SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

SaaS is about creating long-term value for your customer, and being compensated appropriately for that value as a business. Learn actionable monetization tips from a Product/Growth operator turned VC. I began my career in new product development and starting in 2011 got really excited about the high growth phase of a company.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Since the first plastic credit card was issued by American Express in 1959 , payment tech progress has been growing exponentially. Magnetic stripe payments enjoyed a 30-year reign between the ’70s and ’90s. Contactless payments became a must-have during COVID. NFC technology is in the midst of an evolution.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Lifetime Value (LTV) is a metric that shows the average revenue generated by a customer before they churn. By calculating your customer’s LTV, you can get a better idea of how much each new customer will add to your overall revenue and how much you can justify spending on customer acquisition. In doing so, their LTV tripled.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Founded: 2011. Ceyuan Ventures is an early stage VC firm investing in emerging growth and IT businesses. GIC manages a diverse portfolio, including investments in high growth tech businesses. BEENEXT is a Singapore-based VC investing in fintech, platforms, payments and SaaS businesses. Founded: 2011.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

At Traction Conference, an event all about how to keep and grow customers and revenue at scale, I explained how to build onboarding based on your customers’ goals, and why when your product improves, your onboarding must improve with it. We gave up chasing these mythical “grow your website with this one weird trick” things.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5 percent of our total revenue and 83 percent of our fees. Google and Apple payments make up 2.5% of our total revenue and 17 percent of our fees.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

They expect an end-to-end shopping “experience” and this is where eCommerce subscription has a chance to shine by developing long term relationships with consumers. And subscription eCommerce seems to be the answer. The subscription eCommerce market has grown by a whopping 100% year-over-year for the past five years.

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Stax

JULY 1, 2024

Subscribing to a specialist payroll process not only ensures that you pay employees accurately and on time, but also allows your business to stay compliant with an ever-changing tax code. Businesses should look for ease of use, cost-effectiveness, scalability, compliance, and integration capabilities in potential payroll systems.

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FastSpring

APRIL 1, 2021

This is especially true for SaaS businesses, where it’s common for customers to either come in through or go through a free trial after an initial engagement method (think ads, news articles, or referrals). After the visitor “converts” from website visitor to trial user, they stop marketing or selling. Opt-in Free Trial.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

We’d love to chat with you in person! Started in 2011, Austin Startup Week is a celebration and showcase of everything entrepreneurial in Austin. Honed your product, persuasion skills, pricing & packing and relationships to scale your B2B revenue. Don’t miss out on the biggest party in Austin since 2011- Startup Crawl!

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Instead you should focus on Natural Rate of Growth (NRG) to determine the percentage of recurring organic revenue. This metric is a strong future revenue indicator. It allows your users to engage more with your platform thanks to customizable product tools, targeted messages and email sequences. This is not all. 6 ChargeBee.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That’s the amount of non-cash payments made in the U.S. Even if you’re not in the financial industry, you’ll need a payment processor or payment service provider (PSP) to start generating revenue, which means you’ll need to either have a proper risk management framework in place—or work with a PSP that has one.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

After four months of an unprecedented global crisis, SaaS companies are bouncing back while product led growth businesses are trading at almost 2x higher revenue multiples they started with. About half of respondents, evenly distributed across size or industry, were offering temporary relief on payment terms.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

After running the first editions of the conference by himself, Alex sold B2B Rocks and, in 2019, he founded Collect , a platform that helps businesses collect and manage client documents, in the hopes that by putting this process on autopilot, teams can be more productive and focus their energy on bigger things. Liam: Yeah.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It looked like this: We eventually re-architected our engagement loops to be based around personalization instead of around friends. Eventually, the company needed to layer in new advertiser focused loops to monetize, but I’ll skip that detail for now. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 22, 2020

There has never been a better time to test innovative pricing and monetization models to outmaneuver slow or legacy competitors. Or do you integrate with any of the products that are currently booming? But at the same time website traffic keeps climbing, indicating that buyers are still doing research and engaging with businesses.

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. I’m more of an infrastructure person. Why don’t you put them on a card?

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BrightBack

JANUARY 17, 2022

billing, product, CRM, support), to deploy and test personalized user experiences that actually save customers, and to hire product managers with the time to run ongoing experiments, track results, and optimize at scale.

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Nowadays, everyone is after making things “Pinteresty”, and this trend is taking over all the major social media platforms. There are also other platforms, both new and old, emerging as Pinterest alternatives that are also worth checking out. There is a catch when it comes to joining this platform.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Conducting a pricing audit goes through five factors—acquisition, monetization, retention, pricing strategy, and discounts. Monetization. Next is monetization. What does your revenue look like? Are your tiers set up for monetization or acquisition? Why a pricing audit is essential for business.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

Stripe, the online payment processing system for internet businesses, is expanding across Europe. Stripe wrote in a blog post , "Since Stripe launched in 2011, tens of thousands of businesses across Europe have asked us to expand Stripe to their countries. Stripe Expands Across the Pond.

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Chargify

MAY 8, 2019

“Launching their “forever free” plan helped MailChimp grow their profit (yes, profit – not revenue) 650% in one year by lowering their customer acquisition costs,” says Chris Von Willpert from Sumo. Then they gradually increased it to the current 2000 subscriber limit which was introduced in 2011. Pay-per-seat. Pay-as-you-go.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. Buffer Funding History $120,000 through AngelPad start-up accelerator in August 2011 $330,000 seed round in December 2011 $3.5M After raising a total of $450,000 in 2011, Buffer would raise a Series A round of $3.5M in 2014 - 60% of which came from Collaborative Fund.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

My personal frustration was not reason enough to launch a company, but I quickly realized just how acute and pervasive these problems were for a variety of roles across many industries. With software “ eating the world ,” as Marc Andreessen wrote in the WSJ back in 2011, every company was going to be facing these technology-related problems.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Amber also offers AmbarConaz, an online marketplace connecting supply chain and construction sites. Its main goal is to assist businesses in managing their financial routines and optimizing procedures such as accounting, stock, banking, and electronic invoicing, among other things. Founded in: 2011. Hi Platform.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

There has been a gradual shift from client/server architecture to the options provided by a hybrid cloud – the integration of public and private cloud. Owing to cost-effectiveness and confidentiality attributes, SaaS businesses continue to opt for cloud services. Hence, APIs are ubiquitously used for most SaaS businesses.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

A report from Bain & Company predicted that “Indian SaaS companies will reach $30 billion in revenue by the year 2025”. The company aims at providing a single platform for automated marketing, sales, and other services. Agile CRM offers lead generation, contact management, and integrated telephony services. Facilio Inc.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Founded: 2011. Founded: 2012. Founded: 2008.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

It was in August 2011 that Marc Andreessen coined the famous phrase “ Software is eating the world ” in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Apple survived the death of Steve Jobs in October 2011 under the thoughtful stewardship of Tim Cook, and continued to essentially be the iPhone company, while branching into wearables and services.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 28, 2022

Adaptive Shield is a SaaS company that offers a security posture management platform that is used to help organizations manage and secure their cloud services. Adaptive Shield provides enterprises with a continuous, automated platform and a built-in knowledge base to provide true native SaaS security. Here’s the list – 1.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

About: 360Learning is a corporate learning management platform. About: Another successful SaaS company serving thousands of happy clients since founded in 2011. AB Tasty is a cloud-based platform that offers businesses easy-to-use tools for A/B testing, personalization, and user engagement. Headquarter: Paris.

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SmartKarrot

AUGUST 12, 2022

Owing to several reasons like social distancing, health issues, cooking fatigue, and so on, people started ordering food online… more than ever. This gave a huge boost to the FoodTech industry and has given rise to Online Food Ordering platforms. This has led to an explosion of food and grocery delivery platforms.

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FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2020

The way we purchase products is changing—and so are our business models. When it comes to software and online purchases, those transactions are increasingly moving to a subscription-based model, where customers put their purchases on autopilot so they can have continuous access to SaaS products. What is subscription revenue?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Have revenue, but early, so like 50K ARR after two months of charging for a product. People were so excited about SaaS when public companies were trading at 30 to 50 X revenue that they would want to take that meeting. Now, revenue’s coming in looking good. Last year offered checks of between five and 10, early.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 26, 2020

In the year 2011, a resounding statement, ‘software is eating the world’ was predicted by Marc Andreessen. Let us have a sneak peek of how is XaaS is helping us in our personal lives: Transportation and Food: XaaS. You get to play with your buddy and yet get a payment for that, could you ask for any better? Final Take.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Founded: 2011. Founded: 2012. Founded: 2008.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. Rob Gonzalez: So if you were building a commerce platform today, for example, you wouldn’t do it as single tenant, effectively, deployments.

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