Stax

JANUARY 29, 2024

In today’s fast-paced business landscape, efficient and seamless payment processing is paramount to your bottom line. As industry leaders in billing software, our mission is to help our customers work more efficiently, recover more revenue, and effortlessly collect invoices. Learn More What is a Billing Platform?

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Businesses are shifting from rigid, consumption-based business models to flexible ones that let users pay for the goods and services they use only as much as they use them. Therefore, reengineering the value chain and realigning teams to the new business model are necessary for this major shift.

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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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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SVB collapsed, market multiples are down, yet the IPO window is re-opening, and we have a platform shift to AI that’s exciting everybody. 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. Let’s find out.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. TL;DR ISVs develop and distribute software products independently and often collaborate with hardware manufacturers and platform providers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 23, 2024

Rocket Mortgage has 30 years of data around mortgages in different markets. They can build a much better model around predicting than anybody else could on the outside. Alex: Let’s dive into your business models. Alex: The other side of the equation on customer acquisition is monetization.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 17, 2023

Most subscription billing platforms let you: Automate invoicing and payments. Customize and manage one or more subscription and trial models. Provide a self-service portal to customers so they can manage their accounts (including payment information, seats, and more). Automate Payment Failure Handling and Reduce Churn.

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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. The Types of Platforms. Integration Platforms.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2022

So this year has been rough on SaaS and Cloud stocks, with multiples down 75% from a year ago and the markets overall down 50% or more. It’s barely trading at 3x revenue. Payments and e-commerce drag blended gross margins down to 60%. But payments can be low gross margin, and they are for Wix. Wix is one.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 22, 2021

Subscription revenue can be defined most simply as a model which generates income from customers through recurring fees that are paid at regular intervals. These can be weekly, monthly, or annual payments. Before we get into the more complicated stuff, let’s consider the difference between earning revenue and collecting revenue.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

And it worked; the Model-T was the most-produced car in the world until 1975. So, of course when it came to revenue-driving activities, Ford knew that success in marketing—and business—wasn’t about how much your marketing spend is, but how efficiently you spend it. What is the SaaS Magic Number?

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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. We’re a cloud content management platform.

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Stax

MARCH 6, 2024

For businesses offering subscriptions, memberships, retainers, and other recurring services, recurring billing is a powerful solution to streamline processes and ultimately enhance revenue generation. Consider this: Consumers are already conditioned to the subscription model. Learn More What is Recurring Billing?

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The pre-revenue startup phase has a host of stresses that hopefully disappear as the company begins to earn revenue. Depending on the amount invested, it is possible that all members of the team are working full time jobs to support themselves and then doing that again to push their startup onto the market. Table of Contents.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 1, 2021

EA Games, for example, increased its market value from $4 billion to $33 billion in just six years after introducing GaaS content. Games as a Service acts as a continuous revenue service for developers, allowing them to break their reliance on the one-time purchase. Games as a Service Payment Options.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 9, 2021

As a business or marketing professional, when consumer habits change , you must pay attention. 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. We cover both in this guide.

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Stax

JANUARY 28, 2024

Long before the digital age, newspaper and magazine companies have been using the subscription model to create and retain a consistent readership for their publications. This business model has now been adapted very well in the internet age, especially in the SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) and eCommerce industries.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 31, 2021

SaaS and subscription companies like yours need to collect and manage recurring payments at scale. Regular payment gateways like SagePay and WorldPay won't cut it. All the data your startup needs Collecting payments is just one step of effective subscription management. The platform's usage-based pricing (no monthly fees!)

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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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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The subscription revenue model is hardly new. It’s simple: the subscription revenue model benefits both customers and companies. Meanwhile, companies offering subscriptions can scale with confidence, with predictable revenue and deeper relationships with their customer base. What is the subscription revenue model?

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 12, 2023

We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case. Whether or not a program integrates AI is less important than quality, safety, usability, and cost. Koester warned us that standalone solutions, without being integrated into the existing workflow, often go unused.

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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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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Doing all of this enhances your marketing, sales, and service tactics, and can help you expand your company in the long run. You can cut costs on labour, software, and marketing as well as increase revenue and profits by decreasing manual tasks, automating processes, and enhancing customer satisfaction and retention.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2020

When they launched, their vision of eliminating email through task management made big waves in the market. Today, the company is a massively successful SaaS business and another example of the flywheel business model that creates demand at the individual user and leverages that interest to sell department and company-wide contracts.

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Blulogix

APRIL 12, 2024

This final blog post underscores how leveraging the inherent intricacies of subscription billing can propel businesses towards increased revenue, enhanced profitability, and elevated customer satisfaction. Take your business further with BluIQ’s flexible, scalable, enterprise-grade intelligent billing solutions.

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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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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

We are excited to share the release of three new groundbreaking features designed to turbocharge your subscription revenue! Offers API Offers API is a revenue catalyst that enables businesses to maximize revenue at every customer interaction. Check out our 1ClickPay product announcement.

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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. Understanding these terms is crucial, as they form the building blocks of any subscription-based business model.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

MARCH 13, 2019

Your Content Marketing Business Model … The Choices You Have! Content Marketing Business Models are often misunderstood to be either Content Marketing strategy plans or Content Creation plans. What exactly is a Business Model? and your Content Marketing as a whole?—?becomes

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 20, 2023

In this blog, keeping this context in mind, we will be going over some of the best CRM for B2B SaaS software in order to uncover the factors that have resulted in these software becoming market-leaders in so short a time. Customer analytics: By using data analytics, CRM platforms can offer insightful information.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 2, 2023

“As a startup with only two or three people, it would be absolutely impossible to go international without this kind of platform.” Are you looking for a merchant of record that will partner with you to grow your business internationally? Selling internationally is key to their business model. Here’s why. Paddle offers it.

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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. By doing this, they can maximize their revenue streams, draw in more clients, and raise customer satisfaction and loyalty.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

To this end, we present the first part of the 6th episode of the Digital Health Go-to-Market Playbook series –Commercializing AI in Healthcare. In addition, there tends to be a wide gradient of labor challenges across different domains; e.g. the revenue cycle department likely has more labor pressure than the marketing department.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

When FastSpring’s Chief Product Officer Kurt Smith worked with growth-stage to Fortune 100 companies at Accel-KKR, he consistently saw pricing as one of the most essential growth levers they employed to meet their next revenue goal. And Kurt believes that iterative pricing can be a highly effective strategy during volatile markets.

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Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

History of the subscription pricing model: From newspapers to the rise of SaaS subscription. What is the subscription pricing model? The subscription pricing model is a business model in which a customer pays a recurring fee on a regular basis (weekly, monthly, quarterly or annually) to use a service or product.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Businesses are constantly trying to figure out how to increase customer retention rates. But what if your business model is designed to create repeat customers. Essentially, that’s the beauty of subscription business models. It forces you and your team to think about your marketing strategy in a new way.

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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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