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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

Bai Xue believed in the internet – and in 2003 she did the unthinkable: she quit a secure and well-paid job at Panasonic to join the startup movement. In 2016, she moved to Hong Kong to head Innovation at HSBC. It’s SAP’s innovation university and community, united around the company’s commitment to sustainable development.

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How Healthy is the SaaS IPO Market?

Tom Tunguz

Salesforce’s initial public offering in 2003 demarcated the beginning of a new era, the era of Software as a Service. In the 13 years that followed, many startups have followed their path to build innovative software that has transformed their respective industries and sectors. In 2003, Salesforce kicked things off.

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Reading list: Platforms, ecosystems, and partnerships

Intercom, Inc.

You’re no longer bound by the innovation velocity that you might be able to deliver to the market; you’re actually compounding that value because everyone else can go out and build on top of the data that you have.” And that creates a discontinuous leverage effect within the ecosystem.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

SaaStock

Ceyuan Ventures selects entrepreneurs who show promise in crafting leading technologies, backed by powerful teams and innovation. It finances innovative tech companies across the globe, supporting them also via the Group’s resources and knowhow. Founded: 2003. Vietnam Innovative Startup Accelerator. Founded: 2004.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Salesforce AppExchange: Celebrating 10 Years of Innovation and Growth from Salesforce. Salesforce figured out in 2003 that just having the list of partners on our site that integrated with customers wasn’t enough; we needed to facilitate the discovery, the ranking and the promotion of community advocacy around these solutions.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

From PLG innovator at $30m ARR t o a top SLG+PLG leader at $1B in ARR. In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003. We started development in early 2004. Having one search box that searches across all of your systems is incredibly valuable.

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Holiday Specials: 2023 Cyber Weekend SaaS and Software Deals

FastSpring

We pride ourselves on our expertise in professional presentation creation and design and on our longstanding commitment towards fostering creative innovation, generating high-quality products, and maintaining uniqueness.” SyncBack, our class leading backup software, was first released in 2003. Deal: “ 50% off everything.