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The 6 Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What are The Most Common Mistakes Founders Make When They Are Just Starting to Scale Revenue? One of the biggest mistakes I see after $1m in trying to enter new market segments, new verticals, where you have zero traction. It’s one thing to invest in an area where only 5% of your business is today.

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

Subscription Flow

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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5 Stages of the Recurring Revenue Maturity Curve

Navint

There is a correlation between business performance and the maturity of your recurring revenue business, but correlation doesn’t always turn out the way you would expect. We’ve developed a Recurring Revenue Maturity Curve that we use to help clients navigate these potential pitfalls and enable recurring revenue growth.

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Stop Following These 10 Terrible Pieces of SaaS Advice with SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin (SaaStr Podcast 682)

SaaStr

Every day, a founder doing millions or tens of millions in revenue says they can’t afford something that is ROI positive. With the high margins, recurring revenue, and upsell opportunities we have in Saas, you’ll never see a great VP of any role not be accretive. PLG aren’t magic letters that fix a broken business model.

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Customer Retention vs Acquisition Cost: Which One Should You Focus?

User Pilot

You should put more focus on acquisition than retention when you’re launching new features /products or aiming to expand your customer base, or when the market share or churn rate is low. Customer retention requires more focus when you have high churn rates , high acquisition costs, and a business model reliant on recurring revenue.

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Customer Segmentation Models: A Smarter Approach

Baremetrics

That's the size of the company, annual revenue, number of employees, market share, etc. Geographic: Sometimes, this is a subset of the demographic segment. Value-based: This segment is grouped by the economic value the group seeks. Needs-based: This grouping is defined by each segment's particular needs.

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Pricing Transformations In 2021

OpenView Labs

In fact, in Q4 the public companies in OpenView’s PLG Index were trading for a 19x revenue multiple , or a 45% premium compared to the broader SaaS index. Many companies are shifting from resilience to adaptation, which means that business models will be changing. The post-pandemic economy is likely to be fluid.

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