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The Metric that Matters for Startups in 2016

Tom Tunguz

In 2016, the question that will immediately follow, “What is your annual growth rate?” To sustain these growth rates, startups like these require lots of cash because of the customer acquisition payback period, and the more tenuous ones need capital to prove the business model actually works at scale. Market fragmentation.

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The Most Successful SMB SaaS Acquisition Channel Ever Built

Tom Tunguz

Channel distribution represents one of the biggest and most important changes in customers acquisition for SMB SaaS startups in quite a while. As many of these channel partners move to newer distribution models, the brokerage channel model in particular, they represent an efficient and leveraged customer acquisition channel.

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Customer Acquisition Strategy for SaaS Companies: A Complete Guide

SaaSOptics

What Is Customer Acquisition? Customer Acquisition is the process of acquiring new customers in a business. For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. More customers = more revenue.

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Epic Games Versus The App Store: A Fight for Autonomy and Freedom in the Ecommerce Era

FastSpring

For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. For customers, the process of looking for apps to download usually takes place in one of the four leading app marketplaces; Google Play, Apple App Store , Windows Store, and the Amazon App Store. Is it safe? Let’s go ??.

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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. At the helm of Udemy for Business’ customer acquisition machine is their VP of Marketing Yvonne Chen.

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What are the best eCommerce subscription platforms for 2019? |

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

According to McKinsey , in 2016, large subscription retailers saw over $2.6 OTT (Over the Top) streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, and a plethora of others have pushed subscriptions past an industry fad and into becoming an industry onto itself that is very likely to grow. And subscription eCommerce seems to be the answer.

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The Best SaaS Articles of 2016 From Around the Web

Hitenism

2016 has been a year where knowledge has become freely available for anyone interested in knowing about all things SaaS. Work backwards from there to get your pricing model and acquisition channels. This slide deck comes from Brian’s brilliant SaaSFest 2016 presentation. Thomas Smale , How to Value a SaaS Business in 2016.

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