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The State of SaaS – Global Data Trends from 1000+ Companies with Capchase Co-Founder/CEO Miguel Fernandez and 01 Advisors VP Kristen Clifford (Video)

SaaStr

Capchase Co-Founder & CEO Miquel Fernandez and 01 Advisors VP Kristen Clifford use data to show us what differentiates the best SaaS companies from the rest. The top SaaS companies are growing really fast, roughly at twice the rate of their peers. Very few or no services at all. Services generally have a lower gross margin.

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds. We provide a service; you make money; repeat on autopilot.

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The Startup Funding & Financing Guide

Baremetrics

million – about half of all the cash they had on hand – to buy out their main venture capital investors after eight years since founding. I was able to take that challenge off the table by consulting and severance, which enabled me to build the right product and business that became self-sustaining about a year later.

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Is it time for tiers?

ProfitWell

You can find the full data breakdown and benchmarks linked here if you're interested in digging a bit deeper. Not the most original name for the service, but we’re here for it nonetheless…). Companies with more than five plans are seeing 40-50% higher ARPU on a relative basis than those companies with less than five plans. Not exactly.

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Outseta Company Update - September 2018

Outseta

We now support Stripe as a payment gateway. When we launched our subscription billing and management functionality, we initially partnered with Forte Payment Systems as our payment gateway. As a result, adding Stripe as a payment gateway very quickly became the most requested feature from our users. Indie.VC - Indie.VC