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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

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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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

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). & So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. Why do developers love SaaS products?

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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. Related read: Freemium vs. Free Trial: How to Know Which One to Pick for Your SaaS Startup. Offering free usage is par for the course as a SaaS customer acquisition strategy. Not always.

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When and How to Build Second Products

Casey Accidental

Acquisition, retention, and monetization potential of your first product is another reason B2B tends to expand earlier. From a customer acquisition perspective, the companies grew in very different ways too. Pinterest significantly evolved how its core product worked, changing both the acquisition and retention loops over time.

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The 7 Factors to Consider When Pricing Your Startup's Product

Tom Tunguz

Most startups play defense when discussing pricing with customers. Startups operate in newer markets where pricing standards haven’t been set. But throughout this turmoil, startups must adopt a process to craft a good pricing strategy, and re-evaluate prices periodically, but at least once per year.

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

SaaStr

I just thought that if there was anybody left at the end of day two that had anything they wanted to talk about, scaling SaaS, fundraising, hiring, anything, and I could be helpful, we could do a little extra Q&A. Now there are 20 or 30 public SaaS companies we can learn from. What’s their acquisition channel?

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in India

SmartKarrot

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. A SaaS company is a service provider that hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the internet. India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. This article will help you –.