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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. Here’s a list of the top freemium pricing strategy resources: Table of Contents. When is freemium the right strategy for your business? Freemium success stories.

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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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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

OpenView Labs

The answer likely depends on your market segmentation, as freemium may ease adoption friction for SMB/mid-market companies. You can often see these types of feature segmentations detailed on open-source pricing pages, as with GitLab and HashiCorp. Your destiny will likely be influenced by your community.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

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. I was offered a job as Buildium’s first full-time marketing hire, pulling in a cool $38,400 annually.

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you go back to thinking about what kind of company is a great fit for PLG, there are two important criteria: The first one is your target segment, your customer size. Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital.

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11 Disruptive Innovation Examples (And Why Uber and Tesla Don’t Make the Cut)

OpenView Labs

Rebar is at the bottom of the steel market, and since it was a low-margin product, integrated steel companies were happy to lop it off the bottom of their product line and leave the mini mills to compete with one another. Both disruptions radically redefined content platforms, business models, and customer habits. Smartphones.