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Most SaaS Metrics Really Only Work if You Have 75%+ Gross Margins and 100%+ NRR

SaaStr

In particular: Hybrid SaaS with payments and fintech usually has far, far lower gross margins than pure software. See, e.g. Shopify, whose blended gross margins with payments even at its scale are still less than 50%. That’s great, and it enables their software. Often in the 40%-50% range, instead of 75%-80%.

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Forecasting Fintech’s Future and Keeping Culture Alive: A Q&A with the CEOs of BILL and Mercury

Andreessen Horowitz

Both of you sell into SMBs, which is a notoriously difficult segment. One of the holy grails of SMB software is, how are you going to acquire customers? One of the criticisms of SMB software is that each customer can only provide so much revenue. What do you think the role of subscriptions are in B2B fintech?

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A landscape of the major SaaS app stores

Point Nine Land

50 B2B software marketplaces listed & four observations 50 Shades of SaaS App Stores - Spreadsheet If you’d like to be notified of our next posts you can subscribe to our newsletter. As the SaaS industry is reaching maturity, the app store model is becoming increasingly important. a security audit).

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Iterative Approach to Localized Marketing for SaaS & Software

FastSpring

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. How FastSpring Simplifies Selling Around the World Automated Localized Checkout Consumers often prefer to pay in their local currency or using payment methods that are popular in their region.

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Using PLG and Sales Led Growth Together to Drive Exponential Results

FastSpring

FastSpring provides an all-in-one payment platform for SaaS, software, video game, and other digital goods businesses, including VAT and sales tax management, payment localization, and consumer support. And it’s like PLG, supposed to replace Sales Lead growth, but that doesn’t really work in b2b.

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Need an Expert for Your Next Panel, Presentation, or Podcast? Here Are Over 530 of the Top Female Sales Practitioners

Sales Hacker

VP Nokia Software, North America Sales. People First Productivity Solutions. Team Lead, North America – Global Marketing Solutions. Senior Vice President, Sales SMB. Director, Sales Solutions, North America. Manager, LinkedIn Sales Solutions. Sales Manager, SMB New Business Acquisition.

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How Revenue-Based Financing Works and What RBF Providers Care About

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return on investment is returned, you have no further payment obligation and you have retained your equity ownership while growing. the loan) will be paid back and a return cap will be achieved over time (24-36 months) based on monthly payments delivered as a % of your cash revenue. Once the 1.5x 2 Main approaches to RBF.

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