Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

All of the businesses we’ve looked at in the past have been purely SaaS businesses. Tableau sells software the old-fashioned way, with perpetual licenses not subscriptions. To offset the mostly one-time payment from customers, Tableau employs a land-and-expand strategy.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“Industry-Centric” SaaS business models offer an alternative SaaS company categorization to the “Customer-Centric” SaaS model, which is defined based on the “go-to-market” strategy used by a management team. When SaaS business models originated, the most successful venture-backed startups used a horizontal model.

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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. Now that brick-and-mortar stores are shuttered, subscription services are filling the void. Forbes reports one setback: the subscription learning curve.

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SaaSHolic

DECEMBER 9, 2021

These are services hosted in a central location and made available online on a subscription basis. Many businesses opt to shift to these services later in their years of business when they have more funds, and their current (simpler) method of collecting customer data and attending to queries is insufficient. Available Data.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 30, 2021

In this Chargebee vs. Recurly debate, we take a look at the best option for your business. These are some of the most revered apps when it comes to subscription billing platform and recurring payments management. Check out the Baremetrics free trial to get better analytics on your subscription customers.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 2, 2021

In this Chargebee vs. Recurly debate, we take a look at the best option for your business. These are some of the most revered apps when it comes to subscription billing platform and recurring payments management. They are endowed with a load of integrations that come in handy in your subscription business.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

If we combine it with a business model that nobody really understands, it’s just too much. Felix : And then kind of as we raised our series B round where we said, okay, let’s try to build a really good and successful company, that’s when we shifted to a hundred percent subscription. It can order subscription.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 14, 2020

Customers are demanding more from the business in terms of services they can avail and with the month to month subscription plans, it has become much easier for them to switch vendors if their expectations are not met. Between 2000 to 2010: CRM, Web Channels, Mobile App . 2010: SaaS, 2013: Customer Success .

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 11, 2024

Over the last decade, we’ve seen record growth in player demand driven by several tailwinds, including: the rise of mobile and emerging markets, new business models like free-to-play and subscriptions, transmedia storytelling, and much more. This is a ~20x increase from a $10M average budget for a single platform game in 2010.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

That could mean they have unsubscribed from your email newsletters, haven’t renewed their subscriptions to your service, or just won't buy from you again. Low scores lead to customers simply not wanting to do business with you again as you're making things too difficult. Of course, churn is an inevitability.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. 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. Good to see you today.

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Hitenism

JANUARY 16, 2017

Innovate on the Business Model. We often associate SaaS with the standard 30-day trial feeding into a recurring subscription. But this model can be a crude form of monetization because it forces prospective customers to make a decision to pay, even when they aren’t necessarily getting value out of the product.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

This role is made for her,” said Kirsten Davies, SVP and Chief Information Security Officer, The Estée Lauder Companies. Ellen joined Forescout in 2010 and has been instrumental in driving cross-functional efforts between sales, product, and engineering to deliver on customers’ technical needs. markets at Blackbaud.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Your top subscription news. And in all fairness, subscription is the Netflix business model, and password-sharing naturally circumvents that. And as an online subscription company, how do you thwart the use of multi-users on one name? And that’s a wrap for your November 15 subscription news.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Your top subscription news. And in all fairness, subscription is the Netflix business model, and password-sharing naturally circumvents that. And as an online subscription company, how do you thwart the use of multi-users on one name? And that’s a wrap for your October 29 subscription news.

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The SaaS Garage

MAY 10, 2017

In 2010, when we started Deutsche Handelsbank, at that time SOFORT Bank, we saw ourselves as enabler for Internet businesses. Rather soon thereafter we kicked off our credit business with a focus on fast growing eCommerce businesses. Our 1st client with a SaaS business model was SofaTutor.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We had run around the world and we would show up to a company using technology in some interesting way and we would teach them for four, maybe five days straight, and that was our business model. And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today.

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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.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Your top subscription news. The work-from-home population has risen most sharply in Utah since 2010, says the Post. Subscription software, subscription media, subscription pickles. You name it, and out there somewhere there’s a recurring revenue business for it. Pitch presents.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Businesses that blog regularly generate 55% more visitors to their sites than those that don’t. Blogging works for every kind of business, industry, or niche, as well as for almost all business models — even B2C and e-commerce sites. Don’t be afraid of committing to a blog. Yes, it does require consistent effort.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

Netflix has become the largest subscription video provider in the US, outstripping cable and satellite. Nearly two decades after Netflix’s launch, streaming providers are out to “capture the entire trillion-dollar Hollywood ecosystem ” with new content production models. By 2010, Blockbuster had gone bankrupt.”. Smartphones.

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