OPEXEngine

JUNE 29, 2020

Generally speaking, SaaS companies who are new to the market should NOT be overly concerned with the Rule of 40 but focus on “T2D3”, which we’ll cover in a separate post. If your SaaS business is in its early years, the goal is really to realize product-market fit, and to grow as quickly as possible.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

So growth of the kind of subscription, eCommerce industry has been over 100% year on year for the past five years, according to McKinsey. 10% basically means you don’t have any product market fit. That’s typically the AWS model, depending on how much space you take, service space, you will pay more.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

To power this shift, we need infrastructure, which supports the easy establishment and distribution of the new internet-enabled products and services. 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.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

To power this shift, we need infrastructure, which supports the easy establishment and distribution of the new internet-enabled products and services. 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.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Churn is the enemy of subscription-based businesses; it measures the rate at which your hard-won customers cancel their subscription to your service. Tia Fomenoff, Director of Product Marketing, Thinkific. I’m sure they’re reducing their number on churn, but they’re awful companies.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I saw we had the opportunity to do that in London and to do something that will be new for Facebook, in the same way that AWS was a new business model and product line for Amazon and a bet that paid off very well. Julien: It’s important to find your niche and to find product market fit.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. I was offered a job as Buildium’s first full-time marketing hire, pulling in a cool $38,400 annually.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2021

While qualitative side includes optimizing the online performance as well driving more efficient marketing and sales operations to lower down customer acquisition cost. For any company to grow, it has to acquire more customers by reaching the right product/market fit. Increasing the size of customer base.

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FastSpring

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

That’s the philosophy behind SEM International , the firm he founded that specializes in multilingual internationally-based digital marketing services. Since Michael founded the firm in 2004, it has grown to over 30 offices worldwide, and they’ve worked with Intel, AWS, and Salesforce, among many other well-known brands.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2024

Some of that is by launching add-on products that can be priced as subscription fees or transactional per conversation. They just happened to launch AWS and ended up capturing way more value just in themselves than the entire on-prem storage market before them. ARPU, ACV, and LTV are increasing. Drop in costs.

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