Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A major issue that arises, especially in the B2B SaaS business model, is how to break into the upmarket market as startups develop into scaleups that are primarily focused on increasing their market capitalization. This has historically been a significant cause of customer support cases as well as development friction.

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FastSpring

APRIL 18, 2024

For many SaaS and software companies, international sales are a key part of their growth trajectories. But with international growth comes a long list of international business concerns about how to appeal to potential customers in new countries. Why it’s so important to optimize pricing for local markets.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

When TestDome was created, CEO and co-founder Mario Zivic knew the pre-employment testing software company wouldn’t be able to rely on domestic sales to succeed. “As As a startup with only two or three people, it would be absolutely impossible to go international without this kind of platform.” Here’s why. Now, Stripe offers it.

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Totango

AUGUST 16, 2022

Customer Retention Software Cuts Down Client Churn. Customer retention software has become essential for effective SaaS customer success strategies. A winning SaaS business model must prioritize retaining customers, which is far more cost-efficient than acquiring new clients to offset churn.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is part three of a three part series on sequencing business models. In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. The Types of Platforms. Integration Platforms.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Navigating the bustling SaaS landscape without a reliable CRM system is similar to one being like a child who is attempting to learn a skill without the helpful guidance of a teacher. The majority of the time, SaaS companies are involved in business-to-business sales. Adopting new policies can be expensive and invasive.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Businesses are shifting from rigid, consumption-based business models to flexible ones that let users pay for the goods and services they use only as much as they use them. Therefore, reengineering the value chain and realigning teams to the new business model are necessary for this major shift.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Streamlining Success: What is the Role of Automation in Customer Lifecycle Management for Recurring Revenue? This blog post explores how employing automation in CLM can revolutionize the way businesses nurture their customer base, enhance engagement, and secure recurring revenue streams.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Note: Apple announced that it would be reducing the App Store fee from 30% to 15% for most developers starting on January 1st, 2021. For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. How viable is it for companies to shop their apps outside of mainstream marketplaces?

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We are excited to share the release of three new groundbreaking features designed to turbocharge your subscription revenue! Offers API Offers API is a revenue catalyst that enables businesses to maximize revenue at every customer interaction. Check out our 1ClickPay product announcement.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Failed payments are part of running a subscription or SaaS business. It’s normal for credit card payments to get declined. But unless you have dunning management in place, chances are those failed payments are costing you a lot of money. In short, dunning is recovering failed payments from customers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In Part A , we outlined the paths to generating unique value for the healthcare system and patients. We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case. Whether or not a program integrates AI is less important than quality, safety, usability, and cost.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

When FastSpring’s Chief Product Officer Kurt Smith worked with growth-stage to Fortune 100 companies at Accel-KKR, he consistently saw pricing as one of the most essential growth levers they employed to meet their next revenue goal. Strategies for horizontal vs. vertical expansion models (18 minutes): Iterative Pricing With FastSpring.

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Blulogix

APRIL 12, 2024

This final blog post underscores how leveraging the inherent intricacies of subscription billing can propel businesses towards increased revenue, enhanced profitability, and elevated customer satisfaction. Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This piece, Part A, uses Clay Christensen’s Jobs to be Done lens, along with an assessment of viable product wedges and business models, to share what we see as the most promising applications of AI in enterprise healthcare. The tasks are labor-intensive, with low historical adoption of traditional software products to facilitate them.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

CRM (customer relationship management) software can help with just that. This translates into profitable and long-lasting business growth. ROI and Cost-Effectiveness: CRM is an economical and ROI-driven solution, which means that it yields a favourable return on investment over time. Well, be confused no more.

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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. We’re a cloud content management platform.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

The 80s and 90s were all about physical purchasing and installation of software CDs and floppy disks. The internet revolution led to the dawn of the executive era, where on-prem developed into on-demand, with factors like ROI and KPIs entering the picture. This metric is a strong future revenue indicator. The numbers say it all.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

Games as a Service acts as a continuous revenue service for developers, allowing them to break their reliance on the one-time purchase. With more games being developed every year, GaaS gives them a competitive advantage in the fight for user attention. Games as a Service Payment Options.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 9, 2021

OTT platforms were made popular by streaming services like Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, YouTube, and more. As you may have guessed, many platforms, like YouTube, are categorized under both VOD and OTT. As a result, you could monetize your brand faster and easier via VOD. This method is best suited to subscription-based businesses.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

Marketplace as a Service 52

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Asana builds productivity and task management solutions. Today, the company is a massively successful SaaS business and another example of the flywheel business model that creates demand at the individual user and leverages that interest to sell department and company-wide contracts. TTM Revenue, $M. SmartSheet.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

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. More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). That includes: A global focus.

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Baremetrics

MAY 13, 2021

Cash flow modelling software lets you use historical data from a time period to develop a forecast of your incoming cash from revenue. We’ve previously discussed creating a financial model that encompasses cash flow, operations, revenue, and forecasting. 1 Why does SaaS cash flow modelling matter?

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Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

History of the subscription pricing model: From newspapers to the rise of SaaS subscription. What is the subscription pricing model? The subscription pricing model is a business model in which a customer pays a recurring fee on a regular basis (weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually) to use a service or product.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. And that was the origin story.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

This includes everything from media content to enterprise software solutions and technology infrastructure. Read more: How to Evaluate If Pay per Use Billing Is Meant for Your SaaS Business What is the pay per use pricing model? Inadequate engineering can lead to unpredictable revenue for the pay per use billing model.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Many software and applications are there that claim to boost the performance of your business, but today, the focus of businesses is such technology that can ensure growth in the long run. Customer Relationship Management ( CRM ) software are the ultimate solution to help you.

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ProfitWell

MAY 15, 2020

If you haven’t transitioned to SaaS yet, I promise moving to a cloud-based computing system sounds more complicated than it actually is. There are many different cloud-based models for storing data, but this article is focused directly on SaaS. First, to nip any confusion in the bud, SaaS stands for “software as a service.”

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Totango

AUGUST 23, 2022

By charting the points in your SaaS customers’ journeys, you can plan how to deliver clients’ desired outcomes and satisfying experiences that promote subscription renewals and higher revenue. Touchpoints also include occasions when clients interact with your software app in a SaaS context. Delivering customer support.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

What does the future hold for B2B software? Focus on more flexible business models. Mike Tria, Head of Platform at Atlassian. One is connected to the payments business and what my company, Flywire, does, and the other is related to how organizations manage themselves. Graeme Wilson, Founder at Morphed.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

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? This model contrasts the traditional—and outdated—model where users purchase and install software on their computers or servers.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

You can create a successful streaming app by modeling the business practices of Netflix, Hulu, DirecTV NOW, YouTube TV, and HBO Now. The video streaming app market has exceeded over ten billion viewing hours. It culminates in an overview of how to you can create a streaming app.

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FastSpring

MAY 5, 2020

We love to see when a seller finds a unique way to customize our full-service ecommerce platform to deliver a great experience to their customers. Take a look at the Q&A below to hear from Nicolas Hefti, Founder, and Lead Developer at Appizy about his experience with adding Fastspring to their single page application.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Chargebee for your online payment processing needs? Stripe supports online payments for e-commerce businesses, while Chargebee helps SaaS companies set up and manage their recurring payments. For example, you can integrate Chargebee with Stripe accept payments through the Stripe payment gateway.

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