Chargify

MAY 8, 2019

“Launching their “forever free” plan helped MailChimp grow their profit (yes, profit – not revenue) 650% in one year by lowering their customer acquisition costs,” says Chris Von Willpert from Sumo. Then they gradually increased it to the current 2000 subscriber limit which was introduced in 2011. image source). image source).

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 25, 2019

If the customer doesn’t stay with the company long enough to at least break even on acquisition costs, it can sink the business. It’s this period, the Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC) Payback Period, that companies need to keep an eye on to maintain profitability. But here’s the catch for SaaS companies. His advice?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services. There were solutions for the stadiums for the very large conferences, but nothing really for under 20,000 people. So first, I would say the API and Stripe.js

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Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 120

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

They were building time and expense software. And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. He’s actually part of the reason I decided to partner with the founder of SteelBrick Max Redmond and Max had built a great CPQ app, but not a lot of the world had heard of it except for Lars.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2020

When it comes to software and online purchases, those transactions are increasingly moving to a subscription-based model, where customers put their purchases on autopilot so they can have continuous access to SaaS products. A lot of the software and digital products we use online, we use continuously. The best part?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

The New Solution Selling. Leveraging transparency and vulnerability in your presentations and your negotiations leads to faster buyer consensus, larger deals, faster payments, longer commitments and more predictable sales forecasts. The New Solution Selling. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020. Agile Selling.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

What’s their acquisition channel? These are categories of software that have existed for 30 or 40 years for a reason. You can mock Salesforce or Oracle or Workday, but these are endemic issues that will always need heavy software. Then a lot of folks will say, “Well, great, another video app.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting.

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