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10 Must-Read Books for Startup Founders

Baremetrics

The Challenger Sale by Brent Anderson and Matthew Dixon. Predictable Revenue by Aaron Ross and Marylou Tyler If you or your sales team do any outbound prospecting, you should definitely prioritize reading Predictable Revenue. The Hard Things About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz 3 3. technique at repeatable scale. Listen to it here!

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Product-led growth: AKA what you should be doing | ProfitWell

ProfitWell

Letting your product lead means companies must reconfigure their marketing, sales, and service strategies to keep up with consumer demands. The traditional approach to SaaS growth involves building a product, then hiring a sales team to sell the product. Churn rate. Uber, Dropbox, and PayPal are some examples of this.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

According to a report by Blissfully , SaaS companies are churning through more than 30% of their apps every year. The Atlassian Corporation has reached billions in revenue even without an enterprise sales team, all by creating user-friendly software development, team collaboration, project management tools including JIRA and Confluence.

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A Detailed Comparison of Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring (With Reviews)

FastSpring

Table of Contents What areas of the payment lifecycle will you be able to manage and what other software will you need for a complete payment solution? Most companies using Stripe also need additional staff to manage sales tax (and VAT) and regulatory compliance. Fully customizable checkout (down to the pixel). And much more.

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Billing and Subscription Management: A Detailed Comparison of 5 Options

FastSpring

FastSpring: Subscription Management, Payment Processing, and Much More for SaaS Companies FastSpring offers several options for subscription management (which we discuss below) , however, it’s more than just a subscription management platform — we’re the Merchant of Record (MoR) for software companies.

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Here’s What Investors Look for in SaaS Businesses

Baremetrics

Scalability Other Factors That Affect the Sales Multiple How to Make Your SaaS Business More Attractive and Valuable 1. Lower Churn Prepare for a Sale Where to Sell Going it Alone Through a Private Sale Working With a Broker for a Win-Win Situation. So what’s an optimal churn rate, outside of “as low as possible”?

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ChartMogul 2021: Year in Review

Chart Mogul

PayPal — improved our integration to handle edge cases when ChartMogul received the notification but the transaction wasn’t available yet in the PayPal API, and we also added support for PayPal Subscription API. Google Play — added a new one-click import functionality (vs previous integration that required development work).