Fri.Mar 08, 2024

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The Riskiest Venture-Backed Startups Are 3H’s: High Growth, High Churn and High Burn

SaaStr

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 3.8.24 - 2024 Guides

Clouded Judgement

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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How to Price and Package AI SaaS Products with Unusual Ventures

SaaStr

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 Support and Subscription Management Continue to Impress SocialBee

FastSpring

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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From Start to Scale: Driving Growth Through Seamless Payments Implementation

Speaker: Michael Veatch, Senior Director, Implementations & Ella Aguirre, Director of Solution Consulting

Embedding payments can be a transformative step for software companies looking to enhance their platform capabilities, boost customer satisfaction, and drive long-term growth. However, the success of payments hinges on a single thing: implementation. Drawing on real-world insights and experiences, payments implementation experts Michael Veatch and Ella Aguirre will explore actionable strategies that can lead to a transparent, friction-free launch and mitigate potential challenges like technical

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Ecosystem-Led Growth (ELG) for GTM

Sales Hacker

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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Mastering the Art of Complex B2B Recurring and Subscription Billing: Unpacking Complexity in B2B Billing

Blulogix

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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Mastering Customer Retention vs. Acquisition for Business Growth

Chargebee

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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ActiveCampaign Integrations with SubscriptionFlow and QuickBooks

Subscription Flow

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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The Top 100 Gen AI Consumer Apps

Andreessen Horowitz

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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An Omnichannel Payment Solution––Without the Complexity

Simplify omnichannel payments with a solution that unifies every channel through your platform. By integrating front-end systems like online, mobile, and in-store payments with robust back-end infrastructure, you can deliver a seamless payments experience without the need for heavy engineering. Omnitoken technology enhances security by tokenizing card transactions for reuse, enabling merchants to drive cross-selling opportunities.