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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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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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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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5 Ways to Improve Revenue from Integrated Payments

Speaker: Pete Uselman, Director of Partner Experience at Wind River Payments

Most integrated payments providers share a percent of the payment revenue with their software partners. But, oftentimes, that revenue share is only a fraction of the true income potential software providers can realize.

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Usage-Based Revenue Models: Successes and Pitfalls from Checkr COO Lindsey Scrase on CRO Confidential

SaaStr

As Checkr follows usage-based pricing, it’s a transactional business that needs to be managed differently than a typical subscription SaaS model since they only earn revenue when the customer is using the product. ” Quickly, Lindsey found that comp plans weren’t aligned with Checkr’s revenue goals and incentives.

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Frontline Growth: SaaS Companies Get About 20% of Their Revenue From Europe. The Best — Even More.

SaaStr

Some examples: HubSpot gets 54% of its revenue from outside the U.S. Asana gets 39% of its revenue from outside the U.S. Monday gets 47% of its revenue from outside the U.S. Zendesk gets 49% of its revenue from outside the U.S., The top quartile have 28% of their revenue from EMEA/Europa, and the median is 19%.

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Harness the Full Power of Integrated Payments to Drive Revenue

Designed for software leaders, this playbook outlines how to harness the full power of a payments strategy to drive substantial revenue and enhance the overall customer experience.

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Straight Facts About PayFacs: What Every ISV Should Know

Speaker: Pete Uselman, Director of Partner Experience at Wind River Payments

Many software companies are exploring PayFac-as-a-Service providers in an effort to drive more embedded payments revenue and gain greater control over the customer experience. But there are nuances in a PayFac relationship that often get downplayed – nuances that can impact the risk and resource responsibilities of software providers.

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10 Ways to Leverage Buyer Signals and Drive Revenue

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase.

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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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A Solution for Every Type of Churn: Solving Involuntary SaaS Churn

Caused by failed payments, this overlooked source of friction quietly erodes both customer retention and revenue. It leads to revenue losses and can be the largest source of churn, yet your company may not be taking it seriously. How is your SaaS business addressing involuntary churn?