SaaStr

MAY 27, 2025

The Second IPO Strategy Is Real Sometimes you need to go private to reinvent your business model. Plan for the possibility of multiple liquidity events. Classic buy-fix-sell. Five Lessons for Today’s B2B Founders 1. While consumer apps chase viral growth, enterprise infrastructure compounds quietly. Focus on AI-readiness.

Acquisition

Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These events tick one or more of these boxes: Relevant topics: You’ll walk away with strategies that actually work and insights on trends shaping social media, marketing, and business today. So, let’s dive into the events you’ll want on your calendar for 2025.

Social Media

Stax

MARCH 11, 2025

You need the services of a reliable payment service provider to securely accept and process card payments and the right provider for you will be one that supports your preferred payment methods, sales model (one-time payments or subscriptions), and geographical reach (international sales).

Payment Methods

Stax

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A good fit will be a payment services provider that intimately understands your industry, with a proven track record of adapting to evolutionary changes in your industry niche. For example, an online-only business can opt for a cheaper payment services provider that only offers payment gateways and no equipment.

Payment Services

Natalia Luneva

AUGUST 7, 2025

Also, include your business in local directories and on platforms like Yelp, Angi, and Houzz. Get Involved in the Community: Sponsor local events, participate in charity projects, or join your local Chamber of Commerce. Promote this program on your website, invoices, and marketing materials so people know it exists.

Payment Methods

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The SaaS industry is constantly evolving, and for many companies in the space, that means having to evolve their business model. However, that doesn’t necessarily mean a “pivot”, but more often the evolution is a shifting business model as the company scales and the user base grows and changes. Gaining new customers.

Business Model

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

SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2024

Sep 10-12 in SF Bay Area, once again across our 40+ acre indoor-outdoor campus at the San Mateo County Events Center. With so much change in SaaS, Cloud, and AI the past few years, it’s albeit become much harder to predict so many things — including how events will go.

Benchmarks

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Until recently, only industry titans like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google could successfully and effectively harness continuous, real-time data use statistics to fuel events-based billing models. Twilio’s pricing structures include offering customers monthly recurring charges or pay-as-you-go options.

AWS

FastSpring

APRIL 23, 2024

Depending on your needs, sellers may run into a number of potential limitations with the Paddle platform: Paddle doesn’t accept as many alternative payment methods as other MoR partners. The subscription management system doesn’t support multi-product transactions. Digital invoices. Subscription and recurring payment collection.

Payment Methods

Point Nine Land

MAY 11, 2023

Intuit, Adobe, Oracle, and a few other older software companies have managed to transition to a subscription-based business model. Generative AI is an asteroid impact event for B2B software , but unlike most on-premise software companies in the 2000s, the SaaS leaders of today aren’t doomed. Hope to see you there !

Generative AI

FastSpring

APRIL 17, 2024

Join us at the Palmer Events Center, in Austin, TX, from May 13th to 15th, for an extraordinary event dedicated to all things SaaS. We handle every payment need from subscription management to tax collection, remittance and more so your business can go farther, faster. We’d love to talk with you in person!

Payment Services

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

How to focus your outreach around a critical event to score the RIGHT accounts. The Critical Event: (08:50). ? How Impact and Critical Events Are Related (15:26). ? Fast forward to today, a time where the subscription (SaaS) business model is impacting organizations big and small. ADD_THIS_TEXT.

Banking

FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2024

Ready to join Europe’s biggest startup and tech event with the leading startups, investors, executives, and media from 174 countries? Join us at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, in Paris, France, on May 22nd – 25th, for an extraordinary event dedicated to all things tech. We’d love to talk with you in person!

Merchant Services

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

AUGUST 8, 2015

Whatever tactics you use - search engine marketing, events, email, webinars, etc. The SaaS customer acquisition machine That’s exactly how the software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model is supposed to work. The vendor promises to deliver certain functionality over the course of the subscription. they all cost money.

Payment Solutions

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 12, 2018

We also cover why Dribbble has remained invite-only, how grassroots events have grown the Dribbble brand, and much more. A lot of the features in the Dribbble Pro subscription were built in reaction to requests we’ve gotten from the community. Growing a brand through meetups and events. That informs our roadmap.

Business

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

We have a whole range of events organized on our platforms pretty much around the world. Giving anyone the ability to create and organize events seamlessly. We started Eventbrite with mostly a tool for event organizers to be able to sell tickets very quickly. We didn’t come from the even business.

Payments

Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Contemporary healthcare subscriptions are a recent development in the sector. Although most people are familiar with the idea of a subscription model, it could be difficult to comprehend how it applies to the medical industry. They can forecast revenue with the recurring pricing model and adjust their budget accordingly.

Healthcare

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Unlike encryption, payment tokenization is centrally managed and offers end-to-end encryption and payment flexibility for chargebacks, recurring payments, and refunds. This is especially true for SaaS companies offering recurring and invoiced payment capabilities from within their platforms.

Payment Services

Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

However, a SaaS company providing global HR and payroll solutions may have a few hundred customers paying a monthly or annual feein other words, making recurring payments over a longer period of time. Churn is the percentage of customers that end their subscriptions within a certain amount of time. Churn rate.

Scale

Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

Introduction You want a subscription model for your business that increases revenue and keeps customers. You think about either Stripe , a payment platform, or Recurly , a customer-driven one to handle your billing. Decide on one or both depending on how you see your business and its success. Which do you choose?

Payment Services

FastSpring

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Upsell bigger subscriptions with more features. Convert freemium customers to paid subscriptions with an irresistible sale. If freemium is a big part of your business model, a strong holiday sale might be the lever to finally convert users who love the features they have access to, but who know they could really use a lot more of them.

SaaS Payments

Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Sign up for the Baremetrics free trial and start seeing more into your subscription revenues now. Contingent liabilities Contingent liabilities are liabilities that may occur, depending on how a yet-to-be-determined future event plays out. Many of these are directly related to the SaaS business model. Table of Contents.

SaaS Payments

CloudGeometry

MARCH 3, 2022

It’s easy to get lost in the noise of “SaaS monetization makes the world go round,” “Subscriptions mean printing money,” and other hype. The more money you will have left to add more customers, get them committed to subscriptions, and keep them away from your competitors. So why put it on our shortlist?

Well Architected Framework

Neil Patel

APRIL 9, 2021

This method is best suited to subscription-based businesses. For example, fitness coaches can use VOD platforms to offer monthly subscriptions for on-demand fitness classes. This is essential for brands that rely on live events in their business model. Subscription Video on Demand (SVOD).

Payments

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. For extension platforms, this can become a significant part of the business model.

Payments

User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Looking for a good event tracking tool and wondering which one of Heap, Pendo, and Baremetrics is the best option for your SaaS company? There are plenty of tools for event tracking on review sites, but they don’t make the choice any easier. TL;DR Event tracking is the monitoring of every interaction made by a user.

Payments

User Pilot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

This pricing model lowers the barrier to entry for new users and creates a seamless path toward account expansion. Usage-based pricing could use tiers, units, volumes, or impact as its basis for subscription cost. This is why SaaS companies with a usage-based pricing model tend to have higher retention rates.

Pricing

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

Navint

JANUARY 29, 2019

Highlight Video: Explaining the Subscription Economy: Why Your Company’s Future May Depend On It. The topic, of course, was the subscription economy and Tien’s new book, Subscribed. As the leading consulting firm that has a practice dedicated to subscription and recurring revenue businesses, Navint sponsored the event.

Subscription

Subscription Flow

MAY 10, 2024

To keep up with the modern donors’ purchasing habits, nonprofit organizations or NPOs can set-up recurring donation systems in-line with these donors’ spending preferences. Subscription-based business models have increased in number as media streaming platforms like Netflix and delivery services like Amazon have risen in popularity.

Payment Solutions

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

We’re really proud of the Global SaaS Leaders community already, and we’re proud to provide an international networking and discussion space with features such as live interview events, member intro videos, and diverse expert input. About FastSpring.

SaaS Payments

Unbounce

MARCH 23, 2020

But if worries about your campaigns and software subscriptions are piling stress onto an already stressful situation, we want to take that pressure off. Brick and mortar restaurants and small businesses are readjusting their business models to keep serving and keep people employed.

Healthcare

FastSpring

MAY 5, 2020

A few years ago we started with a business model relying on selling license keys of our software. In February we shifted to a subscription model with three plans each on a monthly or yearly billing cycle. We were convinced of the benefits of being able to grant immediate access to our service after subscription purchase.

Payment Methods

Neil Patel

MAY 6, 2021

Beyond that, this analysis lets you know if your endeavor is viable or if it will be impossible to achieve financial success given your business model. Not only does your BEP alert you to a specific event that should signal your move out of the red, but it also lets you know if you need to adjust your business spend.

Payment Methods

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. Reminding customers to renew subscriptions. These are some of the most outstanding touchpoints relevant to SaaS business models.

B2B

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Put simply, enduring companies have moats which defend their business model - they are a competitive advantage. There are many examples of businesses with moats and they’re characterised as being difficult to replicate (which is why they’re desirable) - below are several examples: Moat. Subscription business model.

Underperforming Technical Team