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Understanding the SaaS business model

ProfitWell

And with the field having undergone a couple of “ knockout expansion years ,” with more revenue pouring into SaaS than ever, it has never been a better time for a young SaaS company. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing.

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What is Equity Financing?

Baremetrics

Baremetrics is a business metrics tool that provides 26 metrics about your business, such as MRR, ARR, LTV, total customers, and more. Baremetrics integrates directly with your payment gateways, so information about your customers is automatically piped into the Baremetrics dashboards. Table of Contents.

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Three chief customer officer job descriptions we love

ChurnZero

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. SaaS businesses, meanwhile, benefit from predictable streams of recurring revenue.

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds. That’s true: Elements such as a global business focus and experienced professional moderators (that’s me!) That includes: A global focus. Professional moderation.

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The Startup Funding & Financing Guide

Baremetrics

Company C was funded by pre-orders from customers, a friends and family round, and then through revenue-based financing for a period of time. For Companies A, B, and C, they all exchanged equity for capital, leveraged debt, and used profits from customers to fund their startup. Buffer spent $3.3 Reilly Chase of HostiFi.

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The New Rules of Indie Hacking Through A Recession

Outseta

As Channing’s post highlights, even many prominent VCs are admitting that now might not be the best time to head down the venture backed path—and I think all the layoffs and turmoil that the tech industry is experiencing is evidence that even in good times we haven’t been thinking about building companies the right way anyways. Think SpaceX.

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Q&A: Role of Customer Success According to Three Leading Investors

ChurnZero

A: Grotech is an early-stage investor so many of our companies have only modest revenue at the time we invest, and they are typically still working to tease apart their go-to-market motion. They either work to manage things via spreadsheets, attempt to build their own, or try using a product management platform for this despite the poor fit.

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