Point Nine Land

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

How to show different revenue streams in vertical SaaS A few weeks ago, our portfolio company Jobber announced (besides a $100M Series D) that its 200,000 customers — small businesses that provide home services like lawn care, plumbing, residential cleaning, and painting — have earned $13 billion in revenue in 2022.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes.

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ProfitWell

JULY 7, 2020

You're wasting revenue by fixing it. Listen wherever you get podcasts: The silent killer of your subscription business. So, let’s walk through the top three hidden areas of churn you might not be thinking about: failed credit card payments, lack of annual contracts and not utilizing value metrics. How do we fix this?

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ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

And Rent the Runway adds a new membership option to amp up its presence in the subscription clothing space. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. We’ve had our eyes on Rent the Runway on the show before , as one of the more popular clothing subscriptions out there. And this may be a good move for them.

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Outseta

AUGUST 31, 2018

We now support Stripe as a payment gateway. When we launched our subscription billing and management functionality, we initially partnered with Forte Payment Systems as our payment gateway. As a result, adding Stripe as a payment gateway very quickly became the most requested feature from our users.

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Backlinkfy

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Thinking of starting a small business but worried about finances? We live a totally different world today, gone are the years where you'll need to have Angel or venture capital funding for you to start a business. This can sometimes be underestimated by thousands but you should not be scared to make the first steps.

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Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

As Channing’s post highlights, even many prominent VCs are admitting that now might not be the best time to head down the venture backed path—and I think all the layoffs and turmoil that the tech industry is experiencing is evidence that even in good times we haven’t been thinking about building companies the right way anyways. Think SpaceX.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

And with the field having undergone a couple of “ knockout expansion years ,” with more revenue pouring into SaaS than ever, it has never been a better time for a young SaaS company. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 27, 2020

Today, we're pushing for discounted plans, adopting more flexible payment terms, and turning your product into a marketing channel. Our friend Kyle Poyar , VP of Marketing Strategy over at OpenView —the expansion stage venture capital firm—says it’s time to revisit your pricing. Subscription Stimulus Package.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

A: Grotech is an early-stage investor so many of our companies have only modest revenue at the time we invest, and they are typically still working to tease apart their go-to-market motion. They either work to manage things via spreadsheets, attempt to build their own, or try using a product management platform for this despite the poor fit.

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Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

By Geoff Roberts 12 min read When we first started building Outseta we stated outright that we weren’t interested in raising venture capital—instead, we planned on bootstrapping the business and remaining independent. Typically founders will pay 3%-7% of monthly revenue until they have repaid the fund 3x the amount invested.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. Venture capital is a tool and a commitment, not an outcome.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It is a sign of development, showing that the business has effectively transitioned from an R&D organization dependent on venture capital to an autonomous, long-lasting enterprise. . Annual Contract Value (ACV): The typical annual cost of a client’s subscription.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. Customer Success Beyond Usage Data. Sales Process Engagement. Functional Support.

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