The Zapier Blog

JULY 10, 2025

In this article, I'll explain the pros and cons of Wix and Squarespace so you can decide which makes sense for you. It doesn't have nearly as many apps as Wix; the 45+ apps it features tend to be high-profile SaaS companies, like Mailchimp and Taxjar, rather than apps by independent developers.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 20, 2025

Shopify Partner API: This API opens up Shopify apps to connect with other products, like, for example, allowing a SaaS metrics tool to pull data directly from Shopify dashboards. Everything you need to know This article was originally published by Cecilia Gillen in July 2023.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 16, 2021

Jan contributed this article with help from Rhonda Suttle, EO Atlanta executive director, and Thamara Ataide, EO Atlanta marketing manager. Business challenge: Scaling a SaaS business. Leverage vertical SaaS benchmark and ratio studies. Dan’s ultimate goal is to scale the business for a lucrative exit in about five years.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription “Most of the time, what stands between a company and its ability to achieve scale is not a lack of money,” writes Wallace in TC+. “It’s better to ask: Do we have hustle problems?

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. How to grow a SaaS company efficiently in a recession. At the same time, it’s taking a lot longer to secure startup funding than it did just a few months ago, which means many companies are burning cash faster than they can raise it. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2024

Azalea Garcia, EO Puerto Rico “Joining the MyEO Forum for SaaS Founders has provided a unique blend of learning, accountability, and community. The exchange of ideas and experiences with other SaaS founders has broadened my perspective and equipped me with actionable strategies to elevate my business.” first appeared on The EO Blog.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 3, 2021

To get a fuller perspective, Ron interviewed four analysts : Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff. Let’s talk about the SaaS selloff. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Holger Mueller, analyst, Constellation Research.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Why do SaaS companies with usage-based pricing grow faster? So, why do public SaaS firms with usage-based pricing see faster growth ? Why do SaaS companies with usage-based pricing grow faster? Image Credits: John Lund (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

After interviewing 200 such salespeople, Nelson had another interesting finding: the agents’ work required them to use up to 14 separate SaaS applications to complete their daily tasks and effectively earn their commissions. This article is part of a partnership with Cherubic Ventures. Nelson saw this ambiguity as a great opportunity.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. For me, this was particularly interesting because it helped me better understand that an optimal pricing structure can be key to a SaaS company’s initial success. Thanks for reading, and I hope you have a very happy new year. The VCs who founders love the most.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 7, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. ” After surveying 14 public B2B software companies, Townshend says firms that built for discoverability and deployed usage-based pricing had a median growth rate of 141%, compared to 21% for traditional SaaS. .” Have a great week, Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2021

Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. India’s path to SaaS leadership is clear, but challenges remain. By 2030, India’s SaaS industry is estimated to comprise 4%-6% of the global market and generate between $50 billion and $70 billion in yearly revenue, according to a SaaSBOOMi/McKinsey report.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

150Birds is a freelancer- aggregator -cum- SAAS-platform that provides professional marketing services with a flexible team made up of freelancers. The SAAS works on a simple revenue model. The review article will be posted and shared with thousands of our subscribers over emails, social media posts, and push notifications.

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StartupNation

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This article will reveal 12 great tools that will easily help you automate your marketing process. You can manage your files, boost productivity and find it easier to collaborate with the team through the cloud-based SaaS DAM platform. AI Writer creates full-length article drafts that will serve as your base for writing new articles.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Here come the single-digit SaaS multiples. SaaS startups have seen smooth sailing, but in this ongoing downturn, stormy weather is on the horizon. ” Here come the single-digit SaaS multiples. ” Here come the single-digit SaaS multiples.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Cloud providers’ default retention policies are not enough: You better back your SaaS up. A lot of work today has moved to the cloud as SaaS tools replace traditional on-prem software in the enterprise. They also tend to go public faster.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

” Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Twitter Spaces: SaaS marketing with MKT1 founders Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich. London for a Twitter Spaces conversation with Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich , founders of MKT1, a partnership that advises SaaS startups. Image Credits: MKT1. EDT/10 p.m.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. 5 must-have board slides for SaaS sales and revenue leaders. 5 must-have board slides for SaaS sales and revenue leaders. Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. “We Thanks very much for reading! Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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David Teten VC

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Then we put together an article with the examples showing a bunch of similar companies we would have predicted, e.g., “US Series B SaaS Raises”. The final stage is to distribute the post via paid Linkedin ads targeting only the relevant VCs/PEs and share the article/messaging via email.”.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Hamed highlights 3 tools for visibility into revenues: SaaS business models , which mean recurring revenue; CAC:LTV ratios and other calculable analytics – which allow lenders to understand what amount of revenue a marketing input will generate; and. A better way to fund SaaS companies. Six Paths to Financing a SaaS Business.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Hopefully, after Silicon Valley Bridge Bank winds up its operations, a viable business will move in. But that’s just one street corner. The second-largest bank failure in U.S. history is going to reshape the startup ecosystem for years to come.

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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2019

PR readies articles and interviews. One well known SaaS unicorn focused itself on monthly product launches. I imagine this is how every founder fats on the eve of demo day. Launch day requires collaboration across teams. Marketing must prepare the story and materials. Engineering builds the product. SRE ensures it stays up.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2023

Atlanta, Georgia has emerged as one of the buzziest new hubs in the nation, with booming enterprise, cybersecurity and SaaS sectors, as well as a slew of investors looking to back the hot new startups coming from the city. Some well-known companies from Atlanta include Calendly, Kabbage, One Trust and FullStory — all unicorns, by the way.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Extra Crunch publishes a variety of article types, but how-tos are my favorite category. ” We’ve also received great feedback on a recent guest post about bootstrapping options for SaaS founders written by a founder who’s actually done it. Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2021

One of the startups is Kenyan neobank Fingo , a startup highlighted in the previous article that had secured a $250,000 pre-seed round in March. “If Pariti seed funding will allow it to build SaaS workflows to aggregate multiple forms of raising capital, from traditional equity and debt to DeFi solutions.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. SaaS founders are under pressure to maintain growth and reach profitability while preserving runway, but these goals aren’t diametrically opposed, according to Ophelia Brown and Imran Ghory of Blossom Capital. How much are you willing to bet on yourself?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

If you have grown sick (as I have) of the latest apps and SaaS products du jour, this decade is going to be an amazing one to experience and build. In a companion article for Extra Crunch , he explores five key areas of the future, that he calls: Wellness, Climate, Data Society, Creativity and Fundamentals.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

It makes money through a SaaS fee, which Mui says she hopes stays below 2% of a club’s total assets under management. Just this week, OrangeDAO — built to bring together 1,000 YC alumni into one place to invest in startups together — raised $80 million.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. In his latest guest post for TechCrunch+, OpenView partner Kyle Poyar explains why usage-based pricing “is a company-wide effort” that “requires ditching the old SaaS metrics playbook.”. seed- and early-stage venture dollars.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

3 keys to pricing early-stage SaaS products. Figure out a way to measure the output of your communications program beyond the number of articles placed; those mentions are meaningless if they’re not aligned with your message. More posts by this contributor. An awesome strategic comms pro should be your first marketing investment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

These articles are only available to members, but you can use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one or two-year subscription. For this morning’s edition of The Exchange, Alex Wilhelm interviewed three executives at cloud and SaaS companies to find out how well Q3 2020 has been treating them: Ping CFO Raj Dani.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

There are so many different categories of software products that still need to get built in the construction industry, so we spend at least 70% of our time in the construction sector on SaaS, software marketplaces and some SaaS that has a small hardware or lidar component. Read the full article on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Full Extra Crunch articles are only available to members. Are B2B SaaS marketers getting it wrong? Are B2B SaaS marketers getting it wrong? . “Remember that your application should be good enough to get an interview, not win a prize,” says Morton. Image Credits: Robert Katai under a license.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

As a result, HoneyBook ended up doubling its number of members on its SaaS platform and tripling its annual recurring revenue (ARR) over the past 12 months. And, as corporate layoffs driven by the COVID-19 pandemic led to more people deciding to start their own businesses, HoneyBook saw a big surge in demand.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Alternative financing options such as revenue financing or expense financing are often overshadowed by the VC model, but they can be just as, and sometimes more, useful for SaaS startups, writes Miguel Fernandez, CEO and co-founder of Capchase.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

If you take one piece of advice away from this article it should be this one: talk to potential customers, a LOT of them. Jill Soley is Vice President of Product Management at Issuu, where she oversees the strategy and development of Issuu’s popular SaaS digital publishing and content marketing solutions. Don’t skip this step.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

A SaaS mindset just isn’t relevant for deep tech investment, which means traditional VCs must recalibrate their behavior (and expectations) before diving in. “Software investors’ founder-first mantra is simply wrong in the world of deep tech,” writes Suthipongchai.

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