Subscription Flow

MAY 22, 2024

Let’s imagine a SaaS company called “ConnecTech” that offers project management software for small businesses. If you were running ConnecTech, here’s how you’d go about calculating its customer lifetime value (CLV): Step 1: Calculating the Customer Value Suppose a customer named John has been using ConnecTech’s software for 12 months.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 17, 2016

In these markets, concepts like Westendorp Price Sensitivity and conjoint analyses work. But to incite disruption requires a different set of marketing skills. In the Innovator’s Solution , Christensen proposes the idea of competing against non-consumption. How will buyers think about this solution relative to others?

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Totango

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Does your team have to log into multiple systems to see all of a customer’s information? Enable an Early Warning System: Rather than attempting to monitor customer progress manually, use software that includes an early warning system. Talk to or survey your teams and learn how you can better support each division.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Artificial Intelligence (AI) refers to a system of computers, software, machines and processes that simulate certain aspects of human intelligence such as image perception, voice recognition and reasoning. Base Salary refers to an agreed-upon amount of payment an employee received as compensation for work rendered. Cold Email.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 16, 2018

Market Segmentation combined with tailored messaging. The key to achieving explosive growth is to start by identifying your Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs) via segmentation, reaching out to them with personalized targeted messaging while building a scalable and repeatable process. How To Build An Efficient Outbound Sales System.

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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. SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. Recurring payments.

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OPEXEngine

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Often that lends itself to people and processes, and systems. The billing system is where most customer interaction occurs throughout the organization. It becomes the system of record, even more so today than the CRM or the back-end ERP, because it has the most real-time, accurate, and up-to-date information on the revenue lifecycle.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

It should get you started on thinking about freemium mechanics in your own software. Two of the biggest challenges facing SaaS marketers who operate a freemium model is the acquisition of new users and then converting them into paying customers. How to Increase Your Payment Customers In a Freemium Model. Find out here.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. Slack reached $100M in ARR just two and a half years after launch and Dropbox got to one billion dollar in ARR within ca. eight years. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software. Of course it's one of the predominant business models for modern software, but you'd be hard-pressed to find an industry that hasn't seen at least one subscription success story in the past few years. The subscription model is booming.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 20, 2020

The most common pricing action companies are taking is to offer temporary relief on payment terms. The other person on the call countered, “Our customers are going to delay payments whether we like it or not. We’re also expediting Q1 commissions for all solutions partners.”. They aren’t getting paid.”.

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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. We could translate the software into Spanish. How the hell does that happen?

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FastSpring

APRIL 13, 2023

And so I did early stints at Zillow, Tumblr and a company called Fiscal Note, all in different markets, doing different things in different market segments. Justin Scott So we had an interesting birth, we had a previous company that was pointed at a different market segment. You gotta meet the market.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 24, 2020

Almost everything is sold as a subscription, from socks to razor blades, and of course software. Of course it's one of the predominant business models for modern software, but you'd be hard-pressed to find an industry that hasn't seen at least one subscription success story in the past few years. What is a subscription company?

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 5, 2022

It involves the responsibility for the database, servers, software, and plans that help the product. The product is a cloud-based software that one can choose to use on any device with an internet connection. Revenue is earned on a monthly or yearly basis through recurring payments. Contract framing mistakes.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. Slack reached $100M in ARR just two and a half years after launch and Dropbox got to one billion dollar in ARR within ca. eight years. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

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ProfitWell

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

You can rely on value-based pricing to deliver products and services to different market segments. Powerful algorithms and pricing data with ProfitWell software help you identify what matters to who. Operations usually care about something totally different than marketing or sales when looking for a product.

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wepay

JANUARY 23, 2018

As a SaaS business, or any online software business, moves beyond its startup phase and starts to grow seriously, there is a period of adjustment as the business adapts its operations, sales and other functions to the need for scale. Sales and marketing teams need to prioritize new customer acquisition.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 14, 2020

Public Software Companies. +8%. Many factors drive the high-growth of SaaS companies, including higher market adoption of SaaS and the structural advantages of the recurring subscription revenue model – see Why SaaS Companies Grow Faster. In every market, a few companies garner the majority of the market. Profitability.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. And that is you’re seeing a bit of a separation in those companies that have really the stickiest, most critical solution. And this is highlighting something that we’re really seeing across the board.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. It was basically using Bluetooth and an app on PalmPilots to do wireless payments in restaurants. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. So if you’re ERP, boom, Workday.

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Backlinkfy

JULY 30, 2019

Amazon: In the retail context, Amazon is a multinational online retailer with a market capitalization in excess of $195 billion U.S. Amazon also hosts a marketplace wherein other Internet purveyors may display and sell products, and offers several software-as-a-service and infrastructure-as-a-service solutions for business.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. Metering / Billing / Payment Process. Customer Success Management Software List (Google Doc).

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