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Three Ways SaaS Organizations Can Create Recurring Revenue Without Spending a Dime

USIO

In the competitive world of Software as a Service (SaaS), generating recurring revenue is essential for sustainable growth. While many strategies involve significant investments in marketing, sales, and technology, there are also effective methods to boost recurring revenue that require minimal financial outlay.

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How Much Revenue Must a Company Generate to IPO?

Tom Tunguz

We corrected the trailing 12 months’ revenue at the time of IPO for inflation & plotted the data. Before 2018, only one company IPOed with more than $200m in revenue. In fact, the median revenue at IPO at $90m. Today, the median revenue at IPO is $189m (corrected for inflation), more than double.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Gartner at $6 Billion in Revenue

SaaStr

And … 92% of its revenue is from subscriptions. Today, Gartner has now crossed $6 Billion in revenue, with a stunning $35 Billion market cap. 92% of Revenue is Recurring If you’ve bought Gartner research, you know this. A lot of “pseudo SaaS” doesn’t see this type of revenue retention.

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GTM vs. Revenue Leadership with Chris Riklin

Predictable Revenue

In this episode of the Predictable Revenue Podcast, Collin Stewart interviews Chris Riklin, co-founder and Head of Revenue at Topline. The post GTM vs. Revenue Leadership with Chris Riklin appeared first on Predictable Revenue.

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6 Reasons Why Your Integrated Payments Strategy Could Fail

If you're in the software industry grappling with integrating payments into your business model, understanding where others have stumbled can be a game-changer for your revenue goals. Discover 6 key reasons behind the struggles many face.

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Revenue, Revenue Everywhere. Not a Dollar to Count

Tom Tunguz

Revenue, Revenue_USD, Revenue_new, rev2, customer_revenue. Imagine the customer success team asks for a revenue chart in their CRM: it’s as easy as siphoning the data from MetricsFlow via a API call. Do you recognize these? They might be the column names you might find in your BI or analytics tool. Which is the one to use?

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The Software Industry's Productivity Boom: Analyzing Revenue per Employee Trends

Tom Tunguz

I realized It has been a decade since I’ve updated revenue-per-employee metrics. Revenue per employee spans approximately $200k-$900k. In 2013, the average revenue per employee of these companies totaled $200k. In 2023, these companies added about $37k in revenue per employee, but the range spans $18-71k.

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The Path to Payment Control: How SaaS Companies Can Maximize Enterprise Value

For software company executives, maximizing revenue, profitability, and enterprise value is of utmost importance. A key factor in achieving these goals is having a solid integrated payment strategy in place — one that allows for control, ownership, and leverage over customer relationships and payment service contracts.

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Secure SaaS Success: Embedded Finance as a Competitive Advantage

Speaker: Ian Hillis, SVP of Growth at Payrix and Worldpay for Platforms

This session is designed to provide you with the strategic insights needed to navigate the future of SaaS successfully, all while gaining a deeper understanding of how these trends can enhance your competitive edge, boost revenue, and deepen customer loyalty.

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How to Optimize the Developer Experience for Monumental Impact

Speaker: Anne Steiner and David Laribee

You’ll walk away with a comprehensive understanding of: The transformative power of strategic DX improvements in fostering a product-oriented strategy, driving up customer satisfaction and revenue 📈 DX’s impact on the entire Product Development Lifecycle (PDLC), with a review of tangible, real-world illustrations 🌐 Actionable strategies (..)

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How Do SaaS Companies Fit Into the Payments Revenue Food Chain?

Ever wondered who gets a share of that 3% credit card transaction fee? This guide explains how that fee is divvied up and how SaaS companies are becoming a more important player (gaining a larger share) by embedding payments into their solution.

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Take Payments Without Losing The Profits

If you are a vertically focused software company and hate giving up a big piece of your revenue pie to third parties, explore becoming a payment facilitator. Transform your business by increasing your revenue share, taking control of your merchant’s experience, and owning your risk management decisions.

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Get More Help With Merchant Onboarding and Get Payments Going Your Way

As software companies become a larger part of the payments world, you will have to determine how much of a role you want to play and how far up the payments revenue food chain you want to go. By becoming a Payment Facilitator, you gain more control and ownership of the payment functions and keep a larger share of the payments revenue pie.

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More Freedom. Because It's Hard to Control Payments When Your Payments Provider is Controlling You.

As software companies become a larger part of the payments world, they will have to determine how much of a role they want to play and how far up the payments revenue food chain they want to go. By becoming a PF, they gain more control and ownership of the payment functions and keep a larger share of the payments revenue pie.

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Blueprint to Modernize Analytics

The longer you wait to modernize your application’s analytics, the harder you’ll eventually feel the pain of lost customers and missed revenue. When it comes to your revenue and customer loyalty, don't be reactive, be proactive. If it sounds like a daunting task, that's because it is.