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SaaS Companies: Four Signs You’ve Outgrown Stripe

FastSpring

When you’re using a DIY payment solution like Stripe, making it work for your business falls on your developers. From testing out plugins to setting up new payment methods, maintaining Stripe can be very time-consuming. I interviewed him live on LinkedIn about four signs that SaaS companies have outgrown Stripe.

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Commercializing AI in Healthcare: The Enterprise Buyer Perspective

Andreessen Horowitz

To answer that question, we interviewed leaders from many of the largest healthcare providers and insurers across the country. We’ve designed this to mirror the thought process of an entrepreneur building an AI product with an enterprise use case. What do enterprise buyers in healthcare care about most when evaluating AI products?

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SaaS Churn: Myths, Benchmarks, and Strategies to Retain More Revenue

FastSpring

“It’s likely that a finance or sales tools will be less susceptible to churn than a marketing tool, simply because it’s perceived to be more directly responsible for revenue.”. Ryan points out that many of the largest SaaS companies target enterprise customers that use longer contract lengths, so their churn rate will be lower.

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Subscribing to the future with Zuora’s Carl Gold

Intercom, Inc.

Today the subscription management platform is helping industry powerhouses across the Fortune 500, including Ford, Caterpillar, and Thermo Fisher, shift their perspective from transactions to relationships. The simplest, of course, is just to take the existing product and sell it in annual contracts rather than in a perpetual license.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

Product Marketing Manager: This person is tasked with developing product marketing campaigns , crafting compelling marketing messages, and coming up with ideas to retain customers. What is a SaaS business model? Revenue growth rate : This measures the rate at which the company’s revenue is growing over a specific period.

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Buy vs. Build: The Subscription Billing Iceberg Effect

Chargify

It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. Billing may not be one of the most exhilarating parts of your company, but it is one of the most important parts of your business…it is how you get paid. You’ll save time and money in the long run.”

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When should you hire a CFO?

Point Nine Land

Contract reviews with big clients, compliance matters, any type of changes of law, tax audits, dealing with advisors, etc. If there’s a trade-off between hiring a CFO and, say, a marketing leader or 1–2 developers, most founders will understandably go for the latter. Not sure what your subsidiary structure etc.