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. Unique Ways to Use the B2B SaaS Business Model to Leverage Your Business’s Revenue Growth 1.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

One way in which subscription management software can be of help to their clients is by implementing measures to track their revenue and churn rates, as well as create, update, cancel, and renew subscriptions. Multiple options for subscription management are one of the advantages of subscription management software.

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Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

Whether you are a startup owner, a manager of a growing business or the CEO of an established company, you might find yourself asking questions like “ Should our SaaS subscription model be monthly, annually or both ?” or “ What are the best tips I can get in terms of annual vs monthly subscription models ?”.

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Blulogix

MARCH 21, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Elevating Customer Retention in B2B Subscriptions For B2B subscriptions, customer retention is a pivotal factor underpinning the long-term success and sustainability of businesses.

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Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Transforming the Technology Industry: The Power of Usage-Based Pricing By BluLogix Team The technology industry is in the midst of a profound transformation. Traditional pricing models, such as fixed subscriptions and one-time purchases, no longer align with the dynamic and ever-evolving nature of this sector.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 5, 2024

Key Definitions in Subscription Billing: Demystifying the Jargon By BluLogix Team Welcome to the fourth installment of our comprehensive guide on selecting the right subscription billing platform. Before we go much further, let’s go deep into essential definitions and concepts in the world of subscription billing.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

SaaS companies deliver software applications over the internet on a subscription basis, simplifying access and management for users. While they operate under different business models, ISVs and SaaS share similarities in software development, cross-platform accessibility, and industry reach. What are SaaS companies?

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The essence of the Subscription Economy lies in its ability to forge lasting relationships between businesses and consumers, transcending traditional transactional models. For instance, subscription businesses observe customer retention rates, customer acquisition, and whatnot.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The subscription revenue model is hardly new. But in the past few years, subscriptions have seen a bit of a resurgence. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to find an industry that hasn't seen at least one subscription success story: Cars. Even the humble houseplant doesn’t seem immune to the subscription economy.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 13, 2020

There’s a question that every startup founder, subscription service provider, and ecommerce store owner, needs to ask themselves on a regular basis: Is this the most effective price for my product or service? Especially if you’re trying to get ahead in today’s highly competitive SaaS and subscription markets.

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Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The Top 10 Pain-Points for Usage-Based Subscription Billing Services and How to Fix Them By BluLogix Team In today’s business landscape, consumption-based subscriptions are all the rage, and for good reason. Who wouldn’t want a piece of that recurring revenue pie, increased profitability, and happy customers?

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Why Should You Launch a Subscription Box? According to MarketsandMarkets , the subscription and recurring billing market will grow to around $7.8 The premise is simple.

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Blulogix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

How Your Usage-Based Pricing Strategy Can Help You Stay Competitive in the Crowded Market By BluLogix Team In today’s fast-paced business landscape, staying competitive is more challenging than ever. One powerful tool in your arsenal is a well-crafted usage-based pricing strategy. Usage-based pricing caters to both.

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Blulogix

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Streamlining Success: Five Keys to Automating Usage-Based Billing for SaaS By BluLogix Team Don’t forget to sign up now to learn more about how to implement usage based pricing models in our upcoming webinar with MGI Research. Ensure that invoices are clear and easy for customers to understand.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

Subscribe now ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) vs ERR (Experimental Runrate Revenue) ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is one of the most popular SaaS (Non-GAAP) metrics. In it's truest form, ARR is used by pure SaaS business models to describe the aggregate annual value of the entire customer set.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

Welcome to the third edition of the Pricing Transformations series. Pricing Transformations in 2020. Pricing Transformations in 2021. Pricing models must be adaptable – 4/5 on this. We took off a point as there are still too few people who understand pricing models well enough to make them adaptable.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

This is why we’re seeing more and more SaaS companies—Datadog, Twilio, AWS, Snowflake, and Stripe, to name a few—find success with product led growth paired with usage-based pricing. Usage-based pricing will be the key to successful monetization in the future.”. Usage-based pricing is in all layers of the tech stack.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

This flexible mindset creates just the right conditions for embracing evolving business models and new metrics. A general understanding of the SaaS business model grew as the SaaS sector matured. as a common language to analyze a cloud business. So, where should cloud businesses go from here?

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Sixteen Ventures

AUGUST 14, 2022

NRR is often referred to as the “North Star” metric for SaaS and Subscription companies as, simply put, higher NRR = higher company valuation. On the other hand, what’s been proven time and again – around the world and across different company types, funding stages, business models, etc. Why they’re investing in you.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 7, 2021

Read what you should know about subscription management and why it is important in recent times! Many products and services online are beginning to adopt subscription-based systems for their billing processes. Apart from the recurring revenue, subscription billing systems also offer appreciable stability to businesses.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Let’s break down these definitions so we know where we’re at: SAAS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. Why Changing Business Models and Customers is Always Hard. 1 Saturated Growth in SAAS. Old habits die hard.

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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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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Fast forward to today when most software companies use a Subscription as a service (SaaS business model , and things aren’t as simple. You have to deal with recurring payments, multiple pricing plans, annual vs monthly payments, add-ons, variable payments and the list goes on.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

2021 has proven to be the year of usage-based pricing. . 45% of expansion stage SaaS companies now say they have a usage-based or consumption-based pricing model, according to data from OpenView’s forthcoming 2021 Finance and Operations benchmarks report. . Product: Treat product investments as a revenue-generating expense.

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Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The cost decrease is very meaningful - it’s lowers the barrier to experiment with AI, and also lowers the barrier for these AI functionalities to be pushed into production (because vendors don’t have to increase price nearly as much). This is for information purposes and should not be construed as an investment recommendation.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

The subscription model is booming. Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software. Without further ado, let's look at nine subscription-based companies absolutely nailing it in 2020. What is a subscription company? So why the subscription business model?

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 31, 2023

How Will AI Effect Software Business Models? Like many, I’ve been thinking about how AI and foundation models will effect the world of software. In particular - how AI will effect software business models. If we head to their pricing page we’ll see that the most popular plan is $8 / user / month.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 11, 2020

You hear the terms SaaS, subscription, term licenses and perpetual license software tossed around frequently. The terms aren’t universally understood, nor are the implications of each on the financial model of a company, so the following is an effort to provide an overview.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 3, 2019

Unfortunately, all of the focus on product-market fit glosses over a concept that’s equally as important to a startup’s success: pricing. Product-market-price fit. 2x more likely to pursue the wrong business model. I propose we reframe product-market fit to product-market-price fit. Finding the right pricing model.

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Chart Mogul

APRIL 2, 2021

Everything you need to consider before you’re ready to make the Build vs Buy decision for your subscription analytics platform. In this post, we want to share some of that knowledge in order to help companies that are trying to decide whether they should build or buy their subscription analytics software. Further reading.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

And because of the digital nature of SaaS businesses and their subscription-based business models, the ability to collect data on how the company is performing is easier and faster than ever. Enter the SaaS Magic Number, which measures the return on sales and marketing spend in generating new subscription revenue.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 26, 2019

The when becomes a critical input into designing your pricing model. Working with a large B2B SaaS company that has a long implementation and configuration cycle, we uncovered contradictions between their pricing and how the customer was getting value. In reality, we think this is rare, but a lot of pricing models assume this.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2015

SaaS Enabled Marketplaces employ elegant business models. At Redpoint, we’ve invested in more than 15 marketplaces and have evaluated dozens more, including more than 20 SEMs in the past year. So which type of pricing should SEMs pursue? In addition, a startup must determine what rake to charge. SEM or FSEM?

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Enter usage-based pricing. In this guide, we’ll take a deep dive into usage-based pricing, how it works and who it’s for. What is usage-based pricing? What are the advantages of usage-based pricing? What are the advantages of usage-based pricing? What are the downsides of usage-based pricing?

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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.

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Blulogix

OCTOBER 11, 2023

5 Ways Managed Services Providers (MSPs) Add Top-Line Revenue By BluLogix Team Don’t forget to sign up now to learn more about how to implement usage based pricing models in our upcoming webinar with MGI Research. A collection of recorded webinars and videos on Software-as-a-Service and Subscription Management Webinars & Videos 1.

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