Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

We’ve shared a number of parts of Buffer’s business transparently over the years — and one piece we’ve always wanted to expand on is where your money goes when you pay for a Buffer subscription. Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc.

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Chart Mogul

JANUARY 28, 2022

A few months ago, we retired our last pieces of infrastructure on DigitalOcean, marking our migration to AWS as complete. Our journey was not your regular AWS migration as it involved moving our infrastructure from classic VMs to containers orchestrated by Kubernetes. Ultimately, we decided to go with AWS. Why move and why now?

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 3, 2022

It’s easy to get lost in the noise of “SaaS monetization makes the world go round,” “Subscriptions mean printing money,” and other hype. The more money you will have left to add more customers, get them committed to subscriptions, and keep them away from your competitors. So why put it on our shortlist?

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CloudGeometry

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Many of the habits we’ve learned in collaboration and wrangling a distributed workforce make a difference, particularly in the new work-from-home reality of Spring 2020. Keeping the customers who access your software and ensuring they renew their subscriptions? Those of us who do software for a living are quite fortunate.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Join us at SaaStr Europa 2020. Many of our users begin their journey with Slack on our free subscription plan. Who here has done procurement or invoicing, and had to use your internal tools to do it? I was at Facebook for a while after Parse got acquired, and they had a three day training on how to use their invoicing system.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

SaaS gross margins have been getting attention lately as investors dig into SaaS cost structures and revenue growth rates going into 2020. SaaS vendors delivering subscriptions as well as professional services typically have gross margins between 60-70%. Heading into 2020, the SaaS market is expected to continue with strong growth.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 19, 2019

To alleviate the distrust of nebulous subscription payments, SaaS companies need a strong focus on keeping customer data secure and communicating that security to their users. Just understanding the concern exists isn’t enough—you need concrete security measures in place that customers can understand.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

I’m going to skip by my life story, and how I grew up as a small child in India, and how the dusty streets influenced my take on unit economics, and SaaS subscription models. I would love to say, “Oh, I wrote this software, and I put two servers on AWS, and put a credit card form up, and the money just kept flowing in.”

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 11, 2020

The second quarter of 2020 was chaotic. While you might be tempted to renew their subscription or sell them a new product, the best course of action is to empathize with their current situation and listen to what they truly need.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Our mission is to build the world’s most powerful subscription analytics platform for the SaaS community. Building the leading subscriptions analytics platform means listening to our customers, and implementing changes to the product that bring them the most value. This year, we also migrated ChartMogul to AWS cloud.

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BetterCloud

JANUARY 8, 2021

This statistic will likely change in the coming months as new data rolls in, but Statista reports that there were a whopping 540 data breaches in 2020. For example, with Azure RBAC you can: Allow one user to manage virtual machines in a subscription and another user to manage virtual networks. In AWS, these attributes are called tags.

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ProfitWell

MAY 12, 2020

Cloud service models in 2020. Some SaaS products allow the user to download the application, but require an internet connection to confirm their subscription for it to operate. AWS — Amazon Web Services is perhaps the most used of the cloud infrastructure options. We are not considering those in our comparison of cloud services.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 16, 2021

But the shift from pure subscription to usage-based pricing is nearly as complex as going from on-premise to SaaS. AWS takes this a step further by allowing a customer to commit in advance, but still pay for their usage as it happens. Snowflake notably overhauled its compensation plans before the 2020 IPO.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago. Conclusion: Looking forward to SaaStock 2020! Consumerizing even more parts of the activities of a typical business (logistics-as-a-service, etc.)

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Chargify

JUNE 3, 2020

With the launch of Tesla’s Autopilot Full Self-Drive feature subscription service coming by the end of 2020, this could be the start of a shift in the way the automotive industry does business. Subscription based billing is not new to consumers, everyone from Spotify to Netflix to gyms have been using this model for a number of years.

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Baremetrics

JUNE 22, 2020

Couple that with a ~21% open rate for software emails as of 2020, and it’s clear than sign-ups are anything but a sure thing. Although generic subject lines (“Step #2: How to use __”) aren’t necessarily awful, they’re not exactly exciting. Meanwhile, it’s oft-cited that ~50% of SaaS users will log into an account and never return.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago. Conclusion: Looking forward to SaaStock 2020! Consumerizing even more parts of the activities of a typical business (logistics-as-a-service, etc.)

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

The report also highlighted that the spending in space went up to 170% in 2020. The company offers a data analytics platform based on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Clouds, and Microsoft Azure. Based on this, it can be said that Indian-origin SaaS companies could capture an 8% to 9% share of the international SaaS market.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

John Mellor: But then probably the biggest transition was watching Adobe transition into the subscription business model with its Creative Cloud product as it’s known today. ” Clearly, Wall Street and the Adobe team knew the benefit of a subscription business model and the transition into SaaS. And the stock popped.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2021

or hybrid (upfront subscription fee, and then a usage-based charge), this billing strategy is a hot topic. The shift from pure subscription to usage-based pricing is nearly as complex as going from on-premise to SaaS. When Should You Choose a Consumption-Based Model Over a Subscription-Based Model? Moving to usage-based pricing.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Prior to joining Primary in early 2020, Cassie spent 15 years as a tech operator. Most recently, she held a variety of executive roles at Sailthru from 2013-2020, ultimately becoming the company’s Chief Revenue Officer. Cassie is a graduate of Duke University and holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Flash forward to 2020 and freemium again feels cutting edge. This guide, by LinkedIn’s Head of Global Monetization Strategy Josh Gold, is intended to teach subscription-based businesses how to evaluate whether the freemium model will drive revenue and lead gen for their business or result in failure. Freemium benchmarks.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses. Their list of services includes retail, debit card, payroll, and invoices. Founded in: 2020. Founded in: 1982. Founded in: 2006.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

And then there was this great workplace experience of 2020, which we’re still living now. So now we’re in this, like you call it, the great workplace experiment of 2020, where we’re forced to be a hundred percent remote. Someone forgot to turn the security on, the elastic database. Is AWS in the lead?

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