SaaStr

JULY 13, 2022

Co-founder and CEO of Insider , Hande Cilingir, talks about what it takes to write a successful revenue growth story. Only go-getters survive in the SaaS marketplace. From increasing competition to new products in the marketplace, there are too many variables for a salesperson to control. Mistake 1: Not accepting your mistakes.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 29, 2023

For SaaS businesses, one of the most taxing tasks is to set the right price for their SaaS product and services. There are many pricing plans that SaaS businesses opt for from flat rate to hybrid pricing, you can opt for any pricing plan. Decide your pricing structure accordingly.

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TrackStreet

APRIL 26, 2024

In a competitive industry for a specific type of product or service, businesses often engage in pricing wars that lead to a steady decrease in the value of goods. This devaluation is called Pricing Erosion. Now you’re wondering: Is there more to the definition of Pricing Erosion? What is Pricing Erosion?

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2023

“Because of our overall differentiation, more than 18,000 organizations now use Azure OpenAI service, including new-to-Azure customers.” ” “Higher-than-expected AI consumption contributed to revenue growth in Azure.”

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The Art of Flexibility: How to Master Dynamic Pricing Models in Subscription Billing By BluLogix Team Adapting to the Pulse of the Market for Maximized Revenue In today’s rapidly evolving digital marketplace, static pricing models are becoming a relic of the past.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 3, 2024

Consider the potential for growth if you make your pricing model a consistent priority for your company. Most SaaS companies, on the other hand, treat pricing as an afterthought, setting it and then forgetting about it, rather than viewing SaaS flexible pricing strategies as ongoing processes critical to their success.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2022

How do you enter a highly competitive marketplace, carve a niche for yourself, and then scale the business to $100 million+ ARR? Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund, joined Matt Plank, VP of Sales at Rippling, to unlock the secrets to exponential revenue growth. Entering a hyper-competitive marketplace . Logo acquisition (i.e.,

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2022

30% New Customer Growth Fueling 37% Revenue Growth. 5%+ pricing increases help fuel growth. Cloud product pricing went up 5% a year last year, and legacy server products went up much more. Should you have annual price increases in SaaS? Headcount up 7%, while revenue is up 37%. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021? Over the last few years, we’ve published a number of SaaS funding napkins as well as marketplace napkins. This year, we’re shaking things up with our first ever B2B marketplace napkin! What does it take to raise capital, in B2B marketplaces, in 2021?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

Building the right partner tech stack can dramatically increase the revenue flowing from your partners, even if your partnership team is small. The growing role of partnerships in driving revenue. To drive the most revenue, both the CRM and PRM play integral parts in the partner tech stack.

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. As difficult as SaaS companies can be to build, that can go double for things like setting up billing systems and automating revenue. Platforms-as-a-service.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

Businesses, on the other hand, are stuck in the dark ages, often relying on the phone, email, fax and even pen and paper when it comes to ordering goods or services. Whilst consumer-facing marketplaces have become an essential part of our daily lives, business-to-business marketplaces are only just beginning to emerge.

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Marketplace as a Service B2B Payments SaaS Payments 83

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Upwork is one of those products and marketplaces many of us use all the time — including Team SaaStr — but we don’t often see discussing that much as a public SaaS / Cloud company. I would have expected lower than 100% net revenue retention from Upwork, given that much of the spend can be episodic. But it should be.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Welcome to the third edition of the Pricing Transformations series. Pricing Transformations in 2020. Pricing Transformations in 2021. Pricing models must be adaptable – 4/5 on this. We took off a point as there are still too few people who understand pricing models well enough to make them adaptable.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Average Revenue per Customer. 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. And basically SaaS revenue models is just magical for investors and for businesses. Or annual recurring revenue for some types of companies.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Captive pricing is a confusing concept for many, but in practice, it’s relatively simple. Captive pricing happens when an accessory product is necessary to purchase in order to use a core product. This is also called by-product pricing. It can be challenging to determine pricing models for captive products.

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Pricing SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 82

Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. SaaS, or Software as a Service, companies host and deliver software applications over the internet on a subscription basis.

Outsourcing Services 88

Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 88

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 26, 2024

Many public software companies don’t report ARR, so I’ll take the quarterly subscription revenue and multiply it by 4 to approximate ARR. For the first time in a decade, IT services will become bigger than communication services in 2024. Revenue multiples are a shorthand valuation framework.

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Cloud Marketplace as a Service AI Subscription 161

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Captive pricing is a confusing concept for many, but in practice, it’s relatively simple. Captive pricing happens when an accessory product is necessary to purchase in order to use a core product. This is also called by-product pricing. It can be challenging to determine pricing models for captive products.

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Pricing SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 78

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 24, 2022

So, it’s no wonder that it has been a massive year in the Cloud Marketplace business. At Tackle, we have seen our sellers experience huge revenue growth, the product catalog is expanding rapidly for buyers, and budgets are growing at unprecedented rates. For sellers, that means larger, more accessible budgets are opening up.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. The Weak Transition to Marketplace Arguments. So goes the story.

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FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

After adopting FastSpring as their merchant of record, SocialBee even saw 2x year-over-year growth in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) after their first year with FastSpring. When they wanted to expand their business to new global marketplaces, knowing that FastSpring handles VAT and taxes made FastSpring an easy choice.

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Merchant Services Payments Subscription Payment Features 152

User Pilot

MARCH 20, 2024

This article will go through 13 software monetization solutions to help your software product create great revenue streams and drive product growth. TL;DR Software monetization helps generate revenue using various new business models to reinvest in development and enhancements.

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Software Revenue Strategy Advertising 59

SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Cloud SaaS Payments 191

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Price analysis is a shortcut to understanding what the market considers a fair and reasonable price. Sometimes the information needed for a more in-depth analysis of the market isn’t available, or the timeframe in which you need to make a decision is too short for a more accurate pricing strategy. Conduct a pricing experiment.

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Pricing SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 83

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Streamlining Success: What is the Role of Automation in Customer Lifecycle Management for Recurring Revenue? This blog post explores how employing automation in CLM can revolutionize the way businesses nurture their customer base, enhance engagement, and secure recurring revenue streams.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Atlassian’s Chief Revenue Officer, Cameron Deatsch, walks us through how Atlassian grew over the course of 20 years and became one of the most successful startups today. They have grown to over $3 billion in revenue while keeping sales and marketing spending under 15% of revenue for all 20 years they’ve been in business.

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TrackStreet

APRIL 23, 2024

In the dynamic landscape of online marketplaces, challenges to maintaining equitable competition and brand integrity are ever-present. The good news is that there are various methods you can use to stop unauthorized sellers and protect your revenue and brand… But first, let’s answer the question of… What are Unauthorized Amazon Sellers?

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Buffer Resources

APRIL 10, 2024

Get started for free → How to make money on Instagram Jump to a section: Partner with brands on sponsored content Livestream and earn Badges from fans Offer paid subscriptions Sell your own products and services Take up affiliate marketing Sell digital products Develop and teach a course Join Instagram’s Creator Marketplace 1.

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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. Subscription-based model Subscription pricing is the most common model used by both horizontal and vertical SaaS providers.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

How Monetization Efficiency is the Heartbeat of Business Success in the Digital Age By BluLogix Team The Critical Role of Monetization Efficiency In a world where digitalization has redefined the marketplace, the spotlight shines ever so brightly on the concept of monetization efficiency.

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Marketplace as a Service Business B2B Finance 52

Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

Marketplace as a Service 52

Marketplace as a Service Business Model SaaS Payments Payments 52

User Pilot

MAY 21, 2024

Churn rates can be calculated simply with the number of customers lost over a specific period or more complexly to include revenue lost, highlighting the financial impact and informing strategic business decisions. Customer churn in SaaS is the rate at which customers stop using a service within a set timeframe.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. For customers, the process of looking for apps to download usually takes place in one of the four leading app marketplaces; Google Play, Apple App Store , Windows Store, and the Amazon App Store. Is it safe? Let’s go ??.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Predictive analytics will allow businesses to anticipate customer needs, tailor offerings, and dynamically adjust pricing models based on individual usage patterns and preferences, enhancing customer satisfaction and loyalty. The future of subscription billing and monetization in the digital economy is vibrant and full of potential.

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