Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

The company has enjoyed almost unparalleled revenue growth from 2004 to 2020 — $8 billion to $2,274 billion. You can implement this same strategy, no matter what niche or industry you’re in and regardless what your business model may be. Apple is one of those brands for me. Almost everything the company puts out succeeds.

Strategy 141

Strategy Marketing Technical Review Social Media 141

Upscope

AUGUST 16, 2021

With over 2 million active podcasts in 2021, and US podcast ad revenue to surpass $2 billion in 2023, the podcasting scene has been on a steady rise since it began gaining traction back in 2004. However, for those that don’t decline, you’ll be able to ask them anything you want.

Interviewing 52

Interviewing Branding Business Model Engineering 52

Upscope

AUGUST 16, 2021

With over 2 million active podcasts in 2021, and US podcast ad revenue to surpass $2 billion in 2023, the podcasting scene has been on a steady rise since it began gaining traction back in 2004. However, for those that don’t decline, you’ll be able to ask them anything you want.

Interviewing 52

Interviewing Branding Business Model Engineering 52

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Adapting to remote work and eschewing business travel has forced a change – the events of the last year has already fundamentally changed how and where we do business. There’s opportunity in change, already this serial entrepreneur is looking at new business models born out of the current situation.

Transportation 183

Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 24, 2021

Gmail – We have been using Gmail since 2004. These reasons are making saas popular among businesses. Why SaaS is the best business model? SAAS is considered to be the best business model because of its recurring revenue growth. With just web browsers, our purpose are solved.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Technical Review SaaS 52

Sales Hacker

AUGUST 1, 2018

Few businesses remain exactly the same over multiple decades. Customer bases increase, workforces double and quadruple, and your business model will evolve. Old-style phone systems don’t meet today’s business demands. RingCentral has an A+ BBB rating with accreditation going back to 2004, plus 29 positive reviews.

Technical Review 68

Technical Review Scale Systems Review Software Review 68

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

You know how many seats your customers are using, how frequently they’re using them, when they churn, what features they’re using and so forth.

Cloud 113

Cloud Scale AWS Artificial Intelligence 113

OpenView Labs

MARCH 24, 2020

If we look at two of the early SaaS companies to go public, Concur (1998) and Salesforce (2004), markets had no idea what to do with them. For this new business model, cash flow became a lagging indicator of success—so the market needed to come up with another way to understand whether these new companies were worth investing in.

Metrics 43

Metrics Scale SaaS Sales Hiring 43

Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

And, of course, we will pay special attention to how their subscription billing models and pricing strategies contributed to their growth. Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shash met in 2004 when they were both graduate students at MIT. Now, without any further ado, let’s see what we can learn from HubSpot… (Image source).

Payment Features 40

Payment Features Subscription Revenue Software Review 40

Outseta

OCTOBER 16, 2017

By Geoff Roberts 20 min read As the SaaS business model has matured over the course of the past decade, it's fair to say that awareness of the importance of the customer success function has escalated dramatically. So it was clear we didn't have that business model. So I went around to the different product teams.

Interviewing 40

Interviewing Customer Success SaaS Scale 40

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

We started development in early 2004. Jason : A lot of things I want to chat about with limited time, but I want to talk about business models, because we’re here about scaling revenue. Slack for Business? It’s maybe two percent laptop and desktop now, and 98 percent mobile.

Scale 363

Scale Sales Hiring PayPal Development Team Review 363

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Unity, founded in 2004, took nearly 5 years of bootstrapping to launch the engine, cultivate a cult following of Mac hobbyist developers, raise venture funding and ascend the curve of relevancy such that studios with real budgets were willing to bet their projects on Unity. Any world our imagination takes us to can be depicted on screens.

Engineering 145

Engineering Technical Review Payments AI 145

Outseta

OCTOBER 12, 2020

But most bootstrappers have to wait quite a long period of time until their business can truly support every last scrap of their attention at work. This is solely a matter of the business model. Dimitris Co-founded Buildium back in 2004. “It That’s a long period of time to wait to shed that nagging feeling! It took us 2.5

Venture Capital 144

Venture Capital Entrepreneurship Scaling SaaS 144

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2 Shopify again has done that from 2004 to 2010 before they started scaling [inaudible].

Scale 165

Scale Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Payment Services 165

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

And in the course of doing that, I think I really discovered and fell in love with SaaS as a business model and it really doubled down on my interest in data analytics. With the business model of SaaS itself, it’s really fundamentally different than the business model of a traditional software licensed maintenance model.

Sales Hiring 162

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale CTO Hire 162