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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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No, You Can’t Just Switch to a Usage-Based Pricing Model Overnight

OpenView Labs

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. But the shift from pure subscription to usage-based pricing is nearly as complex as going from on-premise to SaaS.

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The SaaS Debate: Who Owns the Renewal and Upsell? Customer Success vs. Sales

ChurnZero

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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The 7 Factors to Consider When Pricing Your Startup's Product

Tom Tunguz

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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11 Popular types of revenue models used today

ProfitWell

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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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. And I've worked in the service industry before, I know that those kinds of things matter. Dharmesh: The other one is broadly defined natural language processing in terms of.

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Simple Frameworks For Success (Full Video + Success)

OnStartups

The strategy behind it, I think, is strong in terms of it gets HubSpot into a thing which is where I think the future of SaaS companies is going to be heading. And I've worked in the service industry before, I know that those kinds of things matter. Dharmesh: The other one is broadly defined natural language processing in terms of.