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Freemium is Back! But You’ll Need 50 Million Active Users for Freemium to Actually Work as a Business Model.

SaaStr

In VSB or SMB business apps, you can get to one million paying customers — but you really, really need something broad-based to get there. Intuit, Microsoft, Adobe, PayPal. Today it’s a token amount of revenue for the product at nine figures in ARR. Yes 9% of their revenue is just about $100m.

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Top 25 SaaStr Podcast Episodes from 2020

SaaStr

These 25 episodes dive into extremely important topics including how to build a B2B revenue model engineered for rapid growth, how to take care of your team in times of turmoil, and more. Roger Scott, CCO at New Relic, has seen first hand the importance of customer relationships in effectively scaling your product and revenue.

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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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Best Time Tracking Software

Neil Patel

Clockify – Best Reporting Features Time Doctor – Best for Employee Monitoring Toggl Track – Best for Holding Everyone Accountable TSheets – Best for GPS Monitoring Tick – Best for SMB Time Management. By integrating with services like Quickbooks and PayPal, these tools can handle the job in a few clicks.

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The Startup Sector That’s Quietly Booming

Tom Tunguz

SMB capital access - In addition to consumers' feeling the tightening of the credit market, small and medium businesses suffered as local and regional banks' pursestrings contracted in tandem. But payment providers sought new lines of revenue to replace what had been legislated away.

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

SaaStr

So I think just opening your aperture when you’re thinking about marketplace, not assuming it’s just a small commercial SMB market sales. Rico Mallozzi: Yeah, I think oftentimes people look at marketplaces as like a storefront, like an eBay, but it’s much more like a PayPal.

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Point Nine Capital 2019 Team Predictions

Point Nine Land

Julia Morrongiello Associate The Tokenization of Everything The narrative in 2019 will shift away from ICOs and utility tokens to security tokens, which, unlike their counterparts, give holders recourse to profits or revenues, and are subject to securities regulation. inVision and Intercom launching their app store).