OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

After four months of an unprecedented global crisis, SaaS companies are bouncing back while product led growth businesses are trading at almost 2x higher revenue multiples they started with. B2B and B2C SaaS and Subscription Report. Don’t leave revenue on the table, drive growth by optimizing your pricing.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 2, 2020

The subscription economy has shifted the power balance in favor of the customer. Subscriptions are built on ongoing relationships with customers, so companies selling subscriptions need to understand how to monetize this relationship on a recurring basis. That’s what makes subscription sales so difficult.

B2C 52

B2C Subscription Payment Features Payments 52

Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Managing offers, reliable billing, and subscription lifecycle management is complex, creating an iceberg effect for companies that decide to tackle it on their own. It allows us to upgrade, downgrade, or cancel a client’s subscription easily. Below, we’ll shed some light on the great buy vs. build debate.

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Subscription Payment Features Merchant Services SaaS Payments 51

Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Their job is to enable go-to-market teams through "joining the dots" between tools, teams & data, optimizing the business rules that drive growth. Selling has changed since Predictable Revenue was published.

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SaaS Payments Engineering Technical Advisors Payment Solutions 77

Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

When business picked up later that year, the team decided to go full-time and raise money. After some initial success and revenue growth, QuikNode received additional interest from investors for a new round. To continue fundraising, it was clear that QuikNode had to dial deeper into business metrics. Reduce failed payments.

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Blockchain Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 90

User Pilot

JULY 27, 2023

Revenue growth rate : This measures the rate at which the company’s revenue is growing over a specific period. A higher revenue growth rate generally indicates positive business performance. A lower MTTR indicates a more efficient incident response and resolution process.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

We spoke to Buffer’s CEO Joel Gascoigne about his experience building Buffer and the role and place subscription data plays for the company. For the first 2-3 years of Buffer’s existence, Joel and his team did not need a specialized solution for subscription analytics. The Challenge: Buffer was amassing “reporting debt”.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Payment Features Outsourcing Services Payments 52

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

With ProfitWell’s inception 7 years ago, we began with a mission of understanding and compiling a unified theory for subscription growth. Essentially, we wanted to understand the truth behind why recurring revenue businesses grow, what contributes to that growth, and how we can replicate that growth for our users.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 8, 2021

At the same time, the industry is known for delays in projects and in payments, and small companies often struggle with cash management as they deal with multiple projects at the same time, relying mainly on excel and word to issue budgets and invoices, as well as manage their receivables across several projects.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Curious how he felt reflecting on the decision to raise angel money - a decision that ultimately resulted in Wistia needing to take on $17M in debt - I asked Wistia Co-founder and CTO Brendan Schwartz if he’d do anything differently. of revenue at the time and the business was valued at $60M - a valuation multiple of 13x revenues.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

My co founders and I were software developers, so we knew how to write the code, to build the website, to build the learning platform, to build the video distribution model. The first few dozen courses that we published on the platform were authored by the Pluralsight co founders. Our salesforce didn’t know which one to sell.

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B2B B2C Scale New CTO 173

User Pilot

MARCH 30, 2025

If retention slips, you end up overspending on acquiring new users instead of growing revenue from those you already have. Too many ads: While ads are a great revenue stream, overloading your app with them creates a negative experience. The balance between monetization and user experience is tricky.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Retention Payment Methods Strategy 52

Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Cassie’s time in tech dates back to 2006, when she joined TheLadders.com as an early employee and managed marketing and analytics for the company’s subscription business. We closed a very successful series C process and then our commercial scale, I think, eclipsed the technical scale of the business, right?

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