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Move Over Subscriptions. The Future Is Elastic And Built Around Relationships.

Chargify

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. Salesforce is another great B2B example.

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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. The AWS Well-Architected Framework is one such approach that helps adopt architectural best practices (whether or not you run on AWS) and adapt continuously.

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SaaS Applications Architecture – The How

Frontegg

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. Just make sure you have automated your database governance and management before doing so.

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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

OpenView Labs

It produces a challenging messaging strategy because if your primary business model is selling support on an open-source project, you’re kind of incentivizing your team to build shitty software, and nobody ends up happy. A lot of your top-of-funnel is focused on converting open-source users to paying customers.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

Aaron Levie: I think what’s happening is, is companies are realizing that the really big sort of flip the business model on its head project and we’re going to go and do a distributed ledger technology and all this, that’s going to have to get punted because we’re in core survival mode right now.

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The Hard Thing About Your Brand and Funnel

Hacking Revenue

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. And they should.

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Sharks Never Stop Swimming

Andreessen Horowitz

And by publishing our price list, now, researchers from Harvard and Vanderbilt and other research organizations are taking our price list and comparing it and saying, Look, here are three urology drugs that if CMS would have purchased through Cost Plus instead of current sources, would have saved the government, you know, $3.6