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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. Before hiring, assess your current needs and hire as your company grows. Before the hiring process, take some time to decide on your current needs and hire as your company grows.

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The B2B Marketplace Funding Napkin 2021

Point Nine Land

To add to this, B2B marketplaces tend to have various different business models (commission, SaaS, not monetizing in the beginning), which makes it very difficult to come up with one-size-fits-all metrics for each funding round. As a result, we could not collect as many data points as we do for our SaaS napkin.

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How Buffer Reached $20m in ARR by Focussing on Growing ARPA

Chart Mogul

While Baremetrics was fulfilling the desire for public transparency, internally the team was using Looker almost exclusively to track and report revenue metrics. I realized we had better data in the first 2-3 years of the company when we were using improvised solutions, than with our sophisticated business intelligence platform.

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How Buffer Reached $20m in ARR by Focussing on Growing ARPA

Chart Mogul

While Baremetrics was fulfilling the desire for public transparency, internally the team was using Looker almost exclusively to track and report revenue metrics. I realized we had better data in the first 2-3 years of the company when we were using improvised solutions, than with our sophisticated business intelligence platform.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

I mean, maybe you do, but I don’t know anyone right now with extra money, time, or people, right? Provide a platform, not a tool, that can be a consolidator and something that can drive costs, but still have all the features necessary to get the business results. That business case becomes the success plan, right?

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The subscription sales guide: how to sell subscriptions (B2B/B2C)

ProfitWell

Subscriptions are built on ongoing relationships with customers, so companies selling subscriptions need to understand how to monetize this relationship on a recurring basis. One of the best examples of this type of sales is Netflix—its pricing strategy paved the way for many modern subscription platforms. Contract length.

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How QuikNode is Handling Growth in the Blockchain Industry

Baremetrics

Baremetrics spoke with co-founder Dmitry Shklovsky to learn more about QuikNode and how they use Baremetrics to understand key financial metrics, translate cancellation data to inform product iteration, and sustain long-term growth. When business picked up later that year, the team decided to go full-time and raise money.