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Only 11% of Public SaaS Companies Sell Just to SMBs

SaaStr

SMB SaaS has a lot going for it: – Millions of them – Short sales cycles – Easier compete. But, it's often hard to get to $100m ARR selling just to SMBs. sell just to SMBs pic.twitter.com/Po1I2aMaBK. So many VCs and others have gotten more and more excited about SMB SaaS. Millions and millions more.

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The good, the bad, and the ugly: ChartMogul’s Nick Franklin on navigating hypergrowth

Intercom, Inc.

The faster you grow, the more likely you are to achieve long-term success (and actually survive long enough to scale). Along the way, they’ve become something of a leading authority on subscription businesses. This is Season Two of Scale , Intercom’s podcast series on moving from startup to scale-up.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

This episode is an excerpt from a session at SaaStr Scale. 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. Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike. Rico Mallozzi, Sr.

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SaaS Billing Best Practices: 10+ Subscription Strategies for SaaS and Software Companies

FastSpring

He then sent out a link to this page inside payment failure notification emails. Users could now forward the payment failure email to the right person, without that person having an Enchant account. How My Marketing Concepts upsells annual payments during trial. Vinay writes, “The benefit of this was huge! Learn more here.

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The Startup Sector That’s Quietly Booming

Tom Tunguz

I count seven major categories of innovation to date: Math Based Currencies/Payment Networks - Bitcoin might be the most well-known and best publicized math-based currency, but there are a handful of others in the market, like OpenCoin and LiteCoin. This is a boon to merchants whose payment fees shrank.

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Here’s What Investors Look for in SaaS Businesses

Baremetrics

It’s natural to lose interest or just not have the resources to keep a startup going or scaling. In that case, you’ll need to either sell your business at a fraction of its previous value or close it down. By that point, you might not have the motivation or capital to scale it to the next level.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Pipe and MessageBird — March 13, 2020

SaaStr

and Robert Vis of MessageBird will walk through lessons learned to survive hypergrowth and what will make a difference when it comes to scaling. So at about 13, I set up an eBay business, and we actually used PayPal obviously to process all of the payments. Harry Stebbings of Stride.VC