Clouded Judgement

MARCH 31, 2023

How Will AI Effect Software Business Models? Like many, I’ve been thinking about how AI and foundation models will effect the world of software. In particular - how AI will effect software business models. If we head to their pricing page we’ll see that the most popular plan is $8 / user / month.

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Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Model providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc as companies start building out AI). Hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP as companies look for cloud GPUs who aren’t building out their own data centers) Infra (Data layer, orchestration, monitoring, ops, etc) Durable Applications We’ve clearly well underway of the first 3 layers monetizing.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 3, 2022

It’s easy to get lost in the noise of “SaaS monetization makes the world go round,” “Subscriptions mean printing money,” and other hype. The more money you will have left to add more customers, get them committed to subscriptions, and keep them away from your competitors.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 11, 2020

You hear the terms SaaS, subscription, term licenses and perpetual license software tossed around frequently. The terms aren’t universally understood, nor are the implications of each on the financial model of a company, so the following is an effort to provide an overview.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

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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ProfitWell

MAY 15, 2020

Google Compute Engine (GCE), Digital Ocean, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) are all good examples of IaaS. Platform as a service, PaaS, is also a cloud computing but service providers deliver platforms to clients, allowing them to develop, run, and manage business applications without the need to build and maintain the infrastructure.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

This philosophy applies to both low and high touch business models, where the vendor has to eliminate all potential usability problems that may arise. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Best For: Online Payment Processing.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 24, 2022

The webinar’s Q&A session uncovered great tips and insights, including advice on whether SaaS businesses should implement price increases due to inflation, if Customer Success should be considered an OPEX or a COGS, and how much of the total operating budget CS should account for. I mean AWS or whatever might be going up too.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 24, 2022

The webinar’s Q&A session uncovered great tips and insights, including advice on whether SaaS businesses should implement price increases due to inflation, if Customer Success should be considered an OPEX or a COGS, and how much of the total operating budget CS should account for. I mean AWS or whatever might be going up too.

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Benchmarks Retention Software Review Technical Review 52

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. How AWS Does It. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

While inevitable and with multivariate causality, it speaks to the product’s maturity and business model. Pricing wars are another source of margin compression. In other words, if customers are purchasing the product only because of price, either you’re in a commodity market or your feature set lacks competitiveness.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. 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. Good to see you today.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

An automatic subscription renewal charge for a subscription you’re no longer using or that you don't even remember signing up for. Even worse, you go to cancel your subscription, only to discover it's nearly impossible. What is a subscription renewal? Shipping the product to customers (for ecommerce subscriptions).

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User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

Quickbooks and Xero are accounting SaaS products that help you send invoices, track expenses, and process payroll. Software as a Service (SaaS): SaaS providers have ready-to-use software applications over the internet on a subscription basis. What are the benefits of the SaaS model? You don’t handle maintenance or updates.

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Chargify

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Over the last decade, recurring revenue has emerged as the preferred model for businesses moving beyond transactional commerce. While the first generation of recurring revenue was defined by simple subscriptions—think Netflix’s original “one-size-fits-all” $7.99

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

John Mellor: But then probably the biggest transition was watching Adobe transition into the subscription business model with its Creative Cloud product as it’s known today. ” Clearly, Wall Street and the Adobe team knew the benefit of a subscription business model and the transition into SaaS.

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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. The business was structured as an LLC. While these revenues are pay-per-use, rent payments are both large and regular.

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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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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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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

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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OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

By 1979, mini mills had driven the last of the integrated mills out of the rebar market and the price of rebar had dropped by 20%. Netflix has become the largest subscription video provider in the US, outstripping cable and satellite. Both disruptions radically redefined content platforms, business models, and customer habits.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Notion launched the first of many upcoming AI features, and they’ve priced it so that it may be at $100M ARR in the near term. The automations are an add-on, priced at 50% of core offerings. GenAI and the Business Model Perspective From a business model perspective, a few things are happening. Drop in costs.

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