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How SaaStr Fund-Backed RevenueCat Went from a $1.5M Round at $7M Valuation in 2018 to $500M+ Today

SaaStr

And more importantly, revenue and user growth that is accelerating at scale. – RevenueCat now powers 1/3d of all new mobile subscriptions world-wide – New Apps using RevenueCat doubled in last 6 months – Powering monetization for ChatGPT, Notion, VSCO, Runna, and pic.twitter.com/McFmCBZ0eE — Jason SaaStr.Ai

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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tom Tunguz

Most startups play defense when discussing pricing with customers. They use pricing as an offensive tool to reinforce their product’s value and underscore the company’s core marketing message. For many founding teams, pricing is one of the most difficult and complex decisions for the business.

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State of the Cloud 2023 with Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Podcast)

SaaStr

SVB collapsed, market multiples are down, yet the IPO window is re-opening, and we have a platform shift to AI that’s exciting everybody. At the peak of bull market exuberance at the end of 2021, a 1% improvement in revenue growth had the same impact on valuations as a 6% improvement in free cash flow margin. Let’s find out.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Toast at $500m in ARR, and a $3B Total Run Rate

SaaStr

billion at opening price. While its software has decent margins of 66%, software is only 10% of Toast’s total GAAP revenue. It loses money on the hardware (gross margin negative) and the payments solutions have barely a 20%+ margin and constitute the vast majority of revenue today. Mediocre margins in payments.

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How to achieve 2,500% revenue growth: 5 lessons from Paddle’s Ed Fry

Intercom, Inc.

But those three things are what got Starbucks its first profitable coffee shop in Seattle, not what allowed that shop to morph into an $80 billion business with 30,000 cafes around the world. Software businesses are just like any other business, like Starbucks, Pret A Manger, McDonald’s. That kind of growth? Salesforce?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. Trisha Price. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses.

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Matching Price to Value: 3 Lessons in Monetization from Menlo Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. I think monetization doesn’t always get the airtime it deserves. Hi, everybody.

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