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Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie (Video)

SaaStr

These days, as the business lead for invoicing at Stripe, Xie has earned her own stripes in navigating the unique challenges of building and thriving in the SaaS marketplace. What makes a SaaS business so hard? You can deploy subscriptions as a service, billing as a service, fraud prevention as a service.

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FastSpring’s Year in Review: 8 Highlights from 2019

FastSpring

Once again, 2019 was a great year for FastSpring, and I’m excited to share some of the major highlights below: 1. This is why we’re committed to continually develop new and innovative tools that help software companies successfully transition to a subscription-based business model. I Joined an Incredible Company and Team.

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Andreessen Horowitz

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. a16z has long had an investment theory that we should invest behind strengths of a business model and opportunity, not lack of weakness. billion from 2019 to 2020. billion to $20.7

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

If you think about it that way, then I think it simplifies a bit the equation, and you can think of how does that apply to your business? Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps.

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Measurement: What SaaS platform builders need to know to prepare for growth, Part 3

CloudGeometry

The intensity of competition in the SaaS marketplace puts a premium on new, stable, and reliable features. State of DevOps Report, DORA Research Institute, 2019 The latest iteration of the study was launched in May 2021. Aligning your SaaS business strategy with SaaS technical architecture is critical to SaaS success.

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Create Pricing Models Like AWS and Twilio with Events-Based Billing

Chargify

Backed by an army of developers, data engineers, and finance professionals, this events-based billing model allowed these large companies to directly link the value that their services provided with the cost presented on a customer’s invoice. What Amazon Web Services and Twilio Get Right. How AWS Does It.

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ChurnZero’s 10 Customer Success Leaders to Watch in 2022

ChurnZero

Amir will lead all post-sales functions, helping customers use the full scope of their products and services to unleash the power of CentralSquare in their communities. In her expanded role, Ellen will continue to lead global system engineering and enablement and will add professional services and customer support to her team.