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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

State of DevOps Report, DORA Research Institute, 2019 The latest iteration of the study was launched in May 2021. See more about all 3 M’s in these two companion blog posts, Part 1: User Model and Part 2: Monetization. Our highest performers are twice as likely to meet or exceed their organizational performance goals.

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The Ultimate List of Usage-Based Pricing Resources

OpenView Labs

Chargify takes a closer look at the success of Digital Ocean, AWS, Mailgun, MessageBird, and Wordstream. Flexible Consumption Business Models. They share thoughts on why flexible consumption (aka everything-as-a-service, or XaaS) calls for an entirely new business model. Miscellaneous.

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

Co-founder Scott Farquhar mentioned as much during the company’s July 2019 earnings call, saying that, “What we’re talking about here is moving many of our products from a free trial to a freemium approach.” How to optimize your freemium model. Stories of ditching a freemium model. Is Freemium The Right Business Model?

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

This philosophy applies to both low and high touch business models, where the vendor has to eliminate all potential usability problems that may arise. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Best For: Product Adoption. 4 Pendo.io.

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Create Pricing Models Like AWS and Twilio with Events-Based Billing

Chargify

However, with the introduction of Events-Based Billing by Chargify, this event-based billing model is now available to small and medium-sized businesses, giving them the ability to offer the same pricing models and bill customers just as precisely as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or the popular voice and messaging platform Twilio.

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How SaaS is Like Monty Python and 6 Other Things I Learned at SaaStock 2019

Chart Mogul

I have just used it to describe one of the largest and most impressive booths at SaaStock 2019 — a 2-storey giant with an observation deck and a cafeteria on top. I have just used it to describe one of the largest and most impressive booths at SaaStock 2019 — a 2-storey giant with an observation deck and a cafeteria on top.

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