FastSpring

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

We all signed up for streaming services. And our favorite apps are paid for at the same time every month automatically. Not only are subscriptions and automated billing services more convenient for our customers, but it also gives our businesses stability through recurring revenue. So, just how does all of this magic happen?

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The solution? Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. While it’s a trend across sectors, it’s picking up steam in tech where companies are looking to deliver more complete solutions to consumers. Micro startup acquisitions.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. But we provide a combination of APIs and software.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

More than half of Kenya’s GDP is now transacted through a mobile, through arguably the most successful mobile banking and payment system called M-Pesa. Our first MVP was actually an SMS based app where job seekers would send six SMSes in order to register on our platform. For example, in Kenya. It’s not a big deal.”

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS companies have transformed the way global businesses work. Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. In this blog we’ll talk about SaaS business and top 50 SaaS companies in 2020.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Pricing your SaaS. These articles are good if you’re in the early stages of starting a SaaS company and can help you get off on the right foot. 5 SaaS Analytics Tools to Track & Grow Your Business. Pricing your SaaS. There are a lot of ways to price your SaaS. 5 Ways to Prevent Involuntary Churn in SaaS.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. We have over 1,500 apps listed in our app directory, so those are with third party partners. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 22, 2020

And major layoffs have been announced, even among SaaS companies recently touted as possible 2020 IPO candidates. Do you offer functionality that enables companies to successfully work remotely? Adopt more flexible payment terms and contract structures. Or do you integrate with any of the products that are currently booming?

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics.

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Unbounce

JULY 22, 2020

These allowed businesses to gate their content for Facebook likes (earning them the nickname “like gate”), but they haven’t been available since 2014. Homepages are great for solution-aware prospects looking for specific information, but they can be overwhelming for visitors from social media. Keep it consistent.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 1, 2019

Over the past few years, the term “Growth” has been one of the most frequently used buzzwords in the SaaS world, especially at product led growth businesses. Recently I surveyed over 350 SaaS companies and found that 43% of B2B software companies already have a dedicated growth team and 27% are looking to fill a growth role.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

The critical nature of software for business growth is a key reason for the exceptional growth of Software as a Service (SaaS) companies in recent times. Encouraged by the success and importance of SaaS, Australia has actively adopted the cloud ecosystem and founded brilliant SaaS-driven companies and platforms.

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SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2021

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. The Covid Boost for SaaS. But likely it’s below 100% excluding payments. Well, it’s murky.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

As we first looked at bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia and considered what help we could offer, we thought about localization and know-how about legal and cultural differences as some of the critical success factors. SaaS Investments: Goodera, and others. SaaS Investments: Ezetap, and others. Founded: 2001.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

If we really look at a lot of YC companies now a days, we have a ton of B to B companies, and the most common mistake they make is they don’t really understand if they can afford the process they need to do to acquire customers. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. Colin here, CEO of a startup, B2B SaaS, and raising a seed round right now. Take the meeting.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

?. Manual document collection is not exactly what you would call a seamless process. Back in 2013, the entrepreneur founded and single-handedly organized B2B Rocks , a SaaS conference that today gathers over 1500 founders, investors, and industry leaders. Try as he might, he couldn’t find a solution to get around it.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Rob made his way into the world of SaaS as a product manager and how that led to his founding Salsify over 8 years ago. * How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers? Harry Stebbings: Not at all.

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FastSpring

APRIL 1, 2021

I want to sign up and try that service! ”. Luckily, you can take a lot of actions to influence that process and showcase your value. Most software companies rely heavily on free trials for customer acquisition. Or maybe the onboarding process is too complicated. The activation process solely focuses on conversion.

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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.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. They were building time and expense software. But they were doing it earlier than Java and trying to do it in a way where it gets deployed on the internet, which is something we would call SaaS today. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 3, 2022

This SaaS metric is defined as the sum of Deferred Revenue and Backlog. Deferred Revenue for SaaS companies is the contractual obligation to deliver the SaaS product for the period invoiced. In this case, assume that our theoretical company closes a SaaS deal with an Average Annual Contract Value (ACV) of $120,000.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

So tell me how did you make your way from the wonderful coast of the UK into the world of SaaS and come to now be one of the leading CIOs in the really rising mega wave of enterprise SaaS? And the reason is because even if you’re a small company, what’s happening is you just have a ton of systems in place.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 7, 2020

In a technology driven world, where it feels like consumers are always looking for the next best service or software to jump ship to, reducing churn can be challenging for a SaaS company like Emphatic. About Emphatic Emphatic is a social media automation software, similar to Hootsuite or Buffer. LEARN MORE.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Payment Structure: 3 payments (at close, 12 months & 18 months). It was kind of fun seeing something succeed like this, especially after 15+ years building software! He was building various software companies and I did some design work for him. How we got here. A year and a half ago, I started entertaining offers.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. A SaaS company is a service provider that hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the internet. India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. This article will help you –.

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Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Q: Sean, you’ve worked for some of the major software players in the recurring revenue technology space—Zuora, Apttus, and Salesforce. When helping with sales-focused initiatives, we know how that impacts downstream systems and processes like billing and revenue recognition. Navint sees across the entire spectrum.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. Another collection of their customers actually turned their kitchens into service offerings. They’re facilitating virtual schooling, they’re helping governments organize.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Software as a Service (SaaS) is currently the most practical model of software distribution. It is the model in which a cloud service provider hosts software or application and makes them available for the end-user. The cloud service provider can either be a third party or the software vendor itself.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I just thought that if there was anybody left at the end of day two that had anything they wanted to talk about, scaling SaaS, fundraising, hiring, anything, and I could be helpful, we could do a little extra Q&A. Now there are 20 or 30 public SaaS companies we can learn from. But the downturn in SaaS, at best, is uneven.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

In the SaaS world, businesses generally aim to drive higher ARPA through add-ons and paid upgrades as the product matures. “Our Ad-Supported Service serves as a funnel, driving more than 60% of our total gross added Premium Subscribers since we began tracking this data in February 2014.” year-over-year in Q4 2017).

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

When we announced a few weeks ago that we would be bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia, and running it in Hong Kong, many locals thanked us for choosing the city. Their solutions span a wide range of verticals: from E-commerce, HR and Health to collaboration, infrastructure and AI. Founded : 2014. Notey Labs.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

But starting an ecommerce subscription service isn’t an easy task. It leverages the power of these recurring customer relationships to provide everything from razors to computer software. According to this study from 2018 , the subscription ecommerce market has grown significantly since 2014. SaaS subscriptions.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

based auditing software firm AuditBoard, Daniel Kim and Jay Lee would probably be shooting hoops. That idea eventually turned into AuditBoard, which launched in 2014 and this month secured a $40 million funding round led by Battery Ventures. Then there are some industry-specific risks, like PCI (Payment Card Industry) or HIPAA.

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