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

Buffer Resources

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. Stripe payments make up 98.5 percent of our total revenue and 83 percent of our fees. Google and Apple payments make up 2.5%

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

If anything, this was the decade they collectively became leaders not just of the technology industry, but of industry itself – Apple overtook ExxonMobil as the world’s most valuable company by market cap in August 2011 (that month again), and then became the first trillion-dollar company by market cap in 2018.

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

Editor’s Note: This article was first published on August 9, 2018. Product led businesses need to get their products in the hands of would-be users as efficiently as possible–hopefully at near zero CAC. Is freemium an effective lead generation, conversion, and revenue driving strategy for your recurring revenue-based business?

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. Average Revenue per Customer. The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners. Your monthly recurring revenue changes every month.

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Subscription renewal: getting customers to renew subscriptions

ProfitWell

Yes, they might kick the can down the road a little longer, but they only delay the inevitable while giving customers an awful experience in the meantime. The key feature separating subscription businesses from their more standard counterparts is the recurring nature of payments. Of course, you know better.

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Brex’s Michael Tannenbaum on fintech growth strategies

Intercom, Inc.

I remember first meeting you and Enrique in August 2018, and your team was maybe 30 people? I was married in April 2018, and I was going back to New York. Brex offers startups a way to quickly get a credit card with no personal guarantee and no complex processes – [link] via @techcrunch and @mattlynley. Tara: Right.

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

SaaStr

Look at Snowflake and GitLab and ZoomInfo, growing almost 60% at a billion in revenue. I’ll tell you, of all the founders I’m impressed with, I’m most impressed with founders that I meet and I’m like, “How you doing”, “Well, I’m at 2 million in revenue and I’m going to grow 2.5