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Only 11% of Public SaaS Companies Sell Just to SMBs

SaaStr

SMB SaaS has a lot going for it: – Millions of them – Short sales cycles – Easier compete. But, it's often hard to get to $100m ARR selling just to SMBs. sell just to SMBs pic.twitter.com/Po1I2aMaBK. So many VCs and others have gotten more and more excited about SMB SaaS. Millions and millions more.

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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

Enough not to churn. 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. Not even users than use you once a year.

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The good, the bad, and the ugly: ChartMogul’s Nick Franklin on navigating hypergrowth

Intercom, Inc.

Then [we did] co-marketing with Braintree, PayPal, Recurly, and Chargify. For the companies who count them as customers, churn is an unavoidable constant they need to tackle head on. To continue servicing their smaller customers at scale, Nick’s placed a new premium on reducing churn and its knock-on effects. “A

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Here’s What Investors Look for in SaaS Businesses

Baremetrics

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. Important SaaS Metrics and Unit Economics Unit economics and SaaS metrics like churn rate will always be important. Churn Rate Churn rate basically defines the long-term trajectory of a business.

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SaaS Billing Best Practices: 10+ Subscription Strategies for SaaS and Software Companies

FastSpring

Each of the companies Jon worked with lowered churn by creating a better notification process, including a reminder about their renewal six weeks prior to the billing cycle. In this piece, we offer seven case studies from SaaS companies — small tweaks they made to reduce churn and increase customer LTV. Small things matter,” Jon added.

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Kellblog Predictions for 2023

Kellblog

As companies prepare for a potential wave of churn , they put more emphasis on retention than ever before. Why are companies afraid of churn in 2023? Their mission is to drive your churn. Companies who sell to SMB may see increased amounts of uncontrollable churn as customers cease operations. SaaS sprawl.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pipe and MessageBird — March 13, 2020

SaaStr

Pipe’s lending model is so centered around churn prediction, what does their churn analysis look like at Pipe? How does Harry think about the right way to structure churn postmortems? So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments.