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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. Yes 9% of their revenue is just about $100m.

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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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5 Best Paddle Alternatives in 2024

FastSpring

Braintree by PayPal. Are you looking for a Paddle alternative that will partner with you to grow your business internationally? Are you looking for a Paddle alternative that will partner with you to grow your business internationally? Revenue metrics and analytics. Advanced revenue management. Digital invoices.

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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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Recurring Payments: Definition and Implementation Best Practices

Stax

There are a few types of recurring payments to be aware of, which one your business uses will depend on the business model and need for recurring or automatic payments. Recurring payments provide greater predictability for cash flow and allow businesses to plan for future revenue more accurately.

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

FastSpring

As a result of the integration with FastSpring, we increased our ecommerce revenues by 50% in just a few weeks. Fastspring deals with all these aspects perfectly and we just have to emit a summary bill each month based on our net revenues. A few years ago we started with a business model relying on selling license keys of our software.