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Forecasting Fintech’s Future and Keeping Culture Alive: A Q&A with the CEOs of BILL and Mercury

Andreessen Horowitz

One of the holy grails of SMB software is, how are you going to acquire customers? The opportunity is to leverage that trust factor to drive customer acquisition, and it has worked for us. Alex: The other side of the equation on customer acquisition is monetization. Alex: Let’s dive into your business models.

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SaaS Companies: Four Signs You’ve Outgrown Stripe

FastSpring

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. From testing out plugins to setting up new payment methods, maintaining Stripe can be very time-consuming. When you move all of that responsibility to a third party, then you can really focus on your core product.

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What is Product-Led Innovation? Strategies, Examples, and More

User Pilot

Choose the right monetization model that aligns with your product’s value and user payment willingness. Product-led growth metrics like product qualified leads, activation rate , onboarding completion rate, and CLV define customer success in product-led innovation.

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CAC Payback Period: How to Calculate and Reduce It?

User Pilot

TL;DR The CAC payback period measures the time it takes for a company to recover the money invested in new customer acquisition. This metric helps SaaS companies choose the most effective customer acquisition channels , diagnose inefficiencies in customer retention strategies , and inform pricing decisions.

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5 Funnel Analysis Examples For SaaS Companies (+ Process & Tools)

User Pilot

From marketing funnel analysis to review funnel analysis, this article shows you the most important funnels for SaaS. TL;DR Funnel analysis helps map out all the steps website visitors and in-app users take to achieve conversion goals , like signing up for your tool or completing the onboarding process. Book a Userpilot demo to begin.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

In this article, we’ve outlined the major roles that move the needle in terms of product growth alongside their KPIs and current salary ranges. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Average salary: $105,761/yr.

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How to Make User Acquisition Practically Free with Lambda School (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. There’s a little bit of work to do still, but you know, tonight the title of my talk is how to make user acquisition practically free. I realized that I was missing something fundamental in that first company that was deep product/market fit.