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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $6.8 Billion in Revenues

SaaStr

Software Important. From a business model perspective, Shopify has in essence been a fintech and merchant product first and a SaaS product second for quite some time. Overall subscription solutions revenue is up just 21%, while payments and merchant solutions are up 35% — from a much, much larger base. #2.

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Pricing Strategies to Combat Stagflation

FastSpring

But what about pricing? 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. Why You Shouldn’t Trust How Your Competitor’s Price.

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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

But if you’re not dealing in mergers and acquisitions every day like Carl is, you might have a lot of questions about how to best position your business if you’re interested in selling. Today we’re going to be talking about a really interesting topic, I think, what brands look for when considering acquiring software companies.

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Top 4 SaaS Valuation Metrics at Different Growth Stages

OPEXEngine

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 . NRR benchmarks depend on whether you are selling into the SMB or enterprise market. .

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Why You Should Focus on Subscription Services

FastSpring

The traditional software licensing model is outdated. And we’re seeing this reflected in the seismic shift in preferences on the part of both businesses and consumers to subscribe to services instead of outright buying access to products. How is your digital business keeping up? Your customers don’t fit into one box.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

How does Krish think about purely serving the SMB market? How does he think about the mortality rate of SMBs? How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? Krish Subramanian: We are software engineers by training. What questions reveal the most?

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How Nudge Coach reduced customer churn by over 70%

Baremetrics

Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!). We were looking to relaunch the user-driven, SaaS side of our businesses. This would enable us to increase the overall value of the system to customers.

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