SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

Check out this 2018 Europa session with Guillaume Princen, Head of France and Southern Europe @ Stripe, where he talks about the metrics you need to be focused on in your startup. If you don’t have the time to watch the whole session, here are the main metrics you should be mindful of. Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC). &

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SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

Grew Restaurant Locations 29% Year-Over-Year to 120,000 Perhaps the most important metric at scale. Shopify and Bill both also get the majority of their revenue from financial fees and transaction fees, not software subscriptions. Are you growing net new customers at least 20% a year? HubSpot is, and Toast is as well. #2.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

As you work to expand your SaaS, software, mobile games, or other digital product business worldwide, having the right payment methods available to global customers is key to ensuring they all feel comfortable purchasing. If you want to offer more payment methods around the world, don’t miss this episode of Growth Stage.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2024

Instructure is one of the leading learning management systems for education with its Canvas product. The overall metrics are a mix of Good and A Bit Tougher: $620m ARR Growing 20.7% (but a big part is from a big acquisition — core business only growing 6.8%) with a $3.5 big balloon payment to pay it all off comes in 2028.

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Stax

APRIL 15, 2025

In fact, monthly recurring revenue (MRR) is one of the most important metrics subscription businesses should be aware of. MRR is an important metric for SaaS businesses to track to understand business health. Let’s say you ran a CRM business where you charged your customers $1000 a year over 12 monthly payments.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Most SaaS businesses prefer to manage their accounting processes through cloud-based software solutions, but even for that you need to know the nitty-gritties of SaaS accounting. In this blog, we will cover all of these and provide the best solutions to some common challenges as well.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 31, 2023

What is customer acquisition for SaaS, and how can you leverage it to drive sustainable growth ? The purpose of customer acquisition is to expand and make more revenue. Customer acquisition funnel stages in SaaS are Awareness, Consideration, Evaluation, Conversion. What is customer acquisition?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Discover Bessemer Venture Partners’s annual State of the Cloud report, going through trends, benchmarks, and metrics that underpin the Cloud economy. The Macro Impact On Public Cloud Software Over The Past Year Cloud stocks dropped in 2022 in a severe market pullback event that Bessemer Venture Partners call The SaaSacre.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The solution? Micro startup acquisitions. But before we dive into that, we need to look into what micro startup acquisitions are and why you need to sit up and take notice. Micro Startup Acquisitions: What Are They, and Why Should I Care? Micro Startup Acquisition Trends. No one wants to be late to market.

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Payrix

MAY 14, 2024

When it comes to software, success doesn’t hinge on innovation alone. No one knows this better (or more intimately) than a software company Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Adam Tesan, CRO at Worldpay for Platforms, is a seasoned executive leader with decades of experience in sales, marketing, and revenue in the software space.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 13, 2018

All future growth hinges on one thing – customer acquisition. While this may sound simple, it can be incredibly challenging to find new opportunities for growth and customer acquisition in an increasingly crowded marketplace. Mobilize your influencers to drive customer acquisition. Want more advice like this? Makes sense, right?

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The Shopify App Store brings together Shopify app developers and Shopify shop owners for their mutual benefit. To get the most out of the time and money invested into their apps, Shopify App Developers need to track the core metrics of their industry. What is a business metric? What is a business metric?

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Well implemented, product demos help to: Improve user engagement : Today’s B2B buyers are independent—they want to research and evaluate solutions on their own terms. Choose the right interactive demo software : There are tons of tools out there, and deciding which one to use can be challenging. Userpilot comes in handy here.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The sales cycle is important because it cascades into a bunch of critical metrics for you and investors, including revenue. So i f deals take longer to close, you’re spending more money and paying people longer, so your customer acquisition costs are increasing, payback takes longer to materialize, and your LTV to CAC goes down.

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Subscription Flow

MAY 10, 2024

To keep up with the modern donors’ purchasing habits, nonprofit organizations or NPOs can set-up recurring donation systems in-line with these donors’ spending preferences. According to a 2023 360MatchPro study, revenue from one-off donations decreased by 12% in 2022, while monthly charity payments rose by 11%.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2022

While these aren’t great metrics if Weave was enterprise, they are still solid for SMBs. Yes, these really can be seen as customer acquisition costs, and they are: “We consider the net costs of onboarding and hardware, in addition to our sales and marketing activities, to be core elements of our customer acquisition approach.”

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Incredo

JULY 14, 2019

People were using subscription-based services when the world couldn’t even dream of having computers or, moreover, think of developing software. Oracle Cloud , another big fish in the technology industry, delivers cloud computing solutions, including SaaS, IaaS and PaaS (platform-as-a-service) to enterprises. Boring, right?).

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

There are some amazing and comprehensive guide books out there for building a Shopify app (including this one from Shopify ). But in this article, I am going to give you a brief run down on the Shopify Partner Dashboard for app developers. That includes the development store for testing and perfecting your app. Do so much more.

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Stax

MARCH 18, 2025

Data cited by Statista shows that the software as service is expected to hit $299 billion by the end of 2025. Join the payments-led growth movement Sign up to keep up-to-date with the latest trends in payments, vertical SaaS, and technology from industry experts. Customer acquisition cost. Churn rate. More on that later.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Lambda School trains people online to be software engineers. There’s a little bit of work to do still, but you know, tonight the title of my talk is how to make user acquisition practically free. You could be missing all of your metrics, but you know, you’re not the Twitter guys. Want to see more content like this?

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User Pilot

AUGUST 6, 2024

We covered actionable steps to build an effective system that converts users, drives product engagement , and leads to long-term growth. SaaS sales funnel metrics focus on short-term results, while marketing efforts play a longer-term game. The goal is to create awareness and draw traffic to your website or app.

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Blulogix

JANUARY 2, 2025

Alongside this expansion, the industry is experiencing significant consolidation , with mergers and acquisitions creating larger, more diversified players. Enabling Real-Time Insights Integrated billing systems provide real-time access to critical metrics, such as revenue performance, customer usage, and churn rates.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

What is a Shopify Partner App? Use Baremetrics to calculate LTV for Shopify Partner Apps How do you calculate LTV for Shopify Partner Apps? What is a Shopify Partner App? Shopify Partner Apps are third party companies that sell their services or Apps to Shopify store owners. Table of Contents. What is LTV?

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Baremetrics

OCTOBER 26, 2021

All the data your startup needs Get deep insights into your company's MRR, churn and other vital metrics for your SaaS business. What is CAC for Shopify Partner Apps? Use Baremetrics to calculate CAC for Shopify Partner Apps CAC for Shopify Partner Apps How do you calculate CAC for Shopify Partner Apps?

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

There are some amazing, comprehensive guidebooks out there for building a Shopify app (including this one from Shopify ). Consider this the cheat sheet on building a Shopify app. The stages of Shopify app development 1. The stages of Shopify app development 1. What is the Shopify app ecosystem? Table of Contents.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Subscription billing is a payment structure that allows service providers to charge their clients based on a fixed timeframe. This article will help you with everything you need to know about subscription billing and subscription billing solutions. Recurring billing systems offer more returns for customer acquisition costs 3.

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User Pilot

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What GTM metrics should you track as a product marketer? That’s why we’re going to show you 12 of the most important product analytics metrics that you’ll need in order to measure your product success. There are 12 essential GTM metrics that every SaaS should know about: New user growth rate. Customer churn rate.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Funnel tracking software can solve this problem. Unlike sales funnel software, funnel-tracking tools track numerous funnels such as goal completion, conversion , and review funnels. Unlike sales funnel software, funnel-tracking tools track numerous funnels such as goal completion, conversion , and review funnels.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2019

So data analytics, marketing customer analytics, and technology and acquisition. The second category is very interesting because this, you can translate that as the paid spend, of Facebook and what not, moving towards MarTech acquisition tools. It was mostly just how to activate them, how to make them come back to the app.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

You see that both organizations embracing this cloud movement, but specifically in COVID, more and more companies turning to the cloud as their solution for business continuity or for business growth in these times when shelter in place is making on-prem solutions difficult and in many cases, impossible to use.

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User Pilot

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Looking for product metrics that can offer you better product growth insights ? SaaS product metrics are like a compass for product growth managers, which can guide them where to steer the product. But picking the right metrics is no easy task. So how do you know you’re tracking the right product metrics for your SaaS product?

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Subscription Flow

MAY 30, 2024

As a business that provides software as a service, you will not only need to jump on this bandwagon, but more importantly, you will need the right set of subscription management tools to stay on it to keep reaping the profits of this booming industry. Choice of Billing Options Churn usually happens because of repeated failed payments.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 18, 2021

In this blog, we are looking at the business metrics that can be measured quantitatively and providing a few insights on how investors analyze them. We’ve talked to dozens of our SaaS customers, as well as investors to learn more about what is happening with these key metrics. SaaS Metric #1 – Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR).

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2021

Enterprise OEM software licensing is a multibillion-dollar segment of the software industry. It includes factual information, personal experience, and interviews from successful professionals on both the buy-side and the sell-side of enterprise OEM software licensing to ensure a broad mix of experience and ideas.

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FastSpring

MAY 25, 2023

Pricing your software as a service (SaaS) can be hard enough even during the best of times, but figuring out how to dial in the right pricing to drive more revenue in times of stagflation can be even more challenging. FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies sell around the world. Inflation isn’t flat: Vary your strategy.

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FastSpring

JULY 12, 2019

However, there’s one metric that doesn’t get as much attention—customer lifetime value. Since most SaaS and subscription-based businesses depend on recurring payments to sustain themselves, it can pay dividends to keep a close eye on lifetime value and customer retention rates. Implement a Dunning Management System.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services. There were solutions for the stadiums for the very large conferences, but nothing really for under 20,000 people. So first, I would say the API and Stripe.js

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