SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2024

So recently I caught up with a great founder and a beloved product. They rocketed to $20m ARR, and then … growth radically slowed. To 15% a year. From 100% growth at $10m ARR, to 15% at $20m ARR. That’s rough. But rapidly slowing growth has happened to many the past 24 months. The tough part? The burn and the churn. The burn was at a stunning $2m a month, and the churn had spiked.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 8, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now 2024 Guides - Are they Conservative? So far we’ve got a number of full year 2024 guides. Overall, companies are not guiding above current consensus (median guide is 0.2% below consensus). Is this just companies guiding conservatively, to set up the year for beat and raises?

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2024

With everything in AI moving so rapidly, what’s the best way to price Artificial Intelligence products or SaaS tools with custom AI features and integrations? Should it be subscriptions, usage, solutions, or something entirely different? While companies are scrambling to roll out these new tools, they also want reliability and predictability in the value they’re getting from your products, which can make pricing extremely difficult.

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FastSpring

MARCH 8, 2024

SocialBee , a social media management platform and SaaS based in Romania, first started using FastSpring in 2018. Co-Founder and Chief Executive Bee Ovi Negrean has used the word “flawlessly” to describe how FastSpring’s merchant of record use case has worked for SocialBee (more on that below!). After adopting FastSpring as their merchant of record, SocialBee even saw 2x year-over-year growth in monthly recurring revenue (MRR) after their first year with FastSpring.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 8, 2024

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 50,000 revenue professionals weekly to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow is the media extension of GTMfund – sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio companies backed by over 350+ of the best in the game executive operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies.

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Blulogix

MARCH 8, 2024

By BluLogix Team Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Unpacking Complexity in B2B Billing In the landscape of B2B commerce, billing complexity isn’t just a buzzword— it’s a significant barrier that companies must navigate to ensure success in the subscription economy. But what exactly constitutes this complexity, and why is it so pivotal for businesses to understand and manage it effectively?

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Chargebee

MARCH 8, 2024

Explore how minimizing customer retention costs while maximizing loyalty is key to sustainable business growth. Gain insights into strategies that strengthen customer bonds without breaking the bank.

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Subscription Flow

MARCH 8, 2024

ActiveCampaign is a powerful CRM, automation, and email marketing solution. It does not, however, cover every function by itself which is what prompts the need for various ActiveCampaign integrations. For tasks like, say, accounting and subscription management , its integration with other programs becomes indispensable. Regarding subscription management, we highlight SubscriptionFlow, a feature-rich platform that makes it easier to create and manage billing cycles, invoices, and subscription pla

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 8, 2024

Ever since ChatGPT catapulted generative AI into public consciousness over a year ago, we’ve been introduced to thousands of new consumer products that incorporate the magic of AI — from video generators to workflow hacks , creativity tools to virtual companions. Six months ago, we did a deep dive into web traffic data to separate the signal from the noise.

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ClinicSense is a SaaS platform that supports over 7,000 massage therapists who use it for appointment management, payments, scheduling, marketing activities and more. Despite having a relatively low payment failure rate, the company discovered that the failures disrupted the customer experience. This often led to churn as customers decided to cancel or abandon their account, preventing ClinicSense from realizing the full lifetime value (LTV) of its users.

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