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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. TL;DR ISVs develop and distribute software products independently and often collaborate with hardware manufacturers and platform providers.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Facebook was peerless, however, in being able to harness and monetize all that attention, even if that success brought uncomfortable scrutiny. In Asia, the likes of Alibaba’s Alipay and Tencent’s WeChat Pay demonstrate how apps are revolutionizing our economies – they have swiftly become the default payment mechanism across China.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

This philosophy applies to both low and high touch business models, where the vendor has to eliminate all potential usability problems that may arise. Instead you should focus on Natural Rate of Growth (NRG) to determine the percentage of recurring organic revenue. This metric is a strong future revenue indicator.

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

Product led businesses need to get their products in the hands of would-be users as efficiently as possible–hopefully at near zero CAC. Not satisfied with reaching $1 billion in annual revenue, Atlassian furthered its commitment to product led growth by jumping on the freemium bandwagon. Is Freemium The Right Business Model?

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What Are SaaS Products + 22 Successful SaaS Companies to Follow

User Pilot

Cloud computing offers three main service models: SaaS for ready-to-use software, PaaS for application development frameworks, and IaaS for scalable virtualized computing resources. HubSpot and Salesforce are both CRMs that offer customer analytics, survey tools, and extensive integrations. You don’t handle maintenance or updates.

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When and How to Build Second Products

Casey Accidental

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. But a question founders and teams often ask is when do we start layering in innovation work again that creates new value props. I have written more about platforms here.

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11 Popular types of revenue models used today

ProfitWell

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.