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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

SaaStr

The role of finance in SaaS is changing. No longer are finance teams the traditional “bean counters” of ages past. IVP Partner Michael Miao explains, “The role and the scope of the modern finance team has changed dramatically in the last decade. SaaStr Workshop Wednesdays are LIVE every Wednesday. Sign up for free.

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Create Pricing Models Like AWS and Twilio with Events-Based Billing

Chargify

Until recently, only industry titans like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google could successfully and effectively harness continuous, real-time data use statistics to fuel events-based billing models. The pay-as-you-go model has since been the catalyst for Amazon’s rapid growth and dominance in the marketplace. How AWS Does It.

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Understanding Multi-tenancy, the Keystone of SaaS

CloudGeometry

2020 left no doubt: the growth of cloud computing is firmly grounded in the SaaS business model. This is a not one-sided convenience to just make life easier for the technology side: it’s a delivery model that structures how resources within the SaaS platform serve your customers.

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Monetization: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 2

CloudGeometry

Optimize cloud economics and drive Business Goals. Proven best practices that help both finance & engineering teams Of course, not all customers want to pay for all the features. See more about all 3 M’s in these two companion blog posts Part 1: User Model and Part 3: Measurement.

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David Barrett, CEO of Expensify: Good Intentions, Bad Advice: How to Keep Your Board Aligned with Your Vision (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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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SaaS Applications Architecture – The How

Frontegg

Non-cloud use cases like banking and finance businesses. 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.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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