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5 Interesting Learnings from Square, er Block, at $16B in Net Revenue

SaaStr

The majority of its revenue is now from Bitcoin transactions, not “traditional” payments and software. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. Its software and services business is the one with the real operating margins. So is Square a SaaS company? It’s core.

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FastSpring and DutchBasecamp Present: Optimize Local Pricing to Dramatically Increase SaaS Revenue

FastSpring

But with international growth comes a long list of international business concerns about how to appeal to potential customers in new countries. Fortunately, there are some very helpful tools and services available to assist and advise you as your business grows beyond its domestic borders. Learn more about what DutchBasecamp does here.

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Adding Payments and Fintech to SaaS Can Be Great. But You Gotta Watch the Margins.

SaaStr

So in the Boom Times of later 2020 and 2021, almost every VC pushed SaaS companies to at least become a little bit of a fintech. It seemed such an easy way to bolt on more revenue to an underlying SaaS platform. Shopify now gets 2x the revenue from payments and merchant services than it does from SaaS subcriptions.

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5 Interesting Learnings From Bill at $1.2 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Billion ARR, growing a stunning 48% (!) – 111% NRR, although down from 131% in 2021 – 15 Month CAC – Gotten very efficient, +$194m net profit – Transactions growing faster than software, like Shopify – From $120m ARR in… pic.twitter.com/hYImIBKyNQ — Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  ?? Much less than revenue grew.

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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. While we’re still a ways from the high valuations of 2021, we are seeing valuation multiples normalize closer to the range of what we saw for long-term pre-pandemic averages. Let’s find out.

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Top 10 Revenue Forecasting Software in 2021

Baremetrics

Revenue forecasting software is used to create predictions of sales. These models can then feed into the larger overall financial model for your SaaS business, and help you plan the next phase of your growth. 1 Why Use Revenue Forecasting Software? Why Use Revenue Forecasting Software? integrates with Salesforce.

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Shopify Revenue Share: What Shopify Partners Need to Know (2021)

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At the Shopify Unite 2021 event, Shopify announced a drastic reduction of their revenue share. Since August 1st, 2021, Shopify has eliminated its revenue share on the first 1,000,000 USD of revenue earned by Shopify Partners. How does Shopify calculate app store revenue? Table of Contents.

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