Baremetrics

APRIL 26, 2021

All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. Quick look Before we dig into the specifics of what both these service providers offer, let's take a quick look at each brand and its core focus. Easily connect to other business services.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

As someone who has spent a lot of time building marketplaces in my career, a curious thing has happened over the last couple years. Founders have started reaching out asking for help converting their SAAS or SAAS-like business into a marketplace. I’ve helped their business, but they’re asking for help driving more customers.

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How To Buy Saas

JULY 26, 2021

The initial concern of every ambitious entrepreneur is to keep their startup costs as low as possible. Several best startup tools and resources help minimize startup costs, but they also assist in saving precious time for savvy business people. What if you can get your hands on the best tools for startups?

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. In this essay, we’ll go deeper into the gradients of marketplace models that a company can sequence to, and as a follow up, we will do the same for platforms.

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Blulogix

DECEMBER 21, 2023

We’re about to blast off into the future of UBP , where usage-based pricing transforms from a strategic imperative to a foundational force shaping the B2B landscape. Subscription Billing 1. Say goodbye to guesswork and hello to hyper-relevant pricing. This is the magic of AI-powered personalization.

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 18, 2019

This came to define a new go-to-market strategy for many marketplaces or, as they came to be known, SaaS-enabled marketplaces. In some cases, the SaaS was even given away free in the hope of driving adoption before monetizing on the marketplace. In other words, we may see users coming for the network and staying for the tool.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Differences and similarities between Latin American/Brazilian startups and Silicon Valley startups are discussed, with a focus on challenges related to data ownership, regulatory and intellectual property rights, and fostering innovation.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 15, 2019

An Intercom Updated Intercom launches new features to class up the customer journey, not least of which is an integration with Chargebee so you can sync subscription info directly into your account, enhance customer support, automate workflows, and convert leads faster. Pricing Page Teardown Goes Live. Worse Than MoviePass?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! Thought I wanted to be an engineer, quickly realized I actually prefer the customer facing side of the startup world. I’m sure all of you that are startup founders love your companies and your products, but I have so much love for all of them.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

317: Rachel Hepworth is VP of Marketing @ Pilot, the startup that offers the best bookkeeping, tax and CFO services for growing businesses. And I decided that I wanted to join a startup because I was young, I had no responsibilities, risk meant nothing. Because at a startup, you figure out how to be scrappy and get things done.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Your top subscription news. Sony halves the price of its PlayStation Now subscription service, as the cloud gaming saga rages on—adding new titles like “Grand Theft Auto V” and “God of War” to the subscription service. price tag, although very different offerings. Name Your Price.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The story you tell to the market, the competitive moats you build, the pricing models fueling your growth – everything that got you to where you are needs to be reimagined for your new buyer. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up. Yvonne swiftly flipped this story on its head.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 23, 2022

SaaS startup growth has taken a hit as well as we noted. In the SaaS world, that means the consumer-facing apps & marketplace SaaS have a tougher time ahead. The last 2 years of SaaS twitter summed up sales into two simplistic formulas for achieving growth: PLG & raising prices.

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

What does this mean for startups and tech companies? Now, unfortunately there are a lot of constraints in Africa, major constraints when you’re talking about setting up and scaling a startup. There is no startup ecosystem to speak of. ” At this point we were offering the service for free.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

They didn’t know it at the time, but they had also created an entire business category: an on demand, short-term rental marketplace, which has shot the value of their business north of $38 billion. This is episode six of Scale , a brand new podcast series on moving from startup to scale up. Why do most startups fail?

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ProfitWell

MARCH 27, 2020

Lower churn - A customer who doesn't make frequent use of your software is more likely to cancel their subscriptions than one who sees continuous value from it. Self-service - The knowledge base should be available to customers whenever they need it. Pricing - Document 360 offers three service tiers — startup, business, and enterprise.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 16, 2019

The classic example sees a company move from niche startup to mainstream scale-up, but it can also see companies hone their product-market fit by focusing on a more specialized, and yet more lucrative, user base. Do you have a pricing page on your site or do you make it up on the fly? Entry level application (<$5,000 p.a.).

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 10, 2020

A strategic analysis after evaluating multiple service marketplaces Over the past few years, I’ve come across a huge number of service (or labor) marketplaces: the countless Uber for X companies, the marketplaces for lawyers, therapists, cleaners, architects, construction workers; you name it. Sounds complicated?

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 7, 2021

That’s because most of their growth is powered by the product itself through a highly efficient self-service motion. They then monetize with usage-based pricing and directly share in the success of their customers. In fact, Atlassian out-spends its peers on product & engineering (47% of revenue compared to 25% for New Relic).

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Casey Accidental

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

My role as an advisor to Greylock’s portfolio companies allows me to work with many different types of businesses: consumer social, marketplaces, SaaS, etc. It should actually be the guiding light for most subscription software businesses. a price for every thousand emails you send via their platform).

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Related read: Freemium vs. Free Trial: How to Know Which One to Pick for Your SaaS Startup. Pricing wars are another source of margin compression. While it’s true that there are no bad margins, you maximize them when your product ranks high on the buying hierarchy of functionality, reliability, convenience, and price.

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

When launching a startup or adding a new product, common advice is to start with a minimum viable product (MVP). But especially if your product or platform has a high purchase price, you’re going to have fewer initial customers, which means you have to be really careful which customers get a say in the future of your company.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Because horizontal SaaS companies serve both startups and enterprise businesses, scalability is a key selling point.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2021

Ep #402: Mårten Mickos, CEO of HackerOne, explains their innovative approach of packaging customer value derived from a variety of activities into an annually recurring subscription offering that delivers outstanding value to customers while simplifying the buying process and the customer journey.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. MRR, obviously.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Sure you may have all the textbook strategies in place, integrating applications, subscriptions, site registrations with member discounts, etc. Traffic pours in from a high level overview of a product and flows down to a point of conversion, whether it be a sale, vote, subscription, or other desired user behavior.

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Chargify

AUGUST 17, 2020

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

The critical nature of software for business growth is a key reason for the exceptional growth of Software as a Service (SaaS) companies in recent times. BugHerd provides top-notch services for bug tracking and website feedback. Campaign Monitor offers a subscription-based pricing model. Headquarters: Sydney, Australia.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Price analysis is a shortcut to understanding what the market considers a fair and reasonable price. Sometimes the information needed for a more in-depth analysis of the market isn’t available, or the timeframe in which you need to make a decision is too short for a more accurate pricing strategy. Conduct a pricing experiment.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. In 2016, André joined Superlógica Tecnologias, a management system designed to service small businesses with a recurring revenue model. Aaron Ross is a name many would be familiar with.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 11, 2020

Marketplaces in their early stages generally lack the liquidity to be relevant enough for the supply side, they are not a priority. To overcome this, marketplaces generally need to find ways to initially hack the supply side. Large suppliers are often reluctant to work with small marketplaces that lack credibility.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. With so many SAAS getting visibility in online marketplaces, we found that new saas businesses are struggling hard to make it to the right set of customers. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. Setup Pricing model and payment gateways.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 18, 2020

He even managed to help pivot the company from a programmatic transactional revenue model to a subscription model over the course of, not just the last three months during COVID, but over the course of the last few years. Sam Jacobs: Is it a subscription service? Is it recurring revenue, or is it delivered in a different way?

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Source 16 Startup Metrics by Jeff Jordan, Anu Hariharan, Frank Chen, and Preethi Kasireddy, a16z We have the privilege of meeting with thousands of entrepreneurs every year, and in the course of those discussions are presented with all kinds of numbers, measures, and metrics that illustrate the promise and health of a particular company.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

268: Ryan Bonnici is the CMO @ G2, the company that allows you to get the right software and services for your business with over 897,000 user reviews to help you make smarter buying decisions. And that was around the time that I left and then since then HubSpot has built an invoice generator and a bunch of other things.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The number of apps created by independent developers was steadily growing, so in 2009 the Atlassian Plugin Exchange was born, which evolved into Atlassian Marketplace by 2012. It gave the smallest teams a chance to outsource the sales infrastructure (like invoicing, payment processing, quotes, etc.) Zero-friction onboarding.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

A lot of startups out there tend to define themselves as startups who aspire to become a platform, and it’s quite nebulous to define. Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Right, Renaud? Let’s start with our five key steps.

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