SaaStr

MAY 22, 2022

SaaStr 555: Secrets to Building a High-Performing Revenue Marketing Engine with Demandbase VP of Marketing Tracy Kraft. SaaStr 554: The Builders and Sellers Playbook: Proven Models that Help GTM and Product-led Teams Scale with CircleCI CEO Jim Rose. Top Videos This Week: 1. Co-Founder Lloyed Lobo. appeared first on SaaStr.

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2024

Bitly CEO Toby Gabriner and CPO Kelsey Stevenson share the three secret ingredients that helped them when scaling to $100M ARR and what they could have done differently. Kelsey joined them as CPO, and they started experimenting with less expensive packages downmarket where customers could go online and set up a subscription.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2023

You probably can’t make it in a large, crowded market if you have “no new innovative product offering.” Crowded large markets are good. That means you can scale quickly — if, if, you hit it. But, in a crowded market, you probably have to be 10x better than the current market leaders.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2022

SaaStr 554: The Builders and Sellers Playbook: Proven Models that Help GTM and Product-led Teams Scale with CircleCI CEO Jim Rose. SaaStr 555: Secrets to Building a High-Performing Revenue Marketing Engine with Demandbase VP of Marketing Tracy Kraft. Top Videos This Week: 1. appeared first on SaaStr.

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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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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. The days of flat-rate subscriptions being the default option are gone. Your ERP cannot bill usage subscriptions.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 31, 2024

By Inga Broerman Scaling with Usage-Based Models: A Practical Guide to Metering The rise of usage-based pricing is revolutionizing the subscription economy. Usage-based pricing represents a seismic shift in how subscription businesses operate.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In a volatile economic climate and market, founders must employ smart growth strategies while focusing on efficiency. Confluent’s President of Field Operations, Erica Schultz, explores different tactics businesses can employ to scale revenue and increase efficiency in the current macro environment. Promote a consumption-based culture.

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SaaStr

APRIL 14, 2025

100+ scale-ups and start-ups showing you how they do it! 800+ VCs Ready to Invest This year, were bringing together over 800 VCs and investors, making SaaStr Annual 2025 the ultimate place to pitch, connect, and secure funding. And we’ve got an AI Demo Stage running all day, every day this year, right in the heart of Annual.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 5, 2022

We restructured all of our messaging around our Content Cloud to create a simplified go-to-market message that says what it does, and does what it says. There’s no denying that renewals are the most important motion in SaaS and subscription. You can listen to the full talk with Mark Wayland or subscribe to weekly updates from SaaStr.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2025

ServiceTitan, the operating system for the trades, continues to scale impressively, with $772M in FY25 revenue, $800m+ ARR and a clear path to $1B ARR. market cap (12x ARR) This is what a 12x ARR vertical B2B leader looks like today. This shift has been critical to scaling beyond $500M ARR. Accelerating at Scale.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

What is the secret to aligning go-to-market teams and finance teams? These two departments are a SaaS company’s most important; without their alignment, there is no growth or scale. was pretty simplified, mostly made up of annual or monthly subscriptions. Governance is a critical component of how you grow and scale.

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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. To succeed, subscription-based organizations must embrace smarter, more integrated approaches to billing, management, and strategy.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2024

What should you look for in an Enterprise rep vs. a Mid-Market rep? Solving High Volume, Low Conversion at Lattice Dini Mehta joined Lattice at $3M in revenue when it had just 10 people in seat for Go-To-Market and 7 salespeople. Many founders try to sell a product to everyone in their total addressable market right out of the gate.

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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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FastSpring

JANUARY 10, 2023

Chargebee: Supports Complex Subscription Management. Recurly: Easily Integrates with Multiple Payment Gateways. Zoho Subscriptions: Online Subscription Billing Platform. Wave: Invoicing and Accounting Software for Small Businesses. Fully Compliant, Custom Trial and Subscription Options (Without Writing Code).

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SaaStr

MAY 12, 2022

Offering its services as a freemium-based model, CircleCI recognizes driving trials as the cornerstone of a go-to-market strategy for any developer tool. . Jim Rose, CEO of CircleCI, leverages his experience marketing to software developers to discuss the merits of moving from a subscription-based to a usage-based business model.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In this latest episode of CRO Confidential , Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with the CRO of Zapier, Giancarlo Lionetti (GC), to chat about Product-Led Growth (PLG) and Go-To-Market (GTM). In a product-led growth strategy, the product serves as the focal point of your company’s marketing and strategies.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2021

Even if a lot of the revenue isn’t truly recurring SaaS revenue. “We define ARR as annualized invoiced amounts per solution sku from subscription licenses and maintenance obligations assuming no increases or reductions in their subscriptions.” ” #5. But interesting, the U.S.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling from $1M to $10M. We did a good AMA on this scaling at SaaStr Europa in Barcelona, a couple weeks back. That will scale, and then take those emails after four great pieces of content and do a weekly webinar and do a weekly get-together for them.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

“Doubling Down” is a new series where we hear from top B2B SaaS investors on their most recent activities and takes on the current market. Metronome’s sophisticated billing and subscription management platform enables companies to easily manage and automate complex billing and invoicing processes.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 30, 2021

But even with SMBs, it’s the bigger ones that are driving growth at scale — 50% of ARR is now from customers with more than 250 employees. Going a smidge upmarket is key to Freshworks’ putting up the big numbers at scale. #2. 62% of revenue from annual subscriptions. NRR of 118%.

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Stax

MAY 13, 2025

Fee structures matter; understand the differences between interchange plus, flat rate, tiered, and subscription pricing to find the most transparent and cost-effective option. Credit card merchant services are the systems, tools, and agreements that allow businesses to accept payments via credit and debit cards.

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Subscription Flow

MAY 16, 2024

In this blog, while understanding more about CardPointe and why it still works for so many businesses, we will take you through a guide on managing Cardpointe recurring billing with SubscriptionFlow to ensure that you do not miss out on collecting recurring payments just because CardPointe has dropped it. What is CardPointe?

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SaaStr

MAY 1, 2021

In scaling the cash-flow side of SaaS, there’s almost nothing more powerful than a nnual contracts combined with prepaid cash. Nothing is a bigger headache in a Fortune 500 company that having to go back to procurement every single month to get an invoice approved. And as a result, even more chose monthly subscriptions.

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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

APRIL 20, 2020

The last thing anyone needs is another CRM, another invoicing app, another quoting tool, another recruiting app, etc. But 8 times out of 10, it shows the earliest stages of real product-market fit, i.e., potentially having something. More here: From Initial Traction to Initial Scale (~$10M in ARR): The Hardest Phase.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2021

220m in ARR, $13B market cap. 50% revenue from software (recurring), 50% from payments (not-recurring). . Shopify has exploded to $3B+ in ARR and a $135B Market cap, growing an incredible 96% during Covid. You pay a subscription for websites to help you sell stuff. Only half does. Example #2: Shopify.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2021

This usually doesn’t happen in the very early days, when you just have a few employees and almost no real marketing or sales expense. It’s just, to invest in sales and marketing now, and make those extra hires, the burn rate is growing even faster at 12% a month after $100k MRR. This sounds about right. The time is now.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 3, 2022

Targeted, personalized conversations at scale with Dynamic Content. Juggle multiple email lists with granular subscription management. Consolidate your marketing stack and send multiple marketing communications (newsletter, onboarding, product announcements, promotions) from a single tool.

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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. In todays competitive subscription economy, addressing revenue leakage isnt optionalits critical for sustaining profitability and building trust with customers.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2024

Work with Great Executive Recruiters ”The first time I saw an invoice for an executive search, I think I had a heart attack,” Shrav joked. But the reality is, if you’re scaling from $1M to $20M in ARR, you’re going to need to become best friends with your executive recruiters.” Otherwise, they’re probably not VPs of Sales or Marketing.

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SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2019

She will share her top 5 lessons learned in building and scaling SaaS businesses from $1M to $500M in ARR including expanding to serve upmarket customers, moving from product to platform, and how to hire well to drive breakthrough customer experiences and business growth. First strategy, expand your market.

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SaaStr

APRIL 1, 2022

Multi-product is the key to growth at scale. As we’ve seen so many times in this series, it’s hard to scale past $100m ARR or so with a single product line. Wall Street seems OK with low margins as you scale, so long as you see software-like Gross Margins (60%-80%) as you IPO. #5. 600m in Free-Cash Flow on $1.7B

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2022

SaaStr 552: 5 Lessons on Building Your Sales Organization for Scale with Than Hancock, EVP of Sales @ Podium and Carlie Adams, Head of West Coast Sales @ Podium. SaaStr 551: Top 5 Mistakes While Building & Scaling Global Product Teams from Microsoft to Salesforce to Hubspot with Hubspot GM & VP, Products, Poorvi Shrivastav.

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