In SAS businesses, you get the recurring revenue where customers keep paying over and over again until they say to stop. You can also get lock-in by having customer data on your platform that once they stop paying, all that customer data goes away. Technical innovation is another way to build really strong modes. And we see this often in hard tech and bio companies especially.
One of the most common topics that founders ask us about is pricing and monetization. In this talk, YC Group Partner Aaron Epstein outlines 9 different business models, and highlights lessons from top YC companies on how to best monetize and price your product.
Business Model Guide: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Gh-business-model-guide
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