Tue.Jun 25, 2019

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What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2019?

Point Nine Land

[link] Two weeks ago we released the 2019 edition of our (in)famous SaaS Funding Napkin. If you were in Paris to attend SaaStr Europa, went to our CTO meetup , or joined us for our Café Hours , you might be holding one in your hands already (unless you’ve used it to dry your tears ). Everyone else can download a free digital copy or request the real thing on www.saasnapkin.com.

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The Secret to Subscription Pricing

Navint

Jeff Wissink shares what Navint has found to be the secret to establishing value-based subscription pricing, and it may surprise you. Whenever we work with clients on their recurring revenue businesses, the topic of subscription pricing inevitability comes up. What is the right price to maximize revenue, attract new customers, or reduce subscription churn?

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SaaS Freemium Model: What Works, What Doesn't?

Incredo

Do you love free stuff? Imagine that you can visit a sports complex for free but you are allowed to do it only twice a month, only for 3 hours in total and you have access to the swimming pool and cardio & strength classes only. That free is always available but you would like to spend more time there, have access to the wellness area as well and visit there more often.

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Hot button issue: Improving accessibility in Messenger

Intercom, Inc.

When building product at Intercom, we move fast so that we can deliver value to our customers and validate our solutions to their problems as early on as possible. As a result of this fast pace, we sometimes need to circle back to polish past work that can be improved and iterated on. One recent example involved an accessibility issue in the “quick reply” buttons in our Messenger – a seemingly small detail in its own right, but one that we were able to revisit and improve to ensure we met the hi

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SaaS: How They’re Turning Payments Into Profit Centers

Discover how top SaaS companies are earning up to $700k + and zero upfront cost with Usio Integrated Payments.

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SaaS Freemium Model: What Works, What Doesn’t?

Incredo

Do you love free stuff? Imagine that you can visit a sports complex for free but you are allowed to do it only twice a month, only for 3 hours in total and you have access to the swimming pool and cardio & strength classes only. That free is always available but you would like to spend more time there, have access to the wellness area as well and visit there more often.

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4 Ways Dunning Management Reduces Churn

FastSpring

A challenge faced by all subscription-based businesses is figuring out a way to keep recurring payments flowing for their company. And since revenue is closely tied with business growth and wellbeing, any dip in recurring revenue is immediately felt throughout the entire organization. With such an important business metric on the line, SaaS companies need to be very diligent about how they’re managing recurring billing to ensure that their business is supported with a consistent stream of revenu

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How to Gather Customer Insights with CS Software

Totango

Customer Success Management (CS) software helps your enterprise understand what matters to your customers. And what matters most to your customers should matter most to you. The reality of the unique relationship you share with your customers is captured in the raw numbers your CS software gathers, detailing usage rates, demographics, logged interactions, voice of customer data, and other key metrics.

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Top Integrated SaaS Apps That Will Benefit from Slack’s Public Offering

Intello

We love a good growth story, and Slack’s Direct Public Offering (non-IPO) is nothing short of a tidal wave of growth for the apps integrated with them as well. With last week’s entry into trading as of last week, Slack was already valued at $19.5B and surprising many Wall Street analysts. It’s a fascinating headline all of Intello HQ has been watching, taking notes for our own ambitions.

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5 Tips on ASC 606 From a Fast-growth SaaS Peer

Sage Intacct

I recently led a best practices webinar on ASC 606. Our panel of ASC 606 experts shared fantastic insights that would benefit growing subscription and SaaS companies who haven’t yet tackled or are still struggling to comply with the accounting, financial reporting, and revenue recognition from ASC 606. Let me introduce the panelists and share a few of the fantastic insights from the discussion.

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Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You Need to Know

Speaker: Timothy Chan, PhD., Head of Data Science

Are you ready to move beyond the basics and take a deep dive into the cutting-edge techniques that are reshaping the landscape of experimentation? 🌐 From Sequential Testing to Multi-Armed Bandits, Switchback Experiments to Stratified Sampling, Timothy Chan, Data Science Lead, is here to unravel the mysteries of these powerful methodologies that are revolutionizing how we approach testing.

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Change Healthcare’s Intelligent Healthcare Network

Software Platform Consulting

Change Healthcare is going public (again). The IPO provides another opportunity to examine a massive B2B inter-enterprise network, Change Healthcare’s Intelligent Healthcare Network. I previously wrote about this network when it was called Emdeon ( see here ). It’s a story of how a small EDI player became an impressive company through acquisition and organic growth.

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How to Gather Customer Insights with CS Software

Totango

Customer Success (CS) software helps your enterprise understand what matters to your customers. And what matters most to your customers should matter most to you. The reality of the unique relationship you share with your customers is captured in the raw numbers your CS software gathers, detailing usage rates, demographics, logged interactions, voice of customer data, and other key metrics.

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a16z Podcast: Stories from the Frontlines of Synthetic Fraud

Andreessen Horowitz

Synthetic fraud—yes, it’s a thing: a new evolution of consumer fraud that’s been emerging in financial services, to the tune of $1-$2B a year.

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Engineering Your Own “Luck”: The 3 Key Rules of Building Globally Distributed Teams with Eventbrite (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Building a company made up of distributed teams presents a plethora of complex challenges that can derail productivity and impact employee retention. But with it comes immense benefits and competitive advantages such as the diversification of ideas, speedier product development, and representation in important regions and time zones. Come and hear about the typical pitfalls (and how to avoid them) from Pat Poels, an executive with over seven years under his belt leading Eventbrite’s now 300+ str

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How Investors & Strategic Buyers Evaluate Integrated Payment Strategies

Explore how integrated payment strategies impact investor and buyer evaluations. Payments are more than a feature — they’re a key to long-term success and market differentiation. They help SaaS companies offer seamless user experiences and efficient operations. Investors and strategic buyers assess these integrated payment strategies as a measure of a company's growth potential and sustainability.

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Orderful

Andreessen Horowitz

Software isn’t just eating the world , it’s also eating other software.

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How I Grew My Dying Facebook Traffic

Neil Patel

Is it me, or does Facebook just want to keep you on Facebook? Every time I post a link to my site, I get less and less traffic. And it’s been this way for years. In other words, my organic reach on Facebook was dying. And to make matters worse, they give you hope every time they launch a new feature. For example, when they launched Facebook Live , you used to be able to get tons of views because they promoted it organically… but not really anymore.

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CAC Payback Basics: What It Is, How to Calculate It and Why It Matters

OpenView Labs

As the old adage goes, you have to spend money to make money – SaaS businesses are no exception. Arguably the most important spend decision SaaS operators make is focused on acquiring customers. Collectively, these expenses are referred to as Customer Acquisition Costs, or CAC for short. CAC encompasses all of the sales and marketing costs that a business has to shell out to land a single new customer (calculated as total sales & marketing expense in a period / total customers acquired

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