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Power Laws: A Look Back To Where 20 SaaS Break-Out Companies from 2012 Are Today

SaaStr

Let’s take a look back at where HubSpot, Upwork, and others were in 2011 GAAP revenue — and where they are today. Learnings for this year, for 2011 GAAP revenue (Inc. in 2011 GAAP revenue. in 2011 GAAP revenue. in 2011 GAAP revenue. in 2011 GAAP revenue. in 2011 GAAP revenue. 78 Marketo.

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Does SEO Still Work? Our Data Says “Yes But”

SaaStr

content since 2011 … I’ll say … “Yes But” Yes But What do I mean? At a high level, as big a gift in 2024 as 2011. Which is that we have literally 100x more quality content than 2011-2014. Does SEO still work? As someone who has written relatively highly cited, highly linked, highly read, etc.

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The 6 Things The Old Me Would Tell The Young Me

SaaStr

Young Me, 2011 : $100m ARR seems so very far from our $10m ARR today. Young Me, 2011 : But what if we can’t IPO? Young Me, 2011 : I don’t really want to do another VC round. Young Me 2011 : The competition just raised $50m+. Young Me 2011 : But a lot of my team is tired. Very far from today. — Jason ?BeKind?

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The decade software ate the world

Intercom, Inc.

It was in August 2011 that Marc Andreessen coined the famous phrase “ Software is eating the world ” in a Wall Street Journal op-ed. Apple survived the death of Steve Jobs in October 2011 under the thoughtful stewardship of Tim Cook, and continued to essentially be the iPhone company, while branching into wearables and services.

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What’s a Mature SaaS Company at $240m ARR Really Worth? Maybe 3.6x ARR

SaaStr

It was bootstrapped for the first 6 years, and then acquired by Citrix in 2011 for an undisclosed amount, so likely $100-$150m or less. Fast forward to today, they’ve sold for a stunning $875 million. But it’s not quite that simple.

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5 Very Good Days, and 5 Pretty Bad Days, as a SaaS CEO

SaaStr

A Good Day: Dec 31, 2009; Dec 31, 2010; Dec 31, 2011; Dec 31, 2012. A Bad Day: When I Had No Salary And Didn’t Get My Requested $10k Bonus Even Though I Brought In an Extra $300k All-Cash Upfront Deal. And again, Dec 31, 2018 and Dec 31, 2019. When we killed it every year on the last day of the year. New Years was spent in the office.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Amplitude at $150,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

They were founded in 2011 and IPO’d ten years later in 2021 at $150,000,000 in ARR, growing 57%, and have rocketed to a $7B+ valuation. Amplitude is a quiet Cloud leader that you might not have heard of — unless you are building software. 5 Interesting Learnings: #1.

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