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 would be a fair equity distribution between me and my co-founder?
Me (software developer) and my co-founder (UI designer) are looking forward to build a SaaS startup. I would usually lean towards a 50/50 distribution, but in this particular scenario, the ...
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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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To Freemium or not to Freemium?
There are numerous examples of SaaS products stuck with lots of users and few paying customers. The common advice is not to give away too much in the free plan and always be upselling. The best ...
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Have the ideas, found the niche…what to do first?
I have found two completely seaprate niches, and identified the target markets for them both. I have comprehensive ideas and details on how the applications should work. I have a developer that I ...
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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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Marketing Education ERP with partners
We have an ERP product that is targeted at schools, colleges, small & large institutes.
We are looking to sell this product online with SaaS model.
The product is ready and we are now looking ...
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Selling my SaaS: been offered $500k plus 3-year management contract. How should I respond?
My husband and I built a niche SaaS over the past 12 years...it was an idea way ahead of its time that is now catching on and attracting attention. For school districts, so our addressable market is ...
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Should SAAS have tiered pricing for different countries?
For a start-up providing a web-app to customers on a subscription basis, do you think that the benefits of different geographic pricing outweigh the downside?
My rationale is that while North America ...
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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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How do I structure a payment plan for my website?
I plan on making my website a paid one and have a question about structuring the payment plan. Think of the website as an ecommerce site selling very low ticketed items (as low as $0.05). Since ...
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How do you choose the base currency for online and mostly international sales?
We are about to launch a website offering products. My "gut" feeling is that a good proportion of our customers will be based in the US. We are currently based in the UK, though that is likely to ...
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Cloud-based accounting software [closed]
I am in the process of starting a business. The nature of the business is Photography (weddings, etc.). What would be a good accounting software solution (preferably cloud-based or SaaS)?
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Need business advice on growing SaaS business
Sorry for the long question, but I promise it's a good read as it includes a challenging topic on growing a bootstrapped business, which I imagine applies to many of you as well. I look forward to ...
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What is standard marketing practice for a niche SAAS product?
My product solves a known problem for a specific industry and I am wondering how best to sell this. Eventhough it is a SAAS based product, our leads won't come online to search for this type of ...
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Android Market and SaaS. Is there problem?
I'm working on industry specific software. Basic idea is that I have big fat server somewhere, some web app. and mobile clients.
Now I started to think about legal parts of this model.
Reading ...
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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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What to do before offering e-services from EU to US?
Planning to export e-services (online services, Internet-based, SaaS) from a EU-based company to the US market, what are key things to consider ?
