Buffer Resources

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

F1 Calendar : Taking over the development from a few friend, I rebuilt F1 Calendar as an easy way to check Formula 1 Session times in your timezone as well as making the data available via Calendar subscriptions. She’s been working with these bands since 2017.

Social Media 74

Social Media Construction Forecasting Subscription 74

Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

Welcome to the Subscription Rockstars series! And, of course, we will pay special attention to how their subscription billing models and pricing strategies contributed to their growth. Brian, who was helping venture-backed startups with marketing, noticed that people had gotten really good at ignoring intrusive advertising.

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Subscription Payment Features Revenue Software Review 40

Mattermark

AUGUST 29, 2017

Million Daily Users in 9 Years ” Ryan Law, CMO & co-founder at CoBloom , writes about the typical size and traits of startup funding rounds from pre-seed to series C in part two of his nine (!!) What they do: cloud subscription management with marketplace, billing, reseller, and distribution solutions. Start Your Free Trial.

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Startup Banking Cloud Engineering 45

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

But before the sugar hits, let’s break down the latest in subscription and recurring revenue with your February 21st Subscription60. Subscriptions for Sustainability We're all about the products that enhance life on this planet, like Loop or Citymapper. Want to be on the cutting edge of subscription news? In headlines.

Payments 45

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 15, 2020

We also take a look inside subscription education. Your top subscription news. Subscription schooling. Jolt is an education startup that describes itself as an alternative to traditional MBA courses, a pay-monthly business school. And that’s a wrap for your January 15 subscription news. million in Series A funding.

Government 61

Government Education Subscription Payment Features 61

Kellblog

MAY 21, 2019

Key trends from their 2017 report that are still alive, well, and driving software businesses. In 2017 and 2018, however, that’s dropped to 7 to 8%. That’s why I think early- and mid-stage startups need to think about the Rule of 40 in terms of glideslope planning.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Also, Clockwise was named among the best Upwork agencies for four years in a row, from 2017 to 2020. The company works with small startups and such industry giants as Dominos and the World Bank. If you need a reliable SaaS development company with unmatched JavaScript expertise, Clockwise is the perfect choice.

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DevOps as a Service Development Technical Review Blockchain 40

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2017

Over the last seven years, software startup investing has changed quite a bit. In 2010, classic SaaS was booming, the benefits of a subscription model were finally becoming clear to the public markets and the mass-market. If those startups raised twice the amount of capital then the figure would be 2.

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ProfitWell

MAY 3, 2019

The experts at UC Berkeley and Stanford uncover research from over 3,000 startups, and Intercom’s Insider podcast shares those findings, exploring “the ugly side of growth” with Pipedrive’s Tara Bryant. As one Endgame smashes box office records, another movie ticket subscription reaches the end of its rope. How-to Unicorn c/o Auth0.

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AI Search Scale Subscription Payment Features 45

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Today, we see Apple struggle in the subscription department. Your top subscription news. Apple subscriptions: what gives? It looks like Apple, although a brand we know and love for trailblazing in this space, could be struggling in the subscription sense. That’s it for your February 7 episode of Recur Now.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Your top subscription news. monthly subscription that allows you access to more features and storage space. This subscription move is about maximizing the quality of the partnership with their public media partners and gaining new users. Sprout’s 2018 revenue was 99% sourced from software subscriptions, according to Crunchbase.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 24, 2020

Your top subscription news. The Athletic , a subscription-based digital sports media company, has officially raised $50 million in a Series D funding round led by Bedrock Capital, now apparently valued at $500 million after this new raise. Subscription content—alive and thriving. Do you like me? Or do you like like me?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? Felix : And then kind of as we raised our series B round where we said, okay, let’s try to build a really good and successful company, that’s when we shifted to a hundred percent subscription. It can order subscription.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Government 174

How SaaS Works

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In true startup fashion, Ryan had an ambitious idea to bust through this wall and cobbled together the resources to bring his idea to life. From January 2017 through June 2017, the email signature generator had 524K unique visits, 51K leads generated, and $8.5M in new customer LTV. What a brilliant marketing strategy.

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Content Marketing Marketing SaaS Scale 45

OpenView Labs

MARCH 10, 2019

We learned that while most of the live chat space was focused on customer service (logging tickets, etc), small businesses and startups were using live chat on their websites to talk to prospects. If you’ve ever met a small business owner or a startup founder, you know this – they don’t have a lot of time. are most effective.

Scale 64

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ProfitWell

APRIL 29, 2019

Let us rage on in the recurring revenue realm. Here, the subscription news and resources you need now. The experts at UC Berkeley and Stanford uncover research from over 3,000 startups, and Intercom’s Insider podcast shares those findings, exploring “the ugly side of growth” with Pipedrive’s Tara Bryant.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

With thousands of new startups emerging everyday and the average turnover rate for business applications trending at 39% annually, the SaaS industry couldn’t be more competitive. Despite the hyper competition, many SaaS providers take their organization’s payment processing experience for granted. Making payments accessible overseas.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 173

ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

His startup, founded in 2015, strives to be the fastest email experience in the world. He said by 2017, the team had reached 14 people. Over the next few paragraphs, I’ll unpack churn rate, average subscription length, and customer lifetime value. Average subscription length. Track customer subscription length.

Product Marketing 52

Product Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Advertising 52

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. Sam Jacobs: Is it a subscription service? Is it recurring revenue, or is it delivered in a different way?

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Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 106

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 15, 2018

Nick: Making Reddit more welcoming was a theme for all of 2017 and most of 2018. ” But I work in startups. 30 days is a long time at a startup, so I would dispute that you should wait and do nothing for 30 days. In a startup environment, the clock’s is ticking. So, I would say listen for about a week.

Leadership 141

Leadership Engineering Part-Time VPE CTO Coach 141

TriTuns

MARCH 20, 2019

We’re moving more and more to being outcome driven and not just product and technology driven and we’re shifting from the idea of ownership for products and services to usership and subscriptions. We are seeing this more and more in both the business and consumer worlds.

Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hiring Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

TriTuns

MARCH 20, 2019

We’re moving more and more to being outcome driven and not just product and technology driven and we’re shifting from the idea of ownership for products and services to usership and subscriptions. We are seeing this more and more in both the business and consumer worlds.

Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hiring Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

TriTuns

MARCH 20, 2019

We’re moving more and more to being outcome driven and not just product and technology driven and we’re shifting from the idea of ownership for products and services to usership and subscriptions. We are seeing this more and more in both the business and consumer worlds.

Sales Hiring 40

Sales Hiring Leadership Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review 40

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

In an era when more and more businesses adopt a subscription model, strong customer retention is the key to sustainable long-term growth and requires a laser-like focus. . Tara joined the company in 2017 and has been instrumental in helping the company scale and retain more customers through a unique customer-centric approach to marketing. .

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Retention Scale Marketing Underperforming Technical Team 34

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In the past months, he has offered a pricing teardown to every subscription business you can think of, from Spotify and Netflix to NYTimes and Match.com.Patrick’s professional experience is diverse and curious: his first job was at the U.S. He’s been running SaaSholic, a blog where he writes about startups and SaaS.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Disappearing photos however was not a good fit for either of those models, and likely best lent itself to subscriptions and virtual goods, both largely unproven at consumer internet scale. I was an advisor to Canva starting in 2017, and got to work with Figma while I was a growth advisor at Greylock, which led the series A investment.

Payments 113

Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

Navint

JUNE 25, 2019

Jeff Wissink shares what Navint has found to be the secret to establishing value-based subscription pricing, and it may surprise you. Whenever we work with clients on their recurring revenue businesses, the topic of subscription pricing inevitability comes up. A Streaming Service Story of Subscription Pricing.

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Subscription Payment Features Pricing SaaS Payments 45

Chargify

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Over the last decade, recurring revenue has emerged as the preferred model for businesses moving beyond transactional commerce. While the first generation of recurring revenue was defined by simple subscriptions—think Netflix’s original “one-size-fits-all” $7.99 From Static Subscriptions To The Relationship Economy.

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Subscription Payment Features AWS Scale 75

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In the 2017 Index: The Mobile Consumer , App Annie predicted that time spent on mobile apps will hit 3.5 If you’re promoting a subscription, you could offer a 7 day free trial period to new users so they have the opportunity to learn the value of your product for themselves. trillion hours by 2021. Larry Kim is the CEO of MobileMonkey.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Today on Recur Now, the astronomical findings of Zuora’s Subscription Economy Index are released. We’re also talking subscription sports with a pricing expert, and highlighting a former Netflix culture-building badass. Your top subscription news. I said in 2017, this was the most overvalued company in the world.

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Subscription Payment Features Payments Payment Services 49

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Given you probably just finished closing your books for 2017, it’s a good time to introduce changes to plan for the coming year. After all, as a startup founder, you want to have a solid idea of what your true gross margins are and what it actually costs to acquire a customer! The main accounts are: Cost of Revenue.

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Startup DevOps as a Service Customer Lifetime Value SaaS 81

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Source 16 Startup Metrics by Jeff Jordan, Anu Hariharan, Frank Chen, and Preethi Kasireddy, a16z We have the privilege of meeting with thousands of entrepreneurs every year, and in the course of those discussions are presented with all kinds of numbers, measures, and metrics that illustrate the promise and health of a particular company.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 12, 2018

Dribbble was bootstrapped for nearly a decade before being acquired in early 2017, when Zack joined, and it was already profitable too. I have a long history of working in miscellaneous startups, either in the creative space or in the recruitment space. He’s also a mentor at Reforge and 500 Labs. That informs our roadmap.

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Business Branding Startup Leadership 215

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Our mission is to build the world’s most powerful subscription analytics platform for the SaaS community. Building the leading subscriptions analytics platform means listening to our customers, and implementing changes to the product that bring them the most value. What’s new in ChartMogul in 2021? ChartMogul is a product-led company.

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Payment Features PayPal 52

Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

QuikNode is a Miami-based startup powering blockchain applications with lightning fast Ethereum, Bitcoin, Polygon, BSC and xDai nodes. Background In 2017 and 2018, many new blockchain projects started offering their tokens for sale. A simple control panel brings it all together and makes infrastructure management easy.

Blockchain 90

Blockchain Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 90

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2019

As Intercom’s business grew rapidly in 2017, we found ourselves at this exact crossroads. From our initial effort in late 2017, some problems we set out to solve for each stakeholder were: Marketing: Understand who our customers are, so we can effectively reach them. Buyer personas: Who decides to buy your product?

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Business B2C Scale Headcount 184

The SaaS Garage

MAY 10, 2017

They would like to grow fast and aggressively which means that they need to raise a lot of money in a startup universe, where money mainly comes for equity.” Daniel: Well, I do remember my times as a co-founder of a European startup. Very thorough financial management is a must for any SaaS startup.

Technical Review 73

Technical Review Startup Banking Outsourced Development 73