SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2022

Atlassian has gone almost 100% Cloud since then, and has held up nicely in the overall public markets even as others have taken bigger hits. 30% New Customer Growth Fueling 37% Revenue Growth. Cloud product pricing went up 5% a year last year, and legacy server products went up much more. Transition to Cloud takes time at scale.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In February 2020, the public cloud market surpassed a $1 trillion market cap, with a 45% growth rate, as reported in Bessemer Venture Partners’ 2020 State of Cloud report. Not to mention 73% of B2B buyers prefer the convenience of digital buying through ecommerce, web direct or marketplaces (more on that later). .

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Upwork is one of those products and marketplaces many of us use all the time — including Team SaaStr — but we don’t often see discussing that much as a public SaaS / Cloud company. I would have expected lower than 100% net revenue retention from Upwork, given that much of the spend can be episodic.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service Providers (SaaS) operate within the same market, thus creating a push-and-pull revenue dynamic. SaaS, or Software as a Service, companies host and deliver software applications over the internet on a subscription basis.

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Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods 88

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Atlassian’s Chief Revenue Officer, Cameron Deatsch, walks us through how Atlassian grew over the course of 20 years and became one of the most successful startups today. They have grown to over $3 billion in revenue while keeping sales and marketing spending under 15% of revenue for all 20 years they’ve been in business.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 29, 2021

Building the right partner tech stack can dramatically increase the revenue flowing from your partners, even if your partnership team is small. The growing role of partnerships in driving revenue. To drive the most revenue, both the CRM and PRM play integral parts in the partner tech stack.

Payments 101

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 101

SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2020

And with nearly 70% of global revenue for ISVs currently derived from third-party channel sales , no other approach to distribution ensures the exposure and revenue of the channel. These include product offering, scalable fulfilment, revenue operations, sales and marketing enablement, partner ecosystem and team culture.

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Subscription Flow

DECEMBER 29, 2023

For SaaS businesses, one of the most taxing tasks is to set the right price for their SaaS product and services. The Importance of Pricing Plans Deciding on the right pricing plan is important because it links directly with the revenue that you generate.

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Pricing Marketplace as a Service Business Transportation 59

SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2021

Due to that convenience, departments and teams tend to seek out best-of-breed cloud applications, streamlining foundational and specialized functions through automation. Integration platform as a service ( iPaaS ) standardizes how integrations are built and managed across your organization. Quote-to-Cash. Integration Roadmap.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

10.000 SaaS CEOs, Founders, Revenue Leaders, and VCs will join us for 3 days of tactical content, networking, and epic evening events when the Cloud comes to San Mateo. Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different? If you haven’t already, sign up here for tickets before we sell out.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Expansion of Usage-Based Billing Models As consumers increasingly favor pay-for-what-you-use models, we’ll see a surge in usage-based billing across various industries, from SaaS and cloud services to media and telecommunications.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

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. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

The emergence of generative AI, cloud computing, and new spatial platforms is poised to disrupt 3D creation end-to-end. Cloud native engines maximize customization Today’s engines are monolithic desktop applications originally designed before modern cloud architecture and the SaaS age.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

Marten Mickos: We heard here that the cloud business has a combined market cap already of over a trillion dollars. So the whole world of software as a service and cloud has just exploded and will continue to grow enormously. And if we look at the specifics of the word SaaS, software as a service.

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Outsourcing Services Marketplace as a Service Outsourced Development Scale 140

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 28, 2020

Here are five quick takeaways: One of Aircall’s superpowers is that it built an App Marketplace – and then opened it up for partners to build their own integrations. Today, more than 60% of the tools on the marketplace have been built by third parties. Resilient companies are built in the cloud. Intercom is an example of that.

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Marketplace as a Service Cloud Government Retention 186

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

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SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 264

OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

According to Bessemer ’s State of the Cloud 2021 as of this January, there were a total of 527 private unicorns (a unicorn is a private company with a valuation over $1B), with a total cumulative value of more than $1.9 SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Almost all revenue is from new contracts.

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SaaS Payments Metrics Payments Payment Services 98

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 2, 2016

IBM, Intel, Cisco and their kin generate more than 80% of their revenues through a universe of resellers and distributors. Overall, for Microsoft 95% of revenues are derived from channel. Modern companies are born in the cloud, and independence is in their DNA. Microsoft adds 50,000 small businesses as customers each month.

Outsourcing Services 109

Outsourcing Services SMB Acquisition Scale 109

OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The shift to cloud-based subscription models is creating even more value in a thriving sector. But while software’s success in the marketplace has lifted the valuations of software companies, our analysis suggests that some firms may still be undervalued. Embrace the cloud operating model. Sticky after all.

Software Review 52

Software Review DevOps as a Service Software Underperforming Technical Team 52

CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

The recurring revenue user model of SaaS demands deep and broad attention at every step, as it empowers you to provide continued feedback on what you are selling them. The intensity of competition in the SaaS marketplace puts a premium on new, stable, and reliable features.

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DevOps as a Service Software Delivery Well Architected Framework AWS 130

Blulogix

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Customers loved the flexibility and control, and the company enjoyed predictable revenue streams. Company B: A cloud storage provider used UBP to attract budget-conscious startups and scale with them. By charging for API calls, they fostered a vibrant ecosystem of partner integrations and unlocked new revenue streams.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. The startup built a cloud-based office procurement system that helps customers streamline supplier management. Micro Acquire is a marketplace that connects startups to buyers. Micro Acquire. Who Is It For?

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Amir will lead all post-sales functions, helping customers use the full scope of their products and services to unleash the power of CentralSquare in their communities. In her expanded role, Ellen will continue to lead global system engineering and enablement and will add professional services and customer support to her team.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Outsourcing Services Technical Review 98

User Pilot

OCTOBER 26, 2023

TL;DR Growth initiatives are strategies aimed at expanding a company’s customer base, market share, revenue, or profitability. Iterate on your pricing strategy to make the product competitive while generating enough revenue to support its growth. These are the main questions that the article explores. Let’s dive right in!

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Acquisition Scale Marketplace as a Service Onboarding 94

Andreessen Horowitz

AUGUST 30, 2023

There are plenty of “non-tech” companies that purely manipulate bits; as an example, virtually every financial services company is “atom free” in terms of ultimate products sold. This is distinct from platform shifts in mobile, cloud, or the original internet, where most companies were slow to adapt. “My Inside sales? All of them!

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Mucker Capital

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If you’re thinking about launching a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company, there are two different ways to approach the market. Horizontal SaaS: These companies aim to create a product that services a specific type of employee, function or division across all industries. So what’s behind this resiliency?

SaaS Payments 49

SaaS Payments Outsourcing Services Payment Services Payments 49

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

According to Harvard Business Review , companies that were instrumental in creating their categories accounted for 53 percent of incremental revenue growth and 74 percent of incremental market capitalization growth. How do I prove the value of CATEGORY X on revenue? Not Everyone Will Get It Right Away.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Marketplace as a Service Forecasting 108

Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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AWS Payment Services SaaS Payments Payments 98

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tradeshift Buy, which is essentially what we call private marketplaces. Think about it like Amazon or eBay, but instead of being for you and I, it is the Fortune 500 companies of this world that use it, companies like Unilever going and buying [produced 00:04:02] enzymes, ingredients, on our private marketplace technology.

Payment Solutions 145

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 145

How To Buy Saas

APRIL 8, 2024

These services ensure that your organization has the resources it needs to keep up with the latest healthcare standards. Healthcare BPO outsourcing can help your organization streamline its revenue cycle. These services can lead to higher revenue and business expansions. They also have access to the latest technology.

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Outsourcing Services Payment Services Healthcare Payments 40

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

PLM software is a program that handles all of the data and functions at each stage of a product’s or service’s existence across worldwide wide delivery networks. To market-fresh products or services, several organizations use integrated software assistance such as product-as-a-service (PaaS). Why use PLM software?

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Traceability Marketplace as a Service 52

Subscription Flow

JANUARY 1, 2024

This is why if you sell or market through multiple channels, such as your online store, ecommerce marketplaces, and a physical location, look for a CRM that can autonomously collect and analyze data across various channels that your website will be integrated with. Your responses to these questions are how they judge your customer service.

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Payment Methods Payment Features Payment Solutions Payments 52

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

What we try to do is this integration between two or three companies to be so flawless that for the customer seems like it’s only one application, but you are taking advantage of the best E-mail service, the best chat service, the best voice service. The first two years, no revenue, whatsoever. For two years.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The arrival of cloud computing, IaaS, PaaS etc. The Apple and Google Play app stores give developers an instant marketplace, a gateway to billions of customers. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly. Cloud computing is dominant. Basic technology execution is becoming easier too.

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Outsourcing Services Software Review Software Outsourced Development 224

FastSpring

DECEMBER 18, 2020

It’s easy to think of online sales as a marketplace where we buy items for ourselves, but more and more B2B and SaaS sales are now happening online. As of 2019, B2B ecommerce sales globally have surpassed $12 trillion in revenue. Tech advances like SaaS and cloud-based ecommerce platforms make it easier to buy. ??

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Payment Methods B2B Outsourcing Services Payment Services 148

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. We’re a cloud content management platform. Vicki Lin : Great.

Payments 118

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 118

User Pilot

MAY 30, 2023

Salespeople will have interesting ideas about how they can leverage a CDP to boost revenue. With Lytics you can; Leverage 100+ integrations (including data warehouses, customer services tools, communication platforms, and more). Host in your Google Cloud for top-class privacy, security, and GDPR compliance. Sales teams.

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Azure Government Marketplace as a Service Data 90