ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

By almost all key metrics, now is a great time to get into the SaaS business model. Gartner is estimating that the cloud services industry as a whole will outpace the growth of overall IT services by a factor of three, with SaaS making up $143.7 As such, many SaaS businesses are opting for the latter.

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SaaS Payments Trends Merchant Services Payments 66

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It needs to be treated as a top-level operational metric that a founder must know and understand. It documents the business your product is building, y et it’s often tucked away in a financial update while a medley of product metrics enjoy the spotlight.” Scale reveals the depths of operational leverage.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Systems 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. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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AWS Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 98

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. This is basically designed around there being an intensive human interaction and human process to convince businesses to adopt your tools.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 235

Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Besides building a growth model and forecasting your growth from it, which I absolutely recommend you should do, what are the factors that contribute to how quickly you need to be investing in that second product after the first product finds product/market fit? B2B requires suite expansion. Why does B2B require suite expansion?

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Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. While these revenues are pay-per-use, rent payments are both large and regular.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

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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Payment Features Subscription Payment Methods Merchant Services 49

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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