Outseta

JANUARY 9, 2019

I hope this is a useful barometer of progress for other bootstrapped SaaS start-ups with equally ambitious projects. 2017 2018 Total. building Outseta - roughly $8,000 in 2017 and $24,000 in 2018. In 2018 you’ll notice some line items grew significantly. To date we’ve spent $32,179.72 The $11,123.75

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

No matter how deeply you gaze into the crystal ball wondering what this new year has in store for you or your business, the only thing you’ll know for sure is that despite your careful planning, some things will change. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

I’ve worked at multiple high growth SaaS businesses as a growth leader, and the data we’re seeing right now … This is from … is that CAC is increasing both in B2B and B2C, and you’re going to see how that relates, right? Pauline : Yeah, so I work at OpenClassrooms, which is a European leader in online education.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

I certainly didn’t have “global pandemic” on my 2020 bingo card and, even if I somehow did, I would never have coupled that with “booming stock market” and median SaaS price/revenue multiples in the 15x range. I loved Manav’s vision for securing the set of cloud-based data services that we can collectively call the “data cloud.”

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Editor’s Note: This article was first published on August 9, 2018. 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. Freemium benchmarks. That is the question.

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BrightBack

JUNE 30, 2020

Today Brightback is launching Experience Manager in beta, a way subscription managers can easily implement retention tactics we’ve rigorously tested with direct-to-consumer and SaaS businesses over the past 18 months. The past decade of abundant VC capital and vanity metrics couldn’t last forever.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

No matter how deeply you gaze into the crystal ball wondering what this new year has in store for you or your business, the only thing you’ll know for sure is that despite your careful planning, some things will change. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals?

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OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

When WeWork was preparing for a bond issue in 2018, underwriters were raising concerns over its leverage. That’s because the metric, created by investment bankers to show growth promise, isn’t recognized under Generally Accepted Accounting Standards (GAAP) in the U.S. Extreme case. You want to be clear what it is,” Holmes said.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a community of top SaaS companies that spans all the way from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 19, 2017

On our blog we also explored the topic of moving up market in SaaS and how businesses might tackle this without losing their soul. February in the SaaS world means one thing: The SaaStr Annual conference. We published The Ultimate SaaS Founder’s FAQ eBook, available as a free download. Read more here.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 17, 2018

Lead qualification is the process of using metrics, scoring, and other criteria to ascertain whether or not a given sales prospect fits your ideal customer profile (ICP), and has strong mathematical probability of becoming a long term customer. P-MAP and other qualification methods. What Is Lead Qualification? Conclusion.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a SaaS community that spans from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6. Funding to date: $234M.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

An early entrant to the SaaS field, the company has pioneered a number of fields that are now commonplace in the industry — content marketing, the transparent startups movement, and remote work. I realized we had a moving target for the most important metric in our company. What is Buffer. MRR numbers were changing all the time.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2020

I spent over a week speaking with different SaaS founders and marketers about how they successfully reduced churn for their business. churn by doing something every SaaS business should be doing, but most don’t. The reason why it’s such a vital metric is that it has a greater affect on your business. of his customers.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

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. Colin here, CEO of a startup, B2B SaaS, and raising a seed round right now. Take the meeting.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2020

When it comes to software and online purchases, those transactions are increasingly moving to a subscription-based model, where customers put their purchases on autopilot so they can have continuous access to SaaS products. Subscription services are what customers want. The best part?

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Since the original version of this post from early 2017, we’ve worked with many more SaaS companies and a common theme has been moving companies from a starter template to a more robust financial model. This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Rob made his way into the world of SaaS as a product manager and how that led to his founding Salsify over 8 years ago. * How does Rob think about the bundled vs unbundled thesis within SaaS? When is it right for SaaS companies to turn down potential customers? Harry Stebbings: Not at all.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Baremetrics provides an easy-to-read dashboard that gives you all the key metrics for your business, including MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more. Payment ii. Upgrades and support What are other software monetization methods? Since 2013, Microsoft has released two new versions, Office 2016 in 2015 and Office 2019 in 2018.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

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GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

This guide provides a detailed breakdown of my emotional marketing process. It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. The process for using your research to create social media ads, landing pages, and email sequences that actually convert. So, let’s dive in. Introduction.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. Their job is to enable go-to-market teams through "joining the dots" between tools, teams & data, optimizing the business rules that drive growth.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

It would help you improve your online visibility, and you can discover new marketing insights. Semrush all-in-one marketing tool you must have in order to dominate your niche online. If you have a website, an e-commerce business, you own a YouTube channel, or want to enter a new niche online. 2018 V/S 2020.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

Spotify's recent F-1 filing is packed full of metrics and insights into both consumer subscriptions and the streaming music industry. This somewhat risky direct listing is likely to be a benchmark for other future public listings in 2018, with the likes of Airbnb predicted to follow suit if all goes to plan. year-over-year in Q4 2017).

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2019

See reviews for 2018 , 2017 , and 2016.). We also updated our popular SaaS Metrics Refresher email course. After enabling our customers to bring in data from the App Store, the Google Play integration completed our mobile analytics suite and allowed customers running mobile apps to get a complete picture of their business.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 27, 2017

ASC 606 and its sister standard IFRS 15 bring a set of structured guidelines for recognizing revenue -- here's what every SaaS business needs to know to meet the deadline and get compliant. The process of converting bookings (and the subsequent cash from those bookings) into revenue within your business is called revenue recognition.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2019

See reviews for 2018 , 2017 , and 2016.). We also updated our popular SaaS Metrics Refresher email course. After enabling our customers to bring in data from the App Store, the Google Play integration completed our mobile analytics suite and allowed customers running mobile apps to get a complete picture of their business.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Customers are more likely to leave if a service no longer provides value. Basically, as long as customers see a product or service as a vital part of their own business model, they’ll continue to pay for it. Subscription businesses thrive only when customers derive long-term value from the product or service the company provides.

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FastSpring

MAY 30, 2019

And according to Gartner’s 2018 report on cloud subscription and recurring billing management , more than 90% of software providers are expected to migrate to a subscription-based business model by 2022. With such a big push for subscriptions, it’s important that your digital business has a firm understanding of SaaS metrics.

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FastSpring

MAY 30, 2019

And according to Gartner’s 2018 report on cloud subscription and recurring billing management , more than 90% of software providers are expected to migrate to a subscription-based business model by 2022. With such a big push for subscriptions, it’s important that your digital business has a firm understanding of SaaS metrics.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Over the past decade, ecommerce subscription companies have doubled down on the subscription model to monetize their relationships with customers. But starting an ecommerce subscription service isn’t an easy task. What are ecommerce subscription companies? 4 popular types of ecommerce subscriptions. Let’s dive in.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. If you look at this graph, it simply plots out how many people filed in the weeks before 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020. So the ability for people to store oil doesn’t exist. I’ll give you an example in your personal life.

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Outseta

APRIL 30, 2019

Our approach to pricing experimentation By Geoff Roberts When we began working on Outseta our product vision was fairly straightforward—bring together the core software tools that all early stage SaaS start-ups need. And how can we implement pricing that’s both fair and easy to understand for our customers?

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

Prior to Pipe, Harry co-founded Skurt raising over $11M in the process before being acquired by Fair.com. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Harry made his way from the UK to founding one of Silicon Valley’s hottest SaaS startups with the founding of Pipe. * Harry has also angel invested in the likes of BreathePod and Try.com.

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