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We?re About To See a Lot More SaaS Debt

SaaStr

It’s hard to imagine a world where analysis didn’t understand recurring, subscription based revenue for technology products. The company is the poster child for subscription-based software, a model that’s gaining popularity among corporate buyers. The SKYY First Trust Cloud Computing ETF has grown to $3.3

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8 Best Chargebee Alternatives and Competitors (And How They’re Different)

FastSpring

Chargebee is a robust subscription management platform. However, there are certain aspects of collecting recurring payments that you would still be responsible for when using Chargebee, such as: Connecting to payment gateways manually. Zoho Subscriptions. Remitting taxes at the end of the year.

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

Google, too, saw a smooth transfer of power from its founders to a new CEO, Sundar Pichai, while also strengthening its core business of search advertising and reorganizing under Alphabet. Rise of the cloud and SaaS businesses. What was perhaps less predictable was the ensuing prevalence of the subscription-based business model.

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What It’s Like Running a Profitable $400M Public SaaS Company with Vimeo CEO Adam Gross 

SaaStr

Vimeo has never had any advertising, so how did they make money? They also have a media segment, a separate business supporting creators who want to do subscription-based video monetization. They top out of what you can do in advertising and rev share on YouTube. By being a video platform. This is how Adam ended up at Vimeo.

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How Founders Can Take Control of Their Destiny with Tradeshift (video + transcript)

SaaStr

We very frequently advertise to our customers, “We have less features in the UI.” ” This is not an advertisement of Tradeshift. We say, “Hey, would you like a cloud platform to run your supply chain? We can do the payments, and we have all of these third party app providers.”

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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

Buffer Resources

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. This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app.

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The ever-evolving software subscription model

IT World

Instead, the advertisement says: “One-time purchase. No subscription. Cloud storage is not included. I’m sure you’ve seen the ads: “Get Perpetual Office for a dirt-cheap price that’s so cheap it’s too good to be true.” It is, though they don’t phrase the pitch quite like that. Activation is permanent and lifetime.