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SaaS Is Growing Up: 4 Business Model Changes To Adopt with Notion Capital

SaaStr

Many of the fundamental business models that were once engraved in the SaaS playbook are now changing thanks to a tougher macro environment and a maturing market. PST, Stephanie Opdam, Partner at Notion Capital, shares four business model changes that will allow SaaS companies to build resilience and staying power over time.

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FastSpring and DutchBasecamp Present: Optimize Local Pricing to Dramatically Increase SaaS Revenue

FastSpring

But with international growth comes a long list of international business concerns about how to appeal to potential customers in new countries. Fortunately, there are some very helpful tools and services available to assist and advise you as your business grows beyond its domestic borders. Your choice.

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The Evolution of Open Source Business Models

Tom Tunguz

Companies a transition from one pricing model to another : Open source marketing strategy achieves penetration early on. Revenue is concentrated in the top accounts & future growth lies in those enterprises, too. At scale, startups pivot to maximization to extract the most dollars from their customers.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $6.8 Billion in Revenues

SaaStr

That’s not just pretty epic growth at almost $7 Billion in revenue, it’s one heck of a comeback. But a Smaller and Smaller Percentage of Revenue. 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.

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Unique Ways to Use the B2B SaaS Business Model to Leverage Your Business’s Revenue Growth

Subscription Flow

A major issue that arises, especially in the B2B SaaS business model, is how to break into the upmarket market as startups develop into scaleups that are primarily focused on increasing their market capitalization. Unique Ways to Use the B2B SaaS Business Model to Leverage Your Business’s Revenue Growth 1.

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Clouded Judgement 3.22.24 - ERR vs ARR and the Conundrum of AI Revenue Streams Today

Clouded Judgement

Subscribe now ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) vs ERR (Experimental Runrate Revenue) ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is one of the most popular SaaS (Non-GAAP) metrics. In it's truest form, ARR is used by pure SaaS business models to describe the aggregate annual value of the entire customer set.

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How I Reverse-Engineered a $100M Exit with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

EchoSign, which Adobe bought, had $12M in ARR, growing 100%, with 120% revenue retention and cash flow positive. Today that would be a dream, but in 2011, people didn’t understand the metrics around recurring revenue businesses, so investors weren’t sure it was a good business. For some businesses, this doesn’t work.