SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. Vindi is a PCI-certified online payment platform for recurring billing. The tool supports multi-currency billing and electronic invoicing. Founded : 2014.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

Buffer Resources

APRIL 10, 2024

In 2014, making money on social media was a feat for a select few people like travel creator Gabby Beckford ( @packslight ), who made $2,000 for six Instagram posts in the same year. You can promote your subscription offerings on Instagram and direct your followers to your chosen platform to sign up.

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Payments Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service Payment Services 91

User Pilot

JANUARY 12, 2024

In this example, the bar chart compares the number of standard, free, and enterprise invoices created over the last 7 days. A horizontal bar chart comparing invoice creations on Userpilot. You can easily see that sales peaked in April 2015 and were lowest in November 2014. Analyzing event distribution over multiple platforms.

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Data Scale Payment Features Trends 105

SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

It’s hard to imagine a world where analysis didn’t understand recurring, subscription based revenue for technology products. The company is the poster child for subscription-based software, a model that’s gaining popularity among corporate buyers. This CNET article captures the uncertainty well: .

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Venture Capital Technical Review SaaS Banking 213

Chargify

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Welcome back 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. However, it all came crashing down in September 2014, leading to what he called “my mid business life crisis”. Image source).

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 26, 2014

To get a sense of the broader trends in YC companies, I’ve compared the Winter 2012 class and the Spring 2014 class by sector (consumer v. enterprise), segment (ecommerce, education, social, gaming, delivery) and by revenue model (subscription, ads, transactional). In 2014, enterprise startups were 57% of the class.

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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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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

8 Best SaaS Development Companies in 2024 Clockwise Software Rate: $50 – $99 / hr Employees: 50 – 249 Founded: 2014 This Ukrainian company from Dnipro is one of the leaders in JavaScript development. Businesses of any size and industry can find reliable SaaS development partners.

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DevOps as a Service Development Technical Review Blockchain 40

Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. In 2014, Buffer started using both Baremetrics and Looker.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payment Features Payments Outsourcing Services 52

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 1, 2017

Let’s look at some of the key metrics and then compare AppDynamics to NewRelic, a close competitor which went public in late 2014. They sell their APM software as a perpetual software license in addition to a subscription (SaaS). First, Subscription generated 80% of the revenue in 2014. of revenue).

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Benchmarks Metrics Software Review SaaS 100

Point Nine Land

MAY 11, 2023

Intuit, Adobe, Oracle, and a few other older software companies have managed to transition to a subscription-based business model. Salesforce, for example, has acquired several AI startups starting in 2014, and Zendesk released an ML-powered chatbot in 2016. So AI has been on the agenda of SaaS leaders for some time.

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Generative AI AI B2B Software 128

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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Payments Technology Scale Revenue 53

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 26, 2015

The Information reported last week that in 2014, only 11% of tech IPOs in 2014 were profitable when they became publicly traded companies, an all time low stretching back to 1980, when the figure was 88%. Some like LinkedIn do this in spectacular fashion, charting more than $569M in 2014 cash from operations.

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Payment Services Startup Payments Payment Solutions 100

Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

Spotify's recent F-1 filing is packed full of metrics and insights into both consumer subscriptions and the streaming music industry. Spotify’s filing gives us a rare look into the metrics of a large-scale consumer subscription business. This is likely due to family subscriptions and internationalization. Customer Churn Rate.

Payments 75

Payments Metrics EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) SaaS Payments 75

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 9, 2015

The upsell rate was 36%, 31% and 30% for the years ended December 31, 2014, 2013 and 2012, respectively. Our upsells are primarily derived by an increase in the number of seat licenses purchased by our customers and are also derived from the addition of other subscription services. Renewal rate.

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Churn SaaS Retention Startup 100

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 6, 2015

In 2014, the median startup grew at 85% CAGR before going public. In 2014, a startup needed $54M. Also, subscription revenue models have become broadly adopted in enterprise and some consumer segments, which provides revenue predictability. US VC backed startups in 1998 grew revenue 63% per year on average.

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Startup Acquisition Trends Enterprise 100

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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Payment Methods Payments Payment Features Merchant Services 12

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

But back to the product side, adopting PLG means creating the optimal user journey to engage the customer from the login stage onwards – seamless login, onboarding, subscriptions plans, built-in security, and support features all need to work in tandem to create the best results. Best For: Subscription Management, Billing.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Founded 2014 in Munich, Germany, Loyalty Prime has quickly developed itself into a leading loyalty program tech provider, serving blue-chip companies around the globe from a wide range of industries. In addition to Prime Cloud’s rich feature-set, clients also benefit from Loyalty Prime’s extensive customer loyalty consulting expertise.

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Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

The chart above shows the subscription revenue is roughly at $150 million and professional services revenue is about $35 million this year. Second, new customer contract value has more than doubled from $77,000 in 2014 to $169,000 in 2016. Today, the business generates nearly $200 million annually in revenue, and is growing at 70%.

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Metrics Benchmarks Scale Finance 100

Baremetrics

AUGUST 21, 2021

After that, we’ll explore how Baremetrics ’ business metrics monitoring and analytics solution can help SaaS businesses track their subscription revenue accurately and immediately, allowing for effortless and stress-free cash flow management. Amazon’s Statements of cash flow for 2014–2016. Example active subscriptions dashboard.

Payment Solutions 97

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payment Services 97

Stax

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Google was the first, in 2011, to enable contactless payments via their mobile app. Apple Pay caught up in 2014; in 2015, the wearables market made everyone aware of the tap’s potential. Full-service providers like Stax use flat-rate subscription pricing , which keeps fees low when businesses process high volumes.

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Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions 88

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) set out in 2014 to provide a framework to attain consistency in financial reporting, improve comparative analysis and reporting, and simplify the drafting of financial statements. This framework is what we now call the ASC 606.

Payments 84

Payments Payment Methods SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 84

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. Then he was on to a new adventure: founding Pipefy in 2014.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

After being founded in 2008, the company attracted a substantial amount of funding before going public in December 2014 – a rapid clip from startup to IPO. Shifting from subscriptions to a new consumption-based pricing model. Up until this point, New Relic had been on a relentlessly positive trajectory.

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Pricing Scale Compensation Subscription 81

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Koachee is a platform that helps you connect to clients by providing you a marketplace and the tools you need to succeed, such as: client booking and scheduling marketing tools invoicing run in-app communication. Founded in 2014, Decorist is a B2C niche marketplace specifically for interior designers to sell their design services.

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Marketplace as a Service B2C Payment Services Payments 139

Tom Tunguz

JULY 14, 2015

Bloomberg, provider of the eponymous financial information terminals, generates roughly $10B annually in subscription revenues, and is wildly profitable. Incidentally, this is the reason Google created a new type of share called Class C in 2014 that lacks voting rights, so activists couldn’t influence the company.

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Compensation Finance Forecasting Communication 108

Baremetrics

JULY 23, 2020

The cheapest subscription was $29 a month - obviously too high. More than half of them decided to switch to a paid subscription after the free trial. Cancel" means that customers have canceled their subscription during the trial period, "Churn" means that they canceled an active subscription. Click here for more details.

New CTO 87

New CTO Underperforming Technical Team CTO Technical Review 87

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

That’s why, every year, since 2014, we at Bowery Capital have published a Startup Sales Stack Report as a guiding framework for founders and sales leaders evaluating their sales stack. This means responding with greater flexibility, offering shorter billing cycles, subscription pauses, or creative discounts for longer contracts.

Technical Review 118

Technical Review Scale Trends Startup 118

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 21, 2015

Above, the line chart shows the astounding growth in the number of Adobe Creative Suite subscribers from the launch of CreativeSuite 6 in mid-2012 through March 2014 growing at 31% per quarter to 3.97M in their last quarter. Only 30 months after launch, subscription revenues have outpaced license revenue at $2.1B respectively.

SaaS 100

SaaS Travel Education Software 100

Chaotic Flow

MARCH 25, 2014

At the time, SaaS investors and executives were still getting their heads around the SaaS recurring revenue business model, so there were very few resources to turn to for support. A SaaS business is different because of the recurring revenue subscription model. Fast forward to today. What makes a SaaS business different?

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Metrics Business SaaS Scale 156

OpenView Labs

MARCH 4, 2021

For their first five years in business, HubSpot offered three subscription packages ranging in price from $3,000 to $18,000 per year. 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. Download The Usage-Based Pricing Playbook.

Pricing 55

Pricing Outsourced Development Marketplace as a Service AWS 55

ProfitWell

JANUARY 16, 2020

Plus, knitters master their craft with subscription. Your top subscription news. We have a ton of resources on CAC, LTV, and expansion revenue for the SaaS and subscription space, which you can delve into here: The complete SaaS guide to calculating & reducing CAC. And that’s a wrap for your January 16 subscription news.

Scale 51

Scale Subscription Payment Features Benchmarks 51

Chart Mogul

JULY 31, 2018

By joining the program, our mutual customers will now benefit from the combination of ChartMogul’s subscription revenue and customer analytics and Stripe’s seamless payments platform. We aim to help Stripe’s subscription users — and eventually all Stripe users — make sense of their billing data and grow their business faster.

Payments 40

Payments Payment Methods Payment Services Customer Lifetime Value 40

Chart Mogul

JUNE 10, 2018

We launched ChartMogul in 2014 to help our customers answer a simple question: How do I track and grow my subscription business? So have our customers, and so has the subscription industry at large. Today we help small and midsize subscription companies manage and analyze their revenue and customer data.

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Growth Hacking Branding Subscription Payment Features 60

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

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. This photo’s from 2012, and I joined, as I said, in 2014. I think it was end of 2014. So this photo is a classic.

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Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 150

OpenView Labs

MAY 24, 2021

Veeva sees similar dynamics among its Vault customers, with 2013/2014 cohorts growing subscription revenue by 26.8x According to the company’s most recent investor day presentation : Veeva’s Commercial Cloud customers have adopted an average of 3.72 products each, up from 1.90 and now adopting 4.4 products on average.

Scale 98

Scale Headcount Sales Hiring Benchmarks 98