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Doubling Down: Hilarie Koplow-McAdams, Venture Partner at NEA

SaaStr

Metronome’s sophisticated billing and subscription management platform enables companies to easily manage and automate complex billing and invoicing processes. Hilarie Koplow-McAdams joined NEA as a Venture Partner in 2017 and is focused on enterprise software and services. Most recently, Hilarie was President at New Relic.

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5 Interesting Learnings from UiPath at $600,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

2017: $30m rev. Even if a lot of the revenue isn’t truly recurring SaaS revenue. “We define ARR as annualized invoiced amounts per solution sku from subscription licenses and maintenance obligations assuming no increases or reductions in their subscriptions.” 2014: $500k rev. seed round.

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

Buffer Resources

We’ve shared a number of parts of Buffer’s business transparently over the years — and one piece we’ve always wanted to expand on is where your money goes when you pay for a Buffer subscription. This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app.

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Why You Should Make The Switch From A Perpetual License To Subscription

FastSpring

Here’s how your company can benefit from switching from a perpetual license to a subscription plan. Reason #1: Subscriptions support product innovation. Switching to a subscription plan doesn’t mean your company gets to neglect customer acquisition. Reason #2: Subscriptions increase the accessibility of your software.

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How Ulysses pulled off a controversial pivot to subscription

Chart Mogul

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. The economics of perpetual licensing vs. subscriptions.

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The ChartMogul 2017 year in review

Chart Mogul

Here's a summary of what we shipped, published and achieved in 2017, in case you missed something! We kicked off 2017 by announcing our integration with GoCardless. Also: We published a follow-up to our most popular blog post of all time: SaaS landing pages in 2017: Our analysis of 100+ top businesses. Life or death.”.

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The Impact of Blockchain on SaaS

Tom Tunguz

More than 30% of the initial coin offerings (ICO) in 2017 target developers and businesspeople with their products. B2B crypto companies raised about $400M of ICO dollars in 2017. Others enable email white and blacklists to be shared securely, creating a coalition against phishing. The numbers are still small.