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. 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. And add some services. And often after.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Let’s talk 2019 predictions. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals? As the chatbot craze subsides, I anticipate behind-the-scenes AI to become a major trend in 2019. In 2019, not only will this trend increase, it will become much more mindful.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Embrace self-service: Your development teams are embracing the self-service philosophy – your teams can focus on product adoption and self-service enablement. Also, no PLG strategy can work with traditional SaaS indicators. This metric is a strong future revenue indicator. Best For: Product Adoption.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

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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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2019

To recap a fantastic year at FastSpring, we want to take a look back at our top 10 blog posts from 2019. So, grab a cup of coffee, settle in, and take a look at some of the 2019 highlights from the FastSpring blog. Subscription Finance: What is MRR? A Merchant of Record (MOR) is so much more than just a payment system.

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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. However, behind the boom lies the rising consumer demand for subscriptions. Payment processing. Customer support.

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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. Convenience.

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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. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. SMM SaaS Company Overview & Market Dynamics. Enterprise.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 4, 2019

Let’s talk 2019 predictions. But what if you could have a better idea of the changes 2019 has in store for Customer Success professionals? As the chatbot craze subsides, I anticipate behind-the-scenes AI to become a major trend in 2019. In 2019, not only will this trend increase, it will become much more mindful.

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Software Platform Consulting

JULY 1, 2019

My last post was partly about healthcare payments in the form of Change Healthcare’s Intelligent Healthcare Network. I did not set out to write another post about healthcare payments, but reading Phreesia’s S-1 compels me to. Phreesia Threat #1: SaaS Applications. and collect your payment information.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Highlights from Our Conversation Where Should SaaS Companies Localize [2 min clip] David walked through a step-by-step process to assess where SaaS and software companies should consider localizing. Start with your existing sales and see where there’s interest from existing buyers. Watch the two minute clip for more details.

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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. Let’s get selling! What Is B2B Ecommerce?

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Baremetrics is a SaaS metrics monitoring tool that pulls information about your business into an easy-to-read actionable dashboard. At the end of 2019, Shopify released their new Shopify Partners API. You can see: which customers have monthly subscriptions vs. annual subscriptions. Baremetrics loves Shopify.

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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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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. We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams. On this podcast, we share stories from global SaaS leaders like Ryan, that you can use to inspire new growth strategies in your own business. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS companies have transformed the way global businesses work. Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. In this blog we’ll talk about SaaS business and top 50 SaaS companies in 2020.

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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.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Your September 25th episode of Recur Now has arrived. Your top subscription news. The integrated solution will be available on the newest Arcserve Appliances in October 2019. Just days after the launch of Apple Arcade , Google predictably drops its own subscription gaming service. Feel safer already?

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 60

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

With ProfitWell’s inception 7 years ago, we began with a mission of understanding and compiling a unified theory for subscription growth. 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.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 30, 2019

On today’s episode, SaaS and big banks team up. We talk expansion revenue with Kajabi, and behind the scenes of this year’s Recur Boston conference with event master Erin Phinney. Your top subscription news. Big banks x SaaS. Not to mention this is a pretty big progression in the SaaS space.

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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. we spent on consulting services was primarily design related expenses, as James Lavine began working with us. Let’s get right into it starting with how much we’ve spent on the business. The $11,123.75

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

What is up my subscription fam? Let’s get started with another minute of subscription. Spotify x Gimlet It looks like Spotify will start riding the content-creation wave that fellow streaming services like Netflix and YouTube have found so lucrative. Stay tuned for more on this, as we dive into 2019 full throttle.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

It often seems as if traditional strategy development processes have no place in the fast-moving, always changing technology industries. It’s not really surprising that so many tech company executives punt on the traditional corporate strategy process. What they don’t do is get bogged down in process or complexity. At a Glance.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Dare I say SaaS. Missed the session?

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Software monetization is simply the act of generating revenue from software. We are going to walk you through a couple of the most popular pricing models—perpetual license and annual license, along with its variant subscription model —as well as mention a couple of the other popular ways to monetize software. Payment ii.

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Payment Features Payments Payment Solutions Subscription 95

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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ProfitWell

JANUARY 31, 2019

Mailshake-ing Up the Sales Process Mailshake has four simple steps to bring your sales process from good to glorious. Stripe Soars Payment technology company Stripe has raised an additional $100 million from investors as they move closer to a possible initial public offering in the next few years. Reap Those Referral Rewards.

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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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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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FastSpring

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We confirmed this by reviewing sales data from over 300 SaaS and software companies that use our billing platform. In November, software companies see 11% to 24% over the average monthly revenue. At the end of the year, buyers are ready to spend money on software and subscriptions — are you using your marketing dollars wisely?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Why does Travis believe that SaaS has upended the economic model but not the engagement model? 285: Hear about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber, and Microsoft. What questions must you ask?

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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. Baremetrics is a business metrics tool that provides 26 metrics about your business, including gross revenue, net revenue, net income, and more.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

Over $500,000 revenue per employee. Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing. Billion in GMV processed, up a stunning 91% from 2019. Billion in GMV processed, up a stunning 91% from 2019. Rather, it charges for software subscriptions to take payments on its websites.

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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. Typically it’s referring to users or revenue lost and is usually represented with either a percentage or dollar amount.

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