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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FastSpring

AUGUST 11, 2020

15% of people who shop online now pay for at least one subscription and nearly 90% of businesses are looking for ways to adapt their online payment platforms so they can handle recurring subscription payments. In this comprehensive guide, we’re going to take a deep dive into: What is subscription revenue?

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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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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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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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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. Best For: Revenue Acceleration.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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! We’d love to chat with you in person!

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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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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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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

billion online in 2017, the highest growth rate since 2011. Maybe you’re unsure if your software company should outsource your ecommerce operations to a full-service platform, such as FastSpring, or just stick with a basic payment service? On paper, point solutions – like a basic payment service, seem like a good idea.

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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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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

A startup growing at 15% per month will double revenues after five months. Fred Wilson wrote a post in 2011 : “I’m not a fan of venture debt for early stage companies. Debt can delay the timing of the next raise and reduce dilution. At this point, the company should command twice the valuation when it raises its next round.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Eventually, the company needed to layer in new advertiser focused loops to monetize, but I’ll skip that detail for now. The company requires either new growth loops or new products to acquire, retain, or monetize better. The entirety of Pinterest for the first few years I was there was tuning these loops in one way or another.

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Unbounce

OCTOBER 8, 2019

In 2011, Expedia made a change to their checkout form that increased profits by $12 million. In addition, survey platforms like Qualaroo can poll visitors and find out what they don’t like about your site or why they’re lingering on certain product pages. Read about 900+ supported Unbounce integrations. What was it?

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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? Adopt more flexible payment terms and contract structures. The last few weeks have been Here’s what it’s been like.

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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. The second business is Slack. You can check out the slides and video below.

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. You should think about how your product integrates with and fits in with everything else that people have going on in their lives.

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FastSpring

APRIL 1, 2021

Users can gain full access to the product or service for a limited time period without sharing any payment information upfront. Users are required to share their payment information upfront in order to gain full access to the product or service during the trial period. Are users automatically billed or signed up for recurring payments?

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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. And I just I fell in love with that whole process of providing infrastructure to Facebook.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

billion in online revenue compared to just $57 million in 2011. For this you will need to pick the right platform. The Top 10 eCommerce Tools for recurring payments There isn’t a lack of options for every budget but picking the right solution can become a confusing task. Did You Know?

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BrightBack

JANUARY 17, 2022

We started Brightback in 2018 with a vision to automate customer retention for digital subscriptions to improve the consumer experience throughout the journey, deliver measurable revenue ROI to the retention manager via Brightback’s churn deflection funnel, and free up product managers to focus on core services and acquire more customers.

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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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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. image source).

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 9, 2023

Christoph Janz, Managing Partner at Point Nine SaaS products are often first on the chopping block when companies affected by shrinking revenue look to slow their burn rate. Data analyzed in our two most recent reports show that retention and expansion revenue increases in converse with shrinking new business numbers.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response. That has helped insurgents like Zalando, the European e-commerce platform based in Berlin, and Paytm, the Indian e-commerce payment system, scale an innovative idea rapidly, allowing them to challenge incumbents and disrupt entire industries.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

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 of revenue at the time and the business was valued at $60M - a valuation multiple of 13x revenues.

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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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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

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. Conventional wisdom says best practice is to deliver value up front before you ever ask for any value—payment—from the user. We had an idea. We had a market.

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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.

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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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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

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. a collaborative software platform, purchased ContaAzul in 2018. Founded in: 2011. Hi Platform. Founded in: 2011. Founded in: 2012.

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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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