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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

Buffer Resources

We shared a post about where your money went when buying a $10 Buffer plan back in 2014 — but it was well time for an update. Since 2014 our team has grown from 34 to 78 team members. Our Average Sale Price (ASP) in 2014 was $13, while our total Operating Costs were $3,575,897.

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SaaS 2020 Planning: Global Market Trends

OPEXEngine

As the close of 2019 approaches, with extreme stock market volatility and mixed economic signals, SaaS Finance execs building plans for 2020 and 2-5 years beyond don’t have an easy time. The Cloud infrastructure landscape for all SaaS companies should become more competitive, contributing to better margins and continued growth.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Inspired by Andreessen’s maxim, in 2014 Benedict Evans coined the phrase “ Mobile is eating the world ,” which in retrospect feels like it downplayed just how much our daily lives have become consumed by our smartphones. Rise of the cloud and SaaS businesses. Rise of mobile.

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Why Negative Churn is Such a Powerful Growth Mechanism

Tom Tunguz

Negative churn is an incredibly attractive characteristic of a SaaS company because it means that customer accounts are like high-yield savings accounts. This is a powerful effect and can fuel SaaS companies to huge success, as we saw in New Relic’s S-1. AWS S3, EMR, etc). 5% Monthly Churn -5% Monthly Churn.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

Also, no PLG strategy can work with traditional SaaS indicators. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 User onboarding is an important part of Product-Led Growth, but Appcues helps SaaS companies take the next step – product adoption.

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Companies With Usage-Based Pricing Grow 38% Faster

OpenView Labs

Net revenue retention was near 70%, a far cry from the 100%+ that most SaaS companies aim to achieve. By the time HubSpot went public in 2014, net revenue retention had jumped to nearly 100%—all without hurting the company’s ability to acquire new customers. The company struggled with poor churn and anemic expansion revenue.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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