SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

SaaStr was created in 2012 to democratize learning and how to build B2B companies, and WordPress was started in 2003 to democratize publishing. Speaking of the long game, Matt talks about the launch of the 100-year subscription plan last year. He loves subscription models where people pay for something that gives them value.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We all know and could name several successful B2C and B2B companies. My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. So, let me walk you through that. Our salesforce didn’t know which one to sell.

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SaaSOptics

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Based on a 2019 survey, Gartner forecasts that eighty-four percent of new software will be delivered as SaaS , and this percentage is expected to increase as existing providers transition to a subscription-based model. The main difference between accounting for a subscription vs. a traditional business is the method used.

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Payment Features Outsourced Development SaaS Software Review 105

Frontegg

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

With organizations scaling up exponentially in a matter of months and end-users expecting nothing but the best user experience (UX), passwords are being seen as the next big casualty, and rightfully so. With password authentication, there is always additional stress on IT and support teams. Improved Security Standards.

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Frontegg

MARCH 17, 2022

These B2B-centric offerings have gone mainstream with the PLG philosophy, where end-users discover the benefits of the app by using it, eventually becoming brand advocates and turning into a driving force behind its growth. These companies also scale up with a CAC payback that’s lower than the market average in general.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

As two CEO who love the art of sales and scaling, this one really was special. Jyoti Bansal : And then he started talking about sales and Dev during the breakfast he convinced me if you can marry the right kind of sales scaling and execution then that’s when your business will really, really take off.

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 1, 2022

What makes finance teams throw up their hands and say, “I just need a tool that can do X!” finance teams are responsible for planning the financial roadmap of an organization and keeping everything in balance. Most finance teams are familiar with enterprise and integrated solutions (think Netsuite, Sage Intacct.).

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

TL;DR Regular roadmaps kill outcomes by forcing teams to think in the categories of features and timelines. It’s difficult to implement outcome-based roadmaps because stakeholders don’t trust product teams to deliver on business goals. Many companies lack differentiation strategies and drive product development by copying competitors.

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Chargify

JULY 30, 2019

It might be your subscription model. But how do you know if your current subscription model is working or failing? We’ll cover the three most important metrics for judging your subscription model’s success: Free to paid conversion rate . Key Subscription Metric #1: Free to paid conversion rate. Likely not.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 2, 2022

There are several different ways to successfully launch and scale a SaaS company. In a sales-led model, sales processes and teams are the primary drivers of revenue growth. Each has its strengths and weaknesses, but neither is better or worse than the other. Here’s what it looks like in practice.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Jos White of Notion and Christian Lanng of Tradeshift team up to show you how to work within, and sometimes around, rules in the workplace. Nobody ever build a social network for business on this scale. Christian Lanng : So we started with something very, very narrow, which was invoicing. Work smarter, not harder.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams. Guide to SaaS Revenue Recognition and Deferred Revenue in SaaS by Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO SaaS revenue recognition is an ongoing priority for SaaS accounting teams. Keep an eye out as we will be making regular updates.

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Chargify

MARCH 25, 2019

Recurring subscriptions are becoming the norm in the business world, and for good reason. Subscription services give the end user control over costs and employee access, without the cumbersome contracts. But some software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies struggle with how to sell subscriptions.

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FastSpring

APRIL 4, 2024

As an experienced sales and GTM leader, John Eitel has more than witnessed how product-led growth (PLG) has affected the tech and SaaS space in the last few years — he and his teams have been up close and personal with how PLG increased in popularity as a sales strategy. “I And it makes up for a lot of bad product experiences, right?

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas. Eduardo Müller, Founder & CEO, B2B Stack. in 2016, he co-founded Vendas B2B Summit, the largest Brazilian B2B sales online event.

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ChurnZero

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is a guest blog contributed by Emily Ryan, chief client officer at Valuize , a B2B consulting company that helps industry-leading technology organizations supercharge their customer lifecycle to drive best-in-class net dollar retention. Make your insights actionable for your team by consolidating them into an easy-to-digest scorecard.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 24, 2022

This isn’t a bad idea, and why companies like Facebook continued to grow despite adding more and more complexity over time. There has been a renaissance of user experience and design in B2B use cases over the last decade, but those typically revolve around single use case products, like: Syncing files in Dropbox.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

As Head of Sales for Spendesk, Nico was initially inspired by the vision of founder Rodolphe Ardant who had spotted a gap for ‘spend management’ in the B2B market based on personal banking trends. So they created a software that provides control, visibility, and payment methods for corporate finance teams.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy.

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Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier this year, we welcomed Sean Joyce to the Navint team. Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

It’s natural to lose interest or just not have the resources to keep a startup going or scaling. Whether you’re an early-stage founder or you’ve built up an established B2B SaaS business, it's crucial to understand how valuations work and how you can prepare for an exit when the time is right for you. Transferability 2.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

After working on NASA’s Space Shuttle Main Engine, he went on to develop Portfolium, a social networking platform that allows students and graduates to showcase skills beyond the traditional resume to potential employers. But before universities would do business with them, they needed assurance on their security posture.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

We spend most of our waking hours thinking about how to build a reliable, beautiful product that helps subscription businesses grow faster using their customer and billing data. We decided to focus our efforts exclusively on our best-fit customers: B2B SaaS. ChartMogul is a product-led business. TechnologyAdvice. So, how did it go?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

* What does David believe is the crucial step missing in B2B when it comes to finding product market fit? What is the most common mistake B2B companies make in the hunt for PMF? How does David think about scaling sales teams? But you said before there’s an important step missing when it comes to B2B.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. Recurring payments. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. What is the SaaS business model. Consistent updates.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 7, 2022

Puneet Kataria shares his experience and observation on how customer success teams can be agile in the Customer Success Vodcast hosted by tl;dv! Every customer success team during the onboarding, buzz around the term “Early value”, the question is how does it all start and even delivered? Scale and shine. Key takeaways!

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Neil Patel

MARCH 2, 2021

Over 41 percent of businesses use review websites before purchasing software—so reviews matter for B2B work, too. To help, I’ve broken this list into B2C and B2B review sites, depending on your target buyers. The audience is consumers looking for impartial, reliable reviews from an expert team. Brand Awareness. B2C Review Sites.

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Software Review Technical Review Scale Merchant Services 127

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Before Optimizely, Travis spent 6 years at Salesforce in a number of sales roles including building the first Platform Sales team. What does Travis advise founders when it comes to uniting customer facing teams? * And even just that shift drove a lot of behavior change both with customers and internally with the teams.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 29, 2021

We spend most of our waking hours thinking about how to build a reliable, beautiful product that helps subscription businesses grow faster using their customer and billing data. We decided to focus our efforts exclusively on our best-fit customers: B2B SaaS. ChartMogul is a product-led business. TechnologyAdvice. So, how did it go?

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ProfitWell

JUNE 7, 2020

Failure to track and improve customer churn rates can lead to the death of your business, particularly for subscription services that rely heavily on repeat customers. Poor customer service. Poor understanding of the value of your product/service. Credit card payment failures. Here’s what you need to know. Image Source.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

” So we wanted to create essentially … Well, you can probably describe it the easiest way as an anti-SAP of supply chains, something that was easy, simple, free to use, open, and easy to develop for. Third parties are developing apps for our platform. What is Tradeshift really? Just like Salesforce, we have a platform.

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Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 152

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

” And invest your team’s time and energy to say, “Hey, if this than that, how can we prepare for a variety of scenarios so that we can nimbly respond to whatever comes our way and adapt in accordingly to the situation? And what’s the best case? What’s the base case?” And really, that’s essential.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Let’s break down these definitions so we know where we’re at: SAAS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. SAAS-like: any number of different models where a business sells software to businesses online, but does not charge via a subscription e.g. transactional or pre-revenue.

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SaaStr

MARCH 13, 2020

315: Harry Hurst is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO @ Pipe, the startup that gives you control of your cash flow by giving you access to the full annual value of your monthly subscriptions, upfront. and Robert Vis of MessageBird will walk through lessons learned to survive hypergrowth and what will make a difference when it comes to scaling.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Finance Payments 218

Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

Software is also a lovely thing to scale. SaaS companies in particular have high gross margins (no IT admin) and recurring revenues (subscriptions), a combination which means they can re-invest a substantial piece of their revenue into (hopefully) predictable growth. But what about hardware? In many cases, I understand.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 24, 2021

In a few years, we have seen lots of B2B SaaS businesses flourish. Running a B2B SaaS business requires a shift in metrics that founders rely upon. Most people run their SaaS business just like any other B2B business. After developing a hypothesis, you can test it by launching a Minimum Value Product (MVP).

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SmartKarrot

JULY 14, 2020

The B2B Tech world is booming with SaaS business models. The SaaS business model is basically a subscription-based service. You will only have to worry about the recurring payments, which is otherwise known as MRR, monthly recurring revenue. Factors Favouring B2B Technology SaaS Now.

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