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5 Interesting Learnings From Shopify. At $3+ Billion in ARR.

SaaStr

But, there are still many interesting things we can learn from Shopify, especially since it sells to so many SMBs, has been late to go upmarket, and combines a payments/fintech element with pure SaaS. Subscriptions can fuel payments and merchant revenue. It’s now bigger than Shopify’s SaaS revenue, by far: 3.

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FastSpring Support and Subscription Management Continue to Impress SocialBee

FastSpring

SocialBee , a social media management platform and SaaS based in Romania, first started using FastSpring in 2018. After adopting FastSpring as their merchant of record, SocialBee even saw 2x year-over-year growth in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) after their first year with FastSpring. Set up a demo or try it out for yourself.

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7 Thoughts on Building Your First Partner Program

SaaStr

Salesforce’s biggest source of new revenue isn’t CRM or even support. It’s partners and platform. It took more than a decade after Salesforce was founded: Shopify’s partner ecosystem is also huge, comprising 20% of its revenue in 2020. But it was only 8% in 2018. And it has been since 2017 or so!

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7 Predictions for SaaS in 2018

Tom Tunguz

Several landscape altering SaaS acquisitions will come to fruition because of cash availability from repatriation and because there are enough public SaaS companies at scale to add material revenue and market cap to buyers. Blockchain in the enterprise takes the reign as the buzzword for 2018. Some ideas: Google buys Salesforce.

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Revenue vs. Income: A Guide For Your Business

FastSpring

Revenue vs. profit vs. income: The terms may seem synonymous and are sometimes even used interchangeably, but they tell different stories about a company. Revenue growth suggests an expanding business and in-demand product, but whether there is any financial gain for the business is determined by the income.

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Cyber Weekend Benchmarking Data: 2023 SaaS and Software Holiday Spend Report

FastSpring

FastSpring serves as a merchant of record for over 3500 companies that use our platform every day to sell digital products globally. We’ve analyzed aggregate sales data to give you insights into just how important Q4 can be for your software, SaaS, or other digital goods business. Set up a demo or check out our platform yourself.

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Asana S-1 Analysis - Comparing One Productivity Powerhouse to Another

Tom Tunguz

TTM Revenue, $M. Revenue Growth. Smartsheet went public in 2018. At the time of IPO, Asana generates more revenue, $162M in revenue to Smartsheet’s $111M. Asana is also growing faster, 86% annual revenue growth vs. SmartSheet’s 66%. S&M Spend / Revenue. R&D Spend / Revenue.