SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

Software businesses, for the most part, require heads to grow a business through sales reps or customer support. Bravado network is like LinkedIn for sales reps, where you can survey different sales professionals on their work. In 2009, that spiked to 35%. Not having those people in place also leads to profitability.

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Venture Capital Management Scale AI 300

SaaStr

MAY 15, 2019

He moved the company to San Francisco in 2009. PagerDuty was founded in 2009 and recently began trading on the NYSE under ticker symbol $PD this April, seeing a whopping 50% pop in the stock right at open. You may have heard of a few of their customers: American Eagle, IBM Cloud, Instacart, Netflix, Paypal, and Gap just to name a few.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

million times since 2009 and is available for free here. #3 BirchPress is a reliable WordPress booking plugin that works great if you want to capture PayPal and credit card payments hassle-free. Are you booking online sales calls with prospective customers? Booking Calendar has been downloaded over 1.75

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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. Popular mobile payment solutions include Square, PayPal Here, and Shopify POS.

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Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! Android followed after, and that really, late 2009, early 2010, that suddenly changed. It’s about scale and revenue.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business? We really wanted to simplify supply chains.

Payment Solutions 175

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 175

Kellblog

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Former Redpoint VC Tomasz Tunguz pointed out that product-led growth (PLG) firms are less profitable than sales-led growth firms, poking a hole in the “product sells itself” myth, and clouding dreams of liberation from costly S&M departments. I think PLG momentum built — and peaked — in 2022. Caveat emptor.

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Software Review Development Team Review Underperforming Technical Team Scale 136