SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

I remember about three years ago, Marc Benioff gave some interview and he said his biggest regret was not continuing to hire sales professionals through 2009, his number one regret. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? We were wrong.

Sales Hiring 246

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 246

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2018

Both are design partners at GV (launched as Google Ventures in 2009 as the venture capital arm of Alphabet, Inc.), Kate: There is a company that we’ve been working with for just about a year where we’ve actually deployed all of our services – they’ve gotten the full suite of benefits. They had to make their own.

Scale 149

Scale Leadership Scaling Venture Capital 149

SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. Chase Merchant Services that we’re now a part of processes $1.2 Really the last major acquisition they did was in 2008, 2009 when they bought Bear Stearns in Washington Mutual.

Payment Services 182

Payment Services Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 182

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 Marketplace today is a professional app discovery website, generating $300 million in purchases annually. Distributing Midori apps where users live.

Payment Solutions 47

Payment Solutions Outsourcing Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 47

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is one of the transformative services in the modern digital landscape. If you think about catching up with one of the biggest tech trends in recent years, this list will provide you with IT service providers working in different industries, with different tech stacks, and from different countries.

DevOps as a Service 40

DevOps as a Service Development Technical Review Blockchain 40

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. Adnan Chaudhry: One of the guiding principles that helped me personally, I was here as Matt mentioned, I was here at Salesforce in 2008, 2009. That visualization, we’ve just opened up the marketplace.

Sales Hiring 216

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services 216

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The best products, services, and ideas are nothing without a way to turn them into currency, and sellers are a big part of making commerce happen. Cassie spent the first pre-SaaS chapter of her tech career in growth roles in subscription and marketplace businesses (TheLadders.com, GLG). Anita Nielsen. Anne Slough. Beth Sunshine.

Scale 137

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 137

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Michelle started the company during an economic downturn in 2009. So, our products and services are around how can we help companies utilize open source more effectively, more securely, more responsibly, as well as contribute. ” At what point do you think professional services becomes too heavy weighted on the revenue front?

Sales Hiring 264

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Review Outsourcing Services 264

SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Why does Eric believe that the bar for execution in SaaS in 2019 is so much higher than in 2009? In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. What needs to change? How does one create and retain accountability and ownership at scale? * What has changed? What is it?

Sales Hiring 168

Sales Hiring Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting 168

SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

I didn’t take it very seriously and I sort of got my break in 2009. There was the product and the service, which I just completely believed in. I went into med device sales, but I really, candidly, wasn’t very good. I was average to below average. I was pretty immature. ” ZocDoc was just nine people deep.

Scale 207

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Interviewing 207

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

Marketplace as a Service 189

Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

SaaS – Software-as-a-Service – is an umbrella term referring to a range of technologies and tools that facilitate the processing, storage, and management of big data using remote servers. The US market has high demand and supply of SaaS service providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses.

Marketplace as a Service 10

Marketplace as a Service SaaS AWS Cybersecurity 10

Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

The Wikipedia contributors define product innovation as “the creation and subsequent introduction of a good or service that is either new, or an improved version of previous goods or services.”. This is the classic marketplace model, but it isn’t exclusive to marketplace models. And how does it play out in real life?

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Innovation Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments 105

How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 21, 2025

Warrior Forum A digital marketing forum and marketplace known as the world’s largest community for internet marketing. Year Founded 2009 Founder Adam D’Angelo Charlie Cheever Headquarters Mountain View, California, United States Company Size 201-500 employees 2. Company Size 2-10 employees 9.

Social Media 52

Social Media Business Marketplace as a Service Advertising 52