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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

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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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

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. Actually, two.

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Why You Need FULL Funnel CRO Right Now

FastSpring

In Dave’s words, “What is it about your product or service that the users say in their own words they love ?” Dave has gleaned some valuable CRO insights since he founded Browser to Buyer in 2016, which he shared with FastSpring CMO and Growth Stage podcast host Dave Vogelpohl in our latest episode. Jump to highlights.

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Freemium at Scale with Typeform CEO (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Free services must meet users’ basic needs, while also encouraging them to upgrade to the paid version once those basic needs are met. Thank you so much to the SaaStr team for organizing this conference and thank you to Joaquim for joining me on this session. We give them the superpowers of the developer and the designer.

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The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 581)

SaaStr

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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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

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 was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

The fastest growing software companies in recent years all have something in common – they started with little to no sales team. Yes, Slack started off with no sales team. Yes, Dropbox started off with no traditional sales team. It’s become apparent that for hypergrowth SaaS startups today, there are two distinct phases.

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