User Pilot

JANUARY 12, 2024

Its use cases include: Comparing products or categories. Each bar can represent a period (say, a month) and be further segmented to show sales across different categories. A stacked bar graph compares two categories of values on Userpilot. Comparing overall trends in the industry, etc. Comparing survey results.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 17, 2021

Look at Alex Wilhelm’s tweet on Box’s financials above. You’re gonna tell me no one in your industry has high NPS and CSAT. Agreed, the entire content marketing platform category got to 10-30M in ARR before churn eventually made the category fizzle out. Importantly, they buy more stuff from you, too.

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Baremetrics

JULY 7, 2021

For SaaS companies, success depends highly on using key metrics to track financial growth and enhance visibility into all the key performance indicators. For every decision-maker in a SaaS company, understanding SaaS financial benchmarks makes a proper interpretation your internal performance metrics possible.

Benchmarks 105

Benchmarks SaaS Payments SaaS Payments 105

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

To do that requires a deep understanding and appreciation of the company’s mission, vision, product strategy, financial plan, and more—all of which you get from communicating with the CEO. The specific product and industry you can teach—team skills and a go-getter attitude are much harder. Step 3: Be the customer whisperer.

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Stax

JANUARY 31, 2024

These rates are determined by various factors like the type of card used, the industry of the merchant, and how the transaction is processed. These factors are also used to set the specific interchange fees for each type of transaction, as interchange fees are not set as a flat fee across all industries, transaction types, etc.:

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Methods Accept Credit Card Payments 88

Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Gordon Gekko, played by Michael Douglas, in Wall Street (1987) Leveraged Buyouts became “a thing” in the 1980s thanks to a form of financial engineering called junk debt. PE is now a giant industry—from its humble beginnings with spreadsheets and junk debt to almost $5 trillion of assets. Inside sales? billion, against almost $2.8

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2023

Most categories have anywhere from 50-100 products, and that’s a challenge for buyers. 14% said content is not specific to their industry. Industry content is moving on up. People want to know you’re serving their industry, and you can show them through case studies, reviews, and in-depth data. Simplify contracts.

Marketplace as a Service 195

Marketplace as a Service Software Review Technical Review Azure 195

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

We’re seeing larger numbers of people work in the industry, more companies investing in sales enablement teams and numerous tools being developed to solve sales enablement challenges. By most measures the industry is growing, thriving, even, and shows no sign of slowing. That’s why I’ve written this post.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Here, in this article, we are going to jot down the SaaS financial metrics that investors look into before giving you funding for your project or business idea. SaaS Financial Metrics to Get Funding for Your Project As the SaaS industry continues to thrive, understanding and leveraging key financial metrics is paramount for securing funding.

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Metrics SaaS Finance Acquisition 52

Kellblog

JUNE 7, 2020

I hear your company’s name all the time, I’m told business is doing great, and Gartner literally can’t stop talking about your technology and category.” ” “Yes, we’ve successfully created a category,” he said, “But I have one question. Bad Fates That Can Befall Category Creators.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

If you talk to enough founders and marketers who have attempted to create a category, typically they’ll all say the same thing — it’s incredible when it works, but if you can take the blue pill and avoid it, you might save yourself the headache. But make no mistake — successfully creating a category is extremely hard. .

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Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Forecasting 108

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

They may need cash to meet immediate financial obligations or have a longer-term objective and require capital to invest in their development. Equity funding may originate from various sources, including friends and relatives of the entrepreneur, financiers, or an initial public offering (IPO). Stable Source of Finance 2.

Finance 98

Finance Venture Capital SaaS Payments Payments 98

SaaSOptics

MAY 5, 2022

I thought about Savage’s experiment this week as I took up my new role as CEO of Maxio—a company that’s rewriting the rules for financial operations and subscription billing. The product and engineering team, too, have done an incredible job, building unique category-defining solutions for SaaS companies. How the magic happens.

Scale 98

Scale Technical Review Subscription Payment Features 98

SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2023

Over the years at Gainsight, we’ve had a few—our first Chief Financial Officer and our first Chief People Officer, to name two—that had a massive impact. Lesson: It wasn’t without its flaws, but Prescriptive Methodology, to me, is one of the most critical step functions for any SaaS company in a new category.

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Sales Hiring Scale Scaling Customer Success 255

ChurnZero

MAY 5, 2021

We are proud to announce that ChurnZero has been named a 2021 SIIA CODiE Award finalist in the Best Customer Success Management Solution category. ChurnZero was honored as one of 153 finalists across the 43 business technology categories, including two categories in response to COVID-19. “In About the SIIA CODiE Awards.

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Technical Review Software Review Education Innovation 52

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Social media posts, blog posts, SEO, PPC, financials, processes – you name it. 67% of the industry leaders in marketing are using automation to improve and grow their companies. Feedly is a great tool for curating content from your favorite industry blogs and thought leaders. There are only so many hours in a day. And that’s it.

Scale 140

Scale Social Media Technical Review Software Review 140

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

I spoke to Ryan about how they created a new enterprise ops category: LearnOps. He also shares insights about how Cognota is maintaining ownership over the category they created while encouraging dialogue and collaboration in the market. We’re enterprise software for a new category called LearnOps.

Payment Solutions 91

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2022

we wanted to know on a global scale what businesses of all sizes in all major industries (and for both B2B and B2C) are doing. It was a toss-up on the main reason they wanted to increase their overall budget in this category. There are a lot of different paid ad channels, for this category we looked at the main leaders.

Marketing 144

Marketing AI Search Software Review Social Media 144

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Do you have a credible growth story to sustain 20%+ growth in year 6 of your financial model? Are you sustaining 20%+ growth in year 6 of your financial model? Public investors have been conditioned to expect you to beat and raise your financial guidance consistently every quarter. Do you have a credible growth story?

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Travel Forecasting Pricing Scale 109

Clouded Judgement

APRIL 5, 2024

.” For startups, their valuation follows an arc from pure hype based valuations (all on potential) in the earliest days when you’re just a team and and idea, to pure fundamental based valuations in the public markets when you’re given a valuation multiple against a financial metric like revenue or free cash flow.

Cloud 161

Cloud Scale Pricing Revenue 161

Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Since its introduction, the SaaS business model has grown in popularity and transformed many industries. In this blog, keeping this history in mind, we will investigate the upcoming SaaS industry trends 2024. SaaS Industry Trends 2024: A List 1. Why are SaaS software adoption rates among businesses so high?

Payments 52

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Trends 52

User Pilot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Growth metrics are divided into several categories, with each measuring a different aspect of the business and its performance. These categories include revenue metrics, engagement metrics , and customer satisfaction metrics. These metrics highlight the future stability of a company and point out any signs of financial distress.

Metrics 93

Metrics Customer Lifetime Value Churn Acquisition 93

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. And so that was what you’re investing in.

Payment Solutions 110

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services Payments 110

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The biotech industry is built on one of the cleanest go-to-market strategies in existence: if you make a safe drug that really works, patients are likely to receive it and payors are likely to pay for it.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Finance Systems Review 128

SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2020

As for Anthony, prior to Front Anthony was the founding CMO at Gainsight where he and his team are credited with creating the Customer Success category. If that was not enough, Anthony is also the author of Category Creation: How to Build a Brand that Customers, Employees, and Investors Will Love. This episode is sponsored by TaxJar.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Branding 173

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In this guide, we compare six Recurly competitors and alternatives according to several categories: Subscription management and recurring billing Checkout Global payment processing Reporting and analytics Pricing Customer reviews We’ll start with a deep dive into FastSpring — our end-to-end payment solution (i.e.,

Payment Services 78

Payment Services Payments Payment Methods Merchant Services 78

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

Then I’m going to talk about the crisis of Trust that we’re facing at SaaS industry, and how can we, as SaaS entrepreneurs, SaaS marketers, Saas salespeople, how can we win back buyer trust, so we can grow together with our customers. But what’s amazing today, the industry is almost doubled at 546 billion in total revenue.

Software Review 178

Software Review Scale Technical Review SaaS 178

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 8, 2021

It’s been more than 10 years since that first investment and since then, we’ve been lucky to see how transformative industry-specific software can be for SMBs across industries. The industry contributes roughly 9% of the EU’s GDP and provides 18 million direct jobs. , our vertical SaaS portfolio has only grown further.

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Technical Cofounder Construction Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

So first, Trisha Price, who is the Chief Product Officer of nCino, who recently had an amazing IPO, and also David Schmaier, who’s the founding CEO of Vlocity, and CEO now of Salesforce Industries, as they were recently acquired by Salesforce for over a $1 billion, as well. We have, again, David Schmaier of Salesforce Industries.

Payment Solutions 146

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 146

Tom Tunguz

MAY 5, 2014

How have newly public consumer companies fared in the same environment and what does that mean for the tech industry broadly? but this fall isn’t broadly distributed across categories. i bucketed each of the names into 8 categories: social, real estate, media, gaming, financial, ecommerce, consumer services, and ad tech.

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Technical Review Marketing Enterprise Mobile 100

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Establishing a medical practice can be challenging enough without having to worry about maintaining your patient clientele, equipment, or financial transactions. Although most people are familiar with the idea of a subscription model, it could be difficult to comprehend how it applies to the medical industry.

Healthcare 59

Healthcare Payment Features Subscription Payment Services 59

OPEXEngine

JUNE 2, 2022

2021 was an incredible year of growth and investment for the SaaS industry. SaaS: The OPEXENGINE 2021 to 2022 Financial Comparison is Here. OPEXEngine just published the latest financial and operational benchmarks to our platform. Series C valuations more than doubled in the US. . Operating Expense.

Benchmarks 64

Benchmarks SaaS Banking Trends 64

User Pilot

APRIL 25, 2024

TL;DR Market research is a systematic and objective process crucial for understanding target markets, refining business strategies, and informing decisions, which includes collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data on customers, competitors, and the industry. The advantages of engaging in marketing research cannot be overstated.

Market Research 52

Market Research Outsourcing Services Marketing Outsourced Development 52

Scytale

JANUARY 31, 2024

Given the ubiquity of cloud – hosted applications in the contemporary IT landscape, adherence to industry standards such as SOC 2 is imperative. Notably, Security serves as a fundamental criterion derived directly from the COSO 1 framework, applicable across various industries.

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compliance SaaS Underperforming Technical Team Healthcare 52

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“Industry-Centric” SaaS business models offer an alternative SaaS company categorization to the “Customer-Centric” SaaS model, which is defined based on the “go-to-market” strategy used by a management team. Both the Customer-Centric and Industry-Centric classifications provide valuable frameworks for evaluating SaaS companies.

Business Model 52

Business Model SaaS Business Scale 52

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It’s no secret to anyone that vertical SaaS is an important investment category for us at Point Nine. We’re always on the lookout for industries where software companies can obtain very high penetration and “own their markets”. A pandemic led growth of pets The pet industry is experiencing growth like never before.

Mobile 52

Mobile Forecasting Onboarding Investment 52

Tom Tunguz

JULY 15, 2015

It also implies that there are probably winner-take-most or similar dynamics in many different industries. Category leaders stockpile massive war chests, creating a defensive moat. When looking at the data by sector, we see that consumer products and services and financial services companies raise on average the largest rounds.

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