Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Traditional pricing models, such as fixed subscriptions and one-time purchases, no longer align with the dynamic and ever-evolving nature of this sector. Subscription Billing The Evolution of Pricing Models in the Technology Industry The technology industry has undergone significant transformations in recent years.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 9, 2023

They did call out sequential growth in Confluent Cloud every quarter this year which was a big positive Still seeing elongated deal cycles and less expansion revenue The Bad AWS: Headwinds Getting Worse Their quarter ended in March, but on the earnings call they called out weakening growth in April.

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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.

Scale 193

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

SaaS companies deliver software applications over the internet on a subscription basis, simplifying access and management for users. SaaS, or Software as a Service, companies host and deliver software applications over the internet on a subscription basis. Primarily through direct-to-user subscriptions and third-party distributors.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The wave of SaaS companies that built themselves on the likes of AWS and Azure have reinforced the pre-eminence of cloud computing. What was perhaps less predictable was the ensuing prevalence of the subscription-based business model. Perhaps nowhere is the impact of the subscription model quite as dramatic as in popular culture.

Payment Solutions 259

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software SaaS Payments 259

How To Buy Saas

MAY 15, 2024

Cloud computing services provide on-demand solutions and IT resources to companies via the Internet with pay-as-you-go or subscription-based pricing models. This may include infrastructural support like storage, security, network equipment, and data centers, as well as comprehensive applications built to perform specific tasks.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 31, 2023

The majority of COGS (revenue less COGS = gross profit) fall in hosting costs (ie AWS), and some customer support. Startups and younger companies don’t have this luxury. Most public companies don’t report net new ARR, so I’m taking an implied ARR metric (quarterly subscription revenue x 4).

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 9, 2013

Because of the competition, tablet prices are plummeting - I saw a $49 7inch tablet ( and some were giving Nexus 7s away for free with subscription. The fastest path to that end for incumbents is acquisition of startups like these. LG has copied each Samsung model. Some OEMs may be able to build teams on their own like Samsung.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2024

In this week’s Workshop Wednesday, RevenueCat CEO Jacob Eiting and Growth Advocate David Barnard share their annual State of Subscription Apps report with us. So, let’s look at the state of subscription apps and how B2B SaaS can learn from it. Churn is much higher on consumer subscriptions, but you have higher expansion revenue.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Thought I wanted to be an engineer, quickly realized I actually prefer the customer facing side of the startup world. I’m sure all of you that are startup founders love your companies and your products, but I have so much love for all of them. Many of our users begin their journey with Slack on our free subscription plan.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 23, 2022

SaaS startup growth has taken a hit as well as we noted. You might be hard-pressed by your AWS bill but you’re not going to start replacing the engine to lighten the load mid-flight. . — Josh Kopelman (@joshk) May 18, 2022. Trust us, we did it recently and you can read more about our migration here. Further Reading.

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SaaS DevOps as a Service Marketplace as a Service Forecasting 52

ProfitWell

APRIL 15, 2019

Let's go ham and cheese on this day of subscription news and resources you won’t want to miss. Teach everything you know" and "create every day" are two of Barry's mantras, both of which are testaments to the kind of work ethic (and creative juice) you need when jumping into the startup biz. And you know I’m here for it. In headlines.

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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. How AWS Does It. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 14, 2019

One of the benefits of the subscription model is that it holds vendors accountable for the services they provide. Products like Amazon Web Services (AWS) and the rise of engineering talent globally have reduced the barrier of entry for software startups in recent years.

Software Review 162

Software Review AWS Social Media Machine Learning 162

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

This guide, by LinkedIn’s Head of Global Monetization Strategy Josh Gold, is intended to teach subscription-based businesses how to evaluate whether the freemium model will drive revenue and lead gen for their business or result in failure. How to Rescue Your Failing Freemium Startup with Product Qualified Leads. Freemium benchmarks.

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Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

ChurnZero

MARCH 31, 2022

Following the webinar, we invited Dave to give his rapid-fire takes on tracking the retention of auto-renew customers, calculating customer lifetime value as a startup, comping CSMs on expansion, determining the importance of measuring time to value, and much more. tech ops, AWS, technical support).

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

But as the college-dorm-room startup matures, there’s a fascinating twist to be found in the way it applies its new mission to Workplace, a B2B startup within the (former) startup. You really have to think of Workplace as a SaaS startup within Facebook. When Workplace became a real thing at Facebook, I was in London.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Related read: Freemium vs. Free Trial: How to Know Which One to Pick for Your SaaS Startup. For example, when coming to a cloud vendor, deciding to be vendor agnostic at the time of product design ensures you aren’t tied down to AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud. Most subscription plans have it.

Scale 52

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Chargify

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Over the last decade, recurring revenue has emerged as the preferred model for businesses moving beyond transactional commerce. While the first generation of recurring revenue was defined by simple subscriptions—think Netflix’s original “one-size-fits-all” $7.99 From Static Subscriptions To The Relationship Economy.

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Sylvia Ng

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Comfort and delight in a small, intense, high-growth startup environment. Experience as startup founder. Building web applications in a corporate or startup environment. Work across the stack: mostly Python/Flask, PostgreSQL, JavaScript (React/JQuery/Backbone) and working with AWS. Love a good corporate partnership.

Engineering 74

Engineering Growth Hacking Scale Social Media 74

Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Disappearing photos however was not a good fit for either of those models, and likely best lent itself to subscriptions and virtual goods, both largely unproven at consumer internet scale. Older marketplaces like Grubhub were extremely profitable because they did not facilitate the transaction beyond payments.

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Payments Scale Payment Solutions Technical Review 113

Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

After all, as a startup founder, you want to have a solid idea of what your true gross margins are and what it actually costs to acquire a customer! Most startups I’ve seen often get at least some of this wrong, particularly if they are doing around $100k in MRR or less. that will fit the use case of most small to medium SaaS startups.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Our mission is to build the world’s most powerful subscription analytics platform for the SaaS community. Building the leading subscriptions analytics platform means listening to our customers, and implementing changes to the product that bring them the most value. This year, we also migrated ChartMogul to AWS cloud.

Software Review 52

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How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Amazon also offers you the option to access the API using the AWS Command Line Interface (AWS CLI) or the AWS Software Development Kit (SDK). 2 Postmark Postmark Postmark is a SaaS email service provider designed to serve enterprises and startups, and one of the most popular Amazon SES alternatives.

Technical Review 52

Technical Review Software Review Payment Methods Systems Review 52

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2020

It has a portion of its revenue that’s very sensitive to the economy and a lot of startups in the customer base, good and bad, right? I’m looking at it and I’m like, “Who’s got the Wall Street Journal subscription? For us, it’s been, “Migrate things that you have on invoice over to card.”

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Merchant Services Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 178

SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

I’m going to skip by my life story, and how I grew up as a small child in India, and how the dusty streets influenced my take on unit economics, and SaaS subscription models. Another piece of very, very good startup advice that I’ve given myself a hundred times is the “Do one thing exceptionally well.”

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. MRR, obviously.

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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. He identified the 3 main stages that startups go through: The Early stage which ends when a startup becomes a breakout success.

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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. He identified the 3 main stages that startups go through: The Early stage which ends when a startup becomes a breakout success.

Scale 52

Scale SaaS Automotive AWS 52

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Prabhu Ramachandran, Yogendra Babu, Rajavel Subramanian, and Krishnamoorthi Rangasamy in 2017, Facilio Inc is another popular SaaS startup. The company offers a data analytics platform based on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Clouds, and Microsoft Azure. Facilio Inc. Capillary Technologies.

SaaS Payments 11

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses. Their list of services includes retail, debit card, payroll, and invoices. Founded in: 1982. Founder(s): Charles Geschke, John Warnock.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Cassie spent the first pre-SaaS chapter of her tech career in growth roles in subscription and marketplace businesses (TheLadders.com, GLG). Nikki Ivey is Cofounder of SDRDefenders and Head of Growth Development at Cultured Perspective, a Black owned Startup Consultancy. What is one a-ha moment you’ve had in your sales career?

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). This begs the question: how much room is left for emerging startups? The median growth rate of startups with $1-2.5M

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 28, 2021

Startups are designed to grow quickly, but high growth rates can generate huge costs as new infrastructure is introduced and scaled to meet demand. This helps us catch any low-level hygiene problems causing costs to spike, and sets shareholder expectations about our upcoming invoices. Zero touch costs. This one speaks for itself.

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Management Government Cost optimization & reporting Engineering 211

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). This begs the question: how much room is left for emerging startups? The median growth rate of startups with $1-2.5M

Scale 51

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 51

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). This begs the question: how much room is left for emerging startups? The median growth rate of startups with $1-2.5M

Scale 40

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

TJ Nahigian, co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners, and Luci Fonseca, Partner, deep dive into the current GenAI landscape, incumbents vs. startups, and the six questions founders should ask themselves to drive value from GenAI. Startup platforms are OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Cohere. How are they doing this?

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