ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2024

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. SaaS businesses, meanwhile, benefit from predictable streams of recurring revenue.

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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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Subscription Payment Features Technical Review Airlines 40

Scytale

JANUARY 22, 2024

It builds the needed level of trust between internal teams, upper management, third-party vendors, and clients and proves that you have prioritized client privacy and information security. This includes things like conducting risk assessments, establishing a security management program, and ensuring data privacy. You’re right!

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Hitenism

JANUARY 16, 2017

Optimizely CEO Dan Siroker wrote in this Quora post : “This was a journey we committed to back in August 2015 to put us on a path to sustained growth and profitability without additional venture capital. Use venture capital to scale an inside sales team and dial for dollars to gain market share. Have we hit peak SaaS?

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software. Founded 2014 in Munich, Germany, Loyalty Prime has quickly developed itself into a leading loyalty program tech provider, serving blue-chip companies around the globe from a wide range of industries. Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 2, 2023

I was working at a Venture Capital firm and was feeling the itch to create something new on my own. After some time in Venture Capital, I took the knowledge I built around market research and started applying it to my personal life. I had to develop the logo idea myself, art, fonts, etc., ExplodingIdeas.co

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 12, 2014

In 2009 and 2010, the company recognized more revenue from services than subscription. Over time, subscription revenue will continue to increase compared to services revenue. In contrast, WorkDay typically signs 3-5 subscription year agreements, so the subscription revenue is a substantial annuity of long duration.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds. While we have big plans for Global SaaS Leaders — and we’re continually working on community building — here are some of the benefits we already have to offer for software and SaaS founders, executives, entrepreneurs, marketers, engineers, developers, and many more.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Software Review 145

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

About the episode: Tien Tzuo is the Founder and CEO of Zuora, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies that has been at the forefront of the rise of subscription business models. What are the key inflection points of company development? #2: Tien Tzuo, Founder & CEO @ Zuora Shares the $100m Question All SaaS Founders Must Ask.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

million – about half of all the cash they had on hand – to buy out their main venture capital investors after eight years since founding. Taking pre-orders from customers , encouraging annual subscriptions , and even offering lifetime deals are just a few ways to make it work as a bootstrapping purist. Venture Capital.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. Recurring payments. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. What is the SaaS business model. Growth stage.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We’ve decided to put together a killer list, categorized and organized to help you find and consume world-class SaaS and subscription content from the best people and companies in the market. The list is organized into four categories: entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, communities, and companies.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The compatibility of your idea and life circumstances with bootstrapping The debate over the merits of bootstrapping versus going the venture capital route when building your company rages on—I for one am guilty of fanning these flames. The question is not do you prefer bootstrapping or venture capital.

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SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We’ve decided to put together a killer list, categorized and organized to help you find and consume world-class SaaS and subscription content from the best people and companies in the market. The list is organized into four categories: entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, communities, and companies.

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Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

Welcome to the Subscription Rockstars series! And, of course, we will pay special attention to how their subscription billing models and pricing strategies contributed to their growth. Venture capital allowed HubSpot to prioritize expansion over profitability, helping them achieve explosive growth. . Image source).

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

I am a partner at Accel, the Global Venture Capital Fund, and I’m very happy to be here with one of these mythical creatures that people were talking about earlier. We actually think it’s about where the customers are when it comes to our sales and customer success and then where our product development center should be.

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The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

A few days ago I had lunch with some friends, all of them softare and Venture Capital veterans, who I all know from the early days of the 21st century. take such words with caution “Don’t panic, stay calm and watch the development.” Better a paused subscription than a churned subscription.

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Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 94

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Do you gun straight for the glamour (and pressure) of venture capital investment? What about a venture capitalist who might be sympathetic to your mission? Look for funding when you find you have a product idea that can't be iterated or developed further without extra money. Venture capital.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Both new and existing SaaS companies moved into developing industry-specific software, giving rise to Vertical SaaS companies. Horizontal SaaS companies develop and provide software for a specific function used by companies across all industries. These factors resonated well with the investment theses of venture capital firms.

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Kellblog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

(In a small initial land and big expand model, this may run much higher than 30-40% but that also depends on the definition of land – i.e., is the “land” just the first order or the total value of subscriptions acquired in the first 6 or 12 months). The first block is revenue, optionally split by subscription vs. services.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 23, 2019

The team will invest in growing the Customer Success ecosystem, accelerate and deepen product development in the award-winning ChurnZero platform, and support customer facing teams in delivering the best Customer Success and Support among their peers. About ChurnZero ChurnZero helps subscription businesses fight customer churn.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Corporations have a huge responsibility in providing workforce development opportunities for their employees. There is a need for deeper investments in the Brazilian market and better budget allocation in learning and development.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In almost every industry, startups and venture capital included, content marketing has become an essential tool for growth. Each week, Scour combines those people into a business development list that I use to grow my network. In this post, I’ve detailed are the strategies, software and techniques I use.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil. Alessio developed the business and sold it four years later to the renowned leader in the field Apontador.com.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 14, 2013

With more than 80% of venture capital investments occurring in enterprise and with the public markets disproportionately rewarding SaaS companies with huge enterprise value-to-revenue multiples ( median is 7.6 ), it’s no surprise that interest Software-as-a-Service is booming. Customers can’t function without it.

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Backlinkfy

OCTOBER 5, 2019

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. The goal is to design a site where potential customers can quickly connect emotionally and find conversions like shopping carts, checkout, and secure payment options.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Sales Hiring Technical Review 56

ProfitWell

MARCH 19, 2019

They say laughter’s the best medicine, but I’m also a fan of that subscription prescription, so let’s get into the news you need to power right through. It’s National Let’s Laugh Day, so whether it’s cartoons, comics, or your wittiest pal, be sure to spend it in joy. The Rundown In resources. In headlines.

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The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

A few days ago I had lunch with some friends, all of them softare and Venture Capital veterans, who I all know from the early days of the 21st century. take such words with caution “Don’t panic, stay calm and watch the development.” Better a paused subscription than a churned subscription.

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Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 52

SaaStr

JULY 27, 2019

3: Microsoft Invests $1 BIllion in OpenAI to Develop AI Technologies on Azure. 6: “Tinder In-App Purchases No Longer Use Google Play Billing” Mobile subscriptions are becoming a big deal, although it’s early overall. And ask them if it could happen to you. You will get some scary answers. #2: and Europe). #6:

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ProfitWell

MAY 18, 2020

Why it's never been easier to sell subscription. The beauty subscription box startup Birchbox launched in September 2010 as the unemployment rate peaked at 10 percent. million in funding from venture capital firms and now has a market cap of $17.1 Forbes reports one setback: the subscription learning curve.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 23, 2019

You spot problems that users face online and want to react with an unprecedented solution. Pre-seed – If you work on your ideas and are ready to develop a specific product, you reach the second stage. Most investors like the predictability of cash flows that comes with a subscription model.

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SaaS Social Media Startup Scale 154

Kellblog

JULY 8, 2020

Mark’s a seasoned startup executive, he’s go-to-market oriented, and he has some large-company chops that he developed earlier in his career. Subscriptions under $50K should only be sold direct if it’s a pilot leading to a much larger deployment. Thinking that your first VP of Sales will take you from $0 to $100M.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 23, 2020

Your top subscription news. And empathy becoming a must-have in tech product design and development. Now that billing is in a really good place —one of the most under appreciated yet important parts of any subscription business—we have the ability to get super close to the customer and price on where the customer finds value.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Software subscriptions are the life of every SaaS business and must be accounted for properly in your general ledger. That is SaaS subscription revenue and the corresponding deferred revenue balance. To make things easier, you can use this board deck template that my team and I developed with Quaestor.

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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. The fund focuses exclusively on subscription software companies and is willing to invest in pre-revenue companies.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In order to execute on this mission, founders can bootstrap their company, raise outside money ( venture capital is the most popular), or use a combination of both to help build their business. Generally, this means developing new products, expanding into new markets (internationally), and potentially even acquiring smaller companies.

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