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Is it Really ARR? In 2021+, Yes. As Long As NRR is > 100%

SaaStr

50% revenue from software (recurring), 50% from payments (not-recurring). . Half of its revenues comes from its software. Well, if it were 2016, we’d say no. And yes, it’s a software company. Fast forward to day, Merchant Solutions is a much larger share of revenue than software subscriptions.

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Join FastSpring at SaaS North 2023!

FastSpring

Since 2016, SaaS North has been recognized as THE Canadian hub for rapidly-scaling SaaS founders and their teams. It is the largest in-person event in the country—2,000+ attendees, 800+ companies, and 100+ speakers—along with features such as Betakit Keynote Stage, AWS Pitchfest, Workspaces Tradeshow.

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SaaS Multiples Are At a 3+ Year Low. Where It Goes From Here.

SaaStr

Update on cloud software multiples, charted alongside the 10Y and 5 year pre-covid NTM rev multiple average. Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and even Google Cloud are on fire, adding insane amounts of revenue this year. January 2016, SaaS stocks were riding high. pic.twitter.com/JNnzizB82v. But what matters most for founders?

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10 Observations from Dropbox's S1

The Angel VC

1 – Dropbox on consumerization "Individual users are changing the way software is adopted and purchased Software purchasing decisions have traditionally been made by an organization’s IT department, which often deploys products that employees don’t like and many refuse to adopt. 8 – Weaning off AWS Look at this. Mind blown.

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

Buffer Resources

This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app. Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Tools + Operations We use a variety of software tools to support our team and customers.

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Why Self-Service and Product-Led Growth Won’t Replace Sales [Opinion]

Sales Hacker

Many of today’s fastest-growing software companies have something in common — their products can sell themselves. According to OpenView — the expansion stage software VC — there are more than 300 mature software companies that have embraced PLG. No Sales was to Atlassian the way no software was to Salesforce. doesn’t it?

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Making our user storage more scalable and secure

Intercom, Inc.

That period of stability was not to last – in late 2016 MongoDB really started creaking for our purposes. Internally, too, we were suffering – our infrastructure team spent nearly all their time keeping user storage alive, and it was not the sort of problem that we could solve by spending more with AWS. Evaluating AWS Databases.

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