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. Benefits of cash flow planning for SaaS businesses SaaS-specific cash flow problems 1. Multiple debtors and late payments 3.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 28, 2021

UIPath, leaders in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, filed their S-1 last week , revealing an impressive business. UIPath offers software to build robots, programs that automate repetitive work. Robots read pdfs that customers provide and input that data into other computer systems.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

How do you manage the process of accepting money from your customers? Building your own billing system can be a world of pain, risk and complexity, so what options are out there for integrating a third party product? This guide serves as a comprehensive overview of the options available for SaaS businesses.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

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. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 17, 2016

In the Innovator’s Solution , Christensen proposes the idea of competing against non-consumption. He says, “A new-market disruption is an innovation that enables a larger population of people, who previously lacked the money or skill, now to begin buying and using a product and doing the job for themselves.”.

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The SaaS Garage

JULY 18, 2019

AlfaDocs tu bring Italian success story toGermany By AlfaDocs , July 19, 2019 MUNICH — AlfaDocs to launch Proven Practice Management System for German Dentists on September 14, 2019. As in Italy, where around 1,500 paying users already work with AlfaDocs software, further modules will be added successively in Germany as well.

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Agile Payments

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

ACH payments and disbursements aren’t new. ACH payments have been around since 1974, and by the end of 2016, the total volume of ACH processing exceeded $40 trillion. In many cases ACH should be the defacto payment method for anything recurring.

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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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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range. In an era where we (vendors) increasingly run our own software, running it is increasingly as important as building it.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s the question on every SaaS founder’s lips: Is my churn rate too high? So how do you know what a healthy churn rate is for your SaaS company? Zuora’s 2019 Subscription Economy Index reports average customer churn rates across a number of different industries, ranging from Business Services on the low end (16.2%

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

It’s been a staple of industries—publications, utilities, and, more recently, software—since it first emerged in the 17th century. Following the subscription revenue model, businesses charge customers a recurring fee that is processed every week, month, quarter, or year. Access to services: SaaS, utilities, insurance, leasing.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a community of top SaaS companies that spans all the way from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium in SaaS is old news. The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. I actually wrote about the phenomenon , which I called ‘The Slow Death of Freemium’, back in 2016. That is the question.

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Outseta

JANUARY 9, 2019

I hope this is a useful barometer of progress for other bootstrapped SaaS start-ups with equally ambitious projects. The majority of our expenses in 2017 were related to software and development infrastructure required to build the product. Let’s get right into it starting with how much we’ve spent on the business. 2017 2018 Total.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 20, 2018

I sat down with Ulysses founder Max Seelemann to understand the thinking behind the company's move to a subscription-based model in 2017 which made waves in the software industry. Recurring payments give us planning security and enable deep thought. and for letting me drool over that 2016 Apple Design Award trophy…).

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Barriers are anything that stop a buyer from converting, such as website usability, solution fit, or pricing. In Dave’s words, “What is it about your product or service that the users say in their own words they love ?” But motivators are the flip side of that coin: What is a positive that would make your buyers more likely to convert?

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the lessons I, along with many other founders and investors, have learned in my roughly 15-year journey in SaaS investing is that most businesses adopt new technologies at a painfully slow pace. ServiceTitan, a leading vertical SaaS for home services, penetrated 1% of its core TAM of 900,000 home services businesses.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 3, 2020

Then, we hear from Kyle Poyar over at OpenView on bringing sales into a self-service business. And finally, the evolution of B2B SaaS billing. We’ve seen the tech and SaaS markets affected by the virus , but if we foster smart and healthy communities, the foundation of our operations—namely, our teams—will forge on.

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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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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 19, 2017

On our blog we also explored the topic of moving up market in SaaS and how businesses might tackle this without losing their soul. February in the SaaS world means one thing: The SaaStr Annual conference. We published The Ultimate SaaS Founder’s FAQ eBook, available as a free download. Read more here.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a SaaS community that spans from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6. Founded: 2015. Based in: New York.

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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. And honestly, right now literally is the worst time to raise VC funding I can think of since 2016.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The fourth quarter is the most important quarter for software companies around the world. . We confirmed this by reviewing sales data from over 300 SaaS and software companies that use our billing platform. In November, software companies see 11% to 24% over the average monthly revenue. Average US SaaS and Software Sales.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Freemium can help software companies gain users quickly—but what happens when it’s time to scale back or up? Free services must meet users’ basic needs, while also encouraging them to upgrade to the paid version once those basic needs are met. We are an early stage VC, mostly focused on SaaS all over Europe and and beyond.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 31, 2019

Mailshake-ing Up the Sales Process Mailshake has four simple steps to bring your sales process from good to glorious. Stripe Soars Payment technology company Stripe has raised an additional $100 million from investors as they move closer to a possible initial public offering in the next few years. Product of the Day.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

When it comes to sales technology quite often sales tech isn't picked based on what YOU need, but based on what your network have been using for their sales process. What you should be making decisions based on is, which sales processes generates the best outcomes you're after - and for your customers.

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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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ProfitWell

MARCH 9, 2020

Companies selling physical goods, digital products, and services of all kinds have turned to this business model as a way to secure repeat customers. Subscription marketing refers to marketing goods and services to customers on an ongoing basis. Of course, frequently used services can also be sold through subscriptions.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I learned a million lessons about SaaS, about start-ups, and about life along the way.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The ultimate goal of any developer with an idea for some useful software is monetization. Software monetization is simply the act of generating revenue from software. Let’s say you have developed an app that provides enough value to potential clients that you can charge money for its use. Payment ii.

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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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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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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. You’ll get lots of content from us along with advice for your sales process. Which sales tools best support your sales process?

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. During 2019 many of the larger providers of sales solutions have spoken of a "rapid consolidation" happening in the sales tools space. Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey?

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. During 2019 many of the larger providers of sales solutions have spoken of a "rapid consolidation" happening in the sales tools space. Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey?

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yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey and to generate your desired outcomes? Which sales tools best support your sales process? Which sales processes generate the outcomes you're after and which tools best assist you in doing so? Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business.

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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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