Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Asana builds productivity and task management solutions. Today, the company is a massively successful SaaS business and another example of the flywheel business model that creates demand at the individual user and leverages that interest to sell department and company-wide contracts. Asana filed their S-1 this week.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 25, 2019

This way, we can ensure that we’re not only improving our ecommerce solution to better meet your needs, but also the ever-changing demands of the digital economy. Want to learn more about the 5 ecommerce payments trends shaping 2019? A push for smarter payment processing. More businesses will transition to a subscription model.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

The subscription model is booming. Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software. Without further ado, let's look at nine subscription-based companies absolutely nailing it in 2020. A subscription company is a business that sells their products on a scheduled time basis.

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FastSpring

MAY 5, 2020

Appy is a Software as a Service (SaaS) that creates web applications out of Excel spreadsheets. At the beginning of 2020, we completed the integration of the storefront in our Angular application. A few years ago we started with a business model relying on selling license keys of our software.

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FastSpring

APRIL 11, 2019

We’ve seen explosive growth in the field of subscription and recurring billing with more and more software and SaaS companies discovering how impactful implementing a subscription model can be for their long-term growth plans. Subscribing to the idea of a subscription-based business model. . Maximized Revenue Potential.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

What does the future hold for B2B software? Every year we ask the OpenView network to weigh in, and this time around many folks unsurprisingly made predictions around a trend most of us in SaaS had to adapt to (and, to be honest, are still figuring out) in 2020: remote work. Focus on more flexible business models.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

2020 is the year of Corona Virus thus far but it’s also the year in which the subscription business model is excelling. Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software. We’re taking a look at X popular subscription-based companies and types in 2020.

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ProfitWell

JULY 8, 2020

In this post, we'll go over what those rules are for the 21 states that have sales tax laws on the books that pertain to SaaS businesses and products. These are the laws as of 2020, but you should always talk to a tax professional as the final word in sales tax & compliance issues. 21 states that tax SaaS sales in 2020.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

Features like unique billing and subscription services have completely shifted the gaming business model. In a Games as a Service environment, payments are unique and personalized, offering a wide range of accessibility to incoming gamers. Games as a Service Payment Options. Games as a Service Business Models.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Pricing Transformations in 2020. Product-lead growth continues to be one of the best ways to rapidly scale a software company, and best practices are increasingly shared and understood. 45% of SaaS companies said they had some form of usage-based pricing, up from 34% in 2020. In 2020 inflation was only 1.23%.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

The Problem In January of 2020, we realized that one of the major problems holding back our company was a customer churn rate of 19%. The graph below, taken from our Baremetrics account, shows our customer churn throughout January 2020. At that moment, we made it our goal for 2020 to reduce customer churn to 5%.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 9, 2023

We can say decidedly: there’s a stark contrast between today and in 2020 and 2021. New business is the slowest it’s been in years. We can say decidedly: there’s a stark contrast between today and in 2020 and 2021. SaaS growth is the slowest in recent history 2020 and 2021 were amazing growth years.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

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. Growing at the same pace, a report from BetterCloud had anticipated that 73% of the organizations will have all SaaS apps by 2020. And the result is visible!

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FastSpring

JANUARY 21, 2020

Subscriptions are the lifeblood of any SaaS business model. On the surface, it’s a perfect model. However, SaaS subscriptions can also cost businesses money if they’re not set up with the customer’s experience in mind. Why failed payments and involuntary customer churn go hand in hand.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

The following 4 metrics are critical to the valuation of a private SaaS business. Given the level of M&A in 2020 and 2021, it is worth reviewing these metrics and understanding how they are viewed. . Enterprise Stage – Ensuring Future Growth and Relevancy. SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR).

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. The period refers to a month or year depending on which payment option you offer or which of them is more popular. Software companies that serve large organizations experience a 6-10% churn rate.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2019

As a partner in growth for thousands of software companies around the world, one of our goals is to provide blog content that is helpful, interesting, and informative. We look forward to continuing to provide the content you need to succeed in 2020 and beyond. A Merchant of Record (MOR) is so much more than just a payment system.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Compared to 2020, the number of SaaS enterprises that IPOed in 2021 has surged by a whopping 121% , and there is little doubt why Saas companies are getting so much investor interest. Often that lends itself to people and processes, and systems. The billing system is where most customer interaction occurs throughout the organization.

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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 25, 2021

They’ve moved down your marketing and sales funnel and have finally invested in your software. . Financial Mathematics of a SaaS business model. SaaS business models are different from traditional business models. Retention is baked right into the foundation of the SaaS business model.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Flash forward to 2020 and freemium again feels cutting edge. SaaS companies have gotten much smarter about when to apply a freemium model to their products – and how to do it. How to optimize your freemium model. Stories of ditching a freemium model. When is freemium the right strategy for your business?

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 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. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. Speaker video: Stripe is really a set of developer tools for building and operating an online business. Dare I say SaaS.

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ProfitWell

JULY 22, 2020

Read on to find out how you can achieve direct-to-consumer growth in 2020. Direct-to-consumer retail is a strategy whereby businesses sell their products directly to the end user without the involvement of wholesalers, third-party retailers, and other middlemen. in 2020, compared to the previous year. rise from 2019.

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ProfitWell

JULY 2, 2020

At the start of 2020—things looked promising for the emerging ecommerce platform: Elliot. We enter January 2020: Elliot founders are tweeting and appearing in news articles, touting Elliot as the next phase of ecommerce. The ProductLed Institute is holding a summit July 27-31, 2020. The recurring revenue model prevails.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

By almost all key metrics, now is a great time to get into the SaaS business model. The maker of CRM software and the verbLIVE webinar platform, Verb Technology, raised nearly $14 million in an IPO last year. They beat their revenue forecast for the second quarter of 2020, hitting 21% growth over the previous quarter.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

We also have 10 must-have features for subscription billing platforms in 2020. 2020: the year of subscription growth and iteration. And Gold’s article highlights four predictions for this booming business model. The “active user” will be a company’s crown jewel , with customer acquisition at top of mind in 2020.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. Niall Wall – SVP of BD, Channels & Emerging Businesses @ Box. For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. I want to talk about how we got to the business model that we have at Lambda School because it’s one of the things that separates us from other schools. And when we got to that point, the solution was really simple.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 9, 2019

From the rise of SaaS to the sudden glut of subscription boxes, the subscription business model has never been more popular. So much so that Gartner research predicts that in 2020, all new entrants to the software market and 80% of existing companies will offer some sort of subscription package. Prioritize retention.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Number three is not understanding their business model. If your payment system works, you’re not going to rip it out. Great start-ups have a system to have hard conversations. Hear his take on the future of work with a decade in learnings from YCombinator.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020. Sales Models and Fundamentals. The New Solution Selling. Leveraging transparency and vulnerability in your presentations and your negotiations leads to faster buyer consensus, larger deals, faster payments, longer commitments and more predictable sales forecasts.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Since 2020, growth in the SaaS market has increased dramatically and is expected to grow over 27% a year. Subscription model innovation: Customizable subscription models make it easier for SaaS companies to optimize their pricing and billing. From pricing to payments, billing, tax management, and more.”.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services. There were solutions for the stadiums for the very large conferences, but nothing really for under 20,000 people.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 24, 2018

Subscription businesses are experimenting with hybrid billing models, mixing recurring revenue with one-time payments. In the enterprise software market, the move to a recurring revenue model is effectively complete. In fact, there’s plenty of diversity today in the way businesses make revenue from their customers.

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OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As we head into the final stretch of the year, here’s a look at some of the top operational and business trends that we are hearing about. Most SaaS and Software companies are starting to gear up for end of the year budgeting and planning exercises. This is a partial explanation of why the U.S. stock market has been so on fire.

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Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 2, 2023

After nearly going under twice due to cash flow issues, she finally cracked the code for success, transforming her business from a $20,000 loss in December of 2020 alone to achieving $1 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) just two years later. If I need to deny myself investments, I see it as proof that my business model is off.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. It is if you took LinkedIn, combined it with the app platform from Salesforce, and looked at the domain, which is supply chains. Want to see more content like this?

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. The 2020 SaaS Product Benchmarks Report. About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms. 2020 Update: SaaS Pricing Guide: When and How to Raise Prices Without Losing Customers. Tips on Enterprise Pricing.

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