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SaaS Is Growing Up: 4 Business Model Changes To Adopt with Notion Capital

SaaStr

Some of the changes we’ve seen in the last year or two include: CAC reduction Headcount optimization Price complexity Quality of revenue A different environment means a different strategy, and Notion Capital lays out four business model changes that could be helpful based on what peers are doing. You don’t want to be there.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Weave at $130,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Weave started off as a dental ERP and comms platform (including VoIP / phone), and then expanded beyond that as it scaled. Historically, Weave gave away several “free” phones with each new account. Weave has added payment processing to its services, and as part of that, use Stripe per a 3 year term agreement. #5.

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SaaS Financial Plan 2.0

The Angel VC

As I wrote in the original post: It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction.

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Financial planning for SaaS startups

The Angel VC

It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction.

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How to build a successful embedded payments strategy | Ep 33

Payrix

Software companies embark on their embedded payments journey only to discover they’ve underestimated the complexity that’s involved and struggle to launch. If you’re thinking about Embedded Payments for your platform, make time to listen to this episode of the PayFAQ Embedded Payments podcast. We’ve seen it far too often.

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CEOs x Coronavirus

ProfitWell

Call your fellow CEOs or Chief People Officers in your portfolio peer group, or peruse online and read documents. There’s a lot to consider with an outbreak of this sort: company travel, working in close proximity, susceptibility, personal health issues that expand beyond the virus itself. Take the pressure off live attendance.

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How to build a billion dollar sales team like Stripe

Intercom, Inc.

Imagine you went into a retail store and started a conversation with a sales rep. Despite the exponential growth they’ve gone through, Stripe have been refreshingly conservative about how quickly they grown the company from a headcount perspective. We just were never going to get that headcount.

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