SaaStr

MAY 25, 2022

How do you make your fledgling business seen and heard in a competitive business marketplace? Despite their primarily sloppy execution, some of the world’s largest and most admired businesses share one thing in common: they were all built using the right business economic model. Nothing else matters.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Business Model Advertising 239

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

How Monetization Efficiency is the Heartbeat of Business Success in the Digital Age By BluLogix Team The Critical Role of Monetization Efficiency In a world where digitalization has redefined the marketplace, the spotlight shines ever so brightly on the concept of monetization efficiency.

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Marketplace as a Service Business B2B Finance 52

SaaStr

OCTOBER 15, 2020

TaxJar’s AutoFile can also completely automate your sales tax filing, using the information it receives from your ecommerce providers and marketplaces to prepare and submit returns to each state, along with remittance. Sage Intacct is a popular choice for automating bookkeeping because it includes features unique to the SaaS business model.

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Business AI Search Marketplace as a Service compliance 314

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. Ask your own engineers.

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Payments Business Model Payment Solutions SaaS Payments 56

Subscription Flow

JANUARY 3, 2024

Having a flexible pricing strategy allows SaaS providers to cater to different customer segments and needs by offering different pricing models such as subscription, usage-based , freemium, or hybrid. Read more: SaaS Pricing Trends to Boost Sales & Revenue in 2024 Why do you need flexible pricing?

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Pricing Payment Features SaaS Marketplace as a Service 52

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

For app entrepreneurs and ecommerce store owners, the battle to be noticed in the marketplace is ongoing. For customers, the process of looking for apps to download usually takes place in one of the four leading app marketplaces; Google Play, Apple App Store , Windows Store, and the Amazon App Store. Is it safe? Let’s go ??.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Merchant Services SaaS Payments 115

Navint

JANUARY 29, 2019

Highlight Video: Explaining the Subscription Economy: Why Your Company’s Future May Depend On It. The topic, of course, was the subscription economy and Tien’s new book, Subscribed. As the leading consulting firm that has a practice dedicated to subscription and recurring revenue businesses, Navint sponsored the event.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

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. I’ve come to realize this saying describes an optimal strategy for a lot more than just an ad-supported revenue model. Align Revenue To The Value You Create.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Small and Mid-Market (SMM) SaaS Companies serve customers with annual revenues of $1 million to $1 billion and with a typical employee base of 100 to 1,000. SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 52

OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

SaaS metrics are viewed differently at different stages of growth and for different sales models, primarily whether a company is selling into an SMB or enterprise marketplace. Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Almost all revenue is from new contracts.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payments Payment Services 98

Navint

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The topic, of course, was the subscription economy and Tien’s new book, Subscribed. Being one of very few consulting firms that has a practice dedicated to subscription and recurring revenue businesses, Navint sponsored the event. The customer will guide your subscription business — put them in the center.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 13, 2022

These companies might have introduced a new usage limit for their free plan or for an entry-level paid subscription, for example, rather than testing a more disruptive pay-as-you-go offering. Plus companies face significant change management hurdles if they choose to migrate their legacy subscription customers onto a new pricing model. .

Pricing 82

Pricing Payment Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

SaaSOptics

MAY 22, 2018

Magazines, newspapers, life insurance, phones, security services, and a long list of products and services have been sold for decades using the subscription model. The model has not really changed, but the relative importance has. In the crucible that is the hi-tech marketplace, change happens quickly.

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Subscription Payment Features Technical Review Airlines 40

SaaSOptics

MAY 22, 2018

Magazines, newspapers, life insurance, phones, security services, and a long list of products and services have been sold for decades using the subscription model. The model has not really changed, but the relative importance has. In the crucible that is the hi-tech marketplace, change happens quickly.

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Subscription Payment Features Technical Review Airlines 40

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The shift to cloud-based subscription models is creating even more value in a thriving sector. But while software’s success in the marketplace has lifted the valuations of software companies, our analysis suggests that some firms may still be undervalued. Embrace the cloud operating model. Sticky after all.

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Software Review DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team 52

Point Nine Land

MARCH 18, 2019

This came to define a new go-to-market strategy for many marketplaces or, as they came to be known, SaaS-enabled marketplaces. In some cases, the SaaS was even given away free in the hope of driving adoption before monetizing on the marketplace. In other words, we may see users coming for the network and staying for the tool.

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Marketplace as a Service Payment Features Scale Pricing 50

FastSpring

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Subscription Transaction Volume Surpassed One-Time Purchase Volume. The subscription economy is clearly here to stay. This is why we’re committed to continually develop new and innovative tools that help software companies successfully transition to a subscription-based business model. We Evolved Our Brand.

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Technical Review Software Review Marketplace as a Service Innovation 63

SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

Customer Acquisition is the process of acquiring new customers in a business. Not only is it one of the main drivers of revenue growth for early-stage companies, but it’s a primary goal for SaaS businesses across market stages. More customers = more revenue. Plain and simple. The end result?

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Acquisition Scale Strategy Software Review 59

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 11, 2019

In a market that requires companies to earn their customers’ business each and every day, it can literally make or break your entire business model. At Hired, we started out with a transactional model that was—at the time—a super disruptive approach and one of our key differentiators.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

David Cancel of Drift often talks about letting your ideas “ cross-pollinate ” and mental models can be a catalyst for that. I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Network effects (marketplace).

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

As Workplace’s global head, Julien Codorniou has been spending the past few years exploring how to make his department align with Facebook’s mission while executing an entirely different business model that relies on companies promoting community within their workforce. I highly recommend Predictable Revenue from Aaron Ross.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service Mobile Sales Hiring 151

Totango

AUGUST 23, 2017

Now in the subscription economy, organizations write a small check (or none at all in a freemium model) for only what they are using. Portfolio proliferation causing customer confusion as offerings from product and services lines are beginning to overlap. The answer is surprisingly prescriptive: Embrace “as a service” offers.

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Customer Success Marketplace as a Service Scale Benchmarks 64

ProfitWell

JANUARY 15, 2020

The subscription model is booming—meaning more and more companies are acquiring the model—giving your SaaS business even more motivation to remain competitive. They guide clients toward general best practices based on ProfitWell’s extensive experience with more than 100 SaaS businesses. What’s the secret weapon?

Pricing 54

Pricing Marketplace as a Service Subscription Payment Features 54

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. As the likes of Airbnb, Uber and Apple have found, creating an entirely new category can be a lucrative business.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Sales Hiring 112

FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

And prior to that, I was an entrepreneur, and always wanted to go back to entrepreneurship but had a good thing going where I built a new revenue stream in this company, WTG, around corporate training, and that’s how I really fell into that industry and market. And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS Payments VP of Engineering 91

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Now, for each segment, isolate its revenue and COGS. If revenue hides all sins, gross margin reveals them via segmentation. “If revenue hides all sins, gross margin reveals them via segmentation. While inevitable and with multivariate causality, it speaks to the product’s maturity and business model.

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Scale Payment Methods Payment Services Systems Review 52

Blulogix

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Charting the Future: What Are the Emerging Trends in Subscription Billing and Monetization? The landscape of agile monetization is rapidly evolving, driven by technological advancements, shifting consumer expectations, and new business models.

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SaaSOptics

APRIL 7, 2022

A free trial is often seen as the quickest way to get customers signed up and using a SaaS product/service, but it comes with several strings attached. What Does Freemium Mean in Business? A freemium business model allows companies to build up a large initial user base at no additional costs. 30 or 60 day trial period).

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Business Model Payment Features Business SaaS 74

Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 88

SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

Ep #402: Mårten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne, explains their innovative approach of packaging customer value derived from a variety of activities into an annually recurring subscription offering that delivers outstanding value to customers while simplifying the buying process and the customer journey.

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Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Scale 140

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

We’ve got an interview with Brandon Meyers , the chief revenue officer of ADARA. He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years.

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Subscription Payment Features Scale Underperforming Technical Team 106

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

That’s never been truer for software businesses in particular than in the past 10-15 years, with the internet stimulating an explosion in the number of viable revenue models. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular revenue models used today — why they’re popular, why they work, and why they will (or won’t) work for you.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Or maybe ARR, depending on your model. Average Revenue per Customer. So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. They love consuming SaaS products not because of the billing model, but because of the delivery model.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 229

Unbounce

JUNE 16, 2020

Over the long term, it can also deliver increased revenue, higher customer lifetime value (LTV), and reduced customer acquisition costs (CAC). Depending on your business model and stage of growth, a partner program will likely take on different forms. Why build a partner program for my SaaS business? That’s huge!

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Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Scale SaaS 131

ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Amir will lead all post-sales functions, helping customers use the full scope of their products and services to unleash the power of CentralSquare in their communities. In her expanded role, Ellen will continue to lead global system engineering and enablement and will add professional services and customer support to her team.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Outsourcing Services Technical Review 98

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The SaaS Business Model & Metrics: Understand the Key Drivers for Success by David Skok, Matrix Partners SaaS Metrics — 201 A slightly deeper dive into SaaS industry metrics. Software subscriptions are the life of every SaaS business and must be accounted for properly in your general ledger.

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Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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AWS Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 98