Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

Challenges faced by startups during the SaaS installation phase (2000–2010) When you look at the first generation of successful “SaaS first” companies (Salesforce, Zendesk, Workday, Hubspot…), they had to overcome three main challenges to succeed: Market education Infrastructure UI/UX Market education. Infrastructure. Integration.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Exactly 10 years ago today—May 10, 2010—I slinked through office doors that opened to my first day of work at a “real job.” There’s an awful lot of nuance here and the devil is in the details. Musing after a decade spent building SaaS start-ups By Geoff Roberts 20 min read. My whole career, quite literally, lay in front of me.

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Outseta

AUGUST 23, 2017

Let’s start with probably the most familiar scenario - I was working at a tech company, with top tier venture capital investors. Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson, Co-founders of project management software company Basecamp , weighed in on this exact topic in their 2010 book Rework. Planning is guessing.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve been in venture capital for about 20 years, made my first SaaS investment about 18 years ago and have really been focused on this space for a long time. I work at a firm called Shasta Ventures. So in 2010 the expectation was to reach 86 million dollars in revenue by whatever that is, year five.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

Nathan Collier I remember when that was happening because I was I was working at a company right around, you know, or 2010 around that time when that whole like making calls out of your computer tied to a CRM that was pretty new during I mean even I mean, that was after it had already been on the market. And we did this together.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And so when you think back to what was happening, when we start back in 2010, when we were working on this idea in 2009, we just saw there’s this huge shift going on, where we were going from a world from hardware and software that you owned to services in the cloud that you rented. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly.

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