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The 250,000 Customer Club: How HubSpot and Monday.com Both Created SMB+ Empires

SaaStr

The HubSpot Journey: From Inbound Marketing to Complete CRM+ Platform HubSpot began with an idea in 2006: to own the inbound marketing space. Invest in Community and Education : Building category thought leadership creates a moat around your business that competitors struggle to cross.

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Approaching Half a Million Customers: How to Win in SMB with BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte

SaaStr

In 2006, BILL CEO and Founder René Lacerte set out to define a category around financial operations for small and midsize businesses (SMBs). If we go back to 2006, BILL was a cloud-based company. Needless to say, he succeeded. in revenue. SMB Unit Economics: Why Is 6 Quarters the Right Target for SMBs at Scale?

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My Top 10 Year One SaaS Mistakes. Save Yourself Some Pain & Just Don’t Make Them Yourself.

SaaStr

SaaS eSignature Market: From $1 Million in 2006 to $1 Billion in 2018 to $5 Billion in 2023. Instead of just focusing on hitting the number for this year, and working on the next — a full time job already — I should have found a way to also focus on hitting the numbers for 4 and 10 years out. But it’s not. My 10, FWIW.

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Welcoming our newest board member to Intercom

Intercom, Inc.

She was Google’s Chief People Officer and a member of Google’s executive leadership team for 4.5 years before retiring last year.

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Owning Your Leadership with Jay Nathan

30 Day Leadership

In this week’s episode of The B2B Leadership Podcast , best-selling author and leadership coach Nils Vinje introduces Higher Logic's Chief Customer Officer Jay Nathan. 8:37 — Preparation tactics in addition to curiosity — What kind of preparation tactics are recommended for a leadership position? In this episode.

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Owning Your Leadership with Jay Nathan

30 Day Leadership

In this week’s episode of The B2B Leadership Podcast , best-selling author and leadership coach Nils Vinje introduces Higher Logic's Chief Customer Officer Jay Nathan. 8:37 — Preparation tactics in addition to curiosity — What kind of preparation tactics are recommended for a leadership position? In this episode.

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Benchmarking Netsuite's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

In 2006, according to the company’s S-1, the business shifted from longer term contracts to one year contracts. As the company disclosed in their last annual report , Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, owns 47.4% of Netsuite common stock, implying the company is strategically important to Oracle.