OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

And there’s more and more bifurcation between the ‘haves’ – the fast growers – and the ‘have nots’ of SaaS than ever before. For publicly traded companies that are growing 50% or faster, median valuation multiples have increased by an incredible 649% between 2015 and August 201. Experiment with a usage-based pricing model.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Plus, the price tag on those more established businesses often run into the billions. Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. The Attractive Price Point of Micro Startups. A massive advantage of purchasing micro startups is the price.

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 25, 2023

The R^2 of the median software multiple and 10Y rate going back to 2015 is 0.35. When something becomes scarce, and the demand stays steady, the price goes up. Capital for loans are becoming more scarce, so the price (ie the rate / cost to borrow) goes up. That’s a pretty low correlation over a long period of time.

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FastSpring

OCTOBER 10, 2018

From the moment they start viewing your products to the end of the checkout process, customers expect product descriptions in their native language, prices reflected in their local currency with any applicable taxes included, and a wide variety of accepted payment options to make paying for their products easier.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

Simplicity in pricing doesn't always win. We’ve dug into the data here to find that simplicity in pricing doesn’t always win. So does this mean you should add a bunch of tiers to your pricing and call it a day? Not the most original name for the service, but we’re here for it nonetheless…). Less isn’t always more.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 19, 2017

On our blog we also explored the topic of moving up market in SaaS and how businesses might tackle this without losing their soul. February in the SaaS world means one thing: The SaaStr Annual conference. We published The Ultimate SaaS Founder’s FAQ eBook, available as a free download. Read more here.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

As we first looked at bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia and considered what help we could offer, we thought about localization and know-how about legal and cultural differences as some of the critical success factors. SaaS Investments: Goodera, and others. SaaS Investments: Ezetap, and others. Founded: 2001.

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SaaS Payments Venture Capital Payment Services Telecommunications 190

FastSpring

JUNE 22, 2022

We don’t have to look far to find examples of B2B SaaS companies that have found traction using a self-service or product-led motion. In fact, it’s telling that the number of publicly-traded PLG-led companies nearly quadrupled between 2015 and 2020. How B2B and B2C Are Converging. How to Take Advantage of These Changes.

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FastSpring

JANUARY 31, 2023

To help you choose between Stripe vs. Paddle vs. FastSpring, this guide compares: What areas of the payment lifecycle each one provides a solution for (e.g., payment processing, gathering and remitting taxes, and subscription management) and what additional software you’ll need to add to your tech stack.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2023

At the very first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , we picked 3 break-out leaders at $5m-$10m, and added Nick Mehta from Gainsight. Here’s a chance to look back at 4 pre-IPO SaaS leaders today, and how they were doing and what they were thinking in the run up to $10m ARR. web services. How did they do? All of them! CEO of Algolia.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the lessons I, along with many other founders and investors, have learned in my roughly 15-year journey in SaaS investing is that most businesses adopt new technologies at a painfully slow pace. ServiceTitan, a leading vertical SaaS for home services, penetrated 1% of its core TAM of 900,000 home services businesses.

AI 119

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

We are going to walk you through a couple of the most popular pricing models—perpetual license and annual license, along with its variant subscription model —as well as mention a couple of the other popular ways to monetize software. Payment ii. That’s the dream! What is a perpetual license? What is an annual license?

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is SaaS?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

With nine figures in revenue, Ariel and SaaStr founder and CEO Jason Lemkin talk about all things Navan, rebranding when you have brand equity, building B2B software for people, pricing and business models, and much more. They learned from some of the biggest in SaaS — Aaron Levie and Jeff Lawson. You need to price accordingly.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 24, 2018

Subscription businesses are experimenting with hybrid billing models, mixing recurring revenue with one-time payments. In SaaS specifically, the increased maturation of the market has led businesses to try and innovate and diversify revenue streams from customers. Infrastructure (SaaS + transaction costs). Example: Cloudflare.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Purchase Price: $4,000,000 in cash What I walk away with: $3,700,000 in cash Multiple: ~2.65x ARR Buyer: Xenon Partners (tech private equity firm) Close Date: November 2020 Earnout: None ! Payment Structure: 3 payments (at close, 12 months & 18 months). This was the greatest limiting factor on acquistion price.

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yoursales

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Enabling the right customer journey with sales tools that power your sales process has been high on our agenda for years. Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey? Which sales tools best support your sales process? One Simple Price. Sales Tools for Professional Sales. Other CRMs.

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yoursales

JANUARY 29, 2021

Which sales process works best with your customer experience journey and to generate your desired outcomes? Which sales tools best support your sales process? Which sales processes generate the outcomes you're after and which tools best assist you in doing so? Mimiran – More Leads and More Deals for SMB Services Business.

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All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

To save your time and make your decision process easy we have reviewed some of the best platforms. Manages budget per client and also keeps track of the payment sent to the hired influencer. For influencers, the software asks them to update their profile on it and set the price they want to work on. Key Features.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 6, 2018

This means that the company will not embark on the usual roadshow, there will be no pre-defined opening share price and more freedom for existing stakeholders who want to sell their shares. Spotify even states in the company’s F-1 filing that it expects a volatile share price in the early days after listing. in 2015 to €5.32

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Payments Metrics EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) SaaS Payments 75

GetUplift

DECEMBER 12, 2021

This guide provides a detailed breakdown of my emotional marketing process. It’s a process that my team and I at GetUplift have used to 10x our clients’ conversion rates. The process for using your research to create social media ads, landing pages, and email sequences that actually convert. So, let’s dive in. Introduction.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

We’ve been doing these SaaStr events since 2015, the SaaStr Annual. We can only process so much change, and I feel like we’ve been through three worlds since early March. I think it’s, in SaaS, in cloud, if you define it that way, I think it’s about 15 to 20%. Aileen Lee: Is the price going to be double?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

In this presentation, Pluralsight co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard will discuss how Pluralsight successfully transformed its business to serve both individual and enterprise customers independently and will share his lessons for SaaS companies looking to tap into individual customers to sell into enterprises and vice versa.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

The Wikipedia contributors define product innovation as “the creation and subsequent introduction of a good or service that is either new, or an improved version of previous goods or services.”. Note: These are written with SaaS and software products in mind, although many of the principles apply to other types of products as well.

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