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. of all churn in the SaaS space. Simple, right? Image Source.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

When it comes to IPOs, 2021 was an excellent year for SaaS companies. Accelerated digital transformation across industries put SaaS companies firmly on the hypergrowth path. According to Gartner , the SaaS industry has grown from $35 billion in 2015 to $145 billion in 2021. Focus on a multi-year horizon.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

We’ve talked to dozens of our SaaS customers, as well as investors to learn more about what is happening with these key metrics. SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace.

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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%. However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. How to calculate this metric and what’s the average SaaS churn rate?

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ProfitWell

JULY 8, 2020

In some states, SaaS companies are required to collect and pay sales tax for their products. 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. How is a SaaS product/company defined in the US?

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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

We love to see when a seller finds a unique way to customize our full-service ecommerce platform to deliver a great experience to their customers. Appy is a Software as a Service (SaaS) that creates web applications out of Excel spreadsheets. A final key point is payment.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Anyone managing a SaaS or subscription business is aware of customer churn. 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.

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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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CustomerSuccessBox

MARCH 25, 2021

Let’s see the process of acquiring new customers. They’ve moved down your marketing and sales funnel and have finally invested in your software. . Acquiring your customers is just a first step in the fruitful partnership process and retaining them is the next big thing. Financial Mathematics of a SaaS business model.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The SaaS industry is growing fast, but if you want to be one of the companies contributing to that trend, you'll need to know the secrets of successful SaaS businesses. In this post, we'll lay out a SaaS growth blueprint. In this post, we'll lay out a SaaS growth blueprint. SaaS growth is looking strong.

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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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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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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. Do your research.

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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. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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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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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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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. On June 15th—distributed denial of service attacks, or, DDoS, targeted websites and online services.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

We also have 10 must-have features for subscription billing platforms in 2020. Plus, how to price for SaaS success in the new year. 2020: the year of subscription growth and iteration. And Gold’s article highlights four predictions for this booming business model. Subscription services will grow in any economy.

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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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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

MAY 9, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Number three is not understanding their business model. If we really look at a lot of YC companies now a days, we have a ton of B to B companies, and the most common mistake they make is they don’t really understand if they can afford the process they need to do to acquire customers.

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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. Strategy and Process. Sales Enablement. The Sales Enablement Playbook. Enablement Mastery. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. The New Solution Selling. Agile Selling.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Romain Huet : See how you can turn like a SaaS business, or a core product you have and make it a very successful developer platform. Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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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. Support your team.

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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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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. SaaS Sales Models.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. We have a lot of SaaS companies, by the way, from Denmark if you haven’t noticed. We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. Third parties are developing apps for our platform. I come from Denmark.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

.” In this episode of the SaaStr podcast, Aileen and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin take a deep dive on how Aileen finds deals, her tips for a winning pitch, and the state of VC in 2020. But I think for a lot of vertical SaaS, they’ll see impacts when the Q2 numbers come out. Jason Lemkin: Yep. Aileen Lee: Yeah.

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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. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. This is a mobile solution for SMB’s to send an invoice and get paid. What I love about SaaS as a product person is that it’s a longterm value exchange.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

We can only process so much change, and I feel like we’ve been through three worlds since early March. So, it’s like in healthcare, one of my friends who’s a doctor says she feels like she fell asleep in 2020 and woke up in 2030 in terms of … Jason Lemkin: Yeah, I bet. The rate of change, right?

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. Introduction from Lincoln for 2020. Major Guide Updates for 2020.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

In this presentation, Pluralsight co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard will discuss how Pluralsight successfully transformed its business to serve both individual and enterprise customers independently and will share his lessons for SaaS companies looking to tap into individual customers to sell into enterprises and vice versa.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ask anyone in Fintech SaaS about the shifts of the last 18 months and you’ll hear stories about investment shortages, rising churn rates, and market consolidation. This presents a significant challenge to Fintech SaaS founders. Our latest Fintech SaaS series intends to find out. Gone are the days of the free-money era.

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