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Why Sales Tax Compliance Matters for Growing SaaS Companies

SaaStr

It’s part of doing business! States are consistently looking for ways to generate more tax revenue, and a fast-growing company (or industry) can provide excellent opportunities. Our first introduction to sales tax was dealing with it as a liability,” CTO and Co-founder David Heinemeier Hansson says. “We

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How to Write Effective Dunning Emails (30+ Examples Included)

Baremetrics

And if you’re not careful, it can slowly eat away at your revenue and bleed your company dry. The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment. dunning emails) to customers when their payments fail is your best bet at recovering that lost revenue.

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The Ultimate SaaS Pricing Resources Guide

OpenView Labs

New for 2020: SaaS Pricing and COVID-19. In this brand-new report, we finally answer the question “Freemium or free trial?” After four months of an unprecedented global crisis, SaaS companies are bouncing back while product led growth businesses are trading at almost 2x higher revenue multiples they started with.

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The subscription sales guide: how to sell subscriptions (B2B/B2C)

ProfitWell

Subscriptions are built on ongoing relationships with customers, so companies selling subscriptions need to understand how to monetize this relationship on a recurring basis. One of the best examples of this type of sales is Netflix—its pricing strategy paved the way for many modern subscription platforms. Contract length.

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Buy vs. Build: The Subscription Billing Iceberg Effect

Chargify

Initially, businesses only see a few basic requirements, but later realize there is much more hidden below the surface as it relates to the ongoing creation and maintenance of custom code. It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”.

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. It’s been 10 years since co-founders Eoghan McCabe , Des Traynor , David Barrett , and Ciaran Lee sat in a small Dublin coffee shop and dreamed of making internet business personal, and we’re still every bit as excited.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019

SaaStr

Prior to InCountry, Peter founded six and sold 6 enterprise software companies that were acquired by Sun, Citrix, VMware, Oracle, Sprinklr and Prograph. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2.