ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Let’s talk 2019 predictions. 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. In 2019, not only will this trend increase, it will become much more mindful.

Customer Success 73

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And there’s more and more bifurcation between the ‘haves’ – the fast growers – and the ‘have nots’ of SaaS than ever before. The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years.

Payment Services 80

Payment Services Benchmarks SaaS Payments Merchant Services 80

OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

There are many ways to classify SaaS companies, but differentiating companies based upon who their customers are presents the best approach for measuring performance and driving success for SaaS businesses. Business to Consumer (B2C). SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. Enterprise.

SaaS Payments 52

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

The issue is that most SaaS start-ups are terrible at collecting cash that doesn’t come from a payment gateway. – metrics that break and don't make sense. jasonlk) February 15, 2019. They hook up a payment system when they start as self-service, and the cash magically flows into the bank account.

Sales Hiring 210

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Let’s talk 2019 predictions. 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. In 2019, not only will this trend increase, it will become much more mindful.

Customer Success 49

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 49

Unbounce

MAY 27, 2021

After more than 20 years in the business, independence still matters for CD Baby. That means anyone can use their service—from Grammy-winning artists to newbies who recorded a song on their laptop. Artists upload their music, send all the metadata required for proper tracking and payment, and the rest happens on the CD Baby portal.

Artificial Intelligence 139

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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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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Recur 2019 is over, but the journey toward subscription truth is not. We gathered in Boston to discuss all things subscription—kicking off with our Pricing and Monetization Workshop. Patrick went through the history of SaaS, and Neel broke down some of our latest innovations. December 12, 2019. December 12, 2019.

Scale 41

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. These businesses usually consist of 2 to 3 people, and companies are taking bets on their products that aren’t even fully realized yet. The platform is free, private, and has no middlemen.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

The subscription-based economy boom has brought with it more competition than ever before, raising the bar for companies trying to offer recurring products or services to their customers. Fortunately, for any pain point you can think of, someone has carefully crafted a best-in-class subscription business tool to solve the problem.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As to not bury the lede, we’re excited to announce that we’ve partnered with Chargify to strengthen their metrics and reporting capabilities. Essentially, we wanted to understand the truth behind why recurring revenue businesses grow, what contributes to that growth, and how we can replicate that growth for our users.

Payments 40

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FastSpring

JUNE 28, 2019

As interest in subscription services continues to rise, maximizing customer lifetime value becomes even more important than ever before. Keep reading to learn why your SaaS company should keep a close eye on your churn rate and see why focusing on customer retention is a viable strategy for long-term success.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

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 appeared to be declining in popularity and, when it was in place, drove next to zero new ACV for most SaaS companies.

Pricing 82

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 12, 2021

According to the 2019 CSO Insights by the Miller Heiman Group, 37.8% of businesses struggle with lead generation. Your SaaS business needs a solid system for finding qualified leads and converting them to customers if it will survive and thrive. Use Baremetrics to monitor your business metrics.

Payment Methods 98

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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%

Churn 55

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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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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. we spent on consulting services was primarily design related expenses, as James Lavine began working with us. The $11,123.75

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

This global alliance marks the industry’s first means to assure mitigation of cyber-attacks through complete, multi-layered data security and protection, combining threat prevention technologies with onsite/offsite business continuity capabilities for an all-in-one solution that can be deployed in 15 mins. Have an "at-risk" process.

Payment Solutions 60

Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 60

OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

It was one instance in which the company adjusted EBITDA to meet its short-term needs while masking a longer-term leverage problem that came to a head in 2019 when it had to pull its IPO because of valuation concerns. Extreme case. You want to be clear what it is,” Holmes said. Non-GAAP measure. So, add those back in,” Holmes said.

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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. Early in 2019, I had an epiphany moment. That didn’t help deliver a clearer picture of how the business was progressing.

Payment Solutions 52

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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. billion in 2019.

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Ecommerce enablement tools are powering the segment. climbed above $500 billion in 2019. Now that independent ecommerce has exploded—so have the platforms enabling ecommerce transactions. And how do we in SaaS evolve with the ever changing retail landscape? There is no way this is an actual business.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Enter the platform company. This is Zach from Plaid and I guess … well, it’s interesting because you’re not a SaaS company, we’re at Saastr … but we’ll talk about what it’s like to not be a SaaS company at SaaStr. Zach : SaaS-ish. Ari : SaaS-ish. That’s pre-Plaid.

Payments 142

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Built out a bunch of the orb across product, data, analytics to do much of the same work, to drive retention and monetization.

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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. Founded: 2012. Based in: New York.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 3, 2022

This SaaS metric is defined as the sum of Deferred Revenue and Backlog. Deferred Revenue for SaaS companies is the contractual obligation to deliver the SaaS product for the period invoiced. The former amount resides on the balance sheet as Deferred Revenue and has always been reported as required by GAAP.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The ultimate goal of any developer with an idea for some useful software is monetization. Software monetization is simply the act of generating revenue from software. 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.

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Payment Features Payments Payment Solutions Subscription 95

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. But there’s also revenue churn, which is arguably even more important. of his customers. What is churn?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

As for Travis, prior to joining Redpoint, Travis was head of Customer Growth at Front, after spending 5 years building the global Sales organization at Optimizely, the world’s most popular experimentation platform. Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? Loving our podcast content?

Underperforming Technical Team 158

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 28, 2021

As a business owner, you measure your incoming profits and revenue with several metrics. Some of the common metrics for this include net income, gross revenue, and net revenue. In this article, we discuss these three terms to help you understand what they mean for your business. What is net revenue?

Payments 90

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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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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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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 248

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2019

I am really proud to once again be able to say that 2019 was the best year for ChartMogul up to date. We also updated our popular SaaS Metrics Refresher email course. In April, we picked up where we left off in Q1 and launched our native integration with Google Play. For us at ChartMogul, it is also a tradition.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2019

I am really proud to once again be able to say that 2019 was the best year for ChartMogul up to date. We also updated our popular SaaS Metrics Refresher email course. In April, we picked up where we left off in Q1 and launched our native integration with Google Play. For us at ChartMogul, it is also a tradition.

Technical Review 52

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