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. Namely, retention!!

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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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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 4, 2023

Image: Pixabay Subscription-based businesses are everywhere nowadays. And it doesn’t matter whether you’re seeking recurring deliveries of cosmetic products , tasty snacks , or gourmet dog food — whatever the niche, it’s highly likely that there’s a subscription service built to cater to it. trillion by 2025.

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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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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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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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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. Gross Retention = 90% +. Recurring Revenue = 90% +.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The Art of Flexibility: How to Master Dynamic Pricing Models in Subscription Billing By BluLogix Team Adapting to the Pulse of the Market for Maximized Revenue In today’s rapidly evolving digital marketplace, static pricing models are becoming a relic of the past.

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Sixteen Ventures

AUGUST 14, 2022

The people in charge of your company – the Executives, Board, and Investors – want to improve a metric called NRR (Net Revenue Retention or NDR, Net Dollar Retention, if you prefer) for one very simple reason: it plays a direct role in the value of the company. Why they’re investing in you. Let me explain.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Read more: From Headlines to Attrition: A Churn Analysis of Newspaper Subscription Trends Benefits of Magazine CRM Software for Publishers After having learnt why CRM for magazine publishers is important, let us now, in this section, go over the ways in which CRM for the newspaper and publishing industry benefits its users.

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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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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

But now, achieving all 5 metrics that Bartos presents will attract capital to get fair valuations for your business. The fundamentals make your business attractive. In today’s market, you’ll need to convince investors that you’re a worthwhile investment. They’re simple but not always easy. You do that by showing momentum.

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User Pilot

APRIL 29, 2024

A good SaaS renewal strategy helps drive customer retention , increases the customer lifetime value , and improves your monthly recurring revenue. The renewal rate is calculated as the number of customers who renew their subscription divided by the total number of customers up for renewal at any given period.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

So unless there’s some really obvious or transformative thing to do in your business today, it’s worth waiting a little bit to invest heavily in that. We’re experimenting with it, but we haven’t made a massive investment. Alex: Let’s dive into your business models.

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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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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. This post is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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Valuize Consulting

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Net Dollar Retention is the most important valuation metric in the technology industry. With all new and 80% of historical software vendors now operating on subscription-based business model (Gartner, 2018 ), the adoption of subscription and consumption revenue models has achieved dominance. NDR Is Your MVP.

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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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Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Either way - it’s clear these models are becoming cheaper and more effective, which is an exciting future for AI! I think we’re about to see an explosion of good business model AI applications in the near future. Companies that do not disclose subscription rev have been left out of the analysis and are listed as NA.

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

It’s hard to imagine a world where analysis didn’t understand recurring, subscription based revenue for technology products. Salesforce’s IPO is also seen as a test of a new business model that could shake up the software industry. As a result, founders with healthy SaaS businesses are hearing “no” more often.

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Baremetrics

MAY 13, 2021

Leveraging a cash flow modelling software will help you simplify the process even further. If you’re a SaaS or eCommerce business, you have a unique situation with cash flow because of the importance of retention, recurring revenue, and dunning. Start with a free trial to make your financial modelling seamless.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 28, 2023

There are many people who have amazing SaaS business ideas, however, they do not have enough money to invest so that their ideas can be materialized. These ideas can be business ideas or some new project idea for which a hefty amount of money is needed. What should be done? Give up the idea?

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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. Companies that do not disclose subscription rev have been left out of the analysis and are listed as NA.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

But growing with a usage-model is not as straightforward as traditional subscription SaaS. Transitioning to a fully usage-based model can be as seismic of a shift as going from on-prem to SaaS. Some folks might have feared that investors would hate usage-based pricing because customers aren’t locked into a subscription.

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Blulogix

OCTOBER 11, 2023

A collection of recorded webinars and videos on Software-as-a-Service and Subscription Management Webinars & Videos Understanding Mediation in Managed Services A best-in-class mediation engine can have a transformative impact on an MSP’s profitability. A lower leakage rate indicates improved revenue assurance.

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User Pilot

MARCH 25, 2024

Revenue-based valuations are more suitable for SaaS startups because it doesn’t take into account upfront investment which affects SDE or EBITDA negatively. Revenue-based valuation SaaS companies aren’t like most other businesses and so neither SDE nor EBITDA are accurate ways of assessing their value.

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

AUGUST 8, 2015

The SaaS customer acquisition machine That’s exactly how the software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model is supposed to work. You invest money up front to acquire a customer, and over time you collect enough revenue from the customer to recover the money. They'll leave. And they leave.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

What was perhaps less predictable was the ensuing prevalence of the subscription-based business model. And it’s not just the startups playing this game – Steve Jobs was proudly averse to the notion of subscriptions, and now Apple spends most of its earning calls boasting about the performance of its services division.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

2020 is the year of Corona Virus thus far but it’s also the year in which the subscription business model is excelling. Subscription companies have become incredibly popular in the past two decades. Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software.

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Totango

JULY 18, 2018

With the right tools, Customer Support teams can become agents of Customer Success, and their work can lead to increased customer satisfaction, customer retention, and bottom-line growth. The rise of recurring revenue business models. The current state of Customer Support. Customer Support vs. Customer Success.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

ARR is an essential subscription metric that identifies the recurring revenue expected on an annual basis from the subscriber base. When calculating this metric, it is important to only use contracted recurring revenue and not one-time payments from services or any other one-time payment. . Usage Fee-Based ARR.

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Valuize Consulting

APRIL 30, 2020

It will result in faster sales cycles, less monthly/annual recurring revenue pipeline burn and higher productivity from your Sales and Customer Success team members who are involved in the sales cycle. This data could include vertical, age, business model, number of employees, etc. of your solution?

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User Pilot

MARCH 31, 2023

We all know that successful onboarding is especially important for SaaS companies since they depend on a subscription-based business model. It should be able to make users understand your product’s value so that they continue using it by investing their money. User retention rate.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this guide, we’ll explore twelve tactics to pump this metric up—from personalizing experiences to offering proactive assistance—and see how they can help you nurture customer retention and growth. Segment customers based on usage patterns, engagement, subscription tier, and their journey stage.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. Tracking your customer retention and churn metrics help you understand your growth opportunities. To compare, for 89% of them acquiring new users is a high priority ( sour ce ).

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This step is important, because once debt ​​​​is drawn, a lender’s ability to recoup their principal will be primarily driven by future equity funding going into the business, either from existing or new investors. It’s also important for companies to walk through their business model and demonstrate how they make money.

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