kinds of things.

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