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Usage-Based Revenue Models: Successes and Pitfalls from Checkr COO Lindsey Scrase on CRO Confidential

SaaStr

As Checkr follows usage-based pricing, it’s a transactional business that needs to be managed differently than a typical subscription SaaS model since they only earn revenue when the customer is using the product. The SMB sales team was incentivized purely on logo acquisition rather than revenue.

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When to Hire Your First CFO — From OnlyCFO

SaaStr

Especially once the renewal cycle heats up and once you have a ton of customers to invoice. While other businesses with <$10M in revenue may need a true CFO because of their complexity. And I’d even bring someone full-time in as early as $1m-$2m ARR if you can find someone great. So when do I need a true CFO? It depends.

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Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie (Video)

SaaStr

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. As difficult as SaaS companies can be to build, that can go double for things like setting up billing systems and automating revenue. Platforms-as-a-service.

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Easy Cross Border Transactions With FastSpring as Your MoR

FastSpring

How FastSpring drastically simplifies the entire cross border payments process for SaaS, software, mobile game, and other digital product businesses. FastSpring handles the entire payment process from checkout to remitting end-of-year taxes for SaaS companies. Luckily, there is another, much simpler option.

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Leveraging Consumption to Drive Growth: The SaaS Expert's Guide to Usage-Based Pricing

Speaker: Igor Stenmark, Andrew Dailey, &Youssef Yaghmour

Unleashing Usage-Based Pricing to Drive Growth, Customer Satisfaction and Retention: The Why’s, How’s and Roadmap Practical Steps to Making Consumption Pricing Models Simple As companies strive to boost revenue, deliver customer value, and stay competitive, they are increasingly embracing the potential of usage-based pricing.

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How SaaStr Fund-Backed RevenueCat Went from a $1.5M Round at $7M Valuation in 2018 to $500M+ Today

SaaStr

When SaaStr Fund made the first investment in RevenueCat back in 2018, nobody could have predicted that this “simple API for managing in-app subscriptions” would become the infrastructure powering 33% of all mobile subscription apps and reach a $500M valuation in 2025. ” required weeks of developer time to answer.

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Clouded Judgement - 3.28.25 - The New AI Risk Curve

Clouded Judgement

Starting and scaling a software company was really hard. Starting and scaling a software company was really hard. If you wanted to scale users and growth, you needed to scale a physical data infrastructure footprint. ” This used to be how companies scaled! It wasn’t very elastic.

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The Ultimate Gartner Report to Driving Growth & Recurring Revenue

In 2023, companies are looking to improve their revenue and drive sustainable growth by scaling their subscription offerings, to increase the rate of growth and resilience by moving from one-time sales to recurring revenue.

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Demystifying Consumption-Based Pricing: Modeling & the Path to Business Success

Uncover the secrets driving the future of the Subscription Economy. Zuora and BCG’s latest report uncovers how hybrid pricing models—combining subscription and consumption (usage)—are fueling faster growth, especially in AI-driven sectors. Don’t miss out on the key trends shaping tomorrow’s biggest growth opportunities.