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. I learned a million lessons about SaaS, about start-ups, and about life along the way.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

For subscription companies, it’s tempting to resort to questionable subscription renewal tactics like these to keep customers around for as long as possible, since churn can be so disastrous to your bottom line. The key feature separating subscription businesses from their more standard counterparts is the recurring nature of payments.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Whether Customer Success or Sales should own the renewal, expansion, and upsell is a hot-button issue in today’s SaaS sphere. As such, we decided to tap industry experts for a verbal duel on the subject where the winners take home the esteemed (and priceless) prize of bragging rights and SaaS street cred. Enter the Sales Manager.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

But throughout this turmoil, startups must adopt a process to craft a good pricing strategy, and re-evaluate prices periodically, but at least once per year. Many infrastructure as a service companies do this. AWS, Twilio, Heroku, etc. At some point, most SaaS startups switch to annual contracts for three reasons.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

So tell me how did you make your way from the wonderful coast of the UK into the world of SaaS and come to now be one of the leading CIOs in the really rising mega wave of enterprise SaaS? And so I think having the founders get a viewpoint and vantage point into just that selling process is really important.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Another collection of their customers actually turned their kitchens into service offerings. They’re facilitating virtual schooling, they’re helping governments organize. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. Really, cloud absorbs hardware, software and services.

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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.” Choosing which revenue model works best for your SaaS business, though, is not easy (even if that's all you want to do is choose a revenue model for your SaaS business).

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