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5 Interesting Learnings from Squarespace at $700,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Monetizing ecommerce via subscriptions, but not payment processing. Billion in GMV processed, up a stunning 91% from 2019. But in contrast to Wix and Shopify, it doesn’t keep much of the revenue from merchant services itself. Rather, it charges for software subscriptions to take payments on its websites.

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds. We provide a service; you make money; repeat on autopilot.

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What is Equity Financing?

Baremetrics

Public share offering enables a business to obtain money from the general public. Baremetrics integrates directly with your payment gateways, so information about your customers is automatically piped into the Baremetrics dashboards. What is Equity Financing in SaaS? What is Equity Financing in SaaS? Table of Contents.

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What Bootstrapped Companies Do Better than VC-Backed Ones with Paddle Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Campbell and Senior Product Manager Allissa Chan (Video)

SaaStr

Allissa and Patrick believe that SaaS founders—bootstrapped or not—can pull six key levers to significantly impact their businesses. . In SaaS, retention is usually driven by recurring revenue, cross-selling, and up-selling. This is where SaaS companies generate most their revenue. Lever #1: Tactical retention.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

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 learned a million lessons about SaaS, about start-ups, and about life along the way.

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The Startup Funding & Financing Guide

Baremetrics

million – about half of all the cash they had on hand – to buy out their main venture capital investors after eight years since founding. Taking pre-orders from customers , encouraging annual subscriptions , and even offering lifetime deals are just a few ways to make it work as a bootstrapping purist. Buffer spent $3.3

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Are You Counting Payments as Renewals?

Kellblog

Enterprise SaaS has drifted to a model where many, if not most, companies do multi-year contracts on annual payment terms. Most enterprise SaaS products are high-consideration purchases. Most SaaS vendors will jump at the opportunity to lock in a longer subscription term. How did we get here?