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Only 11% of Public SaaS Companies Sell Just to SMBs

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SMB SaaS has a lot going for it: – Millions of them – Short sales cycles – Easier compete. So many VCs and others have gotten more and more excited about SMB SaaS. But SMB SaaS has a lot of challenges, too: Churn is much higher. of public SaaS companies are primarily SMB focused. Much higher.

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The SaaS $100 Billion Club. It’s Getting Bigger.

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Unicorns and even Decacorns are all we talk about in SaaS today. Can the market really support 300+ SaaS and Cloud Unicorns ? There are now already 6 SaaS/Cloud leaders worth over $100 Billion dollars. So if there are 6 $100B+ SaaS leaders, it would make sense there is room for at least 60 $10B+ leaders, and 600+ $1B+ Unicorns.

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Adding Payments and Fintech to SaaS Can Be Great. But You Gotta Watch the Margins.

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So in the Boom Times of later 2020 and 2021, almost every VC pushed SaaS companies to at least become a little bit of a fintech. It seemed such an easy way to bolt on more revenue to an underlying SaaS platform. Shopify now gets 2x the revenue from payments and merchant services than it does from SaaS subcriptions.

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Get Better PayPal Analytics with Baremetrics

Baremetrics

PayPal is a popular choice for online payment processing. But for SaaS businesses, PayPal lacks the analytics and reporting features they need to support sustainable growth. This article will cover PayPal’s metrics and reporting features, as well as how PayPal data can be better tracked in Baremetrics.

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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

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As your SaaS company grows and you go through various fundraising stages, your company size also grows. David Sacks, Co-Founder and General Partner at Craft Venture,s shares wisdom from his years of experience in SaaS to help you build your org chart for each step of your company’s fundraising journey. Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2

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Launching the ChartMogul SaaS Benchmarks Report 2023

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I couldn’t be more excited to launch the 2nd edition of the ChartMogul SaaS Benchmarks Report. In this report, we analyze anonymized and aggregated data from over 2,100 SaaS businesses to bring you the latest SaaS benchmarks and growth trends. The top quartile of SaaS businesses with ARR between $1 and $30 million grew 62.1%

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Everyone in SaaS Needs to Do Customer Support. At Least Until You Have 50-100 Employees. But Ideally, Forever.

SaaStr

A ways back we noted a great rant by David Marcus , now of Facebook, and previously President of PayPal. Complaining his employees weren’t using PayPal apps. But PayPal isn’t Google. And I bet in SaaS, that’s even less likely in your case. The post Everyone in SaaS Needs to Do Customer Support.