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

Intercom, Inc.

The situations that portend failure are varied and unfortunately common – no product-market fit, no cash, bad product, burnout, to name just a few of the most obvious. Just look at subscription analytics startup ChartMogul whose brand and product are now a household name in the SaaS community. Poor marketing.

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How to Launch a Subscription Box For Your Company

Neil Patel

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. Why Should You Launch a Subscription Box? According to MarketsandMarkets , the subscription and recurring billing market will grow to around $7.8 How to Create a Subscription Box.

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

FastSpring

Note: FastSpring offers advanced subscription management services that support free trials, monthly and annual paid plans, proration, discount management, and more. How Castos upsells subscription tiers. His podcast hosting company uses data analytics that looks at which users are most likely to grow out of their current subscriptions.

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A Detailed Comparison of Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring (With Reviews)

FastSpring

payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack. In addition, they also offer a few basic features for subscription management, fraud detection, invoicing, and more. Flexible subscription management and recurring billing tools.

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Sequencing Business Models: The Types of Marketplaces

Casey Accidental

Building on the definitions from that essay and introducing a few new ones, here are the types of business models we’ll cover: SaaS: software that businesses access online and purchase via a subscription e.g. Slack, Adobe, Atlassian. The consumer risks transacting with a poor supplier, and the company doesn’t guarantee the transaction.

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How to Find the Best SaaS Billing Platform: A Complete Guide

Stax

Here’s an interesting stat: 70% of businesses consider subscription and membership models indispensable for future commercial growth and expansion. They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds). However, only 10% of them currently employ these models.

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Here’s What Investors Look for in SaaS Businesses

Baremetrics

Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. High churn is understandable for newer startups, but it does indicate that a tool may be a poor market fit, have limited demand, or struggle to compete against similar products. If you’re using PayPal, we recommend switching to another service like Payoneer. Transferability 2.