SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. And it’s one of the three large cloud vendors that we all know: Microsoft, AWS, and Google. Jabari Norton. Crowdstrike.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 16, 2021

The usage-based pricing model almost feels like a cheat code —it enables SaaS companies to more efficiently acquire new customers, grow with those customers as they’re successful, and keep those customers on the platform. It more closely aligns payment with a customer’s consumption, thereby impacting cash flow and revenue recognition.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 11, 2022

There are many vendor benefits, too — it is easier to sell and it embodies a customer success solution orientation that drives high customer lifetime value and revenue. These contracts are very common in ‘revenue share’ models (i.e., Less predictable revenue. Pay for performance compensation plan. Four pricing models.

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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. That was followed by the undecided (24%) leaving only 13% of participants who voted against the motion (believing that Sales should own the renewal). If you don’t fully understand these cases yet, that’s OK.

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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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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Salesforce sells CRM seats based on an aggregate ROI of increased sales productivity for example. AWS, Twilio, Heroku, etc. To be effective, a startup’s pricing strategy must align with its marketing case studies, website messaging, PR releases and sales pitches. Many infrastructure as a service companies do this.

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