Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 12, 2014

In 2009 and 2010, the company recognized more revenue from services than subscription. Over time, subscription revenue will continue to increase compared to services revenue. In contrast, WorkDay typically signs 3-5 subscription year agreements, so the subscription revenue is a substantial annuity of long duration.

Benchmarks 110

Benchmarks Deferred Revenue Venture Capital Outsourced Development 110

OPEXEngine

MAY 10, 2022

We have been asked quite a bit lately how companies navigated the Great Recession of 2007-2009 and what companies can do today to protect against a downturn. 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. Source: OPEXEngine 2022.

Technical Review 59

Technical Review Systems Review Benchmarks Investment 59

SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

These are services hosted in a central location and made available online on a subscription basis. Gainsight Jim Eberlin started Gainsight in 2009, and the company found traction because of its excellent products, not least of all, its customer success solutions. Accelo Geoff McQueen founded Accelo in 2009.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Software Subscription Payment Features 52

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

But back to the product side, adopting PLG means creating the optimal user journey to engage the customer from the login stage onwards – seamless login, onboarding, subscriptions plans, built-in security, and support features all need to work in tandem to create the best results. Best For: Subscription Management, Billing.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

The Angel VC

JANUARY 15, 2015

The point that I made was that most of the tactics which smart SaaS entrepreneurs developed around 2007-2009 – inbound marketing, conversion optimization, lifecycle marketing, etc. – While a Tweetstorm is a nice way of gently breaking the 140 character limit, I thought it would make sense to follow-up with a blog post.

Growth Hacking 113

Growth Hacking Scale SaaS Content Marketing 113

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Over the weekend, I watched Page One, a documentary which chronicles the turmoil occurring within the New York Times in 2009 and 2010 when newspapers were going out of business all over the country. 10% of revenues originate from digital subscriptions, evidence the paper is mastering a new art form - making money on the web.

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Advertising Subscription Payment Features Innovation 100

SaaSHolic

DECEMBER 9, 2021

These are services hosted in a central location and made available online on a subscription basis. Jim Eberlin started Gainsight in 2009, and the company found traction because of its excellent products, not least of all, its customer success solutions. Geoff McQueen founded Accelo in 2009. This helps a lot with decision-making.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Software Subscription Payment Features 52

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Your top subscription news. A vital move Starbucks made back in 2009 was re-establishing its loyalty program that rewarded customers for purchases, Grace points out. And t hat’s a wrap for your February 19 subscription news. Recruit your teammates into the subscription know at recurnow.com. More on the funnel (.or

Subscription 54

Subscription Payment Features User Experience Retention 54

FastSpring

JUNE 12, 2019

You may recall the initial Payment Services Directive (PSD) established by the European Commission that was initially adopted in 2007, then updated in 2009 and again in 2012. The PSD was established as a legal framework that all payment service providers must adhere to in order to sell goods and services in the European Union.

Payment Methods 73

Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Solutions 73

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 11, 2014

The steady increasing drumbeat of the Customer Success mantra is reflected in Google search traffic, whose volumes have tripled since 2009. Each time a customer sees the monthly or quarterly or annual subscription payment, they wonder, should I be paying for this? So, why now?

Customer Success 100

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Development Team Review 100

SaaSHolic

MARCH 20, 2023

O primeiro jogo foi um sucesso, que atingiu 40 milhões de jogadores em Abril de 2009 com apenas 2 anos de vida da empresa. Seu primeiro game, o Texas Hold’em Poker (atual Zynga Poker) foi desenvolvido e disponibilizado para usuários do Facebook.

SaaS 52

SaaS Software Review Mobile Startup 52

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

Neil Patel

JULY 30, 2021

Google’s own URL shortening tool, Goo.gl, launched back in 2009. comes free with every Hootsuite account, too, so you don’t need a paid subscription to benefit from the tool. If you need help figuring out which links to shorten and which ones to leave alone, check out my consulting services. How Did Goo.gl Sounds good, right?

Social Media 134

Social Media Scale Mobile Branding 134

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the realm of SaaS development, Schnell provides a full range of services, from consulting and app architecture to subscription management and ongoing maintenance. The company’s list of clients consists of DHL, the UK government, and the National Children’s Bureau non-profit organization, among others.

DevOps as a Service 40

DevOps as a Service Development Technical Review Blockchain 40

ProfitWell

MARCH 19, 2019

They say laughter’s the best medicine, but I’m also a fan of that subscription prescription, so let’s get into the news you need to power right through. Revenue’s grown steadily since the company’s founding in 2009, so it looks like PagerDuty is a safe bet for its backers, which includes big wigs like Bessemer Venture Partners and Accel.

Entrepreneurship 45

Entrepreneurship Venture Capital Advertising Interviewing 45

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Walmart launched the marketplace back in 2009 to attract online shoppers and grow its customer base. You don’t pay monthly or annual subscriptions. Once you register as a seller and upload your listings, your items appear in the search results alongside Walmart’s products and other Marketplace vendors.

Marketplace as a Service 145

Marketplace as a Service Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Services 145

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

JANUARY 25, 2018

Throughout the series we highlight Chargify merchants and the lessons learned as they grow their subscription-based businesses. Gravity Forms went live for customers in 2009. Internal subscription management tools didn’t scale. Their recurring billing tool fell into this category. The power of community.

Scale 40

Scale Scaling Payments Payment Solutions 40

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The League of Moveable Type has been operating since 2009. They also offer nice fonts for subscriptions and newsletters. Visit The League of Moveable Type to find fonts like these for free: Based on these few samples, you can see that their website has great fonts for your company’s website or logo. Plus everything else in between.

Branding 144

Branding Scale Mobile Systems Review 144

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 14, 2018

In most cases, this doesn’t make a huge difference (if all revenue is subscription based, GAAP revenue trails ARR) but note that for companies with a larger percentage of setup fees, revenue from professional services or other non-recurring revenue sources, the difference is bigger. In that case, I used 2013 for the “founded” year.

SaaS 40

SaaS Revenue Subscription Payment Features 40

ChurnZero

JUNE 19, 2020

They didn’t really exist in mass during 2008 and 2009, so we’ve never really seen it. The debt markets did not lend into the software industry up until the mid-2000s, and it was about the collateral of the recurring maintenance and support stream. It’s important in a lot of different ways.

SaaS Payments 72

SaaS Payments Retention Metrics Payment Solutions 72

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2009. Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. Founded: 2009. 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

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

It came up because people regularly refer to Chargify as a startup, but our company has been around since 2009. That’s why we’ve built subscription management capabilities into our platform. We found ourselves asking this question in a marketing meeting not too long ago. Are we still a startup? I don’t think so.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

Sales Hacker

JUNE 5, 2018

In 2009, I headed out to do my MBA. Ladders gave me a chance to really become a subject matter expert on subscription marketing, consumer marketing, and data-driven marketing. I started my career in investment banking, covering media and tech companies. theladders.com was my first foray into tech—I absolutely loved it.

Customer Success 51

Customer Success Data Marketing Sales 51

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2009. Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. Founded: 2009. 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

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

We were actually built out of a bank called Live Oak Bank and Live Oak Bank was founded in 2009 and they had a need for a completely digital bank. If you look at some articles that came out in 2009 when I was raising money, and our first raise that I was involved in it was 15 million and a half post. It was getting folks to try.

Payment Solutions 152

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 152

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

On the other hand, customer success has been around since early 2009. Some of the reasons for its remarkable popularity can be attributed to the rise of the SaaS industry and not to forget the other subscription models. Customer marketing is one of the key functions of an organization.

Customer Success 10

Customer Success Marketing Education Communication 10

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

John joined Adobe through the company’s acquisition of Omniture in 2009, where he served as executive vice president of marketing, driving all marketing efforts to strategically advance the industry’s largest standalone web analytics business. Harry Stebbings: However, that’s quite enough from me. billion in annual revenue.

Scale 220

Scale Leadership Strategy Technology 220

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? image source).

Subscription 69

Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 69

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Chargify launched in 2009, and the goal was to help SaaS bill and collect revenue. ProfitWell is not only a platform, it’s also a team that plugs into subscription management systems like Chargify and performs revenue automation activities. They will help align teams and all the different metrics. Michael Klett.

CTO Hire 98

CTO Hire Sales Hiring New CTO CTO 98

ProfitWell

MARCH 23, 2020

Plus, Microsoft’s newest subscription: It’s all about the add-ons. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. Our friends over at Zuora , the pros in cloud-based technology for subscription businesses, have teamed up with Kia Motors America to create connected car subscriptions. Microsoft money moves.

Customer Lifetime Value 56

Customer Lifetime Value Subscription Payment Features Acquisition 56

Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

To use the plugin and all the features it offers, you can sign up for one of their subscription tiers that auto-renews annually: Personal — $39 per year for one website Business — $69 per year for up to five websites Developer — $169 per year for unlimited websites. million times since 2009 and is available for free here. #3

Payment Methods 127

Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 127

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The number of apps created by independent developers was steadily growing, so in 2009 the Atlassian Plugin Exchange was born, which evolved into Atlassian Marketplace by 2012. It gave the smallest teams a chance to outsource the sales infrastructure (like invoicing, payment processing, quotes, etc.)

Payment Solutions 47

Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 47

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 154

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 154

How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

It was the first CRM tool that was based on the cloud and can be used with a monthly subscription model of payments. Salesforce has consistently been on the leader side of an enterprise CRM business. It is easily adaptable and saleable for large size businesses. It’s difficult to predict who will become the market leader.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Software Review Payment Methods Software 52

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

My role at Buildium In late 2009 the economy had tanked and I had a newly minted MBA but no real job experience. Buildium’s valuation highlights how the idea that all revenue needs to be recurring doesn’t take any sort of nuance into consideration. While these revenues are pay-per-use, rent payments are both large and regular.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

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. Amazon, that company is going to totally go out of business.

Sales Hiring 118

Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale Sales Recruiting 118