Clouded Judgement

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

As far as an expected timeline - typically companies launch their roadshow ~2-3 weeks after filing their initial S-1 (the roadshow launches with an updated S-1 that contains a price range). We go to market with our platform in three ways: Core, Pro and FinTech products. trillion on trades services annually.

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Benchmarks Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 299

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 13, 2024

In either case, you’ll likely hit up Google for an influencer marketing tool. Choosing the right platform for your influencer marketing efforts can be overwhelming—not because of a lack of options, but because there are so many to choose from. Pricing: Free plan available; paid plans start from $89/mo with a free trial.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2025

Fresh data from Ramp’s AI Index suggests that the meteoric rise in business AI spending might be showing signs of deceleration, raising questions about whether we’re witnessing market maturation or beginning to hit a potential adoption ceiling: The numbers tell a nuanced story. While overall AI penetration among U.S.

AI 275

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 5, 2024

By BluLogix Team Navigating Complex Pricing Models in the Subscription Economy Introduction In the subscription economy, Managed Service Providers (MSPs) must adapt to increasingly complex pricing models to meet the evolving needs of their customers. Gone are the days of simple, one-size-fits-all pricing.

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Blulogix

OCTOBER 22, 2024

By BluLogix Team Complex Pricing Models: How BluLogix Simplifies UCaaS Monetization Summary: Managing complex pricing models is a major pain point for UCaaS companies. From seat-based pricing to consumption-based and hybrid models, keeping track of various offerings and ensuring transparency for customers can be challenging.

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Pricing B2B Subscription Payment Features 110

FastSpring

AUGUST 12, 2024

Throughout the year, sales and subscription management teams juggle hundreds or thousands of subscription upgrades, add-ons, and renewals across customer accounts. What if every customer renewal— from estimate to invoice —was predictable and seamless for everyone involved? The result? Streamlined approval processes.

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SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2025

It’s the emergence of a new category that’s attracting billions in investment and fundamentally disrupting the $500B+ software development market. This dual-market approach massively expanded the addressable market. If model providers change pricing or restrict access, margins could compress quickly.

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USIO

JUNE 19, 2025

revenue share earns you $400,000 —on top of your subscription revenue. That’s the beauty of embedded payments: your customers gain convenience and control, while you gain a passive, scalable revenue stream. Built-in monetization : You don’t have to raise prices to increase your revenue.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Solutions 130

Blulogix

DECEMBER 23, 2024

By Inga Broerman How Usage-Based Pricing is Transforming Subscription Billing The subscription economy is undergoing a transformation, driven by the rising popularity of usage-based pricing. Schedule a Demo Today The Shift to Usage-Based Pricing Its an inevitable now. It doesnt matter if its B2B or B2C.

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SaaStr

JUNE 24, 2025

ICONIQ’s latest report, surveying 205 GTM executives in April 2025 , reveals a market splitting in two: AI-forward companies pulling dramatically ahead while traditional SaaS companies struggle with flat growth, longer sales cycles, and declining conversion rates. vs $8.7K), and dramatically leaner operations.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2025

Now, the first AI Account Executives and BDR platforms are hitting the market. Companies are routinely achieving 60%+ deflection rates – meaning AI handles 6 out of 10 (or more) support tickets before a human agent ever gets involved. The question isn’t whether AI will impact sales.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With the turbulence in the market in 2023, sales cycles have only been getting longer and a lot more complicated. At this year’s SaaStr Annual , CEO and co-founder of Capchase Miguel Fernandez and Director of Marketing Rose Johnson share five tips for getting sales right in any market. to find out what was going on. The answer?

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

SaaS pricing isn’t static – it’s a living strategy that grows with your company. In this article we dive into a playbook for pricing across different stages of company growth, inspired by Geoffrey Moore’s Crossing the Chasm. Tiered pricing models emerge to address these differences.

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Pricing Scale SaaS Technical Review 107

SaaStr

JANUARY 8, 2025

Having joined Checkr from Google in 2022, Lindsay shared valuable insights about identifying and executing on major opportunities for improvement within an already mature go-to-market organization. Checkr’s go-to-market strategy was already well-established when Lindsay joined in 2022.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Under his leadership, the company has developed innovative AI-powered solutions for restaurant websites, online ordering, CRM, and marketing automation. As the technology continues to evolve, companies must stay agile and responsive to changing market needs while ensuring their AI implementations deliver real value to their customers.

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SaaStr

JUNE 22, 2025

The IPO market has been … on fire in 2025. initial public offering on Friday, becoming the latest enterprise software company to test increasingly receptive public markets. They signal a company systematically preparing for the scrutiny and operational demands of public markets. But we may have our first.

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B2B Payments SaaS Payments Payment Services 184

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2024

A lot of you reading SaaStr are probably more B2B SaaS oriented and may not be paying attention to the consumer market, but it’s already massive and is continuing to grow quickly. In this week’s Workshop Wednesday, RevenueCat CEO Jacob Eiting and Growth Advocate David Barnard share their annual State of Subscription Apps report with us.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 3, 2025

By Inga Broerman Preparing for Regulatory Changes in Subscription Management The subscription economy is thriving, with businesses worldwide adopting models that offer flexibility, scalability, and recurring revenue streams. However, as the industry grows, so does regulatory scrutiny.

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Blulogix

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This is where the concept of real invoice calculation comes in, fundamentally changing the way organizations approach revenue projection. Schedule a Demo Today What is Real Invoice Calculation? Real invoice calculation is an approach to revenue prediction that goes beyond simple estimates.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 21, 2024

Social media marketing is more complicated than ever. Here are the top 12 courses to improve your social media marketing skills. Here are the top 12 courses to improve your social media marketing skills. Meta Blueprint : for learning about the basics of digital marketing, Facebook, Instagram, and ads.

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2024

With everything in AI moving so rapidly, what’s the best way to price Artificial Intelligence products or SaaS tools with custom AI features and integrations? Should it be subscriptions, usage, solutions, or something entirely different? Why is pricing so tricky? Snowflake is a symbol of usage-based pricing.

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Subscription Flow

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Operating a business entails a number of processes like managing products and payments, invoices, customer engagement, revenue, unpaid invoices and much more. That is why most modern SaaS and subscription-based businesses have transitioned to using a good billing software, reducing their workload by a great deal.

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Payment Features SaaS Payments 59

USIO

MAY 16, 2024

Here are some key considerations: PCI Level 1 Compliance: Ensure your integration meets the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). PCI Level 1 is the most secure on the market. Can integrated payments support subscription billing?

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Payment Services Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions 263

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 28, 2025

And now, engineering and distribution (go-to-market) constraints are greatly reduced with AI. Whether it’s automated content generation (ie marketing content), AI SDRs and AEs, data enrichment funnels, etc it’s now possible for companies to scale their brand / distribution incredibly quickly. Someone can always catch you.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 2, 2025

By Inga Broerman How Industry Consolidation is Reshaping Subscription Billing The subscription economy is on a path of rapid growth and transformation, projected to reach a $3 trillion valuation in 2024. This trend creates formidable competitors with comprehensive offerings that can dominate markets.

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Payment Features Payments Subscription Payment Solutions 52

Stax

MAY 20, 2024

The concept of unearned revenue can easily trip up SaaS companies that offer subscription services and products on a recurring basis. Unlike when selling ordinary products, you cannot recognize the revenue earned from a subscription all at once. In the case of SaaS subscriptions, this could take several months—or even years.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 7, 2025

Artificial intelligence is transforming digital marketing by empowering us to do our best work. The right AI marketing tools will help you automate repetitive tasks, make data-driven decisions, and unblock your creativity. The shift to AI-powered marketing has been dramatic. Pricing : Starts at $19.79/month

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AI Search AI Social Media Marketing 120

Clouded Judgement

JULY 2, 2025

As far as an expected timeline - typically companies launch their roadshow ~3 weeks after filing their initial S-1 (the roadshow launches with an updated S-1 that contains a price range). After the roadshow launch, there’s typically ~2 weeks before the stock starts trading. My note: Their product here is Dev Mode.]

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Royalty-free A "royalty" is a payment made every time a piece of content is used. Royalty-free music means you pay once upfront for rights to use the music, rather than making recurring payments (royalties) each time you use the track. Annual subscriptions offer significant savings.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2022

One invoice. I would pay each product provider in their own token: one for storage, compute, caching/CDN, email subscription management, etc. Paying five decentralized providers in five different tokens means managing several wallets and monitoring token prices to hedge expenses. I paid for them each in US dollars every month.

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Payment Solutions GCP(Google Cloud Platform) Startup Payment Features 268

Stax

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Research shows that 64% of small businesses use accounting software and the market for accounting software solutions is projected to be worth $4.3billion by 2023. There are many good products in the market that provide you with all of the features you need, but we will only focus on Quicken software and Intuit’s QuickBooks Online.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services 88

Blulogix

JANUARY 6, 2025

By Inga Broerman The 2025 Blueprint for Scalable Growth in the Subscription Economy The subscription economy is entering a pivotal year. Trends like usage-based pricing , complex provisioning , industry consolidation , and evolving regulatory landscapes are reshaping how businesses operate and thrive.

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Payment Features Subscription AI Search compliance 52

Clouded Judgement

MARCH 21, 2025

Price undisclosed but sounds like >$300m DataStax acquired by IBM. Price undisclosed but sounds like >$1B M&A has followed an interesting arc over the last ~20 years. They build organically, but also acquired their way into new products and markets. Moveworks acquired by ServiceNow for $2.9B Slack is a great example.

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Cloud Subscription Payment Features Pricing 188

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 28, 2024

You've got big marketing dreams but a not-so-big budget? After 12 years of marketing for bootstrapped brands, I've learned that you don't need to spend a fortune on fancy digital marketing tools to see results. A lot of these marketing software offer free or low-cost versions. Pricing: Free plan available.

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Social Media AI Search Marketing Business 105

Clouded Judgement

JUNE 20, 2025

The chart below shows the evolution of the o-series of models (o1 and o3) pricing from the beginning of the year to today. As you can see, in just a few months the pricing has dropped 87%! The implications of this kind of pricing change (and I don’t think the price cuts will stop here…) are significant.

Cloud 157

Cloud AI Headcount Pricing 157

Clouded Judgement

JULY 4, 2025

Top 10 EV / NTM Revenue Multiples Top 10 Weekly Share Price Movement Update on Multiples SaaS businesses are generally valued on a multiple of their revenue - in most cases the projected revenue for the next 12 months. Multiples shown below are calculated by taking the Enterprise Value (market cap + debt - cash) / NTM revenue.

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Cloud Investment Subscription Payment Features 157

Blulogix

DECEMBER 27, 2024

By Inga Broerman Overcoming Revenue Leakage with Smarter Billing Practices Revenue leakage is one of the most insidious challenges subscription-based businesses face. Whether through pricing errors, missed renewals, or incomplete billing processes, these small inefficiencies can add up to significant lost revenue over time.

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