







How to build a SaaS financial model you'll actually use: operating model, revenue forecast, hiring plan, scenarios, and forecast vs actuals.
SaaS business model: How do SaaS businesses work? | Stripe
Why is SaaS taking over the world? Learn about the SaaS business model, why SaaS businesses work, and how to grow them.

Financial Modeling for Startups: An Introduction | Fivecast Financial
Founders and executives of new companies, particularly those seeking to raise capital, will inevitably be confronted with the prospect of building a financial model. The goal of this guide is to give you an idea of what a financial model is, why you might want one, and how to go about building one.
How to Set Up SaaS Expense Categories for Accurate Metrics
Proper expense categorization improves your visibility into your SaaS company’s spending while enabling more accurate metrics and forecasting. After all, as a startup founder, you want to have a solid idea of what your true gross margins are and what it actually costs to acquire a customer!

SaaS Pricing Models & How They Affect Valuation
Even if people haven’t heard of software as a service (SaaS), chances are they have used one. That’s what makes SaaS such a powerhouse in the world of digital assets. The SaaS business model relies on recurring subscriptions for its income. Subscribers pay to essentially lease software that is hosted in the cloud. This means there are no […]

12 Best Startup Financial Model Templates [Free & Paid]
Need a financial model for your startup? Fear not. I have extensively compared the top 12 templates, free and paid, so you don't have to do it.

SaaS vs Open Core Software:\ An Introduction
SaaS vs Open Core Software:\ An Introduction

Business Model Pattern List |
Discover powerful business model patterns by iconic firms and learn how you can leverage them for new insights for your own business model innovation initiatives.
How we manage plans & features in our monitoring SaaS app
This is how we manage what a user can do and see on their account and plan in our active monitoring SaaS app.
A Simple Sales Methodology for B2B SaaS Startups
*New* A Simple Sales Methodology for B2B SaaS Startups Updated Jan 2023 Introduction In the early stages of most B2B SaaS startups life, it is often the CEO or Founder who acts as the initial Head of …

The Best SaaS Landing page examples I’ve seen (+ their secrets for conversion)
SaaS Landing page inspiration is usually "pretty" but not conversion/result driven so in this article, I compiled the best SaaS Landing pages examples I've seen and broke-down their secrets for conversions!

What Is a Financial Model? (Modeling Part 1) — Troy Henikoff
This series is the result of a friendly debate I had recently with Troy Henikoff (former Techstars Chicago Accelerator Managing Director) regarding the best...
Revenue Models (2026): 19 Different Ways to Make Money [B2B & B2C] - Gust de Backer
So many different revenue models... But, which one fits your business? Over the past few decades, many new revenue models have proven to be profitable. That's why I'm going to show you 16 different revenue models so you can evaluate if there might be a better way to monetize the value you deliver to your customer. Let's start... What is…

The SaaS Org Chart
You've raised a new funding round. You need to staff up. Here's what that looks like.

Principles of Pricing | SaaS Pricing Strategy Frameworks
Practical frameworks to build a best-in-class pricing strategy for B2B SaaS and Cloud businesses: packaging, price metrics, price levels and more.
Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS
Here are some lessons learned from building and growing an open source SaaS startup in the highly competitive web analytics market.

Business Model Innovation - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics