SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. We work with hundreds of thousands of companies around the world on accepting payments, expanding globally, and increasingly on innovating their business models for the internet and for mobile.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

This philosophy applies to both low and high touch business models, where the vendor has to eliminate all potential usability problems that may arise. 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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Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

These nuances are based the origin of the vendor’s domain expertise—such as front-, middle-, or back-office—and on their market focus on B2B vs. B2C, low vs. high volume transactions, and subscription vs. consumption vs. hybrid business models. I joined Apttus in 2014, which had a different take on filling the CRM-ERP gap.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 21, 2021

We’ll also share an example of a cash flow statement to bring the concept to life and provide some tips for SaaS businesses seeking to simplify and streamline their cash flow statement activities. Amazon’s Statements of cash flow for 2014–2016. Source: amazon.com What does a cash flow statement tell you about your business?

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Chargify

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Welcome back to the Subscription Rockstars series! We will analyze both their mistakes and their victories to draw lessons that you can apply to your business. And, of course, we will pay special attention to how their subscription billing models and pricing strategies contributed to their growth. Image source).

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

B2B and B2C SaaS and Subscription Report. Updated weekly to show the impact of COVID-19, this resource from ProfitWell includes data from their subscription companies. SaaS Pricing Models–Pricing Strategy Examples and Best Practices. It’s extremely unusual for a SaaS company to credit a company subscription for reduced use.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2020

H e subsequently served as SVP/GM of the SteelBrick business unit until May 2017 when he left to refocus on entrepreneurial adventures. Godard was named to the Tech 50 list by Crain’s Business Chicago in September 2014 and to the Chicago Entrepreneur Hall of Fame in 2011.

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ProfitWell

JULY 23, 2020

Here are some popular DTC brands that may ring a bell: Casper: Online mattress company founded in 2014. Tracking LTV is especially important for DTC companies that follow a subscription model, meaning customers pay them a recurring price to receive products on a scheduled basis. Product Margin. Net Revenue Retention.

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SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

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.

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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. ClientSuccess.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 8, 2022

So it depends on your business model. So let’s say they lack adoption, that most likely means that either onboarding failed, there wasn’t any training, you can offer training, you can offer to extend the subscription so that you can re onboard them, you could, you know, offer, like a bunch of different things to do.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

In this blog we’ll talk about SaaS business and top 50 SaaS companies in 2020. SaaS businesses are organizations that provide subscription-based software applications that are centrally hosted on their servers over the internet. It records an average of 32 payment transactions per active account. Eventbrite.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

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. What was perhaps less predictable was the ensuing prevalence of the subscription-based business model.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. In the world of subscription-based business models, your product better deliver. Almost there – we’ve sent you an email to confirm your subscription. We thump our chests when we say that. Sign me up. You’re all set.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 4, 2018

One of the lures when I joined Intercom in 2014 was that it sold itself as a product-first company. In the world of subscription-based business models, your product better deliver. Almost there – we’ve sent you an email to confirm your subscription. We thump our chests when we say that. Sign me up. You’re all set.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

We removed a lot of the friction so that a business founder and builder could just focus on what they want to do, which is their product. We abstracted the way a lot of the complexity of payments. When I joined Stripe, we only had … So that was in 2014, at the end of 2014, we only had one marketers, and three people in sales.

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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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Hitenism

JANUARY 16, 2017

In 2014, Mixpanel’s Series B pitch deck spelled out the company’s expansion plans over the next two years: 3x sales headcount and rapidly race towards distribution. Innovate on the Business Model. We often associate SaaS with the standard 30-day trial feeding into a recurring subscription.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 16, 2018

Which is pretty amazing since he died in 2014 at the age of 90 and was named J. Nigerian princes are not donating their gold to needy people, Western Union is not holding a transfer for you, Microsoft is not calling you to help you with your computer, and the IRS does not take payment with Walmart gift cards. Robert Beyster….

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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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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. Customer Success is transformative. Introduction from Lincoln for 2020. In the SIX(!)

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Nowadays, it seems like you can buy just about anything on a recurring monthly plan: razors, clothing, knick-knacks, candles, etc. Over the past decade, ecommerce subscription companies have doubled down on the subscription model to monetize their relationships with customers. What are ecommerce subscription companies?

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