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Bottom-up SaaS: A framework for mapping pricing to customer value

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Should your SaaS startup embrace a bottom-up GTM strategy? Should your SaaS startup embrace a bottom-up GTM strategy? A few years ago, building a bottom-up SaaS company – defined as a firm where the average purchasing decision is made without ever speaking to a salesperson – was a novel concept. More posts by this contributor.

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The Complete Guide to SaaS Pricing Strategy

Tomasz Tunguz

Contract Length Many SaaS startups launch with monthly pricing which encourages customers to try the product and engenders demand. At some point, most SaaS startups switch to annual contracts for three reasons. How about a 50 person SaaS company? Veblen Goods in SaaS Veblen goods defy traditional pricing theory.

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Extra Crunch roundup: 500 Startups’ demo day, smart SaaS pricing and much more

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Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models.

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Grouparoo snares $3M seed to build open source customer data integration framework

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Today, Grouparoo , a new startup from three industry vets is the next company up with an open source framework designed to make it easier for developers to access and make use of customer data.

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Per Seat or Per Use Pricing: A Framework for Evaluating the Right Strategy for Your Startup

Tomasz Tunguz

Should you price your SaaS per seat or per use? Madhavan provided an excellent framework for answering this question, in addition to a multitude of other insights. Those are some of the chestnuts from the session, and they provide a rough framework.

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This early-stage marketing expert says ‘B2B SaaS is actually very, very cool now’

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Having earned “scars and stripes” at various startups, Heskins recently joined “tech for good” company Big Lemon as a part-time head of growth, but still offers her services to other teams as a SaaS and early-stage startup marketing consultant. Why have you decided to focus on SaaS startups?

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