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The SaaS term has included B2C companies since the very beginning. There are talks on Youtube as early as 2013 about B2C SaaS companies.
by ad404b8a372f2b9 3y ago
The SaaS term has included B2C companies since the very beginning. There are talks on Youtube as early as 2013 about B2C SaaS companies.
- james-revisoai 3y agoBut why did people go from introducing their startups as "subscription" "freemium" or "B2C" to mostly all saying "SaaS"? I definitely feel this was not the case before 2013... there was a period when SaaS became terminology before it swept up these other terms... I feel it might be like machine learning/AI - ML may be a better phrase for the situation, but people just say AI now as it is trending...
- ajeet_dhaliwal 3y agoThese are all different things. Subscription vs one-time payment (+ maintenance/updates payments) are two ways off offering to pay. Freemium just means offering a free tier to let users try the software and offering a way to upgrade to unlock features on paid plans. B2C vs B2B is business to customer vs business to business. SaaS is software as a service, as opposed to say installing an application on premise in a data center. A startup could be offering a fremium B2C SaaS for example, or a freemium B2B SaaS.
- james-revisoai 3y agoThanks for clarifying. I think I am just misremembering how terms were used because of the cohort of people I was amongst and our focus on business models, perhaps.