Software Platform Consulting

DECEMBER 11, 2022

I love a story about how a company dominated its industry primarily by changing its business model. The Prior Business Model: Ticketron. Ticketron’s business model was to install ticket dispensing kiosks at retail locations in cities. The New Business Model: Ticketmaster. Ironic, huh?).

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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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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With nine figures in revenue, Ariel and SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin talk about all things Navan, rebranding when you have brand equity, building B2B software for people, pricing and business models, and much more. Before Navan, there were different apps for managing expenses, events and meetings, payments, etc.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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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.

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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. In just the last year, Twilio saw revenue jump 57 percent year over year as customer accounts rose 23 percent. How AWS Does It.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. Built out a bunch of the orb across product, data, analytics to do much of the same work, to drive retention and monetization.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Format changes are usually only required around platform shifts already occurring or platform shifts a larger company is trying to drive. This is creating a new value proposition for your existing audience so that you can acquire, retain, and/or monetize them better. I have written more about platforms here.

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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. Ceci Stallsmith – Director of Platform Marketing @ Slack.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 25, 2023

FastSpring serves as a merchant of record for over 3500 companies that use our platform every day to sell digital products globally. We’ve analyzed aggregate sales data to give you insights into just how important Q4 can be for your software, SaaS, or other digital goods business. Set up a demo or check out our platform yourself.

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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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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Tim Kendall, the former President of Pinterest, repeated those words at an all hands to describe our strategy for monetization a few years ago. My role as an advisor to Greylock’s portfolio companies allows me to work with many different types of businesses: consumer social, marketplaces, SaaS, etc.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

To implement a usage-based pricing strategy, you must understand your value metrics, clearly communicate the pricing structure, set usage limits that trigger upgrade prompts, track usage across segments, and update your model as the product evolves. Pre-payment for pay-as-you-go plans could be on a monthly or annual basis.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 21, 2020

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. Events / conferences will never be the same. –Graeme Wilson, Founder at Morphed.

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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. Over the past few years, the company has been successfully using Fastspring as a reseller platform. Flexible and Customizable Platform. A final key point is payment.

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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. During the sales process, including sales appointment scheduling, meetings and payment processes. Customer support events.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 26, 2024

When evaluating the growth and valuation of SaaS businesses, Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) is arguably the most commonly used SaaS metric out of all of them. Read more: Metrics that Matter: A Deep Dive into MRR, ARR, Churn, and ARPU for Subscription Business Models What is SaaS MRR growth?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

As we cross the threshold from one decade to another, it’s natural to look back at the previous 10 years and try to make sense of events. Viewed this way, it might seem like the 2010s were less eventful than the 2000s – after all, the tech giants of today are largely the same as a decade ago.

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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.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 27, 2019

After the cash lands in your account (and after you’ve cleaned up from the inevitable champagne-and-pizza party), you’ll no doubt want to update your accounts to reflect your newfound revenue. Cash isn’t revenue. Even though the money might be in the bank, you can’t count it as revenue until you’ve earned it. Not so fast.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

TL;DR The SaaS renewal process involves a series of actions on/before the renewal date that lead to a customer’s renewal. A good SaaS renewal strategy helps drive customer retention , increases the customer lifetime value , and improves your monthly recurring revenue. Increase monthly recurring revenue.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Open source: These products have an open-source (free) component and typically monetize based on what upmarket buyers might need through proprietary features, managed hosting, or services. Open-source audiences demand high value in exchange for payment, but consistently innovate and provide impressive feedback loops for commercial purposes.

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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. It was maybe like a 4 or 5 person team.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 30, 2019

We talk expansion revenue with Kajabi, and behind the scenes of this year’s Recur Boston conference with event master Erin Phinney. We’re hearing word that Boston-based Flywire , a global payment SaaS platform and processor, just formed a partnership with Bank of America. This really comes down to expansion revenue.

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SaaSHolic

APRIL 24, 2023

— Why is now a great time to build in Brazil? ( Angela Strange & Hugo Barra ) TL;DR: – Every company will eventually become a fintech company, with financial services becoming a horizontal platform. Examples of companies that embody this vision include Uber and Lyft, which act as financial services platforms for drivers.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Read more: Optimize your Freemium Subscriptions Conversion Rate and Business Health with SubscriptionFlow Advantages of the Membership and Subscription Models in Healthcare The thing with the subscription-based healthcare model is that in it the service provider and the seeker both benefit a lot.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Sign up for the Baremetrics free trial and start seeing more into your subscription revenues now. Using Baremetrics to monitor your business metrics 1. Monthly recurring revenue (MRR) 3. Average revenue per user (ARPU) 5. Many of these are directly related to the SaaS business model. Table of Contents.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 29, 2020

If you’re a DIY-type person, then your technical abilities will play a significant factor in choosing the right platform. Beginners should aim for platforms that don’t require coding. There are website builders out there that provide you with all of these capabilities out of the box from a single platform. Dropshipping.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Or maybe ARR, depending on your model. Average Revenue per Customer. It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners. MRR, obviously.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

The promise at the heart of the SaaS business model has always been that by sacrificing relatively large one-time payments, you’d maximize revenue over the long-term lifetime of the customer. In four letters, the promise of the SaaS model is CLTV (Customer Lifetime Value). The Customer Success Paradox.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

That’s never been truer for software businesses in particular than in the past 10-15 years, with the internet stimulating an explosion in the number of viable revenue models. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular revenue models used today — why they’re popular, why they work, and why they will (or won’t) work for you.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

If you’re not sure if FastSpring is the right payment system and merchant of record (MOR) for your B2C and/or B2B SaaS company, we want to know what questions and concerns you have so we can take that into consideration as we continue building out our features and products.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

The Netflix on-demand delivery method developed into a dominant media platform. Its business model grew to a valuation of over $100 billion with subscribers that exceeded 118 million. There are four critical elements to the Netflix business model that can be applied to any Video-On-Demand (VOD) enterprise.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. Rob Gonzalez: So if you were building a commerce platform today, for example, you wouldn’t do it as single tenant, effectively, deployments.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Leverage event data to perform funnel analysis and identify areas of friction within the conversion process, then fix them. Event tracking, where you define the “server-side” events you want to track (a purchase, the submission of a form, or achieving a goal). Creating custom events with Userpilot.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business?”

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Payments has been around for thousands of years.

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