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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. Sometimes, entering the market with a different pricing model disrupts incumbents. Competition. Michelin developed a much more durable tires.

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Pricing and Packaging Your B2B or Prosumer Generative AI Feature

Andreessen Horowitz

We’re in the very early days of genAI and until adoption curves and costs stabilize, there won’t be any tried-and-true pricing or packaging frameworks. Packaging as an add-on can: Monetize your innovation directly, which leads to more sustainable margins over the short term. (If Pricing: subscription or hybrid?

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Commercializing AI in Healthcare: The Enterprise Buyer Perspective

Andreessen Horowitz

As Paul Uhrig, Chief Legal and Digital Health Officer of Bassett Healthcare Network and Executive Director of Bassett Innovation Center told us, “if we can get the ultimate user excited and to be champions about this, that I found to be very much the winning strategy.” Each organization’s culture around these questions is different.

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Headless CMS platform Kontent secures new capital to grow its customer base

TechCrunch

Kentico was the brainchild of Petr Palas, who saw an opportunity to build a content management system (CMS) for developers using Microsoft’s.NET framework. has been a first mover and innovator in the space.” The incumbent solutions were designed for on-premise, monolithic architecture. “Kontent.ai

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The Four Factors to Consider When Developing Your Startup's Pricing Strategy

Tomasz Tunguz

It builds products of the highest quality often with innovative and novel manufacturing techniques. The same idea holds in SaaS. A new premium entrant might enter the market, changing the market dynamics, forcing incumbents to respond and change their 4Ps. The company positions itself in the market as a premium brand.

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Unbundling the Game Engine: The Rise of Next Generation 3D Creation Engines

Andreessen Horowitz

Of course, this vision came to reality through the games industry (which is often the tip of the spear for technological innovations). Cloud native engines maximize customization Today’s engines are monolithic desktop applications originally designed before modern cloud architecture and the SaaS age.

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Mexico’s Mendel secures $35M to tackle LatAm’s corporate spend management problem

TechCrunch

When you look at all the different areas of any enterprise company in LatAm, the CFO function is clearly the one that has had the least innovation,” said Karpovsky. Part of Mendel’s strategy is to attract customers with high payment volume and low credit risk, while at the same time charging a SaaS fee for the usage of their platform.