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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. Announcements of several blockbuster acquisitions, most notably from Adobe acquiring Figma, which was the highest valuation multiple offered in an acquisition for any software company at scale.

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

SaaStr

PST, Stephanie Opdam, Partner at Notion Capital, shares four business model changes that will allow SaaS companies to build resilience and staying power over time. This is where traditional SaaS methods like subscription pricing only, driving growth through headcount only, or a pure sales GTM strategy only live. Apple hasn’t done any.

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Dear SaaStr: How Do I Do My Retention Negotiation in an Acquisition?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: How Do I Do My Retention Negotiation in an Acquisition? Extra payments if your business hits $YYm in revenues. But the sticks come out of the purchase price. The post Dear SaaStr: How Do I Do My Retention Negotiation in an Acquisition? Even if they haven’t told you yet. Time-based.

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Understanding Subscription Revenue

Baremetrics

Subscription revenue can be defined most simply as a model which generates income from customers through recurring fees that are paid at regular intervals. These can be weekly, monthly, or annual payments. Before we get into the more complicated stuff, let’s consider the difference between earning revenue and collecting revenue.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Wix at $1.4 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Leaders like ZoomInfo and Paycom that combine strong growth with strong profits have seen their stock prices stay relatively high, often at 15x ARR still. It’s barely trading at 3x revenue. Payments and e-commerce drag blended gross margins down to 60%. But payments can be low gross margin, and they are for Wix.

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How to Drive Revenue With PartnerOps

Sales Hacker

Building the right partner tech stack can dramatically increase the revenue flowing from your partners, even if your partnership team is small. The growing role of partnerships in driving revenue. Businesses are continuing to streamline their purchasing. Processing and remitting payments.

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The Top 5 Tips to Getting Sales Right in Any Market with Capchase’s CEO and Head of Marketing

SaaStr

They wanted to quantify this trend of a longer sales cycle, so they commissioned a study of 500 revenue leaders in the U.S. The sales cycle is important because it cascades into a bunch of critical metrics for you and investors, including revenue. It could be price, product composition, or payment terms. This has cons.