Running a SaaS Business
A practical operating course for building, managing, and growing a subscription software company
Running a SaaS Business is a practical operating course for building, managing, and growing a subscription software company. This course helps students understand how SaaS companies create value, generate recurring revenue, retain customers, and make better Business decisions using evidence, metrics, and operating discipline.
Build And Grow A Stronger SaaS Business
- Learn how SaaS Business models work, from positioning and subscription mechanics to value creation and revenue capture.
- Develop practical skills for pricing, packaging, acquisition, onboarding, retention, and customer success.
- Use core SaaS metrics such as MRR, ARR, churn, NRR, CAC, LTV, and payback to diagnose performance and guide decisions.
- Build an operating mindset for Running a SaaS Business with better forecasting, team alignment, and responsible scaling.
A practical operating course for building, managing, and growing a subscription software company.
This course gives students a complete view of how a SaaS Business operates across product, market, pricing, growth, customer experience, finance, and scale. Instead of focusing only on startup ideas or software features, it teaches the systems needed to turn a subscription product into a durable Business.
Students will learn how to choose a market, define a clear customer segment, position a SaaS product, and validate product-market fit with real evidence. The lessons also cover recurring revenue models, contracts, subscription mechanics, pricing strategy, packaging, add-ons, trials, freemium, and self-serve conversion.
The course also explains how growth and retention work together in a healthy SaaS company. Students will study acquisition funnels, sales-led motions, demos, qualification, onboarding, activation, customer success, support operations, feedback loops, and service quality so they can improve both conversion and long-term customer value.
By the end of Running a SaaS Business, students will be able to evaluate SaaS performance with confidence, forecast revenue and cash flow, understand runway, structure teams, set an operating cadence, and make stronger strategic tradeoffs. They will leave with a practical Business framework for managing SaaS growth with more clarity, discipline, and measurable results.
Full lesson breakdown
Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.
SaaS Foundations
3 lessons
Product and Market Fit
2 lessons
Pricing and Packaging
2 lessons
Growth Systems
3 lessons
Customer Journey
3 lessons
Metrics and Economics
2 lessons
Finance and Operations
2 lessons
Scaling the Business
1 lesson
Professor Amanda Davis
Professor Amanda Davis guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.