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10 Tips to Help Manage the Burn

SaaStr

But public stock prices are way down, and venture capital is much tighter than it was just a few months ago. Some of your churn you really can’t do anything about, but at least half the time, you can save the customer if you just show up or show up more often. This is more capital efficient for you, too.

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What is Equity Financing?

Baremetrics

Equity financing is a method of capital raising via the selling of stock. They may need cash to meet immediate financial obligations or have a longer-term objective and require capital to invest in their development. What is the difference between Equity Financing, Loans, and Venture Capital Funding?

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What Bootstrapped Companies Do Better than VC-Backed Ones with Paddle Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Campbell and Senior Product Manager Allissa Chan (Video)

SaaStr

Feedback collection is the focus here to prevent future churn. Some customer churn is unavoidable. Venture capital-backed companies update their pricing once every 2.8 Adjusting your payment methods and currencies will bring you some gains. Lever #4: The nostalgia effect. Lever #5: Monetization.

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds. Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds.

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Are You Counting Payments as Renewals?

Kellblog

Enterprise SaaS has drifted to a model where many, if not most, companies do multi-year contracts on annual payment terms. But these multi-year deals are almost always done on annual payment terms. Most investors believe you could better maximize ARR by simply raising more capital and sticking with annual payments.

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How going the extra mile to understand customers propelled Squire into a $750m SaaS company 

ChurnZero

The barbers still wanted cash payments too. So, while a customer might have scheduled a haircut through the Squire app on a mobile phone, they’d still have to stop somewhere to withdraw cash to pay for their haircut. “We As with any small business, he noticed she often had her hands full juggling duties.

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Understanding the SaaS business model

ProfitWell

Recurring payments. The software-as-a-service business model involves providing a subscription service, so you will have to worry about getting payments every month/year as opposed to only once. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware.