SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. Jeff : Basically, we launched voice in 2008, very end of 2008. You want to give 30 seconds for the two people on the top row? Jeff : Yeah, I saw one. Jason : You saw one?

Scale 306

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Engineering Wireless 306

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Agile Agile software development has been such a success that people now apply the “agile” moniker to a broad range of areas. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness brought the theory worldwide attention back in 2008. This mental model helps teams focus on delivering results, rather than perfection.

Underperforming Technical Team 213

Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

Teamgate

DECEMBER 20, 2019

CRM strategy has also been observed to be commonly used between Business-to-Customers (B2C) and Business-to-Business (B2B) organizations to manage and track various kinds of communication through the internet, mobile software, chat, emails, social media platforms, telephone calls and series of corporate marketing materials. .

Mobile 95

Mobile Strategy Technical Review Artificial Intelligence 95

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 6, 2020

But that sort of transformation doesn’t just happen on its own – it is the culmination of the tireless work and effort of millions of engineers and developers, building new things and overwriting old tools. I continued that journey with more software programming languages like Pearl and Java and so on.

DevOps as a Service 143

DevOps as a Service Government Engineering Technology 143

OPEXEngine

JANUARY 17, 2020

To see how COGs and gross margins are changing, take a look at these charts showing SaaS companies that IPO’ed in 2008 versus 2018. Average COGs in 2008 was 40% of revenue at the time of IPO, and gross margins averaged 60%. with a number of companies at over 80% gross margins.

Outsourcing Services 53

Outsourcing Services Trends Outsourced Development Technical Review 53

User Pilot

JULY 28, 2023

Pros: More insightful, segmented customer feedback An efficient solution for validating an idea quickly Requires no software development process Cons: No insights on real customer behavior Users can easily ignore or miss an email An email MVP can be used to launch a new feature – scheduling social media posts is a similar idea. #3

Marketplace as a Service 96

Marketplace as a Service Social Media Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning 96

FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

Like the iPhone is 2008. Alf Ruppert Yes, it started because I know the very first piece of software we did for Daylite was to connection for phone systems, so that you can push a button and then call out or if somebody’s calling in, you can see which customers calling in. So take me back, like how did how did this project start?

Consulting 78

Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Software 78

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

I realized after three or four weeks that retirement was boring and then set up a gaming software company called Inspire Gaming Group. And that went on to become a monster, I floated it on the London Stock Exchange in 2006, exited it in 2008 for about a half a billion bucks and that brings us up to the latest bunch of companies.

Transportation 183

Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

Kraftblick

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

In the highly competitive market of custom software development, adding a special twist to your appeal may be just what you need to attract potential customers and persuade them to pick your company out of a crowded field. The customer’s pain point: Software developers are awfully expensive. We are cheaper.

Outsourcing Services 45

Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Software Sales Hiring 45

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

If you need a reliable SaaS development company with unmatched JavaScript expertise, Clockwise is the perfect choice. If you need a reliable SaaS development company with unmatched JavaScript expertise, Clockwise is the perfect choice. Also, Clockwise was named among the best Upwork agencies for four years in a row, from 2017 to 2020.

DevOps as a Service 40

DevOps as a Service Development Technical Review Blockchain 40

Kraftblick

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Well, we don’t live in 2008 anymore. The studies of Wordstream , a successful PPC software developers’ agency, show that the world has turned upside-down in terms of clicks on paid search results. Selina winds hands down. SEO is the best bet. Forget about PPC. It’s too expensive anyway. Enquisite went out of business.

Sales Hiring 52

Sales Hiring Advertising SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 52

Outseta

OCTOBER 31, 2018

LiveChat Software has 21,000 customers and was founded back in 2002. SnapEngage was founded in 2008, and Olark was founded in 2009. Heck, software review site Capterra has over 238 live chat products listed on their site. ” If we’re being honest with ourselves, I’d argue this similarity is undeniable.

Software Review 42

Software Review Technical Review Sales Hiring Venture Capital 42

SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

The Atlassian Corporation has reached billions in revenue even without an enterprise sales team, all by creating user-friendly software development, team collaboration, project management tools including JIRA and Confluence. SAP has grown two streams of revenue: cloud and software revenue, and services revenue. Customer Support.

SaaS Payments 19

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services Sales Recruiting 19

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

is an Indian software development company headquartered in Chennai. The services provided by Zoho include Zoho CRM, inventory management, mobile application development, project time tracking, collaborative client portal, and more. Capillary Technologies was founded in 2008 by Ajay Modani, Aneesh Reddy, and Krishna Mehra.

SaaS Payments 11

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 10, 2024

They are a full-service content strategy agency with 15+ years of experience in the industry and provide their services to top healthcare, fintech, education, and software development companies. This is why Semrush is one of the most popular small business marketing tools, especially when it comes to SEO.

Social Media 52

Social Media Marketing Business AI Search 52

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Really quickly, I am a software developer and I’d started multiple companies before Twilio. We needed to engage with our customers in clever and creative ways or integrate it with the software we’re building. Every time it happened I would say I’m, I’m a software developer.

Underperforming Technical Team 177

Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 177

SaaStr

MAY 24, 2019

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. In Dec 2008, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Wrike for a deal reportedly valuing the company at $800m.

Sales Hiring 157

Sales Hiring Scale SMB Sales Recruiting 157

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Jack had a background in software development and Rian was working as an IT manager at Gowling, Canada’s largest law firm. Up until this point, Jack and Rian had been dividing up all the tasks between them, including software development, sales, and customer service. The two were looking to launch a startup together.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Scale Sales Hiring Business 40

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Used by millions of companies and software developers across the globe, GitHub is a software development tracking and version control repository. Founded in: 2008. Pluralsight creates and develops digital products that train employees for the digital workplace. Founded in: 2008. Founded in: 2010.

Marketplace as a Service 10

Marketplace as a Service SaaS AWS Cybersecurity 10

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Three Lesser-Known Facts: Before settling on construction software, Couremanche experimented with several other business ideas, including ventures unrelated to construction technology. In the early days of Procore, he personally coded parts of the initial software despite not having formal training as a software developer.

Construction 242

Construction Education Leadership Company Culture 242