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SaaS Is Growing Up: 4 Business Model Changes To Adopt with Notion Capital

SaaStr

PST, Stephanie Opdam, Partner at Notion Capital, shares four business model changes that will allow SaaS companies to build resilience and staying power over time. Now, the lows appear to stabilize around the levels we saw in 2016. PLG is about investing in product and data instead of sales and marketing. Apple hasn’t done any.

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How Adopting Mobile Payments Can Help Your Business Grow in 2024

Stax

Fast forward to now where much has changed, and research anticipates contactless mobile payments to exceed one billion users globally by 2024. Customers can pay with their watch or phone just by tapping it on a card reader, and businesses can host an entire POS system on a mobile phone.

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UIPath S-1 Analysis: How 7 Key Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

In 2021, the business counted more than 8000 customers, with 1000 paying more than $100k and 89 paying more than $1m. The company also mentions the 2016 cohort of customers expanded 51x in the last 5 years. Larger enterprise contracts imply longer contract terms and larger pre-payments, boosting these figures.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Toast at $500m in ARR, and a $3B Total Run Rate

SaaStr

Was $8 billion in secondary sale in November. Last April, the company slashed half its workforce as restaurant sales dropped 80% [link]. While its software has decent margins of 66%, software is only 10% of Toast’s total GAAP revenue. Wix just has more software revenue to blend the total margins higher.

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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

Eventually, the company needed to layer in new advertiser focused loops to monetize, but I’ll skip that detail for now. The company requires either new growth loops or new products to acquire, retain, or monetize better. The entirety of Pinterest for the first few years I was there was tuning these loops in one way or another.

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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. How to Connect With FastSpring at Web SaaS North Stop by our booth B70 to learn more about subscription management, international taxes, and how using a merchant of record can enable you to collect payments faster on your website.

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

Buffer Resources

Another important detail to note is how Average Sales Price (ASP) and Expenses have changed over time. Our Average Sale Price (ASP) in 2014 was $13, while our total Operating Costs were $3,575,897. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5