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.” Subscription-based delivery from the cloud was a much more efficient solution than sending out CDs.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

It came up because people regularly refer to Chargify as a startup, but our company has been around since 2009. If you seem to be gaining traction, now would be a good time to solve the problem of recurring billing, which most SaaS business models rely on. Failure to focus on your business model.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

As for John, prior to Domo he served as vice president for strategy and business operations for Adobe’s Digital Experience business, driving more than $3 billion in annual revenue. Then, we took the company public and did a secondary, and eventually, sold it in 2009, to Adobe for $1.8 billion in annual revenue.

Scale 215

Scale Leadership Strategy Technology 215

Chargify

MAY 8, 2019

There is no subscription billing model that works for everyone. Moreover, your pricing strategy should be based on your value metric, and different value metrics require different types of subscriptions. Let’s take a look at the seven most popular subscription billing models. Which one should you use in 2019?

Subscription 69

Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 69

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? .”

Payment Solutions 147

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 147

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. My role at Buildium In late 2009 the economy had tanked and I had a newly minted MBA but no real job experience.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Amazon, that company is going to totally go out of business. Same thing in 2009. Sadly, in 2009 I was 13 so I probably wasn’t thinking about [crosstalk 00:07:55] a Saas company. I eventually ran another Saas company which I ran and then sold. Literally people were saying that consumer internet thing was a fad.

Sales Hiring 116

Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale Sales Recruiting 116

ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

In that one sentence Dyson created the most prolific business model of the next two decades: freemium. Bundled service providers like AOL have phased out and cloud-based subscription services are enjoying their time in the sun. At the end of the post, Wilson says: I would like to have a name for this business model.

Pricing 41

Pricing Business Model Cloud Venture Capital 41

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. Customer Success is transformative.

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

I have seen my fair share of storms and or crises from the early days of the dot-com boom and bust to 2008, 2009 crisis and then having a front-row seat at some of these turnarounds that iconic brands like Evernote, and more recently on the board at Gap which is undergoing its own transformation. So we spent a lot of time there.

Scale 257

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Leadership 257