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A Look Back: “SaaS Metrics Masterclass: Key Business Metrics, Pricing Strategies and Billing Models with Stripe’s Head of France and Southern Europe, Guillaume Princen” (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. When Patrick and John in 2010 were at Y Combinator and spend their days doing office hours with the whole Y Combinator and a little water in the valley.

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Using Product Led Growth as an Indicator for Investment w/OpenView Venture Partner, Ashley Smith (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Congratulations you’ve built a product that’s proven itself in the marketplace! At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. Self-service freemium to feed the funnel.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

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. And then, it’s a two-sided marketplace, so we’ve got subscriber companies that we provide support for the open source that they use. Keep it, keep, keep, keep it.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in the US

SmartKarrot

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.

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11 Disruptive Innovation Examples (And Why Uber and Tesla Don’t Make the Cut)

OpenView Labs

Our culture is fascinated with underdogs and overnight successes— companies, products, or services that seem to rise out of nowhere and completely change their respective industries. But these established companies drive what’s called “sustaining innovations,” which are modifications and improvements on existing services.