SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Founded: 2008. ProfitWell provides industry standard subscription financial metrics that uncover pockets of hidden revenue through unmatched subscription intelligence. ProfitWell is used by over five thousand subscription companies every day, including Meetup, HubSpot, and Teamwork.com. ProfitWell.

SaaS Payments 271

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

The Angel VC

MAY 12, 2018

We generate over 90% of our revenue from self-serve channels — users who purchase a subscription through our app or website. When Salesforce had around $1B in revenue, in 2008, it had around 3,300 employees, so at that time its revenue per employee was around $327,000. 3 – It’s a Mouse Hunter!

AWS 187

AWS Scale Subscription Payment Features 187

SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2021

SaaStr 308: RevenueCat CEO Jacob Eiting on Managing Millions in Mobile Subscriptions While Growing 20% a Month. Most of us think a lot about standard B2B SaaS and Cloud subscriptions, but we are still new to the issues, challenges, and opportunities in mobile subscriptions. We’re obviously in a very unique situation today.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? So we started in 2008 June, 2008 I think and in three days we would celebrate our 11th birthday. It’s interesting to see how much has changed over the last 10 years, but in 2008 it was a very different time I think.

Sales Hiring 171

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Government 171

OPEXEngine

JULY 1, 2022

The companies that successfully navigated through various market disruptions, including the recession in 2008, continued growing by diagnosing whether their acquisition and retention investments were efficient. Typically, higher-priced subscription products are more sticky and require less investment in the renewal process.

Acquisition 59

Acquisition Scale Retention Investment 59

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Is something very important because when we think about simplicity, you don’t want to present an invoice every time they want additional help. A case in point is when we ask about Chargebee and then let’s say feedback on invoicing access.

Scale 123

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 123

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

SaaS vendors delivering subscriptions as well as professional services typically have gross margins between 60-70%. Better cost management of professional services for companies selling services alongside subscriptions. SaaS vendors with no professional services have the highest gross margins, typically above 80%.

Scale 40

Scale SaaS AWS Revenue 40

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 1, 2017

Founded in 2008, AppDynamics is a leader in the application performance management space. They sell their APM software as a perpetual software license in addition to a subscription (SaaS). First, Subscription generated 80% of the revenue in 2014. The subscription gross margins of the two businesses are very similar.

Benchmarks 100

Benchmarks Metrics Software Review SaaS 100

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In the past months, he has offered a pricing teardown to every subscription business you can think of, from Spotify and Netflix to NYTimes and Match.com.Patrick’s professional experience is diverse and curious: his first job was at the U.S. However, her path changed in 2008 when she took on a new challenge: an MBA in Business and Management.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

OpenView Labs

APRIL 16, 2020

Those who went through the 2001 and 2008 economic downturns emerged with valuable lessons on navigating a crisis—not to mention a heck of a lot of resilience. And we introduced a subscription business model. The suites and the subscription model have been a huge success. Both of these ideas are visible at Adobe today.

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Leadership Business Model Healthcare Acquisition 70

ProfitWell

APRIL 30, 2020

Today, we’re proud to officially launch the ProfitWell Subscription Index —a dataset to keep you up to date on subscription market trends and the status of the B2B SaaS vertical as it stands today. About the ProfitWell Subscription Index. There you have it, your April 30 special edition episode of Recur Now.

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B2B SaaS Subscription Payment Features 59

The Angel VC

JANUARY 15, 2015

As I've written before , when Mikkel told me how Zendesk was doing sales and marketing in 2008, I was intrigued but also slightly confused. Customer success is not the only area which saw the emergence of "SaaS for SaaS" solutions – there are now dedicated products for subscription billing and subscription analytics , too.

Growth Hacking 113

Growth Hacking Scale SaaS Content Marketing 113

The Angel VC

JANUARY 4, 2011

was founded in 2008 by two extremely sharp students of the Cracow University of Science and Technology who wanted to build a simple, easy-to-use, web-based invoicing and billing application for small businesses in Poland. If you're new here, please start with part 1 , move on to part 2 and then (hopefully) return to this post.

Payment Solutions 104

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Features Software Review 104

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 17, 2020

To see how COGs and gross margins are changing, take a look at these charts showing SaaS companies that IPO’ed in 2008 versus 2018. Average COGs in 2008 was 40% of revenue at the time of IPO, and gross margins averaged 60%. with a number of companies at over 80% gross margins. Digging into what you are putting into COGs is critical.

Outsourcing Services 53

Outsourcing Services Trends Outsourced Development Technical Review 53

SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market. Christian Lanng : So we started with something very, very narrow, which was invoicing. You pay a subscription. Did anti-virus and anti-spam and the cloud.

Payments 101

Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 101

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

After being founded in 2008, the company attracted a substantial amount of funding before going public in December 2014 – a rapid clip from startup to IPO. Shifting from subscriptions to a new consumption-based pricing model. Up until this point, New Relic had been on a relentlessly positive trajectory.

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Pricing Scale Compensation Subscription 81

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Since 2008, spending on SEO from 2008 to 2020 has grown over 7x from $11.5 Can’t Measure SEO Impact on Retention We can extend the customer’s lifetime value using SEO through various content strategies, like recurring subscriptions or building tools that people can use. What is SEO? billion to just under $80 billion.

Social Media 75

Social Media Forecasting Branding Investment 75

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

Listen to those who have gone through the mega crises of 2001 and 2008 as entrepreneurs or investors. The worst that can happen to a subscription based software company is to loose its existing customers forever. Better a paused subscription than a churned subscription.

Underperforming Technical Team 94

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 94

Buffer Resources

MAY 18, 2023

“I've been doing this since around 2008, starting in the world of personal essays and personal blogging when it was more prevalent on the Internet.” Whether you have a team or you're a solopreneur, you’ll likely need to block out time for tasks like bookkeeping and invoicing.

Social Media 95

Social Media Interviewing Payment Features Engagement 95

OPEXEngine

MAY 10, 2022

If you look at public companies in 2008, for example, Salesforce and Netsuite, these SaaS leaders maintained their growth despite the Great Recession. This ratio is calculated by the change in subscription revenue between Q3 and Q4, multiplied by 4, and divided by the sales and marketing spend for Q3. A ratio over 1.5

Technical Review 59

Technical Review Systems Review Benchmarks Investment 59

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Founded: 2008. ProfitWell provides industry standard subscription financial metrics that uncover pockets of hidden revenue through unmatched subscription intelligence. ProfitWell is used by over five thousand subscription companies every day, including Meetup, HubSpot, and Teamwork.com. ProfitWell.

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

While blockchain technology was spearheaded by Bitcoin starting from 2008, using the technology for other applications became popularized around 2017. QuikNode is one of 900+ subscription-based companies using Baremetrics to understand key metrics and accelerate growth. Table of Contents.

Blockchain 90

Blockchain Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 90

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 7, 2015

Unlike most SaaS companies who offer a single product, LinkedIn offers three: Talent Solutions, Premium Subscriptions and Marketing Tools. Salespeople buy Premium Subscriptions to network and search on the platform. In 2007, the Premium Subscriptions generated 53% of the revenue.

Sales Recruiting 100

Sales Recruiting Benchmarks Metrics SaaS 100

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 5, 2020

It can be surprising how many other marketing and sales tools are included, even with basic-tier subscriptions. Phoneburner , as a company, has been a 100% remote team since 2008. An annual subscription costs $1,512, which breaks down to $126 per user/month. 1 – Phoneburner — Best For Remote Teams.

Software Review 143

Software Review Software Scale compliance 143

ProfitWell

AUGUST 27, 2019

Subscriptions to people could be what you never knew you needed. Today's Top Subscription News. Subscriptions to. Singer/songwriter David Archuleta , a runner up on American Idol back in 2008, tweeted about the drop of his personal subscription, bringing to light the influx of potential for “subscribing to people.”.

AI Search 40

AI Search Artificial Intelligence AI Subscription 40

SaaSHolic

MARCH 20, 2023

A Activision e a Blizzard cresceram na década de 90 se especializando nesse público (até se fundirem em 2008) e gigantes como Microsoft, Sony e Nintendo desenvolveram hardware e software para o público. Nascia em 2007 outra empresa de tecnologia — chamada Zynga — que buscava agradar um público um pouco mais específico: os gamers.

SaaS 52

SaaS Software Review Mobile Startup 52

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In 2008, it spent 2.5 And in addition to the subscription fees, many pay for implementation, training and other professional services. (It Specifically, it illustrates the need for software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies to spend money - lots of it - on customer acquisition.

Acquisition 140

Acquisition Enterprise Revenue SaaS 140

ProfitWell

MARCH 10, 2020

Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. After looking at 3,000 SaaS and subscription companies we saw that, in the early stages, remote companies are growing at a much slower rate than those companies where everyone is co-located. That’s it for your March 10 episode of Recur Now. Work from wherever.

Compensation 66

Compensation Subscription Payment Features Company Culture 66

FastSpring

APRIL 22, 2020

In 2008, the whole market share was about $5.5 In the SaaS industry, 35% of customer retention is considered above average, and since you’re selling subscriptions, it’s essential to generate as many leads as possible. SaaS, or shortly, software as a service, experienced rapid growth in the last decade. Source: Dropbox.

Strategy 85

Strategy Marketing Software Review Business 85

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Aalpha Information Systems Rate: >$25 / hr Employees: 50 – 249 Founded: 2008 This full-service software development company was founded in Bangalore, India, and now has three more offices in Mumbai, Hubli, and Delhi. If you need a reliable SaaS development company with unmatched JavaScript expertise, Clockwise is the perfect choice.

DevOps as a Service 40

DevOps as a Service Development Technical Review Blockchain 40

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business? .” Subscriptions are like bonds.

Payment Solutions 142

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 142

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Since 2008 a number of leading European SaaS companies, e.g. Contentful, Riskmethods, FreeAgent, Softgarden, Geckoboard, took advantage of The SaaSgarage’s unique cooperation model: They refined and shaped their business-, execution- and funding strategy, before they’ve hit the global roads in full speed.

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Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

It then laid out a careful strategy to transform Adobe, largely via M&A, into a company offering cloud-based subscriptions that would “give everyone everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences.” Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Sometimes all that was needed to close the deal was allowing them to make most of the payments in the next fiscal year, with just a small down payment when the work started. I could get full price by deferring payments by just a few months. Develop subscription models. Offer volume discounts, not general discounts. “It

Payment Methods 54

Payment Methods Marketing Sales Hiring Advertising 54

ChurnZero

APRIL 17, 2020

Some examples include a pandemic (COVID-19), a terrorist attack (9/11), or an abrupt financial crisis (Banking Crisis of 2008). You also include the concession that once they are able to get back to operating business as usual you will allow them to reconfigure their payments to offer more flexibility. The Scenario.

Churn 52

Churn Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team Travel 52

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

Listen to those who have gone through the mega crises of 2001 and 2008 as entrepreneurs or investors. The worst that can happen to a subscription based software company is to loose its existing customers forever. Better a paused subscription than a churned subscription.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 52

ProfitWell

MAY 18, 2020

Why it's never been easier to sell subscription. The beauty subscription box startup Birchbox launched in September 2010 as the unemployment rate peaked at 10 percent. It launched November 2008 with only $30,000 in the bank. Now that brick-and-mortar stores are shuttered, subscription services are filling the void.

Data 52

Data Sales Hiring Customer Lifetime Value Subscription 52