SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. from Astella Investimentos, Spectra Investments and others.

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TrackStreet

APRIL 26, 2024

In a competitive industry for a specific type of product or service, businesses often engage in pricing wars that lead to a steady decrease in the value of goods. Pricing erosion refers to the steady and ongoing drop in the prices of products or services within a particular market or industry. What usually causes it?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! I’m talking about product-led growth as an investment strategy, but really my background is 10 years of operating experience in the product-led growth world. Now I’m investing in that. So, OpenView worked out for me. But it worked.

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User Pilot

MARCH 20, 2024

TL;DR Software monetization helps generate revenue using various new business models to reinvest in development and enhancements. The subscription model offers ongoing access for a fee, ensuring updates and steady income. The open-source model creates revenue by charging for beyond-the-basics services.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

SMB customers will want high-touch sales engagement and service delivery but SMM SaaS companies will likely not have the budget necessary to justify providing this level of sales support. Being “stuck in the middle” drives SMM SaaS companies to invest in one of two strategies. eCommerce Marketplaces. Direct Sales.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 12, 2023

Despite Kovi’s rapid growth, the importance of improving profit margins was recognized, and the company is now investing in technology and efficiency. He noted that growth funds are more focused on existing portfolios and less on new investments, creating potential for surviving companies to become sector leaders.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 22, 2018

Magazines, newspapers, life insurance, phones, security services, and a long list of products and services have been sold for decades using the subscription model. The difference now is how important and meaningful the subscription model has become to the national economic engine. What has changed?

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SaaSOptics

MAY 22, 2018

Magazines, newspapers, life insurance, phones, security services, and a long list of products and services have been sold for decades using the subscription model. The difference now is how important and meaningful the subscription model has become to the national economic engine. What has changed?

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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. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

I leveraged many of the 52 mental models while working at various software as a service (SaaS) companies, but in truth, they can be applied anywhere, regardless of industry. Total Addressable Market Total addressable market (TAM) is an economic framework to understand the potential revenue available for a product or service.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

For startups, the speaker suggests focusing on how AI can drive customer acquisition and go-to-market strategy, while for large companies, creating a vision for AI is important, as well as focusing on infrastructure and skillsets and reshaping governance to deal with security and compliance issues.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 23, 2018

Invest in your security program. Your security program is the way you protect you and your customers from external attacks and data breaches. Therefore it is essential to invest in your own security program and ensure that every link in your ecosystem follows a similar approach.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Subscription Transaction Volume Surpassed One-Time Purchase Volume. The subscription economy is clearly here to stay. This is why we’re committed to continually develop new and innovative tools that help software companies successfully transition to a subscription-based business model. We Grew to Over 100 Employees.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 16, 2020

Andrey explains why embracing the professional services sector in a unique way has paid dividends. His paintings have different shapes with very bright colors and we found that our boards developed in kind of the same style. We also think about community and consultants and professional services as an ecosystem around our product.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

As an Ecommerce Manager, you typically oversee Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay Per Click (PPC), Customer Management Systems (CMS), web development, social media, email marketing, the checkout, payments , and other ecommerce-related solutions. Develop Action Plans. Each of these aspects requires its own management software.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Julien, who previously directed business development and partnerships at Microsoft and is on the board of French media giant Le Monde, was perfectly poised for a conversation at the SaaStock conference in Dublin that ranged from the different missions within Facebook to why he’s betting big on chat. That’s the beauty of Workplace.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 19, 2022

For subscription-based SaaS businesses, your customer acquisition metrics indicate how effectively you acquire new users via sales, marketing, or a product-led approach like a free trial. Below, we’ll dive into how to develop a customer acquisition strategy from start to finish. . How to Develop a Customer Acquisition Strategy.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 4, 2021

Today we know of HubSpot —the maker of marketing, sales, and service software products—as a preeminent public company with a market cap above $17B. For their first five years in business, HubSpot offered three subscription packages ranging in price from $3,000 to $18,000 per year. But HubSpot wasn’t always on the IPO trajectory.

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How To Buy Saas

JULY 26, 2021

In the past several years, HR software is one of the best startup tools and has developed in popularity, and more businesses are jumping on the bandwagon to automate time-consuming HR duties. It offers you the best of services including Expert HR. Complete list of the best tools for startups. Check here for details. ShareASale.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 2, 2016

He and his team were instrumental in developing the explosive growth potential of the channel in serving the SMB. Many start by following self-service distribution models as a route to market, which have served as the de facto standard for helping cloud businesses grow. Thomas Hansen was Worldwide Vice President of SMB at Microsoft.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

. “The shift from serving just consumers to serving consumers and companies is a massive one” For Udemy, investing in a B2B arm seemed too obvious, and too good, an opportunity to ignore. When Eren Bali founded Udemy in 2010, he had a vision for what the marketplace would be: a place where anyone could teach and learn anything.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This builds on the first essay in the series of how there has been an increase in interest of SAAS-like models interested in becoming marketplaces over time.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 1, 2020

White-labeling services for SaaS products have become very popular over the past decade. In some cases, although there can be some limitations in terms of control over an app’s features, design, and functions, it can be a way to get a profitable SaaS business out on the market quickly, with minimal financial investment.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 11, 2024

Over the last decade, we’ve seen record growth in player demand driven by several tailwinds, including: the rise of mobile and emerging markets, new business models like free-to-play and subscriptions, transmedia storytelling, and much more. Yet that growth has come with a price in the form of rising game development budgets.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 7, 2021

That’s because most of their growth is powered by the product itself through a highly efficient self-service motion. Land-and-expand dynamics: Twilio has a developer-first go-to-market motion, allowing new users to sign up with low friction and no upfront costs. How do we account for the rise of product as a growth driver?

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ProfitWell

APRIL 12, 2019

Abby here with the subscription news you need and none of the noise you don’t. For example, with custom tags you can divide your sites into design, development, and production. Or, if you're a clients-based business, you can classify them by what service you provide, their status, etc. The Rundown In resources. Put a tag on it.

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Totango

JANUARY 17, 2019

To stay relevant, you need to embrace this new customer-centered economy and offer your customers a partnership invested in their growth and expansion. You can consider your customer to be in the onboarding phase right up until they start to gain value from your products and services. The Path to Building a New Era of Customer Loyalty.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Leading a team of innovators and experts in their Customer Success, Professional Services, and Support organization, Amanda’s goal is to ensure that every customer optimizes the business impact of Lucidworks search and analytics deployments. “My Under her direction, marketplace utilization grew 39% in one year.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 27, 2020

And finally, we spotlight Quibi yet again—a company spending more than $1 billion as it crusades into the streaming service battles. Your top subscription news. Are we achieving measurable return on investment from the tool? You remember Quibi as the streaming service that launched this year at CES. Think about it.

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As more and more companies are realizing the need to become customer-centric, their investment in customer service – both financial and conceptual – is rising rapidly. The need to become efficient in all the customer service processes are becoming more relevant than ever. So, let’s look at those trends here. #1

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SmartKarrot

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As more and more companies are realizing the need to become customer-centric, their investment in customer service – both financial and conceptual – is rising rapidly. The need to become efficient in all the customer service processes are becoming more relevant than ever. So, let’s look at those trends here. #1

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ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Your top subscription news. Are we achieving measurable return on investment from the tool? Today, more than ever before, companies are hiring sales development people for the farming side of their business,” says Don Erwin , Head of Sales at Mixmax. You remember Quibi as the streaming service that launched this year at CES.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

Dopple has been careful which customers they invest in, making sure that their product roadmap aligns with where they continue to see the “hockey puck” moving. You know, these are huge investments, hundreds of 1000s of dollars, think trailers and farm equipment that have a lot of base plus options. It starts with self service.

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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. Horizontal SaaS refers to general-purpose software solutions that are applicable across industries and attract a diverse user base.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

Ep #402: Mårten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne, explains their innovative approach of packaging customer value derived from a variety of activities into an annually recurring subscription offering that delivers outstanding value to customers while simplifying the buying process and the customer journey.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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