ProfitWell

MARCH 11, 2020

But as cost containment becomes a priority for businesses looking to thrive in the modern digitally-transformed marketplace, keeping existing customers happy and loyal is now a primary concern. We're about to go diving for metrics. Why you need to understand your customer retention metrics. That's what metrics give you.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. You could be missing all of your metrics, but you know, you’re not the Twitter guys. We put it online, $10,000, and we started talking to our customers. Uber is a classic marketplace company. It’s a two-sided marketplace.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. If you don’t have the time to watch the whole session, here are the main metrics you should be mindful of. MRR, obviously. This wasn’t the case.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 1, 2020

White-labeling services for SaaS products have become very popular over the past decade. A great example is LevelUp that not only develops their own mobile payment and loyalty program app, but they also white-label it for restaurants like sweetgreen and Dig Inn, so they can market and promote it as their own. Lack of metrics.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 8, 2019

But when it comes to digital businesses where all transactions and fulfillment take place online, there’s a whole new set of terms you need to know in order to keep up. But don’t worry, we’ve created an ecommerce glossary that includes all the terms and concepts you need to know to have a successful digital business. Affiliate links.

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Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Indie.VC (V3) Website: [link] Key Personnel: Bryce Roberts Revenue Requirement: Post revenue, but no minimum requirement. Each time a payment is made, the fund’s ownership stake is reduced with the founders’ ownership shares increasing. Equity Stake: Yes, but diminishing to 10% of Indie.vc’s initial equity stake. Earnest Capital.

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

My role as an advisor to Greylock’s portfolio companies allows me to work with many different types of businesses: consumer social, marketplaces, SaaS, etc. Harkening back to Tim Kendall’s advice, I started asking entrepreneurs, “What is the path to actually creating value from your service for your customers?

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin. I have been at Stripe for about four years. Stripe’s ecosystem is quite large and thriving.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

There is no such thing as a perfect revenue model, but the popularity of some of the methods below suggests that many of them are well-tailored for the current state of the market. Businesses charge a customer every month or year for use of a product or service. Licensing involves renting goods or services to other businesses.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Jay Snyder: Got hotspot on my phone, so hopefully we’ll hold still. And we’re constantly aligning the metrics in that business plan back to the technology and understanding which dials we need to turn, which types of implementational product feature functions do we need to use that will directly equate to these types of things.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 5, 2023

Spying on your competitors can strengthen your position in the marketplace, but not without having three crucial factors in play: First, what are you looking for? Google Alerts Google Alerts is a free service offered by Google to keep you up-to-date on the latest news, conversations, and web content. Type in a website of your choice.

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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. Some examples of niches targeted by vertical SaaS providers include healthcare, eCommerce, finance, and education.

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Buffer Resources

MAY 8, 2024

As a creator or influencer, I’m willing to bet a good chunk of your content involves sharing products, tools, and services you love. Affiliate marketing is performance-based online marketing, where a business pays another business or person for referring a sale or new customer.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : Of course, besides the brand I mentioned earlier like, Google, Apple and Facebook, and so on, a lot of marketplaces also like Uber and Airbnb they tend to think of themselves as platform because they have the buyers and the sellers connecting to each other. Let’s start with our five key steps.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. You will learn why traditional sales methods which were developed for small consumer sales, just won’t work for large sales and why conventional selling methods are doomed to fail in major sales.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

You have a presentation online that’s called Unsexy, which you’ll have to explain to me later. Algolia went from zero to seven figures in revenue in 12 months, and the launch of their search as a service product, and grew pricing from $19 a month to $100,000, which sounds amazing. web services. Nick : Pretty good?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Tripod was a search engine there, which exited to AltaVista. I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Matt Garratt: And it’s not just going to be we think in things like work from home tools like Zoom or IT solutions like VPN, but it’s really going to transform how business is getting done, whether that’s online education and learning. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. There’s a link here.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Bill Clerico : Yeah.

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