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ISVs vs SaaS: What’s the Difference?

Stax

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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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

In this blog series, we explore how these three dimensions figure into key technical recommendations which enable scale in pursuit of SaaS business growth. Part 3: Measurement One of the great breakthroughs of SaaS as a business strategy is in how it puts users and subscribers front and center of software development and keeps them there.

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

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. Customer data.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

And I just started a consulting business, it was a service business. And that kind of gave us a little bit of a head start to then bring together a couple of angels and like early stage investors to hire our first couple engineers and really pivot from being a service company to starting the path to becoming a software company.

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Customer Acquisition Strategy for SaaS Companies: A Complete Guide

SaaSOptics

The answer lies in your product or service’s value proposition. For example, if you’re a product-led company, you may consider a freemium business model to build a user base of free trial customers quickly. A public marketplace for templates, plugins, and software development agencies.

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How Clio grew from a lifestyle business to a legal tech juggernaut

Point Nine Land

Both Jack and Rian had tech backgrounds and at the time were providing consulting services to the legal industry. His comment to us was that the software is just too expensive, too inaccessible, too hard to use and so on,” recalled Jack. Again, this was 2007. At the time, Jack and Rian were well-positioned to build this product.

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SaaStr Podcast #402 with HackerOne CEO Mårten Mickos: “Customers Want Value + Simplicity: The Must Haves to Deliver”

SaaStr

Marten Mickos: We heard here that the cloud business has a combined market cap already of over a trillion dollars. So the whole world of software as a service and cloud has just exploded and will continue to grow enormously. And if we look at the specifics of the word SaaS, software as a service.