SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As businesses grow, their software requirements grow as well. An enterprise-level company deals with more complexity in its internal processes, has to manage more people and roles, and needs more data to make informed decisions. At this point, a business needs to look for an enterprise solution that can support its growth.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). That includes: A global focus.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. This is a mobile solution for SMB’s to send an invoice and get paid. Want to see more content like this?

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Subscription based and fixed pricing were two payment methods that had benefits but also major drawbacks such as: flexibility for the client as well as the company. One of the biggest benefits of the consumption based pricing model is that businesses can more precisely match their costs with their actual usage.

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BrightBack

JANUARY 17, 2022

But in practice, being best-in-class at digital retention is a key challenge for most startups and enterprises, as it requires significant engineering to connect 3 to 5 systems of record (e.g.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. It is if you took LinkedIn, combined it with the app platform from Salesforce, and looked at the domain, which is supply chains. Just like Salesforce, we have a platform.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

I am Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures, and we will be talking about the secrets to building a $1 billion vertical SaaS company, and we’re very fortunate to have two executives from leading enterprise software companies who have done this. Matt Garratt: If you just look at Vlocity and nCino, amazing businesses.

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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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Totango

JULY 15, 2022

Detecting and protecting at-risk customers is important even in the best of times, but it is especially critical during times of economic instability when your current customer base is your greatest (and perhaps only) source of dependable revenue growth. . Total revenue at risk. Percent of revenue at risk.

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Aysling

JULY 29, 2021

They are limiting – they limit the vision and forecasting of company leadership. A PSA system such as Aysling is flexible enough to give you what a spreadsheet cannot. It can handle payments, reporting, HR and freelancer management. Plus, there are many integrations you can use with Aysling. And you have greater security.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Today on Recur Now, the astronomical findings of Zuora’s Subscription Economy Index are released. We’re also talking subscription sports with a pricing expert, and highlighting a former Netflix culture-building badass. Your top subscription news. Subscription Cavaliers. Can you guess who? Airbnb x animals.

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OPEXEngine

MARCH 15, 2022

High Growth SaaS Companies Get A Significant Portion of Revenues Internationally. Faster growth companies are taking advantage of overseas markets and expanding internationally faster than their slower growth counterparts—with fast-growth companies reporting almost 31-32% of revenue from international business. Solution Demand.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Now when the number of your subscribers exceeds 1,980, you got an email from your email automation software provider (that’s a vivid example of SaaS upselling): “ Hello, [name]. Because you think he will benefit from plan B even more and make a larger payment. Yeah, revenue. Recurring revenue.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Christian Lanng : So we started with something very, very narrow, which was invoicing. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. So if you get the invoice, you get the payment and that’s a lot more interesting. You pay a subscription. ” No.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. Krish Subramanian: We are software engineers by training. Harry Stebbings: All thanks to Lee Fixel for making the intro a long time ago now.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

While companies like Amazon, Alphabet, Tencent or Adobe might not label what they do a formal “strategy process,” their success owes much to tried and true principles of strategy development. What they don’t do is get bogged down in process or complexity. Adobe’s evolution over the past decade or so is a good example.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 27, 2020

Today, we're pushing for discounted plans, adopting more flexible payment terms, and turning your product into a marketing channel. There has never been a better time to test innovative pricing and monetization models to outmaneuver slow or legacy competitors.”. Webinar Customer Success Leadership Tuesday, April 28.

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Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

Generally speaking, building a software product—even a minimum viable product—is going to take more effort and time than selling your skills as services. But software products are more scalable and valuable, so if you have the financial runway and the time to start building now is as good a time as any.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. But we provide a combination of APIs and software.

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ChurnZero

MAY 20, 2021

6M to $10M of Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) or ~10 Customer Success Mangers (CSMs). But the best Sales and Marketing teams (which also have a relationship component) use well-defined processes and data integrations to drive their operations. Build Phase. Traits: Product-market fit. $6M

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

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. million subscriptions transacted and Google’s marketplace has seen 3X growth in SaaS sales. Azure’s marketplace has over 4 million monthly visitors.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Do you want to start a blog to share your extensive knowledge and thought leadership with the world? E-commerce Platforms. As an e-commerce business, you want capabilities that let you list products, accept multiple types of payments, categorize goods, and allow you to track backend inventory in real-time.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

That’s never been truer for software businesses in particular than in the past 10-15 years, with the internet stimulating an explosion in the number of viable revenue models. Let’s take a look at some of the most popular revenue models used today — why they’re popular, why they work, and why they will (or won’t) work for you.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

So my father sat down with me in our basement, and I remember working in this makeshift workstation that we built together and we learned how to code, because back then there weren’t a lot of applications, there weren’t a lot of games, a lot of software to be used, so we actually had to create it ourselves.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

“It got us thinking: Why is there no purpose-built operating system for corporate learning and development teams, when their jobs are so strategic to the business, and they’re managing massive budgets, but they can’t track things like ROI?” There are now over 150 enterprise companies using the platform.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. But we provide a combination of APIs and software.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Today, we're taking a look at how subscribers can fuel revenue. Today's Top Subscription News. Subscription Economy Powers Growth. The music business is booming and it’s all thanks to the subscription economy. The music business is booming and it’s all thanks to the subscription economy.

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CustomerSuccessBox

JULY 11, 2022

This trip begins for the majority of SaaS products when a user clicks a “cancel subscription” button of some sort. They could, however, have left due to a business-related issue just as probable. Surveys may also be integrated directly into the cancellation page. The route includes account churn.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

When you’re looking to generate significant revenue as a newbie in the SaaS market, your product prices shouldn’t go above $5000. For a SaaS company (and almost any business), both success and failure depend on decisions that founders make: team members, target groups, product functionality, and of course business model.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2019

To date they have raised over $113m in financing from some of the best in the business including Tiger Global, Battery Ventures, Boldstart, Canaan, Cisco, and Redpoint, just to name a few. What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 5, 2021

Sign up for the Baremetrics free trial and start seeing more into your subscription revenues now. Aside from the cost of tracking software comes the need to monitor your employees’ online activities throughout the day while they are working from home. Especially with monitoring your metrics. That’s where Baremetrics comes in.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. Growing at the same pace, a report from BetterCloud had anticipated that 73% of the organizations will have all SaaS apps by 2020. And the result is visible!

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ProfitWell

MAY 8, 2020

How are churn and new revenue trending over time? It means convincing customers to do something—like take a meeting, adopt your solution, see the value you can provide, or be a reference. When revenue is tied directly to recurring monthly payments, any negative experiences that lead to churn have a direct impact on your bottom line.

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How SaaS Works

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The How SaaS Works series simplifies the complex world of software-as-a-service (SaaS) into the practical fundamentals for anyone involved in SaaS. Introduction The software-as-a-service business model appeals to companies of all sizes from tiny startups to massive Fortune 500 companies. This is considered subscription software.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 26, 2019

Today's Top Subscription News. Zenefits, a cloud-based software for managing human resources, scored a # 10 spot. Stripe, the online payment processing software, was placed in eighth. Subscription is the future of retail. But will a rental subscription program lift Banana’s results?

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