SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2021

In 2010, COSS was valued at $10B, and 90% of that value was attributed to a single company: Red Hat. Multiple successful exits and valuations of Open Source companies like Confluent, HashiCorp, and Databricks show strong business models can and do exist, and SaaS-based models help more COSS companies succeed in the Cloud.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“Industry-Centric” SaaS business models offer an alternative SaaS company categorization to the “Customer-Centric” SaaS model, which is defined based on the “go-to-market” strategy used by a management team. When SaaS business models originated, the most successful venture-backed startups used a horizontal model.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 8, 2020

For every company that’s executing the freemium model successfully, there are hundreds more that struggle and the tension it can create between sales, marketing, and product teams. But if anyone knows how to walk this tightrope and make it to the other side, it’s Kristen Habacht. I think people want to buy like that.”.

Scale 205

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 27, 2015

Second, Concur’s history provides a mechanism to contrast the license software and a SaaS business models. The company generated about $2M in revenue as it switched to its licensed software business. In the Cloud Era, the economies of scale powered the company to achieve all time gross margin highs in 2010 of about 72%.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The chart above details the revenue growth of the business compared to the median of the 50+ publicly traded SaaS companies. It follows a beautiful geometric curve characteristic of Flywheel business models, where an efficient customer acquisition engine keeps building momentum and growing revenues exceptionally.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2015

Despite the fact that SaaS companies are building some of the most efficient business models ever , newer software companies are raising more capital. On the other hand, companies founded between 2010-2013 have raised three times that amount, at more than $150M. The median company raises 4.

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Hitenism

APRIL 24, 2017

Back in 2010, on a Monday at 5 PM, I found myself at a bar called Memphis in Southern California in a heated discussion with two close friends. Patrick Vlaskovits was cheerfully drinking a mint julep while Sean Ellis and I were each enjoying a cold beer. At the time, Patrick was working on a startup and a book.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 11, 2024

Over the last decade, we’ve seen record growth in player demand driven by several tailwinds, including: the rise of mobile and emerging markets, new business models like free-to-play and subscriptions, transmedia storytelling, and much more. This is a ~20x increase from a $10M average budget for a single platform game in 2010.

Outsourcing Services 93

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We had run around the world and we would show up to a company using technology in some interesting way and we would teach them for four, maybe five days straight, and that was our business model. And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today.

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Hitenism

JANUARY 16, 2017

Innovate on the Business Model. But this model can be a crude form of monetization because it forces prospective customers to make a decision to pay, even when they aren’t necessarily getting value out of the product. To put it bluntly, we’ve had it easy in SaaS. It’s not so easy anymore.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 30, 2021

You also get several invoicing tools and dunning management , all necessary for your business's smooth running. However, even with these notable similarities, many differences still exist that may dictate your business model's right software. You should first assess your business model before settling on either of the two.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 2, 2021

You also get several invoicing tools and dunning management , all necessary for your business's smooth running. However, even with these notable similarities, many differences still exist that may dictate your business model's right software. You should first assess your business model before settling on either of the two.

Payment Features 88

Payment Features Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 88

Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

When Yext started our core business as it exists today in about 2009 or 2010 Yelp was something like 65% of all online reviews. I became chairman in 2010. The way we were developing product in 2009 and 2010, which felt incredibly innovative, is we’re identifying these kind of sectoral trends. But they took over.

AI Search 73

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

At the end of 2012, six months before the company would trade publicly, the business counted $39.3M of cash on its balance sheet, meaning the business either hadn’t spent very much of the capital it raised or had spent it early and then replenished its cash balance with profits over time.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. When Patrick and John in 2010 were at Y Combinator and spend their days doing office hours with the whole Y Combinator and a little water in the valley.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

Android followed after, and that really, late 2009, early 2010, that suddenly changed. Jason : A lot of things I want to chat about with limited time, but I want to talk about business models, because we’re here about scaling revenue. Slack for Business? That didn’t come until another eight months later.

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Low scores lead to customers simply not wanting to do business with you again as you're making things too difficult. This was highlighted way back in 2010 when HBR published a study highlighting that the key to building customer loyalty wasn’t to wow your customers, but to simply make their experience with you easier.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 16, 2020

Let’s hear from Luigi about the subscription economy and the subscription business model! He was a professional basketball player, but mostly what he talks about is the subscription economy and the subscription business model. From Kantar in 2010, I moved to Affinnova as a VP Europe. What You’ll Learn. Bundles.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

This philosophy applies to both low and high touch business models, where the vendor has to eliminate all potential usability problems that may arise. Founded: 2010 Known customers: Okta, Knewton, Study.com, Doodle, Percona, Freedom Price starts at: $249/month. #7 Before getting started with PLG, you need to make sure that.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

SaaStr

JULY 16, 2019

Kind of based on the first say 15-20 customers we were able to raise another Angel Round in 2010. However, if those aren’t your aspirations, and you’ve built a great business; you want to build a great sustainable business where you don’t want to have to worry about running out of cash. It took a long time.

Scale 149

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Kellblog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

While I first read Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead not long after its publication in 2010, I’d never wanted to write about it. The first section takes lessons from the band: Create a unique business model. This was, and is, pretty unusual in the music business. Mashable, MySQL, StumbleUpon) [11].

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The day Steve Jobs introduced the iPad in 2010, he gets up on stage and tells people, “Okay, maybe you haven’t noticed, but we are now in a digital media universe and we’re all consuming television shows and movies and music and books and news and everything else on digital devices. ” How do you do that?

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The SaaS Garage

MAY 10, 2017

In 2010, when we started Deutsche Handelsbank, at that time SOFORT Bank, we saw ourselves as enabler for Internet businesses. Rather soon thereafter we kicked off our credit business with a focus on fast growing eCommerce businesses. Our 1st client with a SaaS business model was SofaTutor.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

If we combine it with a business model that nobody really understands, it’s just too much. And then the next one that we best now is proving a business model. And at the time, again, Salesforce was just starting really adding SaaS wasn’t as obvious and centered as it is today. I don’t understand.

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Casey Accidental

APRIL 23, 2018

It has been a stable platform (unlike Facebook), it consistently grew itself, and it was supported by a very strong business model that could drive revenue growth for Google for well over a decade, so Google didn’t need to monetize all of the free traffic they distributed to other companies. The Buy Case: Google Flights.

Strategy 70

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Ellen joined Forescout in 2010 and has been instrumental in driving cross-functional efforts between sales, product, and engineering to deliver on customers’ technical needs. “He’s a proven business leader with over 17 years of experience leading customer-delight-focused teams. markets at Blackbaud.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

You can implement this same strategy, no matter what niche or industry you’re in and regardless what your business model may be. Think back to the first ads for the iPad, after its buzzy launch in 2010 and how simple their content marketing was. Then, think about going even further. What could you do to delight your customer?

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Strategy Marketing Technical Review Social Media 141

Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

2010: 3,855 customers. 2010: 176 employees. In 2010, HubSpot CMO Mike Volpe explained their approach on Quora. . The founder acknowledged that Lyons was entitled to his own opinion, addressed some of his critique of the company culture and of the business model and even agreed with some of the points he raised.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

In my article “SaaS” is not to be understood as an industry, but rather as an innovation wave (product and business model innovation) which impacted the B2B software industry in the 2000s and came after the “on-premise” wave. Comparing the installation phase for the SaaS and AI waves 1.1

AI Search 70

AI Search AI B2B Software 70

OpenView Labs

JULY 12, 2019

The current product led growth (PLG) trend didn’t come out of nowhere, and neither did the more general direct-to-consumer business model. From 2010 and 2016, Beachbody exploded, growing their revenue from about $400 million to more than $1.3

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Businesses that blog regularly generate 55% more visitors to their sites than those that don’t. Blogging works for every kind of business, industry, or niche, as well as for almost all business models — even B2C and e-commerce sites. Don’t be afraid of committing to a blog. Yes, it does require consistent effort.

Social Media 141

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OPEXEngine

MAY 19, 2020

The best drivers apply the brakes just ahead of the curve (they take out excess costs), turn hard toward the apex of the curve (identify the short list of projects that will form the next business model), and accelerate hard out of the curve (spend and hire before markets have rebounded).

Scale 59

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, we started the company, it was about January 15th of 2010. Seema: You’ve got about three phases in the business model. It was like, what a crazy business model. That’s when I got the Marqeta URL and, kind of the rest of this history from there. You California people are out of your minds.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

And in all fairness, subscription is the Netflix business model, and password-sharing naturally circumvents that. Since founding Sequoia Capital in 1972, Valentine financed several of the Silicon Valley companies that have seen the largest business and technology success—from Apple and Oracle to Google and YouTube.

Payment Features 41

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Plus, it allows startups to build a more sustainable business model, and hence be more in control of their own destiny. I don’t need to repeat the cautionary tales of Netflix (2011) and Zendesk (2010). It dramatically improves the lifetime value of a customer, which in turn boosts the LTV: CAC ratio.

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ProfitWell

MAY 18, 2020

The beauty subscription box startup Birchbox launched in September 2010 as the unemployment rate peaked at 10 percent. At first, Netflix seemed like a radical business model. It might feel like tough luck but successful founders argue now might actually be a good time to launch. In an article by Inc.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 29, 2019

And in all fairness, subscription is the Netflix business model, and password-sharing naturally circumvents that. Since founding Sequoia Capital in 1972, Valentine financed several of the Silicon Valley companies that have seen the largest business and technology success—from Apple and Oracle to Google and YouTube.

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