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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

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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Freemium is Back! But You’ll Need 50 Million Active Users for Freemium to Actually Work as a Business Model.

SaaStr

In VSB or SMB business apps, you can get to one million paying customers — but you really, really need something broad-based to get there. Intuit, Microsoft, Adobe, PayPal. But there are not too many with 1,000,000 paid business customers, or 50m truly active users. Enough not to churn. The post Freemium is Back!

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Recurring Donations for Nonprofits: Billing Software

Subscription Flow

Subscription-based business models have increased in number as media streaming platforms like Netflix and delivery services like Amazon have risen in popularity. A subscription-based model for fundraising can therefore raise donor engagement, optimizing revenue streams for NPOs.

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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

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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Growth Story: How Appizy Added FastSpring to Their Single Page Application

FastSpring

This is especially true for the European market. A few years ago we started with a business model relying on selling license keys of our software. In February we shifted to a subscription model with three plans each on a monthly or yearly billing cycle. Flexible and Customizable Platform. High-Quality Support.

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Uncovering the Potential of Leading CRMs for Development and Achievement

Subscription Flow

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. Here a few CRMs that are all market-leading in different ways and which can help be of help to you: 1.

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7 Best SaaS Billing Systems (2020)

Baremetrics

Fast forward to today when most software companies use a Subscription as a service (SaaS business model , and things aren’t as simple. PayPal and Stripe are both examples of payment gateways. In order to help, we’ve gone through top review sites and broken down seven of the best SaaS billing services on the market.