SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Romain Huet | Head of Developer Relations @ Stripe. Want to see more content like this?

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 7, 2023

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. “This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Know who is the foundation of your product and build your product for that user (in Stripe’s case, developers). Our team is in Room 111.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. Recurring payments.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 27, 2020

This is part three of a three part series on sequencing business models. In part two of our Sequencing Business Models series , we talked about the different types of marketplaces and what needs to be built to be effective in each of them. This post is a collaboration with Gilad Horev. Integration Platforms.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Has been CEO before, was CEO of Alfresco Software and long career in software and comes in, I think, with a lot of passion for customers and customer success, which I’m excited to hear about and also comes in live streaming, my understanding is from a boat right now, right Bernadette? Maybe they’re early in their career.

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Stax

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) businesses need to constantly evolve their offerings to stay fresh and relevant. They must engineer a well-rounded solution that makes handling subscriptions a breeze (and yes, it is as hard as it sounds). How do you add payment processing capabilities to your software?

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2019

Once you understand how to create a fair compensation plan for your sales team, you can check out some examples: Sales Development Rep (SDR) Compensation Plan Example. It ties payment to the achievement of specific objectives that have been pre-determined and communicated to the employees that are on the incentive plan.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with Dimitri Dadiomov, the co-founder and CEO of payment operations platform Modern Treasury, about the challenges of creating a new category, hiring for marketing before you hire for sales, and why developing new features is similar to birding. And that was the origin story.

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User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

TL;DR SaaS, or “Software as a Service,” is a business model that delivers centrally hosted software to subscribers over the internet. They also manage finances and supervise one or more engineering teams. What is a SaaS business model? Average salary: $192,383/yr.

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FastSpring

MARCH 27, 2023

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Ryan and his team noticed so many inefficiencies across the L&D workflows. “It Before seeing good success in the company.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . Which SaaS sales model to choose for your company? (3 Skills for SaaS Sales Team. SaaS Sales team compensation .

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Stax

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Software as a Service (SaaS) has made business software more accessible by offering cloud-based, on-demand access to a range of solutions, from project management and collaboration to sales and marketing. Some solutions, like Slack or Microsoft, are useful for any kind of business. What is Vertical SaaS?

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Baremetrics

DECEMBER 28, 2020

You may be thinking, “How bad can it be?” According to our data, SaaS and subscriptions businesses lose around 9% of their MRR due to failed payments on average. A dunning process is the manner you go about recovering your customers' failed payments. Your team follows up and payment is recovered.

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SaaSOptics

MARCH 1, 2022

What makes finance teams throw up their hands and say, “I just need a tool that can do X!” finance teams are responsible for planning the financial roadmap of an organization and keeping everything in balance. So, where do point solutions fit into all this? . On the other hand, point solutions (QuickBooks, Xero, etc.)

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

Sales Models and Fundamentals. The New Solution Selling. Sales Development and Prospecting. The Sales Development Playbook. The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team. Here are the best books on selling (and related disciplines) that can help you hit your goals and develop your career. Sales Models and Fundamentals.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 12, 2022

This article is one such list, where we take a deep dive into cash flow modeling for SaaS businesses and the software that can help you do it. Cash flow modeling is a necessary but complicated task. In this article, we are going to summarize the six tools you should consider for cash flow modeling in 2022.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 1, 2020

SaaS is a global software solution created by different businesses in order to improve human activities in a matter of clicks. SAAS is also abbreviated as software as a service. SaaS as we already understood is a software as a service. These saas can be either web or app-based or even both.

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User Pilot

JULY 23, 2020

In his blog, we’ll show you why profitability and growth depend on retention marketing; how to measure retention; how to reduce churn rate , and how to develop a strategy for keeping and growing your customers through the critical early stages and beyond. Contextual in-app tooltips , that show users how particular functions work.

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Casey Accidental

OCTOBER 20, 2020

This is part two of a three part series on sequencing business models. Casey’s first sequencing business models essay talked about the transition from a SaaS business model to marketplace business model, and why it’s so difficult. This essay is a collaboration with Gilad Horev.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 23, 2021

Introduction You want a subscription model for your business that increases revenue and keeps customers. You think about either Stripe , a payment platform, or Recurly , a customer-driven one to handle your billing. Decide on one or both depending on how you see your business and its success. Which do you choose?

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Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

They offer some of the best-known subscription boxes around, reflecting an increasingly popular (and potentially lucrative) business model. If you want to be in this niche, perhaps consider narrowing it down by choosing only to use small businesses or those from a specific region of the United States. Develop a Business Plan.

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Natalia Luneva

JANUARY 13, 2021

However, the subscription business model can’t survive if you keep on acquiring new custo mers but the old ones keep on walking away. The period refers to a month or year depending on which payment option you offer or which of them is more popular. Software companies that serve large organizations experience a 6-10% churn rate.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. Q: If a new portfolio company does not already have a Customer Success team in place, in your opinion where does that fall in terms of priority of the business’ development? ChurnZero raised a $2.5

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

And as Travis mentioned, we’ve had lots of great recent guests, Hollie Wegman, CMO at Segment, Adam, the head of developer relations at HashiCorp, G.C. Her team loved working for her. Leadership, she’s been on the leadership team for two massive businesses, and so who better to hear from on that topic than Claire.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Scalability Other Factors That Affect the Sales Multiple How to Make Your SaaS Business More Attractive and Valuable 1. Develop a Full Marketing Strategy 2. High churn is understandable for newer startups, but it does indicate that a tool may be a poor market fit, have limited demand, or struggle to compete against similar products.

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Subscription Flow

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

In this article, SubscriptionFlow offers an ultimate tech solution for those who want to run their eCommerce business and need to make transactions from or to the South African region. Reliable payment processing tells customers that you are reliable when it comes to payment processing.

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Baremetrics

JANUARY 24, 2021

Transitioning to SaaS On January 1st 2020, we transitioned the company out of a strategic partnership (we were operating the platform under a non SaaS business model!). We were looking to relaunch the user-driven, SaaS side of our businesses. This would enable us to increase the overall value of the system to customers.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

How to optimize your freemium model. Stories of ditching a freemium model. When is freemium the right strategy for your business? Is Freemium The Right Business Model? Is freemium an effective lead generation, conversion, and revenue driving strategy for your recurring revenue-based business?

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Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

There are specific stages a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company moves through during its life cycle. You may also hear this stage referred to as discovery , vision/mission , or problem/solution fit. and ‘Does my proposed solution solve it effectively?’ Ensuring your product, marketing and sales teams are aligned.

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Navint

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Earlier this year, we welcomed Sean Joyce to the Navint team. Sean has over 15 years of expertise in recurring revenue technologies, most recently hailing from Salesforce where he was a senior member of the product marketing team responsible for Salesforce CPQ & Billing. Navint sees across the entire spectrum.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team. For each funding option, ask: “Is this funding option aligned with my values and goals for the business?”. What do I need funding for?

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

As software pervades every sector of the world economy, the developers building it are rapidly becoming the most important buyers of technology and infrastructure in companies of all sizes. As a company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet – Stripe’s ability to connect with developers is central to our mission.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

TL;DR User behavior analytics (UBA) is the monitoring, gathering, and analyzing of user actions and data using monitoring systems, allowing you to acquire useful insights into your users’ desires, concerns, and challenges.It Which specific aspects of your website or app frustrate them?

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Pendo is a product adoption platform that lets teams monitor product usage, analyze user behavior, and publish in-app guides. The no-code solution focuses on increasing user engagement and driving feature discovery. Similarly, you can share Session Replays with other team members. Let’s take a closer look at its benefits.

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