FastSpring

MARCH 14, 2023

It takes an enormous amount of time, money, and headcount for SaaS companies to handle VAT, GST, and sales tax (and any other form of indirect tax) in-house. Because of this, most SaaS companies end up calculating indirect tax outside of the U.S. Note: The information contained in this article is not to be taken as tax advice.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

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. Stripe payments make up 98.5

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Stax

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

According to the Pew Research Institute , in 2022, a whopping 41% of Americans said they don’t use cash at all for any of their weekly purchases—a significant jump from 29% in 2018. FIS Global reports that in Norway, Sweden, and other Scandinavian countries, more than 90% of transactions processed at point-of-sale (POS) in 2023 were cashless.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. As of 2019, B2B ecommerce sales globally have surpassed $12 trillion in revenue. According to Statista, B2B sales are now 6X larger than the business-to-consumer (B2C) market.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The net revenue retention rate which you may also state as the net retention rate in SaaS businesses is an indicator that depicts the profits and the revenue earned by the business. Ultimately, the purpose of generating revenue is what gets you in the business loop. Why is it important?

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

Existing customer renewal is a high priority for 59% of SaaS companies and a medium priority for 27%. This obsession with getting new customers is natural: the more customers you convert, the more revenue you will make. How to calculate this metric and what’s the average SaaS churn rate?

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BrightBack

JANUARY 17, 2022

Factor in the huge uptick in global demand for online subscriptions services that arose through the pandemic, and we see that succeeding at retention has never been more important, and becomes a key differentiator for those who do it.

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Outseta

AUGUST 31, 2018

By Geoff Roberts 5 min read With some vacation time now in our rearview we’re heading towards the home stretch of 2018, making it the perfect time to fill you in on what we’ve been up to at Outseta since our July company update. We now support Stripe as a payment gateway. Here’s the latest and what’s to come.

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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. 10 Questions To Answer. Freemium benchmarks.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. The benchmark customer churn for SaaS for SMBs is 5%. We knew if we wanted to keep our business growing, we needed to figure out why so many customers were leaving, and provide the value-add they need to stay.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In that post, I looked at how long it took publicly traded SaaS companies to get to $100M in ARR and concluded that if your goal is to reach $100M in ARR, you should try to get there within 7-9 years after launch. Meanwhile, a few SaaS companies have shown even more spectacular growth. eight years.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e. Increases self-service for customers across all segments.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 16, 2019

It’s the question on every SaaS founder’s lips: Is my churn rate too high? So how do you know what a healthy churn rate is for your SaaS company? Why is it so hard to define an average churn rate—and what does that mean for your subscription business? Subscription service Recurly reports an average monthly churn rate of 5.6%

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

2020 was the kind of year that would make anyone in the predictions business more than a little gun shy. 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.

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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. 2020 is a watershed moment for customer retention. How we took an iterative approach to success.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 19, 2017

We kicked off 2017 by announcing our integration with GoCardless. This allowed GoCardless customers to import their billing data to ChartMogul and start analyzing customers and revenue. On our blog we also explored the topic of moving up market in SaaS and how businesses might tackle this without losing their soul.

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Outseta

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

By Geoff Roberts 7 min read You may have noticed that while we’ve kept a steady drumbeat of SaaS related content flowing, it’s been four months since we published our last Outseta company update. We're offering a free year of Outseta to any Techstars company that signs up by the end of June 2018.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

AI has been a buzzword for a while and many businesses jumped onto the bandwagon by integrating AI into the customer journey, but customers still want to deal with a human, particularly if they need advice or help with something complex that they cannot solve on their own (i.e. Increases self-service for customers across all segments.

Customer Success 49

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Outseta

JANUARY 9, 2019

I hope this is a useful barometer of progress for other bootstrapped SaaS start-ups with equally ambitious projects. Let’s get right into it starting with how much we’ve spent on the business. Dimitris, Dave, and myself have yet to pay ourselves any salary and are instead trading our time for sweat equity in the business.

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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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FastSpring

MARCH 5, 2019

The truth is, the application of sales tax for digital products – and SaaS products especially – varies widely. However, in the wake of the June 2018 Supreme Court ruling in Wayfair vs. South Dakota , this may change. It’s usually based on gross revenue limits or a number of sales transactions.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2023

This is when startups were for nerds, and Ivy League grads were still going straight into investment banking instead of SaaS sales. I was the eighth hire and the first person focused exclusively on scaling the sales side of the business. In 2018, I went to Outreach’s Unleash conference. I got the job and locked in. I said yes.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. What is the process to do it efficiently? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In that post, I looked at how long it took publicly traded SaaS companies to get to $100M in ARR and concluded that if your goal is to reach $100M in ARR, you should try to get there within 7–9 years after launch. Meanwhile, a few SaaS companies have shown even more spectacular growth. eight years.

Sales Recruiting 61

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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. For a while, Joel thought the best way would be to build their own tool to track revenue and other key subscription metrics. What is Buffer.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Although the total value of venture investments in tech declined 13% from 2018 through 2020 amid an overall venture funding pullback—the first decline since 2012—tech venture investments came roaring back during the Covid-19 pandemic. Enterprises across industries are adopting SaaS tools to modernize operations and gain an edge.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Although the total value of venture investments in tech declined 13% from 2018 through 2020 amid an overall venture funding pullback—the first decline since 2012—tech venture investments came roaring back during the Covid-19 pandemic. Enterprises across industries are adopting SaaS tools to modernize operations and gain an edge.

Technology 40

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

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. So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works.

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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. It justified the adjustments on the grounds that, once new office buildings came online, they would generate revenue without the company having to pay those expenses anew. “So, So, add those back in,” Holmes said.

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SaaStr

APRIL 29, 2021

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. The Covid Boost for SaaS. NRR of 110%+ since 2018 — sort of. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack.

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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? What’s the essential marketing stack every SaaS should have regardless of size?

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ProfitWell

MARCH 9, 2020

The subscription business model has seen an immense rise in popularity in recent years, and with good reason. The subscription-based economy grew 350% between 2012 and 2019, and subscription businesses grew revenues about five times faster than S&P 500 company revenues during that time. What is subscription marketing?

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wepay

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Last time we looked at SaaS and ISV business growth we examined user growth – the core element for success in these businesses. If your customers use your platform more frequently that in turn drives up overall usage and in the end, revenue. This is a process called cohort analysis.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

When it comes to sales technology quite often sales tech isn't picked based on what YOU need, but based on what your network have been using for their sales process. What you should be making decisions based on is, which sales processes generates the best outcomes you're after - and for your customers.

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Outseta

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Lead Capture Form Builder We’ve long offered forms to help you build your email list as well as product registration and authentication forms that allow users to sign-up or login to your SaaS product. Outseta SaaS Consulting Throughout the final quarter of 2018 we saw a significant uptick in user engagement with our product.

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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. Subscription services are what customers want.

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