Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Here are the key benefits that have accelerated its adoption: Cost Efficiency Usage-based pricing eliminates the need for businesses to overpay for underutilized services. With this model, customers pay only for what they use, optimizing cost efficiency. This flexibility enables businesses to respond to market demands efficiently.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 3, 2014

Advertising-driven models, SaaS business models, consumer hardware and marketplaces are all represented in the earnings figures so far. But Amazon’s massive EPS miss has more to do with large scale capital investment in AWS than a lack of a profitable business or customer base.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As Workplace’s global head, Julien Codorniou has been spending the past few years exploring how to make his department align with Facebook’s mission while executing an entirely different business model that relies on companies promoting community within their workforce. Workplace is about connecting people.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is a consumer-centric scaling, conversion, and retention philosophy that uses the product itself as the primary growth driver. Besides it’s proven business results, this strategy helps empower end-users to get the best possible product for their needs. Also, there is less pressure on Sales.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The scale of the company and the size of the problem you were trying to solve kept changing dramatically.”. She points to full investment from the founders as a critical part of the company’s DevRel success. If you don’t invest in your docs, you’re cutting your growth and making it much harder on yourself,” Francesca explained.

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ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

For businesses that want nearly the same level of control as an on-premise solution without the expense of upkeep, and with the added speed and flexibility of cloud computing, IaaS is a logical choice. This option will require significantly more time investment from an IT department than either of the other two options will.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

For example, 84% GM means that for every dollar of product sold, a business keeps 84 cents. As a founder, you can use this 84 cents to pay salaries, office rent, dividends, or invest in R&D. While inevitable and with multivariate causality, it speaks to the product’s maturity and business model.

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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. The angel investors are people who invest their own money. David : Here we go.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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. It’s not that the company hadn’t ever tried to invest in new value props, but those that could create significant new growth had eluded them.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Databricks’ CEO, Ali Ghodsi, shares why Open Source is becoming a multi-billion investment, why it’s taking over multiple industries, and why it’s here to stay. The developers you engage with often become your first adopters, who then become product evangelists—and they’ll help you scale and solidify trust within enterprises, too.

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

This article will look at the most successful SaaS companies, so you can decide if you want to invest in them for your business. 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.

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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. Customer success teams are basically about building at scale this self-serve engine. Those two are great models, but each one of them has their flaw.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

We’re helping startups and scale-ups that are strategically aligned with Salesforce, which is actually very important in terms of actually delivering solutions. Scaling support for early-stage startups. John: You guys have made a lot of investments or bets on early stage companies. Inside the Salesforce Accelerate program.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace are digital storefronts where companies can list their offerings for software buyers to find, purchase and provision software. . And there are some pretty amazing opportunities for doing business this way.

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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. Change Is Inevitable.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. At this point Buildium raised $2M from K1 Capital , investing the money primarily in marketing and hiring.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

327: John Mellor is Chief Strategy Officer @ Domo, the company that allows you to leverage BI at scale to empower your team with data. As for John, prior to Domo he served as vice president for strategy and business operations for Adobe’s Digital Experience business, driving more than $3 billion in annual revenue.

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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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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. You need to invest at least a year or even two years. Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

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. Consumerizing even more parts of the activities of a typical business (logistics-as-a-service, etc.) doubling the number of leads).

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

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. Consumerizing even more parts of the activities of a typical business (logistics-as-a-service, etc.) doubling the number of leads).

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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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OpenView Labs

JUNE 25, 2019

Numbers will be skewed in the early days because you won’t yet be operating at scale, but even at a small scale you will benefit from keeping your target CAC payback in sight and contemplating how you’re going to hit the goal. We recommend that you start tracking CAC payback as early in the game as you can. Optimize Conversion Rates.

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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

In this session, Anna and Sameer will highlight SendGrid’s journey from growth stage through acquisition and why focusing on people and culture is mission critical to success as a company goes through the scaling process. We should talk about that more and then we can scale that more? Want to see more content like this?

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

For some context, Base10 is a research-driven investment firm focusing on companies automating the largest sectors of the real economy. New Startups: Infrastructure Layer The infrastructure layer is exciting and is tooling that enables you to tweak different models, integrate them, and scale them in cost-effective ways.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

Where we say, there’s also something called scale capture. So when we all talk about changing the healthcare industry, how messed up it is, and how it’s awful and everybody hates it, you know who’s responsible for it being a mess? You just talked about you have a kind of a scale moat. How did we get there?

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

The second is really the how to think about your crew, really, how to take care of your crew, how to up-level your crew, how to invest in them, how to listen and engage them, and then also how to think about your extended crew. ” And invest your team’s time and energy to say, “Hey, if this, then that.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. And you get folks like Tobi at Shopify and also this room, I’d like to think, are now part of this club that’s driving tech innovation and tech value creation and job creation on a massive massive scale.

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