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But 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
by james-revisoai 3y ago
But 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.