The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

Almost exactly four years ago I published a financial plan template for SaaS startups based on a model that I had created for Zendesk a few years earlier. I received a lot of great feedback on the template and the original post remains one of the most viewed posts on this blog up to this day.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 20, 2024

2024 is coming to a close, and it has been a terrific year for SaaS businesses as the industry has witnessed quite a favorable growth. For SaaS companies, accounting becomes one of the most crucial processes to understand their financial and overall business health, and then make informed decisions about future steps.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So the first question is what made SaaS so successful. If you kind of that question, thinking about the stakeholders and the decisions and companies of using SaaS products, there’s kind of three types. Customers love SaaS products and tools because it simply works. The second constituent there is the developer.

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Totango

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The contract renewal stage of the customer lifecycle is a critical component of driving retention for SaaS products. Knowing how to use technology to optimize your contract renewal process can increase your retention rates and your revenue. Then, we’ll look at the pros and cons of contract renewal automation.

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Blulogix

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Ready to see how BluIQ can transform your billing process and help you achieve integrated, automated, and accurate complex monetization? Detailed Insights Across Revenue Streams Revenue doesn’t come from a single source—it’s often composed of multiple streams, such as recurring charges, one-time fees, consumption-based services, and more.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If you ask any sales rep, they’ll all tell you the same thing: the SaaS sales process is absolutely grueling! Today, we’re going to walk you through the top techniques you should implement into your SaaS sales strategy. SaaS sales can be broken down into three models: self-service, transactional, and enterprise.

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Subscription Flow

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Subscription pricing with the help of automated billing software has transformed many industries and provided businesses with a dynamic way to generate revenue, especially in the SaaS space. Moreover, developing a profitable pricing strategy requires consistent model testing and compliance with international tax laws.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

Pricing is a SaaS company’s most efficient profit lever, but it’s also one of the easiest things to screw up. Nailing your SaaS pricing strategy requires more than just picking the optimal price and forgetting about it. It includes the latest and greatest SaaS pricing resources, as well as some timeless staples.

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User Pilot

MAY 17, 2024

Looking for the best no-code SaaS tools to build innovative solutions and improve your product management workflows? TL;DR No-code SaaS tools are software products that allow users to create applications, websites, or in-app experiences without writing any traditional programming code.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. UXPin is a code-based design tool that simplifies and unifies product development process by bringing code components to the design stage. This allows their team to focus on product, sales, and growth.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Are you struggling to keep up with the ever-increasing volume of contract management processes? If yes, then it is time to invest in B2B SaaS contract management software! They will help with effective solutions to help you manage contracts better, automate manual processes, and curb risks and mistakes.

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yoursales

JANUARY 28, 2022

When it comes to sales technology quite often sales tech isn't picked based on what YOU need, but based on what your network have been using for their sales process. What you should be making decisions based on is, which sales processes generates the best outcomes you're after - and for your customers. Sales Stack Graveyard.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Allissa and Patrick believe that SaaS founders—bootstrapped or not—can pull six key levers to significantly impact their businesses. . In SaaS, retention is usually driven by recurring revenue, cross-selling, and up-selling. This is where SaaS companies generate most their revenue. Lever #1: Tactical retention.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Whether you created your SaaS product to help solve a problem you had or because you wanted some extra income, the truth is that your SaaS business is a valuable asset. Running a profitable SaaS business allows you to take control of your own schedule - some would even say your life! Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

We’d also recommend this guide for any sales managers or business development leaders who are on-boarding new reps. Account-Based Selling / Sales Development. Account Development Representative. Account Development Representative. Average Contract Value. AB Testing. Account-Based Everything / Revenue.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

There might not be an industry more addicted to its metrics than SaaS, and there is good reason for it. Coming from data and engineering backgrounds, most SaaS founders know that good decisions require good data, and great decisions require as much good data as you can find. But how many SaaS financial metrics are you really tracking?

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yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey and to generate your desired outcomes? Which sales tools best support your sales process? Which sales processes generate the outcomes you're after and which tools best assist you in doing so? Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

They also offer Fulfillment by Amazon, where they handle the fulfillment process for your business at extra cost. A security mechanism that determines if a payment account has sufficient funds to complete a given transaction. The operations of a business including sales tax, VAT filings, billing, order processing, and online payments.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode. Actually, two.

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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. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. You’ll get lots of content from us along with advice for your sales process. Which sales tools best support your sales process?

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Confused about trying to understand SaaS roles? SaaS companies have many moving parts, and it can be difficult to determine who does what. TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. What is a SaaS business model?

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

But you can’t build a great SaaS or e-Commerce company without the help of digital tools. If you’re serious about growing your startup, you’ll eventually need to put down the pen and paper to-do list and upgrade to a SaaS solution. You don’t need any SEO or developer experience to use it. HostGator costs only $3.84

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. It seems like for some of the companies with little development it becomes increasingly easy to win clients and then just keep their too chugging along until eventually clients leave for something better.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Most online businesses use a customer relationship management ( CRM ) software package and/or payment processor to manage their billings because handling many customers across regions by hand is difficult, and in a competitive market there is no room for errors. For many SaaS enterprises, Stripe is the payment processor of choice.

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Totango

MAY 19, 2020

The continuing COVID-19 health crisis may well produce a recession that has a significant impact on the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry. No one is certain how this will change the long and short-term behaviors of customers, lenders, and enterprises in a SaaS world. Be Lean and Agile to Reduce Customer Churn in SaaS.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. It seems like for some of the companies with little development it becomes increasingly easy to win clients and then just keep their too chugging along until eventually clients leave for something better.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Sean Ellis, who ran growth in the early days of Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite benchmarked nearly a hundred startups with his customer development survey. And the Quick Ratio tells you at a glance if your business is growing or contracting. means you’re growing, below, and you’re contracting. Thus, the early churn.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 12, 2018

PROFESSIONAL SALES SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2019: THE TOOLS I t’s 2019 and we’re back at the sales tools workshop, working out the best sales tools for your sales process. You’ll get lots of content from us along with advice for your sales process. Which sales tools best support your sales process?

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User Pilot

MARCH 9, 2023

Want to improve the current customer attrition rate in your SaaS company? Customer attrition is one of the main problems for SaaS companies. TL;DR Customer attrition, also known as customer churn , takes place when customers leave your product or service. There’s no single ‘good’ churn rate for SaaS businesses.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Vicki Lin : Great. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin. Vicki Lin : Yeah.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 26, 2021

All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. Perhaps one of the most interesting features of Shopify is the Shopify Partner system where individuals and third-party companies can sell their services or apps, in the so-called micro-SaaS space.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 9, 2020

In this third installment of our blog series ‘React, Adjust, Recover – Strategies for Professional Service Organizations During the COVID-19 Outbreak’, we focus on strategies to help businesses recover faster as restrictions begin to lift. So, what are some of those strategies for professional service organizations?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

But with the seemingly endless options, how do companies navigate what to handle in-house and what to outsource? Even though we are not real developers, but maybe this will come at some point. We recently signed a partnership with Salesforce and Microsoft, who are our code developing training path, training path weavers.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Choosing between the multiple SaaS pricing models is an essential step that every business needs to take to drive product growth. SaaS pricing strategies differ from traditional products because most businesses use a subscription-based SaaS pricing model. How is SaaS pricing different? SaaS pricing models types.

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