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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

The Latin American SaaS landscape is hustling and bustling, having seen more IPOs in the last 6 months than the previous 20 years combined. We will gather 300 leading SaaS founders, executives and investors for three days packed with opportunities and rich exchange of knowledge to push the whole ecosystem forward. Founded : 2011.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Shopify at $4 Billion in ARR

SaaStr

Shopify’s first quarter revenue: Q1 2021: $989 million Q1 2020: $470 million Q1 2019: $321 million Q1 2018: $214 million Q1 2017: $127 million Q1 2016: $73 million Q1 2015: $37 million Q1 2014: $19 million Q1 2013: $9 million. The Covid Boost for SaaS. But likely it’s below 100% excluding payments. Well, it’s murky.

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

When we announced a few weeks ago that we would be bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia, and running it in Hong Kong, many locals thanked us for choosing the city. Their solutions span a wide range of verticals: from E-commerce, HR and Health to collaboration, infrastructure and AI. Founded : 2013. Notey Labs.

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The Riskiest Venture-Backed Startups Are 3H’s: High Growth, High Churn and High Burn

SaaStr

VCs often enable these models. SaaS + hardware, SaaS + payments, etc. But they often have much lower gross margins than pure software. So be extra careful here — you have to be even more efficient than pure SaaS. Those two are tough but founders find a way. And High Burn. Blitz scaling.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

SaaStock

As we first looked at bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia and considered what help we could offer, we thought about localization and know-how about legal and cultural differences as some of the critical success factors. SaaS Investments: Goodera, and others. SaaS Investments: Ezetap, and others. Founded: 2001.

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Shopify S-1 Analysis - Smiling All the Way to $10B

Tom Tunguz

There are not many software companies who can nearly quadruple their enterprise value in two years. They generate revenue in two ways: subscriptions and merchant services. Merchants pay subscription to rent the software. Since 2013, Shopify GMV has 10xed from $1.6B Shopify is an exceptional business.

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The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 581)

SaaStr

I think it’s a challenge to folks that think we are in some sort of terrible downturn for SaaS and cloud. While Azure and Google Cloud grew at record rates, Shopify for example, its SaaS business only grew 10% last quarter. Colin here, CEO of a startup, B2B SaaS, and raising a seed round right now. Take the meeting.

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