SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

Strategic finance can be thought of as a project management function for your company’s underlying business model or a BizOps team that operates within a more financial lens. Strategic Finance optimizes a company’s underlying business model to create long-term value by increasing revenue and decreasing costs.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. Think of the business model behind being an independent board member.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For us, the SaaS model Amazon Web Services (AWS) offered was an amazing one to look at. Multiple successful exits and valuations of Open Source companies like Confluent, HashiCorp, and Databricks show strong business models can and do exist, and SaaS-based models help more COSS companies succeed in the Cloud.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2023

They had open cores and created enterprise features around it to protect the business model until it got torpedoed by AWS early on. Cockroach Labs is open source, and, in 2015, it was inconceivable to think of a sophisticated database that wasn’t open source. That would have been counterproductive.

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Chargify

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

These forward-thinking businesses are using diverse monetization strategies to better serve their customers and differentiate their offers from the competition. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a poster-child for the Relationship Economy—they truly understand the modern B2B customer. appeared first on Chargify Blog.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. That’s typically the AWS model, depending on how much space you take, service space, you will pay more. This wasn’t the case. I mean, this is quite new.

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Frontegg

JUNE 17, 2021

Multi-tenant SaaS architecture is the better option if you want to create a scalable business model that is flexible and versatile. Lower Maintenance Requirements – All ongoing maintenance costs can be baked into your pricing models. Going the Amazon Web Services (AWS) route? Here are some benefits.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

When I started thinking about this roundup of SaaStock 2019, I was worried about fitting so much into a single blog post. This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago. The simple LTV formula.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Yes, they might kick the can down the road a little longer, but they only delay the inevitable while giving customers an awful experience in the meantime. The key feature separating subscription businesses from their more standard counterparts is the recurring nature of payments. Of course, you know better.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

When I started thinking about this roundup of SaaStock 2019, I was worried about fitting so much into a single blog post. This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago. The simple LTV formula.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

One of the most famous lines from Citizen Kane is, “It's no trick to make an awful lot of money, if that's all you want is to do is make a lot of money.” That’s never been truer for software businesses in particular than in the past 10-15 years, with the internet stimulating an explosion in the number of viable revenue models.

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Hacking Revenue

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

While these services significantly lowered the costs of starting a new business, I believe that the people who said that sentence were missing the point of starting a business – to build an always growing, sustainable brand. It is also what sets you up for long term business model and success. Probably even more.

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Outsourcing Services Branding Outsourced Development Scale 53

Mucker Capital

APRIL 6, 2023

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you have a very complicated product–for example you sell AWS or you sell Snowflake–those are infrastructure products. I recently wrote a blog post about PLG published on Lenny's Newsletter.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

That’s the world’s worst way to help people find the right software for their business, because every company is different. Every region in the world has very different business models. It was: you go to a vendor site, you fill out a form, some sales rep calls and qualifies you, and then you go through this awful process.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Sameer Dhokalia: It turns out if you do ask those two basic questions of 100 people in your business, you will learn an awful lot about what needs to be focused on. I did a whole blog post about it. What are we screwing up that you would say, “Please, Sameer, help us go fix this tomorrow”? I love Jeff.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

GenAI and the Business Model Perspective From a business model perspective, a few things are happening. Amazon wasn’t built as a Cloud business or storage company. It was built as an incumbent e-commerce business. They hope to reach 50%. ARPU, ACV, and LTV are increasing.

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Generative AI Outsourcing Services AI Software Review 238

SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Byron : Now, over the weekend, as some of us were watching kind of a snooze fest football game, maybe drinking a beer which apparently has corn syrup in it, who knew? Twice for retail. Sky is falling, world is ending, hunker down.

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