ChurnZero

JULY 27, 2021

Now in its sixth year of celebrating software innovation, the Software-as-a-Service Awards program accepts entries worldwide, including the US, Canada, Australasia, EMEA and UK. Our judges have some incredibly difficult decisions to make before announcing the final winners in each category of the software awards at the end of August.”.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 10, 2024

To get your website to rank high on search engines, you must focus on Search Engine Optimization (SEO) strategies, and there are several SEO tools and software in the market to the rescue. Semrush is one of the leading SEO toolkit software with a plethora of powerful functions and features. Website ranking checker and tracking tools.

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AI Search Scale Engineering Pricing 59

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 12, 2014

In 2009 and 2010, the company recognized more revenue from services than subscription. In 2011, the year of the IPO, services still accounted for 33% of revenues. Over time, subscription revenue will continue to increase compared to services revenue. Selling people’s time can’t be leveraged like software.

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Benchmarks Deferred Revenue Venture Capital Outsourced Development 111

Stax

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Google was the first, in 2011, to enable contactless payments via their mobile app. Full-service POS and credit card payment providers Full-service providers like Stax offer complete POS solutions and backend payment processing, which are essential to accepting contactless payments.

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Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 88

Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

Welcome to the Subscription Rockstars series! And, of course, we will pay special attention to how their subscription billing models and pricing strategies contributed to their growth. Then, they offered their software solution to online marketers who were interested in this “new way” of marketing. . Image source).

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Subscription Payment Features Revenue Software Review 40

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

The 80s and 90s were all about physical purchasing and installation of software CDs and floppy disks. This innovative software tool is a proven and tested customer engagement booster. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 This is not all.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

ChurnZero

AUGUST 4, 2020

ChurnZero Named International Software Awards Program Finalist. Now in it’s fifth year of celebrating software innovation, the Software-as-a-Service Awards program accepts entries worldwide including US, Canada, Australia, Asia, EMEA, and UK. . ChurnZero helps subscription businesses fight customer churn.

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Venture Capital SaaS Innovation Cloud 52

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 21, 2015

years, Adobe has transformed its business from a software license business into a SaaS business. Transitions from licensed software to SaaS are rare. The licensed software business, a cash cow, generated more than $3.4B in revenue in 2011 at 97% gross margin. And in 2012, the company decided to disrupt its own businesses.

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SaaS Travel Education Software 100

OpenView Labs

MARCH 4, 2021

Today we know of HubSpot —the maker of marketing, sales, and service software products—as a preeminent public company with a market cap above $17B. For their first five years in business, HubSpot offered three subscription packages ranging in price from $3,000 to $18,000 per year. So in 2011, they introduced usage-based pricing.

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Pricing Outsourced Development Marketplace as a Service AWS 55

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

72% of Customer Success roles are in the Software & IT industry with other top hiring industries including Internet, Marketing, and Finance. The subscription shift is in full swing. SaaS is growing more than 200% faster than traditional perpetual license software – Zuora, Subscription Economy Index.

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Customer Success Sales Hiring Artificial Intelligence Transportation 64

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Here are five quick takeaways: In 2011, Forbes Magazine called RealtimeBoard (Miro’s previous iteration) “a virtual whiteboard on steroids” We chatted to Andrey about this description to see if the shoe still fits today. Short on time? That’s where we come in and become helpful for those teams. Andrey: Absolutely.

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Consulting Marketplace as a Service Scale Development 249

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. Subscription services are what customers want. Subscription services are what customers want.

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Payment Features Payments Payment Methods Subscription 83

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Today's Top Subscription News. Stripe, the online payment processing system for internet businesses, is expanding across Europe. Stripe wrote in a blog post , "Since Stripe launched in 2011, tens of thousands of businesses across Europe have asked us to expand Stripe to their countries. Stripe Expands Across the Pond.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments Entertainment 40

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

If I’m about to do business with your company and your software is going to access my customers’ data, it’s my responsibility to ensure you have the proper controls in place to protect it. If you sell software today, there’s a 99.9% Start early. I took the plunge, as they say. Adam: Sure, happy to!

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Scale Software Review compliance Technical Review 211

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Now, guess what was one of the top three reasons found Jilt , an email marketing software, responsible for why people unsubscribe from emails? When it comes to email marketing, Software as a Service (SaaS) brands have special needs. Bad content! 3 Fix My Churn – best for SaaS onboarding email and churn.

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Software Review Marketing Technical Review Outsourced Development 102

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Imagine having the opportunity to sell into a company like Lyft in 2011. Back then, in 2011, Lyft was a small Series-A startup called Zimride with under 50 employees. If you sell an HR platform with a subscription that starts at 50 seats, you should scratch any seed-stage startups off your list. Founded in 2011.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Startup Outsourced Development 78

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 25, 2010

With a world-class management team and Board , one of the best products and brands in B2B software and a recent $19M cash infusion Zendesk is ideally poised to bring Cloud-based zen and good karma to even more people in 2011. Mange tak to Mikkel , Morten , Alex , Michael and the whole crew.

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Cloud Investment B2B Subscription 106

ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies. Discounting is a huge topic of interest in the subscription world and unnecessary discounts can have a negative impact on your business. Customer success #1.

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Payments Pricing Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments 45

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

Although the San Jose-based company has always been a leader in developing world-class creative software like Photoshop and Illustrator, its go-to-market model (licensing boxed software) eventually slowed it down. 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

OpenView Labs

APRIL 22, 2020

Example : Chargebee’s SVP of Global Sales shared that the company is now offering annual contracts with monthly/quarterly payment, favorable exit clauses and payment deferral for up to a quarter. Example : Back in 2011, HubSpot sold its software only in Good-Better-Best packages.

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Payments Pricing Payment Methods SaaS Payments 54

GetUplift

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Gusto was a small startup in 2011 competing against payroll tech giants such as QuickBooks and Square. They offer a Tip of the Day subscription which provides a new iPhone tip each day. The Tip of the Day subscription is free to all their email subscribers. This is what their email subscription looks like.

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Retention Strategy Sales Social Media 89

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. Founded: 2011. ProfitWell provides industry standard subscription financial metrics that uncover pockets of hidden revenue through unmatched subscription intelligence.

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SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

I still remember the very first time I met Dev back in 2011 and I was this engineer turn first-time founder, CEO running the business. I can tell you if I can’t touch the software, I can’t try the software without having one or two sales meetings before I won’t use it. Dev Ittycheria: Exactly.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale VP of Engineering 253

SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS businesses are organizations that provide subscription-based software applications that are centrally hosted on their servers over the internet. Instead of buying and installing the infrastructure, customers can simply bear the subscription costs of the functionalities they use. Source: Byteant , December 2019. Solarwinds.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Recruiting 19

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Buffer Funding History $120,000 through AngelPad start-up accelerator in August 2011 $330,000 seed round in December 2011 $3.5M After raising a total of $450,000 in 2011, Buffer would raise a Series A round of $3.5M Further Reading How An Offer To Sell Wistia Inspired Us To Take On $17M in Debt.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Global Software Awards Program Announces Final Winners. . The Software-as-a-Service Awards celebrate excellence in cloud-based software solutions, accepting entries from across the world, including the US, Canada, Australasia, UK and EMEA. The SaaS Awards is a sister program to the Cloud Awards, which was founded in 2011.

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SaaS Venture Capital Cloud Innovation 8

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 1, 2019

The new SaaS model is subscription revenue-driven, which begs the question: what is a conversion today? After all, we don’t buy software these days; we subscribe to it. It’s not just SaaS; subscriptions are taking over. This is what we’ve ended up in: a world of subscription everything.

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Retention Onboarding Subscription Payment Features 223

SmartKarrot

MAY 26, 2020

In the year 2011, a resounding statement, ‘software is eating the world’ was predicted by Marc Andreessen. Earlier it used to be purely a technology affair having pay-as-you-go subscription. This channel of networking changes the relation between the user and the software, fundamentally. It’s Myriad Impacts on Our Lives.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Transportation Payment Solutions 10

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. Founded: 2011. ProfitWell provides industry standard subscription financial metrics that uncover pockets of hidden revenue through unmatched subscription intelligence.

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SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

ChurnZero is a real-time Customer Success platform that helps subscription businesses fight churn, expand current accounts, increase product adoption and optimize the overall customer experience. “We ChurnZero helps subscription businesses fight customer churn. About ChurnZero.

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Startup Venture Capital Entertainment Innovation 8

FastSpring

APRIL 1, 2021

Most software companies rely heavily on free trials for customer acquisition. Opt-out free trial conversion rates are significantly higher and range from 30–50%, mostly because payment information is collected up-front. Are users automatically billed or signed up for recurring payments? Examples: Recapture.io

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Strategy 93

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

What does Jeff mean when he says, “the developer first approach is a maturation of the supply chain of software?” Really quickly, I am a software developer and I’d started multiple companies before Twilio. That’s the superpower of software and also in every one of those companies we needed communications.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 126

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).

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Subscription Payment Features SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 69

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The Case For Next Era Metrics Playbook by Kyle Poyar, OpenView Partners Here’s the thing: the traditional SaaS metrics playbook can be extremely misleading when it comes to managing a PLG, vertical SaaS, or usage-based software business. AKA, it’s misleading for the majority of new software businesses being founded today.)

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

Chart Mogul

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

We see it in the comparison between Intercom ( $150m in ARR ) and Drift ( valued at $360m at their latest funding round): Intercom (founded in 2011) was one of the first companies to offer live on-site chat going after a broad audience of companies and teams. The Dollar Shave Club formula: Building a $1B subscription box business.

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SaaS Blockchain AI Search Outsourced Development 86

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. In 2011, he co-founded Rock Content, the top provider of content marketing solutions in Latin America.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

It was back when you used different words for it, things like managed software or application service provider. Number one is they didn’t really have an enterprise software selling group when they bought Omniture, so that route to market was something they were very interested in creating. And the stock popped. So, it was great.

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Scale Leadership Strategy Technology 219