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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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

The 80s and 90s were all about physical purchasing and installation of software CDs and floppy disks. This philosophy applies to both low and high touch business models, where the vendor has to eliminate all potential usability problems that may arise. Once the value proposition goes through, the chance of upselling skyrockets.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Macro Impact On Public Cloud Software Over The Past Year Cloud stocks dropped in 2022 in a severe market pullback event that Bessemer Venture Partners call The SaaSacre. So, let’s look at the tactics Bessemer Venture Partners portfolio companies have used to transition to a more efficient growth model. Let’s find out.

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Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

or “ What are the best tips I can get in terms of annual vs monthly subscription models ?”. To shed light on your doubts and questions, we have compared and analyzed the pros and cons of these two subscription pricing models , knowing how essential it is for your SaaS success. What is the subscription pricing model?

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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. Product-lead growth continues to be one of the best ways to rapidly scale a software company, and best practices are increasingly shared and understood. Take carbon pricing.

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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. For instance, perhaps you position your product as a best-of-breed solution that can be deployed against a specific use case with a faster implementation and time-to-ROI than others.

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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 so that was what you’re investing in.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 5, 2024

Understanding these terms is crucial, as they form the building blocks of any subscription-based business model. Let’s explore the key definitions that every business owner, finance professional, and product manager should know. Subscription Billing 1. Importance: A high churn rate can erode your recurring revenue quickly.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One hundred-odd years later, the types of businesses driving the global economy may have changed, but the lesson stays the same: It’s about efficiency. For modern Software as a Service (SaaS) companies, the automobile is replaced by primarily digital and cloud-based solutions and software.

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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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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But if you’re not dealing in mergers and acquisitions every day like Carl is, you might have a lot of questions about how to best position your business if you’re interested in selling. Today we’re going to be talking about a really interesting topic, I think, what brands look for when considering acquiring software companies.

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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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FastSpring

JANUARY 29, 2020

This way, we can ensure that we’re not only improving our ecommerce solution to better meet your needs, but also the ever-changing demands of the digital economy. Want to learn more about the five ecommerce payment trends shaping 2020? Push for smarter payment processing. A push for smarter payment processing.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 25, 2019

This way, we can ensure that we’re not only improving our ecommerce solution to better meet your needs, but also the ever-changing demands of the digital economy. Want to learn more about the 5 ecommerce payments trends shaping 2019? A push for smarter payment processing. Keep reading to find out more. billion , a 19.3%

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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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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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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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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2015

SaaS Enabled Marketplaces employ elegant business models. SEMs can generate revenue in four ways: charge the buyer and/or supplier a software fee & charge the buyer and/or supplier a marketplace fee. So which type of pricing should SEMs pursue? Does the sector lend itself to freemium software distribution?

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Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

Released in 1979, VisiCalc was the first “killer app” of finance (on the Apple IIe!), and one of the things that allowed KKR and other early firms to model outcomes and make so much money. In the background, there was also a profoundly impactful technological revolution called the spreadsheet. billion, against almost $2.8

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Neil Patel

MARCH 23, 2021

A service marketplace is a website or app for buying and selling services. It’s easy to build: These days, there are various marketplace software providers to make the process of launching your site quick and simple. Luckily, there are quite a few ways you can do this without investing in paid search or social media advertising.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

Features like unique billing and subscription services have completely shifted the gaming business model. In a Games as a Service environment, payments are unique and personalized, offering a wide range of accessibility to incoming gamers. Games as a Service Payment Options. Games as a Service Business Models.

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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. That’s the good news. Here’s the bad news. Why does that happen?

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Baremetrics

MARCH 7, 2021

Many products and services online are beginning to adopt subscription-based systems for their billing processes. Interested in reading about true experiences, challenges, and what the road to success really looks like for businesses? 5 Pricing Plans. Check-out our Blog and get your free Baremetrics trial today!

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

Subscription businesses rely on Baremetrics to segment customer attributes Get deep insights into MRR, churn, LTV and more to grow your business. PQLs - are tagged when they use or have used a brand’s product and show signs of getting more invested in the product. Try Baremetrics Free.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

Although the San Jose-based company has always been a leader in developing world-class creative software like Photoshop and Illustrator, its go-to-market model (licensing boxed software) eventually slowed it down. Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response.

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Stax

JANUARY 17, 2024

Automated Clearing House (ACH) payments are a type of electronic bank-to-bank payment system in the US. Unlike payments facilitated by card networks like Visa or Mastercard, ACH payments are managed by a body called the National Automated Clearing House Association (NACHA). Let’s get started.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The subscription revenue model is hardly new. It’s been a staple of industries—publications, utilities, and, more recently, software—since it first emerged in the 17th century. Customers enjoy the convenience of auto-renewals and having access to a high-value offer for a low ongoing investment. While your $8.99

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Customers of these SaaS companies also referred to as “Small and Medium Businesses” or SMBs, need the same software solutions as Enterprise companies but have resource constraints that prevent them from using the top SaaS vendors. Being “stuck in the middle” drives SMM SaaS companies to invest in one of two strategies.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 8, 2019

For years, I’ve seen companies start their pricing journey by simply pulling a number out of their hat and calling it a day. Some get close, guided by their competitors’ prices (which were likely pulled from their own hats). We’ve talked before about pricing strategy being like a dartboard. What is price optimization?

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

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. . Contracted expansion revenue i.e. add-ons or upgrades that affect the annual subscription price of the customer should be included. .

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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.

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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. A subscription company is a business that sells their products on a scheduled time basis. So why the subscription business model? The subscription business model is here to stay.

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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. The period refers to a month or year depending on which payment option you offer or which of them is more popular. Software companies that serve large organizations experience a 6-10% churn rate.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Why Customer Support is Important For SaaS Businesses Best Practices for Effective Customer Support How to Measure the Success of Your Customer Support System Are Your Customers Happy With Your Customer Support System? The process of recovering failed customer payments is called dunning. What is SaaS Customer Support?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

To date they have raised over $113m in financing from some of the best in the business including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint, just to name a few. Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster.

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The Angel VC

MARCH 22, 2012

It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2 Krish Subramanian: We are software engineers by training.

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