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.

Cloud 183

Cloud Artificial Intelligence AI GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 183

CloudGeometry

MARCH 3, 2022

Feature value: a function of time investment of users and customers The set of problems that your SaaS solves won’t survive long in the digital age if all it does is cut prices. When thinking about billing events, the challenge is to construct a set of value events that provides your customers a choice of price points.

Well Architected Framework 130

Well Architected Framework VPCs (Virtual Private Cloud) SaaS Cloud 130

Blulogix

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Streamlining Success: Five Keys to Automating Usage-Based Billing for Managed Services Providers By BluLogix Team Don’t forget to sign up now to learn more about how to implement usage based pricing models in our upcoming webinar with MGI Research. Automating these pricing models streamlines billing and ensures consistency.

Payment Features 52

Payment Features Management Azure AWS 52

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.

Benchmarks 98

Benchmarks Retention Software Review Technical Review 98

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: Product Adoption. 3 Frontegg.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 3, 2014

First, strong earnings buoy public technology share prices which drives M&A. As a consequence of higher stock prices, stock increases in value and cash becomes easier to raise and relatively less expensive, both of which entice tech publics to acquire startups, extending the current vibrant M&A market.

Startup 100

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The Angel VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

The reason is that in most categories online shopping has become ultra-transparent (something which I’m not completely innocent of ;-) ) and that there’s a group of highly price-sensitive customers which always goes for the lowest price.

Scale 192

Scale Scaling SaaS AWS 192

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.

SaaS Payments 75

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments 75

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

By almost all key metrics, now is a great time to get into the SaaS business model. Running your own server to handle your customer's valuable data requires a huge investment to match the same level of security and reliability that comes baked into services like Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure cloud. Pricing Changes.

SaaS Payments 66

SaaS Payments Trends Merchant Services Payments 66

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

However, with the introduction of Events-Based Billing by Chargify, this event-based billing model is now available to small and medium-sized businesses, giving them the ability to offer the same pricing models and bill customers just as precisely as Amazon Web Services (AWS) or the popular voice and messaging platform Twilio.

AWS 98

AWS Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 98

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.

Benchmarks 52

Benchmarks Retention Software Review Technical Review 52

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.

Scale 52

Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Systems Review 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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?”

Cloud 100

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 100

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. For high touch sales businesses, it’s a little different. Changing a price … you have to change the website, change a few things in the background.

SaaS Payments 236

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 236

OPEXEngine

JUNE 11, 2020

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. At OPEXEngine, we pull apart the different nuances of each business model to make sure we are benchmarking companies correctly.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Subscription Payment Features 52

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Be flexible with your offers and price: Use promos, discounts, bonuses, or incentives to attract shoppers’ attention. Advertising can’t save awful products. KlientBoost has a unique business model that works well with low/entry budgets. Their agency works well with small or local businesses.

Outsourcing Services 131

Outsourcing Services Advertising Transportation Customer Lifetime Value 131

Chargify

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Over the last decade, recurring revenue has emerged as the preferred model for businesses moving beyond transactional commerce. pricing or the traditional “Good, Better, Best” plans—many businesses have found static subscription offers don’t always align with customers’ needs and limit growth potential.

Subscription 75

Subscription Payment Features AWS Scale 75

User Pilot

APRIL 30, 2024

It’s suitable for businesses wanting control over their infrastructure and the ability to scale. Key examples are Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform, which provide scalable resources like virtual servers and storage. What are the benefits of the SaaS model?

SaaS Payments 104

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 104

Frontegg

JUNE 17, 2021

Beyond the complexity involved in maintaining bad architectural decisions, it also has a direct impact on the services you are offering and pricing flexibility, which are the biggest reasons you are getting started with SaaS in the first place. Just keep in mind that the SaaS route will come at a price, literally. instead of Python.

ECS (Elastic Container Service) 97

ECS (Elastic Container Service) multi-cloud Kubernetes K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Scale 97

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. How the hell does that happen? Buildium was truly ahead of its time in this sense.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

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.

Scale 220

Scale Leadership Strategy Technology 220

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.

Payment Features 49

Payment Features Subscription Payment Methods Merchant Services 49

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).

Scale 71

Scale SaaS Automotive AWS 71

OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

It produces a challenging messaging strategy because if your primary business model is selling support on an open-source project, you’re kind of incentivizing your team to build shitty software, and nobody ends up happy. A lot of your top-of-funnel is focused on converting open-source users to paying customers.

Business 52

Business SMB Scale DevOps as a Service 52

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).

Scale 52

Scale SaaS Automotive AWS 52

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. The pricing for SaaS is much more complicated. Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital.

Startup 52

Startup Scale CTO Hire Outsourced Development 52

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.

Payments 40

Payments Revenue Payment Methods SaaS Payments 40

OpenView Labs

JUNE 25, 2019

As an important aside, it’s worth noting that product led growth (PLG) companies have a shorter CAC payback than companies with a traditional sales & marketing driven go-to-market model. For SaaS businesses, hosting (AWS) costs and customer onboarding are the key costs of goods sold and are constantly being optimized.

Scale 40

Scale Development Team Review Software Review Benchmarks 40

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.

Outsourcing Services 53

Outsourcing Services Branding Outsourced Development Scale 53

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.

Sales Recruiting 151

Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 151

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%. Both disruptions radically redefined content platforms, business models, and customer habits. They were cheap, small, and portable … but the sound quality was awful. Smartphones.

Innovation 71

Innovation Technical Review Travel Business Model 71

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.

Generative AI 252

Generative AI Outsourcing Services AI Software Review 252

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

We had a great easy-to-use pricing model. Sameer Dhokalia: It turns out if you do ask those two basic questions of 100 people in your business, you will learn an awful lot about what needs to be focused on. If you get that wrong, boy, I tell you, you pay the price for those. It was still a ubiquitous market.

Scale 139

Scale Acquisition Scaling Sales Hiring 139

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

So, it was a really simple leap to say, what if we created a company, costplusdrugs.com — once we got that URL, that was the name — and we published our costs, we published our markup, and we published our price list. If you buy there, it’s $9, but the same price. Let me find out the price. David: Crazy.

Healthcare 108

Healthcare Government Entrepreneurship Pricing 108

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

Get back into experimentation mode with our business model, with our pricing, to really think about not just how we can shrink costs, but inflect growth on the top line so we could ultimately control our own destiny, which is in fact what we did. Shifting to the fifth is around pricing. So we spent a lot of time there.

Scale 196

Scale Sales Hiring Pricing Sales Recruiting 196