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SaaS, Subscription, and On-Premises Software – Don’t Confuse Subscription with SaaS

OPEXEngine

You hear the terms SaaS, subscription, term licenses and perpetual license software tossed around frequently. We sometimes hear companies call themselves “SaaS” companies, because they sell subscriptions, but they do not host software. The product is hosted by the vendor or a 3 rd party (like AWS).

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When and How to Build Second Products

Casey Accidental

When To Invest in New Products If you want to be proactive in thinking about when you should invest in building new products vs. diagnosing a growth problem and determining new product development requiring years of effort to be the solution, how do you do that? Why does B2B require suite expansion?

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

This guide, by LinkedIn’s Head of Global Monetization Strategy Josh Gold, is intended to teach subscription-based businesses how to evaluate whether the freemium model will drive revenue and lead gen for their business or result in failure. Freemium: It’s About Acquisition, Not Revenue. Freemium benchmarks.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. We could translate the software into Spanish. How the hell does that happen?

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Using Gross Margin to Score Your Product’s Maturity

OpenView Labs

” It’s natural to go to payments per user or even user logins, but they rarely indicate user engagement. Offering free usage is par for the course as a SaaS customer acquisition strategy. If it’s not paid back soon, the customer will collect by canceling the subscription or requesting a refund.

Scale 52
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Top 30 SaaS Companies in India

SmartKarrot

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. Found in 2015 by Vijay Yalamanchili, Keka, Keka is an HR and payroll management software designed for modern organizations. The word Keka is a slang word in Telugu (founder’s native language) that translates to Perfect – how the software is. IBSFintech.

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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. Customer acquisition. But also generally pretty high CAC, customer acquisition costs. Customer Lifetime Value (LTV). & a few others.