SaaS stands for Software as a Service. That means a Software for which the business model is Subscription based with a recurring fees. The opposite would be on-Premise software which you buy once for an upfront fee but don't necessarily need to pay any recurring fee to keep using.
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What to do next for my online startup?
Ok so I've left my job, I've got a business plan, I have a blue ocean idea, I've spoken to a few industry people about the idea and they think its a good idea. I have a designed and paid a programmer ...
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Unique Visitors to Customer Base corelation
I am researching my competitors before getting into SAAS based software market. For one of the competitors total monthly unique visitors to be 3000. I am calculating roughly 50% of them are ...
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Valuation for SaaS product
My company has an online software as a service product that is subscription based (yearly) and when first launched, 3-years ago, has been more than doubling in revenue each year (in 2009, $2K, and in ...
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What are you doing about the Amazon EC2 issues?
Amazon has been having a lot of issues on EC2 through this weekend and I am sure many other startups got burned by them. What are you guys doing about it? Do you consider Amazon equally reliable now ...
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Survey / Ballot / e-sign tool
I've noticed a trade-off in survey and e-sign tools.
Survey tool:
Low cost for large volumes
Manage Survey Workflow well
Excellent data collection / reporting
Does not offer signature
Does not ...
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Acceptable margin for starting SaaS Business
We're just trying to startup a SaaS business, where the model is based around a subscription radio station. We've done the hard numbers and the licencing costs of just providing the music is 50% of ...
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Should we target large customers with our software localization platform?
For the last 15 months we've been working hard to build a cloud-based platform that helps companies localize the software they build (named Amanuens). It all started from our own needs and we decided ...
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Want to offer SaaS product via RDP, any recommendation on hosting
We already have a desktop product for Windows.
Unfortunately it is a win32/64 exe for Windows, and making a web version would take some years.
We want to join the SaaS party, so we want to introduce ...
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Taking and making payments between users
I am in the nascent stages of developing a service that will allows some users to request a certain task and others to perform those tasks. Money in from the user requesting, company takes a small ...
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Intenet Marketing Book for SAAS based product
Many thanks to onstartup community for recommending good books on internet marketing but I was wondering if anybody recommend a book for internet marketing for a SAAS product targeting medium siZed ...
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SaaS Solution and Hosted Solution… is there a difference? (Enterprise)
When it comes to enterprise software, would you say there is a difference between a hosted solution and an SaaS solution? Or are they the same thing?
If there are differences and you offered a ...
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How to charge taxes for online services?
We are a Canadian-based incorporated business that is about to sell subscriptions to a SaaS, both yearly and monthly.
How do we handle adding taxes to the service? Since we are a Quebec-based ...
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Comparing enterprise, self hosted pricing to SaaS pricing for a smaller client? Changing industry pricing models?
We're trying to figure out the pricing for a service we've been asked to provide (a couple times, in passing, actually in reference to something we've pitched that hasn't hit the mark "well that's ...
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How to incorporate in the US without traveling there?
I live in Colombia and have a web service, I would like to create a company in the US so I can receive payments from there. Is there a way to create a company without traveling there like this website ...
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What is the quickest way to offer your SaaS customers credit card billing?
I have a SaaS product and want to offer my customers the ability to accept credit cards themselves. What's the quickest way to set this up?
EDIT: I'm starting to think that giving the SaaS user a ...
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Buying Expensive Commercial Licenses for Startup?
This is regarding a SAAS based software product I am about to launch. One of the key innovation of this product is automation of a human process, this automation is built on top of an expensive ...
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Hosting advice for B2B SaaS Startup - just sign-up page, and a blog
Ours is a B2B SaaS startup (LAMP stack). We are at a very early stage of the Startup. So, we don't need any dedicated hosting at this time. We have planned to use Amazon (not finalized though). In ...
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What information to gather when registering users
We all know that it's really important for an impatient SaaS user to not make them spend too much time filling forms. Having said that there maybe some important fields that needs to be gathered ...
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New startup - how to handle billing?
My subscription-based application is going to be written in Ruby on Rails; I have two routes I can go as far as billing is concerned:
I can use a hosted service that takes care of managing the ...
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Which page flow will have better conversion rate?
Which flow will have a better conversion rate?
I am designing the page flow for a website that is a of a monthly subscription type. Here's the page flow options I have:
Home Page (Try now button) ...
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Ooma equivalent for business. No recurring fees
I currently use an Ooma VOIP converter box at my home office for phone service, and during preparation for a marketing campaign, noticed a previously-overlooked 'Terms of Service' clause prohibiting ...
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Address SAAS Data Theft/ Privacy concerns
We have a SAAS product for a specific industry where we host this application for multiple companies. Since they belong to the same industry one of the key concerns of my potential customers is the ...
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Is security a major concern with Enterprise grade cloud storage?
In your opinion or experience, is security the biggest concern when considering offsite cloud storage? I am curious if vendors like box.net offer their cloud solutions with the intention that ...
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Build in-house or outsource?
I'm working with a SaaS business with a non-technical founder/CEO and am looking for pros and cons for (1) building the software in-house vs (2) outsourcing version 1.0 to a consulting firm.
From ...
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Using US Based SaaS as a European company?
As EU companies are aware, the personal data protection law doesn't allow EU companies to store data in servers located outside of the EU. The only way to do this is for the provider to join the Safe ...
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tax implications of running SAAS
If I am running a SAAS businss and my users are paying me e.g. 10$ per month is there a sales tax liability on it? Who pays that tax and what are the different things to consider.
Does it matter ...
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Trial to paid conversion ratio
Are there any good reference points about trial-to-paid conversion in SAAS world? What factors impact this ratio.
I am looking at streaming rich media for B2C.
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Suggestions for a tool that is equal to LinkedIn + CRM + Email?
We use Google Apps and Highrise. Now, they are both decent tools, the problem is that they do not integrate. Most particularly, keeping GMail contacts in sync with Highrise is a huge problem. Now, add ...
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Best affiliate solution for freemium/free trial web apps? [closed]
Most affiliate solutions are not designed to work with freemium or free trial business models.
Have you seen an affiliate app that can:
Make it simple to manage affiliate relationships
Can ...
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Scaling sales in a SaaS software company
We are a small software company in the Virtual Data sharing and management space. We are looking to scale our buisness quickly and believe our next step would be into the software reseller channel. ...
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Startup equity and cash distribution for a SaaS
I have a SaaS concept that I came up with the idea for and have been developing a business plan and wireframes, user flows for the last 6 months. I'm not ready to shift this to design and development ...
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Can you act as a white-label payment service built on top of a payment processor?
Can a company who has a merchant account act as a white-label "middle-man" between another merchant and a payment processing company like Paypal? For example, a white-label company offers an API into ...
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Selling through VARs and Systems Integrators
We're developing an extension to a commercial open source enterprise software product. Most customers of the product we're extending buy it trough one of its system integration partners.
To reach ...
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Any areas or software missing from the “freelancer” suite?
There are certain aspects of what I like to call the "Freelancer suite," basically tools that are designed specifically with the freelancer or small web team in mind. They basically are: time ...
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what is platform as a service and how does it differ from SaaS development cycle?
i've heard platform as a service....all i know is things like Heroku, which hosts and deploys your apps.
how does PaaS development cycle differ from SaaS ?
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Pricing strategy for SAAS based products
I am looking for any references/case-studies/whitepapers on pricing strategies for SAAS based products. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Mohit
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How to sell to a salesman?
I admit, a little controversial title. But that is how I (as a more technical person) feel the task that is ahead of me for which I would appreciate the kind advice of the onstartup community.
I ...
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Licensing. How to for a SaaS
We are currently developing a SaaS based software service and offer it to our customers as a monthly/yearly contract basis.
So in essence, they will pay us to host/maintain their stuff on our ...
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What's the best way to find/evaluate a Marketing co-founder?
As a follow-on to my last question What is the ideal mix of founders for a SaaS startup? it seems that a Marketeer is important to a SaaS startup. I think it's fairly easy to find and evaluate ...
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How can I find a software developer who can build a SaaS product idea?
I have a great idea for a SaaS product but all my knowledge is in the subject matter not technology. If my social network doesn't have any good contacts how can I find someone trustworthy to work ...
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Don't understand why simple-looking SaaS are getting so much funding
It's tough to believe something as simple as bit.ly can have large corporate clients.
It makes you wonder, after all those days developing games or web apps, is perceived simplicity of usage and ...
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Multiple Currency Management for SaaS Payments
We'll soon exit the beta stage and start charging for our SaaS solution.
We're based in Italy so we work in Euros. We think we should also offer the solution in US Dollars, however we find it hard to ...
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Training courses via email
We are going to have different training courses delivered via email with each session a day. A user can come to the site and select lets say Course A that can start either from the same day or next ...
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Cloud based email platform [closed]
What the the cloud based email platform available that provides message scheduling and queuing feature? Something similar to Sendgrid but also with message scheduling and queuing for transactional ...
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CRM with Customer Portal
I am looking for a Customer Relationship Management program that also allows the customer to create or edit orders. There are many different CRMs but info@hand is the only one I was able to find ...
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How can I find someone who is well versed and can consult on all of the technologies available today for building a SaaS project?
I am working with a User Experience/Information Architecture professional who is not a techie. We are at a point where we need to make some decisions that will be based on the specific programming ...
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Why is my php script & desktop software download store outdoing revenue of my SaaS startup?
SaaS startup took way longer time, money and effort to create than my old online store which sells 1 very small php script and desktop software that is in the same market niche as the Saas.
I spent ...
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No-touch sign up security risk?
Hello Everyone:
My SaaS startup is considering implementing a new sign-up procedure, but we're worried about security and false accounts.
Current Method:
Prospect fills out free trial form
We get an ...
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Where can I find a good example of a product roadmap?
I'm looking for a published roadmap for a web application that is still close to the minimum viable product. Ideally on a site that is also using uservoice
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Founding a startup while at school
I'm a Software Engineering student, have lots of ideas and read technology/startup blogs like a maniac. I've been developing web applications and websites for many years and was looking forward to ...
