SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

Duo Security, now a part of Cisco, is a provider of unified access security and multi-factor authentication delivered via the cloud. Adaptive Insights is a cloud-based platform for modernizing business planning. From 2004-2009 he was a partner at Greylock. The Ann Arbor, Michigan based company was acquired for $2.35B in cash.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

DST Global is a global investor in growth internet businesses, founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner. Founded: 2009. It’s also running the Capital Innovation Accelerator Fund targeted at cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile and e-commerce startups. Size of fund: $1.7B. Stage: Late Stage. Founded: 1959. Size of fund: N/A.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

“I was working for Salesforce in 2009 when I decided to start Okta, an identity management company that connects people with any application on any device. Many people, including my wife, told me I was crazy; the economy was in a downturn, and many skeptics doubted cloud computing had a real future.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

When I invested in FreeAgent in early 2009, I found the value of an online accounting solution SO compelling that I naively believed every small business in the UK would just have to adopt online accounting. And when we look beyond North America, global cloud maturity rates vary widely, too.” Who will leapfrog the pre-AI Cloud?

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 10, 2011

Bringing the healthcare industry, which at least in Germany is pretty old-school and bureaucracy-ridden, into the Cloud age is a very tough nut to crack but there's a huge reward for the company that pulls that off. After a slow-ish start in 2008 and 2009, samedi started to take off in 2010.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In fact, it’s twice as costly to operate a startup in 2014 as it was in 2009. The cost savings startups achieve from cloud computing infrastructure or other technology cost reductions are dwarfed by the steady cost increases of labor in particular. It’s becoming more and more expensive to scale a startup in San Francisco.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

Coupa CEO, Rob Bernshteyn, and SaaStr CEO, Jason Lemkin, will discuss how the Cloud has changed in 2020. We were actually built out of a bank called Live Oak Bank and Live Oak Bank was founded in 2009 and they had a need for a completely digital bank. This episode is sponsored by Guideline.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

With all the talk about the decreasing costs to start a company because of the cloud and elastic computing, why are today’s small companies less profitable and ultimately far less successful in the public markets? The fraction of small IPOs with negative EBITDA has doubled to nearly 90% in about 30 years. Small IPOs. . Large IPOs. .

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SaaStr

JULY 16, 2019

But, the fundraising in 2008, 2009 was pretty difficult. In 2009, we raised a million dollars in 2009 and used that to get some early traction with customers. In 2009, we raised a million dollars in 2009 and used that to get some early traction with customers. We were able to raise Angel Funds.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 14, 2020

But cost pressures from the recession of 2009 forced the company to ask for a renegotiation with its provider. They identified a chance to move from a health plan provider’s data center into one that was offshore and utilized the cloud. Health plan provider prepares their team to renegotiate. The response?

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OpenView Labs

JULY 21, 2021

Behind The Cloud by Marc Benioff (Published 2009). From the cover to the title, Behind the Cloud is set up to be a perfect runway read. For that audience, Lencioni has written a how-to manual on building a cohesive team and a self-help book on communicating as one.

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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 that’s going to require solutions that are cloud based that you can spin up in a matter of days or weeks versus a matter of months or years. So a lot of lessons that can be taken from there as well.

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Teamgate

DECEMBER 20, 2019

in 2009 to about 52.2% The majority of the popular CRM solutions of today are discharged as cloud-based solutions. According to statistics from Oberlo , there has been a meteoric rise in the proportion of internet traffic coming from mobile devices. in 2018, as seen in the chart below. . year-year growth rate.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

They have service and all this, but the second cloud for them was sales. I mean, most of you weren’t founders in 2008, 2009, that… It was so bad in 2008 or nine, I can’t remember what, I’m sitting at an early SaaS corporate banking event at Pebble Beach on a beautiful day having wine with investment bankers or VCs.

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The SaaS Garage

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Prime Cloud Loyalty Platform Enables State-Of-The-Art Loyalty Programs. In addition to Prime Cloud’s rich feature-set, clients also benefit from Loyalty Prime’s extensive customer loyalty consulting expertise.

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Unbounce

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Google introduced the first extension—sitelinks—way back in 2009. Cloud Automation, Advanced Security, Easy-To-Use Data Browser). The third headline also gives you an extra thirty characters of highlighted blue text at the top of your ad. Ad Extensions. Ad extensions are optional snippets of text that users can append to their ads.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 23, 2020

Our friends over at Zuora , the pros in cloud-based technology for subscription businesses, have teamed up with Kia Motors America to create connected car subscriptions. And finally, a look at growth in these turbulent times with Patrick Campbell and Brian Balfour. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news.

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BetterCloud

APRIL 15, 2020

AWS was launched in 2006, and the term “DevOps” was first used in 2009. The normal progression of people joining orgs comes with the addition of other cloud-based tools. Fatunla: Sunrun has always been a cloud-first company. Whiteaker: We do have a decent cloud presence, but also a traditional on-prem data center footprint.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It’s going to change how everyone thinks about cloud and SaaS for ever. And then I convinced him to come back in 2009, and the rest is history. I mean, I’ll just tell you from 2009, ’10 and ’11, every year we waited, our valuation went up $100 million back then. We’re just getting started.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 19, 2019

Revenue’s grown steadily since the company’s founding in 2009, so it looks like PagerDuty is a safe bet for its backers, which includes big wigs like Bessemer Venture Partners and Accel. If you’re looking for a solution that keeps your cloud-based apps under one roof, we recommend Slapdash. Product of the Day.

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

When I started my career in 2009, most applications I used for work were installed locally on my computer (If you’re curious, I’m pretty sure that machine was a Dell Optiplex 780 , which felt luxurious at the time). But as enterprises and startups move to the cloud en masse, new threats enter the picture on a daily basis.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 1, 2018

Unlike landlines that charge a high monthly fee for each handset, most VoIP solutions are cloud-based. Nextiva’s basic cloud phone system starts at $19.95 Accredited with the Better Business Bureau since 2009, 8×8 has an A+ rating but no positive reviews. 3) Cost savings. A low monthly fee covers a wide range of features.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It’s amazing what the efficiencies and the low costs of the cloud can allow you to do as far as industry specialization. We were profitable by 2009. Just as an example, at Battery we invested in a company called Bright Tree, which is outside of Atlanta, which makes software for the home health care market.

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Panintelligence

JULY 22, 2024

Cloud Computing: Enables scalable, cost-effective financial services with global accessibility. Cloud computing allows Fintech companies to quickly adapt, deploy new services, and scale operations without significant upfront investments, reducing costs and enhancing innovation.

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Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

Mobile credit card processing first came on the scene when Square released its original mobile credit card reader in 2009 and by the early 2010s, it had become a common method of accepting payments for small businesses. These basic data points will help you gain a better understanding of your business and make more informed decisions.

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How To Buy Saas

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

It was the first CRM tool that was based on the cloud and can be used with a monthly subscription model of payments. Salesforce has consistently been on the leader side of an enterprise CRM business. It is easily adaptable and saleable for large size businesses. Social CRM Market Leader: Nimble.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The number of apps created by independent developers was steadily growing, so in 2009 the Atlassian Plugin Exchange was born, which evolved into Atlassian Marketplace by 2012. The Future Is the Cloud for Atlassian and the Ecosystem.

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How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Besides bulk messaging, Sendwo caters to your needs with a wide range of features like automated responses, chatbots, bulk contact list export, message scheduling, multiple accounts, cloud import, and more! Then ActiveCampaign is a perfect pick! You must try Sendwo as it is one of the best small business marketing tools.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. Think about the ascendancy of the cloud in terms of technology environments.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

10Clouds Rate: $50 – $99 / hr Employees: 50 – 249 Founded: 2009 This IT service provider from Poland, with offices in Warszawa, Poznan, and Wroclaw, is one of the most popular offshore development options for Western European and North American businesses. 10Clouds received an impressive number of accolades from Clutch in 2023.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

Our job was to convince bankers and the like that putting documents into the cloud was a safe, reliable, and expeditious way to get everyone involved in a sensitive financial transaction access to documents. From 2000 to 2009, the company grew 40% to 60% year over year. We had an IPO in 2010.

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How To Buy Saas

APRIL 14, 2022

Starting off as early as 2009, with a view to making Email Marketing easy and Pocket friendly; Sendinblue soon entered the race of market leaders, providing Email Marketing solutions as their USP and other features ranging from CRM, Marketing Automation, Transactional Emails, SMS, Landing Pages, and Facebook ads. What is Sendinblue?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Take control with the DocuSign agreement cloud, a suite of tools that automates sales contracts and quotes ,all right in your CRM. She worked at HubSpot from 2009 to 2015 and was part of the enterprise scale up from 2011 through the IPO in 2014. One of them’s brand new. It’s a company that everybody’s heard about — DocuSign.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

While at Microsoft, much of my time was focused on then-emerging cloud technologies. I co-authored a couple of books about modern identity management, which we published in 2009 and 2011. I joined the company in the country where I was born—Argentina—but later came to the Redmond headquarters in Washington.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In 2009, we did more than twice that - it was like $2.5mm. So it was like, "OK why don't we divert our attention away from this broader use case and let's just focus on self-service," and it was Steve my Co-founder that was like "OK, well let's sharpen up the feature set and by the way we're going to do it in the cloud."

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 22, 2024

According to Gartner , over 70% of enterprises will adopt industry cloud platforms by 2027, up from less than 15% in 2023, highlighting the growing opportunity for SaaS businesses in the coming years. Single Grain – Making SaaS Grow by Focusing on ROI Single Grain is a full-service SaaS digital marketing agency founded in 2009.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

The most triumphant transfer of control from an original generation leader to a new CEO was surely that of Microsoft, which pivoted from chasing after Apple’s success in the consumer space under Steve Ballmer (don’t mention Nokia ) to successfully focusing on the cloud under Satya Nadella (please do mention Azure). Big tech takes over.

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