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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

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. So the ability to do flexible payment plans, financing, retire that pre-committed spend has been a really significant a way for us to accelerate and amplify our transactions.

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The Startup Sector That’s Quietly Booming

Tom Tunguz

I count seven major categories of innovation to date: Math Based Currencies/Payment Networks - Bitcoin might be the most well-known and best publicized math-based currency, but there are a handful of others in the market, like OpenCoin and LiteCoin. This is a boon to merchants whose payment fees shrank.

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Here’s What Investors Look for in SaaS Businesses

Baremetrics

Churn Rate Churn rate basically defines the long-term trajectory of a business. Low churn allows recurring revenue to grow, improves growth rate, and reduces the risk of long-term value loss. SMB SaaS companies tend to have higher churn rates due to their lower demand and less sophisticated needs.

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The good, the bad, and the ugly: ChartMogul’s Nick Franklin on navigating hypergrowth

Intercom, Inc.

With their newsletter, podcast, guides and cheat sheets, ChartMogul have taken an open-book approach to scaling their business, sharing everything they’ve learned with the customers who are growing alongside them. According to CB Insights, 70% of tech companies can expect to fail – usually within just 20 months of their first financing round.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pipe and MessageBird — March 13, 2020

SaaStr

So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. And I think the SMB mid-market sector is actually what’s fueling this tremendous growth we’re seeing year over year. This is actually one of the most exciting developments for me in SaaS.