SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky. Good to be here.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Fresco Capital focuses on businesses developing new solutions in the enterprise, education, infrastructure, healthcare, consumer goods and entertainment. SaaS Investments: Consilium Software, HRBoss, and others. GIC manages a diverse portfolio, including investments in high growth tech businesses. Founded: 2008.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 4, 2011

was founded in 2008 by two extremely sharp students of the Cracow University of Science and Technology who wanted to build a simple, easy-to-use, web-based invoicing and billing application for small businesses in Poland. Propertybase, based in Munich, offers a simple-to-use yet powerful software solution (do you see a pattern here?)

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Neil Patel

JULY 12, 2021

But marketing automation tools make your job a little more painless, so you and your team can focus your time and attention on other efforts that drive revenue. lets you send targeted messages to your customers that you can craft based on how they interact with your business. What is Marketing Automation?

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

This allows anyone building an app that applies blockchain technology to do so by building directly on top of QuikNode’s globally distributed Web3 infrastructure. While blockchain technology was spearheaded by Bitcoin starting from 2008, using the technology for other applications became popularized around 2017. Table of Contents.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

That’s the amount of non-cash payments made in the U.S. Even if you’re not in the financial industry, you’ll need a payment processor or payment service provider (PSP) to start generating revenue, which means you’ll need to either have a proper risk management framework in place—or work with a PSP that has one.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

At Traction Conference, an event all about how to keep and grow customers and revenue at scale, I explained how to build onboarding based on your customers’ goals, and why when your product improves, your onboarding must improve with it. I’ve been working with my co-founders since 2007-2008.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

And, it released an algorithmic update, in July, 2014, to favor local businesses for neighborhood-focused mobile device queries. While there are local guide Android app platforms released, in this article, I’ll particularly focus on Google Maps marketing paying attention to the mapping app in an iPhone and iPad as well as any Android device.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2020

Did you notice that I didn’t mention “revenue growth” as a priority right now? For most organizations, revenue growth has become a “nice-to-have.” If your messaging includes helping companies achieve or maximize revenue growth, take it out. In 2008, we chose “aerospace” and won three massive customers.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Here’s a simple example of what it looks like (alongside HTML, in this case): The reason PHP is so popular is because it operates server-side, which means it’s already embedded in HTML so it’s simple, efficient, and forgiving. In 2008, Google stated they can (and do) crawl dynamic URLs. Is PHP a Frontend or Backend Language?

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In May 2008, I graduated college — with 1.56 million of my peers — directly into the 2008 recession. Basically: Today’s economic climate looks very different from 2008. Signs of recession we’re seeing now vs. 2008. Clients canceling events, reducing spend, and failing to make payments. Meet the experts.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 10, 2020

This is where the superhero called recurring revenue comes in and saves the day. The last time the world had an economic meltdown was 2008-09 during the subprime crisis. your internal chat platform and f. So, a CSM never has to leave the platform to perform daily tasks. But is customer success ready for covid-19?

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 9, 2019

For over a decade, I’ve been doing business as a Whale Hunter. As an enterprise account consultant, I’ve consulted with hundreds of small and midsize companies (most in the range of $10m to $150 annual revenue) and trained thousands in how to grow fast by selling big deals into the enterprise market. But you couldn’t be more wrong.

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Nowadays, everyone is after making things “Pinteresty”, and this trend is taking over all the major social media platforms. There are also other platforms, both new and old, emerging as Pinterest alternatives that are also worth checking out. We Heart It 2008 Fabio Giolito 4. FoodGawker 2008 Gawkerverse 5.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 19, 2020

It is no secret that customer churn hits recurring revenue businesses hard, but what’s its real impact on their long-term health and valuation? To answer that and more, we invited SaaS Capital’s Managing Director, Rob Belcher, and Software Equity Group’s Managing Director, Allen Cinzori, to join us for a webinar. Q&A Recap.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Reduce upfront/adoption costs and offer flexible payment terms. And often the only thing standing between a deal and no deal is the financing or payment terms. Sometimes all that was needed to close the deal was allowing them to make most of the payments in the next fiscal year, with just a small down payment when the work started.

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Chargify

JANUARY 25, 2018

Widely recognized as the industry leading WordPress form solution, Gravity Forms made an inspiring rise to success in the last several years. At the time (around 2008), there really wasn’t an easy solution for adding a form to a WordPress site. Gravity Forms was the result. Gravity Forms went live for customers in 2009.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M They had built a highly profitable business that was generally adored by its customers. Buffer was so hot at the time - revenues were growing 150% per year - that the terms they got for their Series A were insanely good.

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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

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Founded: 2008. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Based in: New York.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. A report from Bain & Company predicted that “Indian SaaS companies will reach $30 billion in revenue by the year 2025”. Found in 2015 by Vijay Yalamanchili, Keka, Keka is an HR and payroll management software designed for modern organizations.

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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. Just like Salesforce, we have a platform.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. They process billions annually for platforms like Constant Contact, GoFundMe, Ecwid, Infusionsoft, Meetup, Freshbooks & Zoho. And Jay was sort of our solution to that process.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Collibra provides a cross-organizational data governance and catalog platform that helps companies maximize the value of their data. Founded: 2008. Kustomer ’s customer management platform combines data from various sources and allows companies to offer an intelligent, powerful and flexible service. Based in: New York.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

When you’re looking to generate significant revenue as a newbie in the SaaS market, your product prices shouldn’t go above $5000. For a SaaS company (and almost any business), both success and failure depend on decisions that founders make: team members, target groups, product functionality, and of course business model.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

358: Chen Amit is the Founder & CEO @ Tipalti, the only global payable automation platform that scales with you and now remitting $5Bn annually across 3M suppliers. How does Chen think about aligning revenue scale to your customers? Chen Amit: But, all the rest of my career was starting new businesses. How can this be done?

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

We woke up February 2020 with a shock to the system and no idea what it would mean for our business. So we had a shock to the system with no idea what it actually meant. Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP. In revenue, the US government takes in 3.5

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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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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So if you need to wait longer, if you need to prepare your board for a longer process, don’t just check the box because the board told you to. Don’t just check the box because the retained search firm wants to get the second half of their payment. You may have been at Box in 2006 or LinkedIn in 2008.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. 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

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Product led businesses need to get their products in the hands of would-be users as efficiently as possible–hopefully at near zero CAC. Not satisfied with reaching $1 billion in annual revenue, Atlassian furthered its commitment to product led growth by jumping on the freemium bandwagon. 10 Questions To Answer. Freemium benchmarks.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 5, 2023

Open Market Operations: This involves buying and selling government securities to influence the amount of money in the banking system. For example, when the central bank buys government securities, it pays with money that it essentially creates, increasing the amount of money in the banking system. Taxes are straightforward.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Freemium acquisition built a huge base of users who are monetized through ads. There are additional revenue opportunities outside of music streaming and discovery that can convert these users but will require Spotify to move away from consumerized thinking. Spotify is known as one of the top curators of music and audio content.

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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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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. To date, Eric has raised over $12m for Zylo from some of the best in the business, including Byron @ Bessemer, Salesforce, GGV, Semil @ Haystack, and the team at High Alpha.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. How did seeing the boom and bust of the dot com and 2008 affect Dave’s operating mentality? Here’s what Elisa talks about: How to win Talentshare when the system is stacked against you.

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Stax

MARCH 11, 2025

Customers in this age of instant gratification always expect a smooth and seamless online payments experience. As a business owner, you must have a clear understanding of how online payments processing works to be able to create a hassle-free checkout process that will keep buyers coming back to your eCommerce store.

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