User Pilot

OCTOBER 24, 2023

When it comes to product-led growth , SaaS companies need to get everything details right. In this guide, we’ll be going over what usage-based pricing is, the benefits of a usage-based pricing model, different types of usage-based pricing, and a few examples from SaaS companies that have effectively deployed this strategy!

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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 Casey’s last essay, he covered the differences between regular SaaS companies and SaaS-like Networks. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Usually, customer churn rate is every SaaS company’s worst enemy. Before looking at customer retention strategies that can help reduce customer churn , it’s essential to understand the difference between voluntary and involuntary churn. Automate your renewal process. The reasons motivating this type of churn can vary.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Usually, customer churn rate is every SaaS company’s worst enemy. Before looking at customer retention strategies that can help reduce customer churn , it’s essential to understand the difference between voluntary and involuntary churn. Automate your renewal process. The reasons motivating this type of churn can vary.

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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 Growth Stage – Scaling the Business, and . SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR).

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Vikas made his way into the world of SaaS and came to be at the rocketship that is Kustomer. * Why does Vikas believe that a wave of SaaS incumbents are about to be displaced or disrupted? Why is it so crucial to invest in enablement in the early days? What is a good payback period? *

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

When it comes to IPOs, 2021 was an excellent year for SaaS companies. Accelerated digital transformation across industries put SaaS companies firmly on the hypergrowth path. According to Gartner , the SaaS industry has grown from $35 billion in 2015 to $145 billion in 2021. Focus on a multi-year horizon.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 18, 2022

There are now an estimated 213 million registered companies globally, each competing with one another on the basis of service, customer care, and pricing. Price is one of the largest determining factors for consumers in terms of which products and services they buy. How to Develop a Great Price Localization Strategy 1.

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 10, 2022

It’s common for companies to have digitized some of their financial processes. While this is a step in the right direction, there are gaps in many processes that companies currently use that finance and billing tools can fill. Utilizing ePay tools makes sending invoices and receiving customer their payments easy. SaaSOptics.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

It often seems as if traditional strategy development processes have no place in the fast-moving, always changing technology industries. The critical difference is that they’ve discovered how to make strategy development faster, pragmatic and more agile by focusing on four key principles. At a Glance.

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CustomerSuccessBox

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The net revenue retention rate which you may also state as the net retention rate in SaaS businesses is an indicator that depicts the profits and the revenue earned by the business. As the firm scales at $1B, the NRR dips and need not be declining. Ultimately, the purpose of generating revenue is what gets you in the business loop.

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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.

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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. If a product or service is being sold online—regardless if the sale itself happens through a sales-rep assisted process, online shop, or platform—it’s considered B2B ecommerce.

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 7, 2023

But based on the number of requests for worst-case scenarios we've gotten from customers in the past two weeks, there's a non-zero chance you are losing sleep over this if you are a SaaS founder. We want to help, and I believe my experience with other SaaS companies may be useful to you as you plan out your company’s new future.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

However, these are the core processes to any successful business, and a failure to keep up with bookkeeping and accounting tasks means trouble—and not just with the tax authorities. Accounting is the process of recording and reporting the financial information of your company. Table of Contents.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

For many SaaS companies, going live isn’t the glorious, revenue-driving, self-vindicating moment they dream of. Being too occupied with development prevents software companies from giving their go-to-market strategy the attention it deserves. In fact, it could be the exact opposite.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 2, 2024

Interakt is an affordable and user-friendly WhatsApp API provider that offers top-notch marketing services. Through the various robust features that Interakt offers, you can create compelling marketing strategies to generate more engagement and ROAS. Manage incoming orders and send payment reminders and abandoned cart messages.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Interested in learning more about how your SaaS, software, video game, or other digital goods business can partner with FastSpring and let us worry about the taxes? And then we’ll get into a little bit of the strategy discussions we talked about a minute ago. Sign up for a free trial or schedule a demo today.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2023

Check is a payroll-as-a-service API that lets you embed payroll directly in your vertical SaaS, HR, or time-tracking platform. Embed white-labeled dashboards in your SaaS application or portal. Finix makes it easy for software platforms of all sizes to process payments while increasing revenue and reducing cost.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. But not all SaaS products are alike. Other types of SaaS are relevant only to companies in specific industries.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. These companies can scale really efficiently.

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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 Casey’s last essay, he covered the differences between regular SaaS companies and SaaS-like Networks. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In this guide, we’ll discuss the benefits of buying and selling a micro startup, the trends changing M&R strategy, and the top tools you can use to sell (or buy) your startup. Your exit strategy timeline is A LOT shorter. Sell your startup by following a quick and simple selling process. Key Features. No middlemen.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2021

If you’re an OEM or selling physical products, this one’s for you (sorry, SaaS folks). McKinsey notes that B2B decision-makers are pushing to e-commerce and e-commerce-like sales cycles, and up to 80% prefer either digital self-service tools or to contact teams remotely. But that might mean overlooking a golden opportunity.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

As innovation in Fintech SaaS increases, so does the pressure to safeguard sensitive data. In this blog, we're going to dive into how to strengthen the Fintech SaaS cyber security frameworks. But Andy says Fintech SaaS is hitting a big challenge: mixing innovation with tight security. Keen to get started? Let’s jump in.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The two segments generating the most interest right now are artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology, which together grew more than twice as fast as venture investments in all other sectors over the past decade and now make up more than a third of total tech venture investment value. The story is different in the cloud.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The two segments generating the most interest right now are artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud technology, which together grew more than twice as fast as venture investments in all other sectors over the past decade and now make up more than a third of total tech venture investment value. The story is different in the cloud.

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How SaaS Works

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The How SaaS Works series simplifies the complex world of software-as-a-service (SaaS) into the practical fundamentals for anyone involved in SaaS. Introduction The software-as-a-service business model appeals to companies of all sizes from tiny startups to massive Fortune 500 companies. What is SaaS?

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 30, 2021

They’ve built a new process of guided selling, which Neil discusses during the show. How Revenue Grid enables smarter selling. Scaling sales during the pandemic. Scaling Up During The Pandemic [11:40]. I got the itch again and looked for companies with the ability to scale. powered by Sounder.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling and VC funding. I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 30, 2020

Choosing a product pricing strategy is a momentous decision for any young SaaS company. Not only does it define your early monetization strategy, but it also heavily influences what market segments you’re likely to appeal to directly and how your product will be perceived. One way to do that is through price skimming.

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wepay

JANUARY 23, 2018

As a SaaS business, or any online software business, moves beyond its startup phase and starts to grow seriously, there is a period of adjustment as the business adapts its operations, sales and other functions to the need for scale. So it’s no surprise that SaaS companies tend to obsess about metrics – perhaps too much.

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

CircleCI is a cloud-based continuous delivery platform that helps software delivery teams build, test, and ship changes to their applications. Offering its services as a freemium-based model, CircleCI recognizes driving trials as the cornerstone of a go-to-market strategy for any developer tool. . Big customer asks. The caveat?

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Weaker demand, slower sales cycles, and customer insistence on pricing concessions and payment deferrals have conspired to cloud the outlook for many tech companies’ growth. With so much capital available, many companies took advantage and invested heavily in growth in an effort to rapidly acquire customers and scale their business.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How did Dave make his way into the world of SaaS over 20 years ago? How do they set up the process from there? Who decides this? What are they?

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 22, 2018

Speeding up this process is critical in getting insurance payouts moving and getting people back into their homes. DroneDeploy is the leading cloud software platform for commercial drones. Moving drones to the cloud. Today, DroneDeploy manages the end-to-end process of obtaining and using aerial data. About DroneDeploy.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. In this saas marketing strategy guide, we are going to tell you everything about saas marketing. What is SAAS marketing?

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