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5 Interesting Learnings from Circle at $2.3 Billion in “ARR”

SaaStr

Rapid expansion and new service integrations negatively impacted net income. Circle’s story is a reminder that adding new products, markets, or services can actually destroy profitability if not carefully managed. Revenue increased 16% year over year while net income fell by 42% and EBITDA decreased 29% year over year.

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From $10M to $100M ARR in 5.5 Months: Inside Replit’s AI Coding Rocketship

SaaStr

funding from Creandum Windsurf : $40M ARR, seemingly acquired by OpenAI for $3B These aren’t typical B2B metrics. In the AI coding space, we’re seeing growth rates that would make even the most aggressive VCs blush: Cursor (Anysphere) : $500M ARR at $9.9B These are venture capital fever dream numbers.

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How to Embed Payment Functionality in Your AI SaaS: A Practical Guide

USIO

Step 2: Choose the Right Payment Infrastructure Partner Unless you want to build a payment system from scratch (and navigate complex regulations), the easiest way is to partner with a payments-as-a-service provider that supports embedded payments.

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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. So it’s a marketplace, it’s a platform. And the biggest difference between the two of those statements is one, low value to sort of medium and high value, and then two, the actual service layer built into the technology underneath the hood.

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Salesforce vs HubSpot: CRM Titans Compared for 2025

How To Buy Saas

This Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) approach revolutionized the industry, making powerful CRM tools accessible without on-premise installs. Over the past two decades, Salesforce has evolved from a sales CRM into a comprehensive platform spanning sales, service, marketing, e-commerce, and app development. Open APIs for custom integration.

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Affordable Link-Building Packages Compared: A SaaS Founder’s Guide to Getting Quality Backlinks for ≤ $1.5 K a Month

How To Buy Saas

Cost math is simple: marketplaces like FatJoe charge about $80 per link, so a five-link bundle lands near $400–$500. Quality metrics – What DA/DR and traffic ranges do they guarantee, and how is that verified? FAQs – getting the most from affordable link packages Are affordable link-building services safe for SEO? Anything 7.5

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The Definitive Guide: Product Analytics for Product-Led Growth

OpenView Labs

For just SaaS products (removing marketplaces, eCommerce, and DTC), the average activation rate is 36%, and the median is 30%. From our end, we believe that active user growth rate is a reliable North Star metric for PLG companies. So what’s a good activation rate? We believe that activation below 20% makes it hard to build a business.

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