The Angel VC

MARCH 23, 2016

Almost exactly four years ago I published a financial plan template for SaaS startups based on a model that I had created for Zendesk a few years earlier. The original v1 model was a very simple plan for early-stage SaaS startups with a low-touch sales model. The "Revenues" line shows your end-of-month MRR for the respective month.

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Challenge: UXPin needed a tool to consolidate their subscription data and track metrics. Right away, its toolkit replaced their in-house solution and made it easy to track metrics and segment customers. All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. And if you also look at the platform as a service category, that’s also an additional $50 billion of spend, and that’s typically with those same vendors.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

In this blog, we are looking at the business metrics that can be measured quantitatively and providing a few insights on how investors analyze them. We’ve talked to dozens of our SaaS customers, as well as investors to learn more about what is happening with these key metrics. SaaS Metric #2 – Growth Rate.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For example, HR and finance SaaS vendor Workday bought Scout RFP (a San Francisco startup with a team of 8) for $540 million. Sell your startup by following a quick and simple selling process. Each seller provides key metrics to give buyers an accurate idea about the sustainability of their business. Key Features. No middlemen.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. There are four metrics to measure user adoption: user activation rate , feature adoption rate , product stickiness , and net promoter score (NPS).

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User Pilot

JANUARY 26, 2023

Thankfully, there are metrics you can use to expand your field of view and estimate how loyal your customers are. There are ten metrics you can use to measure customer loyalty. Send payment reminders both through email and in-app to prevent involuntary churn. Celebrate customer success with gamification.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

User adoption is essential for B2B SaaS companies, as it helps customers to learn about your product, adopt features , stick around, and nurture product growth. There are four metrics to measure user adoption: user activation rate , feature adoption rate , product stickiness , and net promoter score (NPS).

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

With the rise of AI, new sales technology and automation at the forefront of the sales echo chamber these days, we thought we’d take a moment to bring it back to BASICS – that’s why we’ve rounded up this complete glossary of sales terms and definitions to help you remember where it all started. Base Salary.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 17, 2020

It’s actually quite simple: business process management (BPM) software. Visualize every process from end to end. If optimizing your business processes sounds like a good idea, this post will tell you everything you need to know about how to find the perfect BPM software for you. Process Visualization. Process Automation.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If you ask any sales rep, they’ll all tell you the same thing: the SaaS sales process is absolutely grueling! Today, we’re going to walk you through the top techniques you should implement into your SaaS sales strategy. SaaS sales can be broken down into three models: self-service, transactional, and enterprise.

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Stax

MARCH 6, 2024

For businesses offering subscriptions, memberships, retainers, and other recurring services, recurring billing is a powerful solution to streamline processes and ultimately enhance revenue generation. Almost everyone — 98% of consumers —has a streaming service subscription. 98% of consumers have a streaming service subscription.

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FastSpring

APRIL 26, 2022

Last week, I canceled an annual SaaS subscription (I had three weeks left until renewal). In the language of SaaS, I churned. In part two, we’ll cover five churn-prevention strategies that have been successful in other SaaS businesses. Part I: SaaS Churn Benchmarks. Is There an Ideal Churn Rate for SaaS?

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 28, 2020

If you’re running a subscription or SaaS business, you know that at the end of the day your chief metric is monthly recurring revenue (MRR). According to our data, SaaS and subscriptions businesses lose around 9% of their MRR due to failed payments on average. Introducing: a successful dunning process.

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Baremetrics

JUNE 4, 2021

Baremetrics monitors 26 metrics, and on top of that offers 8 data boosting features so you can get more out of your metrics. If you want to see these metrics in action, you should sign up for the Baremetrics free trial. Definitely check it out. Quick Ratio In SaaS, the Quick Ratio determines the growth rate of a company.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Related metrics that impact your revenue and how to use the insights to turn your product into a growth engine. For SaaS products, achieving sustainable revenue growth is often a top-level goal, aligning with broader business objectives like market expansion , profitability, and shareholder value. Book a demo today.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

As the team at the Saas Commerce Platform Paddle has learned, real growth is about entering new markets – and that takes thoughtful attention to pricing, making inroads into new geographic regions, deciding whether to move upmarket (or downmarket), and offering new standalone products instead of bloated features tacked onto old ones.

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Kellblog

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Since there can be only one lead metric, every company, typically silently, decides what it is. New ARR means you’re focused on sales adding water to the SaaS leaky bucket — regardless of whether it’s from new or existing customers. Thus what those implicit units really tell you about is culture.

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ProfitWell

MAY 15, 2020

The SaaS model continues to gain traction. If you haven’t transitioned to SaaS yet, I promise moving to a cloud-based computing system sounds more complicated than it actually is. There are many different cloud-based models for storing data, but this article is focused directly on SaaS. What is SaaS?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : See how you can turn like a SaaS business, or a core product you have and make it a very successful developer platform. What would be your definition? In its most basic definition, I think that’s what we at Eventbrite benefited from the most. Right, Renaud? What do you have in mind?

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Whether you are trying to go green, stay organized, build great looking newsletters, or meet the most stringent regulations, document management software can make a hard process much easier. It turns a really inefficient workflow into a streamlined process with tools to identify, sort, tag, and store all kinds of file types.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is Zach from Plaid and I guess … well, it’s interesting because you’re not a SaaS company, we’re at Saastr … but we’ll talk about what it’s like to not be a SaaS company at SaaStr. Zach : SaaS-ish. Ari : SaaS-ish. That’s pre-Plaid.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

Existing customer renewal is a high priority for 59% of SaaS companies and a medium priority for 27%. This article will answer the main questions that SaaS founders and market ers have about losing SaaS customers, in other words, user churn: What is SaaS churn definition and why lowering it matt ers?

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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 companies deliver software applications over the internet on a subscription basis, simplifying access and management for users. What are SaaS companies?

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Baremetrics

JULY 20, 2021

If there’s one brand you and I can learn from to become better SaaS marketers, it’s HubSpot. HubSpot Academy), HubSpot has aced the SaaS marketing game in more ways than one. Anyone in tech can tell you, the SaaS industry is growing at an insane rate. From ranking for over 34,000 keywords to running its own knowledge base (i.e.,

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Totango

AUGUST 21, 2020

Shelby Czarnota: Through Totango, we are putting the customer at the center, enabling Aaccount collaboration and transparency supporting our Customer First mindset. This is part of the transformation in bringing these cloud entities together under one harmonized process and enabling the OneSAP mindset.

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Unbounce

AUGUST 7, 2024

/ Conversion optimization How to implement a conversion rate optimization (CRO) process By Josh Gallant and Garry Lee. The key word here is “process.” Effective CRO requires clearly established processes that you can follow to guide your testing and refinement. More blog posts by Garry Lee Why do you need a CRO process?

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Since the original version of this post from early 2017, we’ve worked with many more SaaS companies and a common theme has been moving companies from a starter template to a more robust financial model. This model allowed me to work with dozens of SaaS startups using spreadsheets, while we built our financial modeling software Flightpath.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 12, 2023

In Dave’s words, “What is it about your product or service that the users say in their own words they love ?” I think SaaS businesses and subscription businesses are particularly bad at having vague, waffley headlines on their homepages,” he states. Stream the entire conversation or read the highlights below. Jump to highlights.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Nothing scares away new business like hard-to-reach customer service or disorganized sales calls. I make calls when I’m thinking about committing to a new product or service. Dialers decrease an agent’s down-time considerably and completely eliminate the manual grind process of making calls from their cognitive workload.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 30, 2020

How do you manage the process of accepting money from your customers? This guide serves as a comprehensive overview of the options available for SaaS businesses. In this guide, we’re going to teach you what you need to know about SaaS billing systems and how to choose them. Payment gateway.

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Baremetrics

JULY 22, 2021

PayPal is a popular choice for online payment processing. But for SaaS businesses, PayPal lacks the analytics and reporting features they need to support sustainable growth. This article will cover PayPal’s metrics and reporting features, as well as how PayPal data can be better tracked in Baremetrics. Table of Contents.

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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. This episode is sponsored by Linode. Actually, two.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 5, 2021

Assemble your own version of the Control Center with custom dashboards Custom views allow you to assemble the metrics, goals, and tables you care about most in one place. Monitor important subscription events as they happen with the Live Stream Keep an eye on signups, cancellations, payments, upgrades, and more. It's all up to you!

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Before we look at the promised SaaS revenue models, let’s get a couple definitions out of the way. For example, a SaaS company might have a subscription revenue stream. In fact, the average SaaS business will use different ones over time as their business becomes more established in their chosen market. Table of Contents.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

But starting an ecommerce subscription service isn’t an easy task. Content streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, and Spotify dominate the market and act as the model for tons of new startups. SaaS subscriptions. It’s one of the truest forms of monetized relationships. How to price.

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