SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. Growing at the same pace, a report from BetterCloud had anticipated that 73% of the organizations will have all SaaS apps by 2020. And the result is visible!

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Recorded Future is a leading universal threat intelligence solution that arms enterprises’ security teams with all the tools they need. Founded: 2008. Based in: New York. Founded: 2015.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. Found in 2015 by Vijay Yalamanchili, Keka, Keka is an HR and payroll management software designed for modern organizations. The word Keka is a slang word in Telugu (founder’s native language) that translates to Perfect – how the software is. IBSFintech.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay CEO Bill Clerico and COO Tina Hsiao discuss how the company went from launch to acquisition. WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Tina Hsiao : Awesome.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. It is if you took LinkedIn, combined it with the app platform from Salesforce, and looked at the domain, which is supply chains. Third parties are developing apps for our platform.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

8 Smart tactics for your SaaS customer acquisition strategy. In order for this model to work, both your product and your customer acquisition strategy need to be absolutely frictionless. Thanks to the higher priced products, SaaS startups that choose the transactional model have more money to spend on customer acquisition.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Recorded Future is a leading universal threat intelligence solution that arms enterprises’ security teams with all the tools they need. Founded: 2008. Based in: New York. Founded: 2015.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

In terms of starting Tipalti, I sold another company in the telecommunication space in 2008. Well-established where a board member of that ventral customer told them to explore that larger company if they want to look at the solution. We’re building an ADSL system, way back when, 96. They are one of the levers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So I worked for Jason Lemkin for about six years, half of which was EchoSign and the other half of which was Adobe post acquisition. Don’t just check the box because the retained search firm wants to get the second half of their payment. And then the next morning you wake up and you’re thinking about solutions.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

How does Krish think your customer acquisition and GTM strategy has to change with the movement from SMB to enterprise? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Billion acquisition is just one milestone in the early innings of the company’s story. Does it have to be in person?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. Did anti-virus and anti-spam and the cloud. ” No.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium: It’s About Acquisition, Not Revenue. However, freemium is a really potent acquisition model. There are costs and benefits to the model — is the acquisition cost worthwhile for your company? It should get you started on thinking about freemium mechanics in your own software.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

Although the San Jose-based company has always been a leader in developing world-class creative software like Photoshop and Illustrator, its go-to-market model (licensing boxed software) eventually slowed it down. Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Freemium acquisition built a huge base of users who are monetized through ads. Another 21% were only using the product one or a few times per week, which makes us think that usage is probably correlated to payment (Spotify has 70M paid users and approximately 3X that many free users).

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor. How did seeing the boom and bust of the dot com and 2008 affect Dave’s operating mentality? Who decides this? Missed the session?

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The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

Listen to those who have gone through the mega crises of 2001 and 2008 as entrepreneurs or investors. In times of frozen budgets for investments in non essencial software and innovation, acquisition cost will exeed rational, affordable levels. Some customers may reconsider churing if you offered them tailored payment schedules.

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The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

Listen to those who have gone through the mega crises of 2001 and 2008 as entrepreneurs or investors. In times of frozen budgets for investments in non essencial software and innovation, acquisition cost will exeed rational, affordable levels. Some customers may reconsider churing if you offered them tailored payment schedules.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

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