SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Pilot’s leading team of US-based experts, supported by elegant software, delivers world-class bookkeeping, tax, and CFO services trusted by growing businesses like yours. Tilled was created to empower software vendors, marketplaces, and SAAS companies to start generating revenue from accepting credit cards.

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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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BetterCloud

APRIL 25, 2024

SaaS tools are fantastic, but keeping your tech stack from turning into a financial snowball can be tough. Let’s break down smart SaaS budgeting, so you can make your tech work for you, without blowing the bank. What is SaaS budgeting? Spend some time familiarizing yourself with the software you already pay for.

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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. So goes the story.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2023

Buying software has changed significantly over the past 27 years. The average mid-size company has 111 SaaS applications. His first software-buying journey at age 24 involved researching in magazines, calling companies, and receiving demo CDs in the mail. What did software buying look like in the ‘90s?

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

But there’s another SaaS leader that almost everyone in B2B software also uses also founded in 1999 — to manage their events. While the overall category of Virtual Events software is in a funk, Cvent did OK. #2. 70% of Cvent’s revenue comes from its events software. It’s still around, too.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2021

Today’s SaaS apps are easy to acquire and use without IT and operations’ assistance. However, trouble arises when your company ends up with a SaaS sprawl – the overall amount of adopted applications overwhelms your tech stack. Data becomes siloed in disparate SaaS apps, fragmenting the business processes that run your organization.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

is a software training company that focuses on helping end users and companies be more productive. From the beginning, the company’s goal has been to help users achieve more with their software tools. Over the years, BrainStorm has evolved from a training services company to a world-class SaaS platform. BrainStorm, Inc.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

The Latin American SaaS landscape is hustling and bustling, having seen more IPOs in the last 6 months than the previous 20 years combined. We will gather 300 leading SaaS founders, executives and investors for three days packed with opportunities and rich exchange of knowledge to push the whole ecosystem forward. Founded : 2011.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

SaaS Enabled Marketplaces benefit from a unique advantage in their go-to-market. SEMs provide software to suppliers and consumers, and then make a market between them. They provide software to publishers, the supply side, which manages available ad inventory with a product called DoubleClick for Publishers, or DFP.

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FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

SocialBee , a social media management platform and SaaS based in Romania, first started using FastSpring in 2018. However, as SocialBee utilizes many different ways to package and monetize their software as a service subscriptions, they began discovering new ways to test the FastSpring platform’s capabilities.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 22, 2020

Businesses, on the other hand, are stuck in the dark ages, often relying on the phone, email, fax and even pen and paper when it comes to ordering goods or services. Whilst consumer-facing marketplaces have become an essential part of our daily lives, business-to-business marketplaces are only just beginning to emerge.

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2022

Suzanne Xie kicked off her journey in SaaS as the Founder and CEO of Lightwell. These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. What makes a SaaS business so hard? Platforms-as-a-service.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The same is true in software. In this battle, I’ve found a secret weapon hidden within one of our core engineering strategies, an idea called Run Less Software. As well as being a critical philosophy behind how we build software, it also represents how I feel about the software industry and technology in general.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Now—a happy consequence—cloud marketplaces are on a similar trajectory of growth and have opened up a powerful go-to-market channel for sellers that you probably haven’t heard of yet. Not to mention 73% of B2B buyers prefer the convenience of digital buying through ecommerce, web direct or marketplaces (more on that later). .

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 23, 2022

Software buying is undergoing a transformation, as is the case with many industries in the post-pandemic market. The process of purchasing software is increasingly complex – the choices for products and services are endless, and customers have a harder time parsing which companies to trust and which product will better cater to their needs.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

Soon, we will be talking about how crypto will change the software world. Enterprise software has three layers: infrastructure, platform and application. Within the 200 ICOs I analyzed, there are tens of next-generation infrastructure players and a twenty or more platforms-as-a-service. But that’s myopic.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Steep fees from platforms like the Apple App Store and Google Play can understandably cause game developers and app creators to look beyond the convenience and ubiquity of traditional app marketplaces, but restrictions from the platform providers have made it difficult. App stores also make it easy for app developers to distribute their apps.

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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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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

When we announced a few weeks ago that we would be bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia, and running it in Hong Kong, many locals thanked us for choosing the city. Tienpay offers digital banking software that handles wallet, digital exchange, and digital assets. Horangi provides cyber security solutions based on SaaS.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2022

What you’ll see in that cloud spend box is actually Gartner’s 2020 estimate for infrastructure as a service spending for companies, which was $50 billion. 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.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is one of the transformative services in the modern digital landscape. The SaaS development market evolves rapidly and, according to Fortune Business Insights, by 2030, will reach 908 billion dollars. Businesses of any size and industry can find reliable SaaS development partners.

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User Pilot

MARCH 20, 2024

Software monetization can be complex to deal with. You can implement many software monetization strategies in your product, but picking the right one can be a challenge. This article will go through 13 software monetization solutions to help your software product create great revenue streams and drive product growth.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

ChurnZero, a leading Customer Success software platform, today announced it has been named to G2’s 2022 Best Software Awards, placing #31 on the Project Management Products list and achieving the highest rating for Customer Success software. How ChurnZero helps SaaS companies onboard new customers.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 10, 2017

In less earth shattering news, the fact that it's 2017 also means that my "SaaS Funding in 2016" napkin needs an update. As a reminder, in the original post I tried to give a "back of a napkin" answer to this question: What does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in 2016? So, what does it take to raise capital, in SaaS, in early 2017?

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2020

Tomorrow as part of Algolia’s SaaS Expert series I’ll be talking about scaling top SaaS companies. Meet #SaaS expert Jason Lemkin, Founder & CEO of @SaaStr , and hear what companies he recommends to create the right #product framework and scale a high-performing #SaaS company.

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Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 26, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Many public software companies don’t report ARR, so I’ll take the quarterly subscription revenue and multiply it by 4 to approximate ARR. For the first time in a decade, IT services will become bigger than communication services in 2024.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2022

Never let it be said that SaaS can’t generate a lot of cash at scale. #3. Should you have annual price increases in SaaS? That’s the way software works — without a salesteam. Not trying to over-monetize their $2B Marketplace — revenues flat there. Go long here in SaaS. #7.

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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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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Over the past decade, software has created tremendous value for investors and businesses, thanks largely to its transformative effect on the economy , its role in developing new cloud-based business models, and its ability to increase efficiency in operations. Sticky after all. Four ways to drive value.

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Subscription Flow

JANUARY 11, 2024

There are many lessons to be learnt from its success and its specific offering of features in the world of SaaS, all of which we will be going over in this blog. Basically, you can understand Xero as being an accounting software that operates on the cloud.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Second, there is no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture (the second principle is a corollary of the first). It makes no difference to anyone but you.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

This post will walk you through what SaaS companies need to know about sales tax compliance, how to know when and from which customers you should collect sales tax, and best of all, how to automate sales tax so you can check “Do something about sales tax” off your to-do list once and for all. Why is sales tax such a pain for SaaS companies?

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Think Strategies

MAY 21, 2018

Over the past year, I’ve had the privilege of becoming affiliated with the rapidly growing Catalant expert network which has enabled me to extend my consulting services to a wider assortment of enterprises seeking help with their Cloud strategies.

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BetterCloud

MAY 25, 2023

SaaS spend management has become a prominent topic in businesses in 2023 for a variety of reasons, converging all at once. It is time to recognize that SaaS spend management alone is a temporary fix.

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User Pilot

JULY 31, 2023

If so, you’re in the right place, as this article discusses 15 tools that are excellent alternatives to Intercom and will help you optimize customer service processes and deliver outstanding self-service support. Help Scout is a customer service software offering shared inboxes, live chat, and in-app messaging.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Expansion of Usage-Based Billing Models As consumers increasingly favor pay-for-what-you-use models, we’ll see a surge in usage-based billing across various industries, from SaaS and cloud services to media and telecommunications. Read More » What is the Technological Backbone?

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