Neil Patel

MARCH 8, 2023

Back in 2012, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos shocked the tech world by admitting that Amazon doesn’t make a profit on Kindles. Because Amazon knows the total value of each customer and is willing to invest in products to increase that lifespan. This option gives you a recurring revenue stream. Now, what about a subscription model?

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FastSpring

APRIL 1, 2021

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? Once the trial ends, you send them an email or in-app prompt that directs them to a paid subscription link.

Payment Solutions 108

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Strategy 108

How To Buy Saas

JULY 26, 2021

Launched in 2012 as ZenPayroll, this company supports over +100,000 businesses nationwide. Namely was founded in 2012 and currently works with over 1,200 HR leaders. 9 Best Invoice Software For Startups List of the Best Invoice Software Tools for startups. New-age buyers are more likely to pay invoices online.

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Payment Methods Startup Payment Solutions Payments 52

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova. In 2012, he underwent a shift in his professional path and studied Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Neil Patel

MARCH 5, 2021

A WordPress popup plugin can help to increase your return on the investment you’ve made in your website, your branding, and your products or services. Ninja Popups was released in 2012 and has been regularly updated with features and capabilities, including new popup templates and integrations with the most popular current mailing systems.

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Payment Methods Payments Payment Services Scale 140

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

We chose to invest in Loyalty Prime as it provides an effective solution to deliver on the widely preached but seldomly fulfilled promise in data-driven marketing and personalization: being able to provide “the right offer to the right person at the right time, in the right channel and with the right message for impactful business results.”

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Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Making the bottom-up shift: You are shifting from the top-down to a bottom-up mindset, which means more money and time to invest in R&D efforts. Best For: Subscription Management, Billing. Looking for a comprehensive end-to-end solution for your subscription management and billing requirements? 6 ChargeBee.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

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. For every sales and marketing dollar Tableau invests, the business returns more than $1.54.

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Benchmarks SaaS Payments Metrics Scale 100

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

And Rent the Runway adds a new membership option to amp up its presence in the subscription clothing space. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. We’ve had our eyes on Rent the Runway on the show before , as one of the more popular clothing subscriptions out there. So what does the data actually say?

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Venture Capital 52

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

We chose to invest in Loyalty Prime as it provides an effective solution to deliver on the widely preached but seldomly fulfilled promise in data-driven marketing and personalization: being able to provide “the right offer to the right person at the right time, in the right channel and with the right message for impactful business results.”

Generative AI 52

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 52

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In 2012, looking to build something of his own, Patrick founded ProfitWell , a suite of products to help SaaS companies grow by optimizing pricing, reducing churn, and getting accurate revenue reporting. For example, how we think about a subscription business’s growth. So, we were going to raise capital. Liam: Yeah, I suppose.

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Acquisition Payments Payment Methods Scale 118

OPEXEngine

JUNE 2, 2021

” To adapt, the company showcased the extent to which its subscription-based software could help its customers by improving the efficiency of their IT, HR, and other processes, which, in turn, could help those companies manage through the downturn. Insight put in $25 million in 2012 and KKR, $50 million in 2017.

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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. Listen wherever you get podcasts: How is B2B SaaS growth trending over time? ??7

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B2B SaaS Subscription Payment Features 59

ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2020

Anna Talerico, Arthur Ventures Anna ( @annatalerico ) is an Operating Partner at Arthur Ventures , an early growth capital firm that leads investments in B2B software companies located outside Silicon Valley. Godard Abel, G2 Godard ( @godardabel )is CEO of G2 , a business software review website he co-founded in 2012.

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Scale Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 69

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 9, 2020

While 2012 saw notable SaaS experts questioning the Freemium model , fast forward to 2020 and buyers now expect to have access to a free, ungated version of a product, or at the very least, access to a free trial. Let’s look at some examples of segmented metrics you can build into a free-to-paid revenue dashboard.

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Scale Churn Metrics Retention 83

User Pilot

MAY 19, 2021

Does your product help employees save time while invoicing? How many even made the investment to really figure out the platform? Diving deeper into the activities of your audience can also help determine where to invest the most resources. What job do they need to get done with your product? Source-Clubhouse.com.

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B2B Marketing SaaS Social Media 119

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 9, 2020

While 2012 saw notable SaaS experts questioning the Freemium model , fast forward to 2020 and buyers now expect to have access to a free, ungated version of a product, or at the very least, access to a free trial. Let’s look at some examples of segmented metrics you can build into a free-to-paid revenue dashboard.

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Scale Churn Metrics Retention 52

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Venture capitalists invest in startups because they believe in the founder(s) and their vision. That means a majority of their investments are write-offs. If you sell an HR platform with a subscription that starts at 50 seats, you should scratch any seed-stage startups off your list. Raised Series B in 2012. Sumo Logic.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Startup Outsourced Development 78

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We sold the business in 2012. But again, that’s when you hit 10 million of recurring revenue. My biggest takeaway from metrics after being on the boards of a number of SaaS companies investing in 27 different companies is that churn becomes the biggest killer over time. We started the business in 2007.

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All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

Launched in 2012, Influence4you is listed in the category of the top influencer marketing platforms. The best feature of this app has to be its ‘Return on Investment Analytics. Management: manages all the brand’s ambassadors, approves samples, tracks payment, and feedbacks. iFluenz provides a free subscription.

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Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 52

ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

“That success imperative in education is what makes me excited to enhance every step of the Ellucian customer experience, and partner with institutions across the globe to maximize the value of their technology investments.”. In this role, she maximized software adoption and subscription revenue retention for Citrix’s Enterprise customers.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale Marketplace as a Service 53

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And the one thing about the bootstrapping choice is you’re choosing to invest years of your life, whether you know it or not, and they’re often the best years of your career. The state of tooling in 2010 or 2011 was that there was no Stripe, there was no subscription management and the idea of a SaaS economy was just nonsense.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. If you’re going to build a company with Salesforce, who better to invest than Salesforce? These are not simple things to solve.

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Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 145

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 31, 2017

It may also include further negotiations about specific terms in the sales/subscription/membership agreement as well as a series of signed approvals from key decision makers in your prospect organization. Launched by Jill Konrath in 2012, SNAP stands for S imple, i N valuable, A ligned and P riority. SNAP Selling.

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Sales Underperforming Technical Team Artificial Intelligence Social Media 82

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

This photo’s from 2012, and I joined, as I said, in 2014. Some or you guys are looking for a subscription billing, I don’t know if you would have gravitated toward Orbit. We don’t invest a lot in marketing so our site has to explain these products. Stripe started nearly a decade ago. All right.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 148

SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

This photo’s from 2012, and I joined, as I said, in 2014. Some or you guys are looking for a subscription billing, I don’t know if you would have gravitated toward Orbit. We don’t invest a lot in marketing so our site has to explain these products. Claire Johnson: All right. Stripe started nearly a decade ago.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Sales Hiring 114

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder. What early stage capital providers are looking for. Thanks, Ari.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder. What early stage capital providers are looking for. Thanks, Ari.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder. What early stage capital providers are looking for. Thanks, Ari.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40