SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

“Salesforce’s IPO is also seen as a test of a new business model that could shake up the software industry. The company is the poster child for subscription-based software, a model that’s gaining popularity among corporate buyers. interest rate due in 2025. This venture debt is a form of production capital.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Product : Vanta Your deal is almost closed, and all that’s left is the security review. With Vanta Questionnaire Automation, go-to-market teams can complete security reviews up to 5 times faster, helping you close deals in less time than ever.

Scale 113

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SaaStr

AUGUST 8, 2023

Instead, due to a decade-long exodus from Wall Street, the strategic CFO has burst onto the tech scene. In 2014, storage had historically been Dropbox’s most significant cost driver, with hundreds of millions of dollars spent on AWS. Investigate new software designed to automate more tasks and support more strategic initiatives.

Scale 239

Scale Finance Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting 239

Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It was kind of fun seeing something succeed like this, especially after 15+ years building software! He was building various software companies and I did some design work for him. There’s just so much creativity that happens in the early phases of anything, whether that’s software or physical products or art or music.

Technical Review 145

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2019

He rises to number ten on our list due to the high session average and initial bookmarks by our attendees. Gainsight’s customer success software empowers companies to increase revenue and decrease customer churn. Zendesk went public under ticker $ZEN on the NYSE in 2014.

Sales Recruiting 173

Sales Recruiting Software Review Technical Review PayPal 173

The Angel VC

JULY 17, 2015

This doesn't come as a surprise, since the consumerizaton of enterprise software has been one of the most important driving forces in the software world in the last years. But B2B software websites haven't always looked like this and it's fascinating to see how much things have changed.

SaaS 188

SaaS Software Review B2B Trends 188

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. Yes, the tech giants could develop the software these micro startups are making, but by the time it’s ready for market, a competitor might have rolled a similar product out and taken all the glory.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

Incredo

JUNE 25, 2019

BidSketch, a proposal software saw an 800% increase in paid conversions once they got rid of their free plan (only 1% of their users were choosing a paid plan, that is just 1 out of 100). But Slack’s free-to-paid conversion rate in 2014 reached 30%. 2 Wistia provides software for creating, managing and sharing videos.

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SaaS Pricing Software Review Acquisition 236

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

That’s why, every year, since 2014, we at Bowery Capital have published a Startup Sales Stack Report as a guiding framework for founders and sales leaders evaluating their sales stack. Today, we’re seeing a continuous trend of vendor consolidation across multiple software categories. Vendor Consolidation. Implementation time.

Technical Review 133

Technical Review Scale Trends Startup 133

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 27, 2022

If you’re running a business, especially in banking or fintech, it’s important to do due diligence and verify the identity of a customer to assess the risk they pose to your business. Alex: Well, I started coding very early, when I was a teenager. I was passionate about tech and coding. Alex: And it was always the same.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In 2017, he co-founded B2B Stack, a software review marketplace that boosts the buying process of B2B tech in Brazil. RD offers inbound marketing automation software to companies that want to ace their digital marketing efforts. Then he was on to a new adventure: founding Pipefy in 2014.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 9, 2022

HubSpot defines marketing automation like this: Marketing automation uses software to automate monotonous marketing work. Heavy adoption of marketing automation started in 2014, and the growth since then has been trending upwards. Or, select an email-management software like MailChimp or ConstantContact.

Scale 140

Scale Social Media Technical Review Software Review 140

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2018

We created our first sales function in 2014 and in the busyness of building out the team, we had little time to reflect on how our experiences on the frontline of sales could add value to our product roadmap. In 2011 Marc Andreessen declared that software is eating the world. Trial and error: adding sales input to the product roadmap.

Scale 199

Scale Sales Software Review Strategy 199

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Valuations there fell from their highs in 2014. The Hottest Startup Sectors In 2016 - published on January 3rd, this post reviewed the patterns of investment in startups, and in particular, the sectors where investors were increasing their investment the fastest.

Software Review 100

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Dennis started at Procore as EVP of Sales in 2014, before moving to the CRO role in 2018 where he was responsible for driving revenue across all customer-facing functions including Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Rev Ops, Procore.org and Business Development. Before that, Dennis spent 8.5 Brought to you by Vanta.

Sales Recruiting 125

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale AI Search 125

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

We disrupted this space and ended up pushing out software vendors that had been doing this for 25, 30 years. I had breakfast with Dug Song, our CEO and founder back in 2014, and something he said to me hit me in the gut. So I challenge you to consider the type of sales org you want to build, or review the one that you already have.

Scale 296

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Example: Enterprise customers may have a higher NPV due to larger contract values and longer retention periods. 0 = – $100,000 + Σ (Cash Inflow_t / (1 + IRR)^t) Using financial software or a calculator: IRR ≈ 34.9% This justifies a lower Customer Success Manager (CSM)-to-account ratio for these clients. 2015.09.001. 2015.09.001.

Payment Services 52

Payment Services SaaS Payments Customer Success Payments 52

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

It sounds minor or technical, but if you want to due diligence on a human being, I get to do it a few 100 times a year. Aileen Lee: And so, they’re just way easier due diligence, I think. There’s no technology, they need money to actually build software. I’m here.” Jason Lemkin: Yes.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 217

Subscription Flow

MAY 27, 2024

Its user-friendly interface and versatile range of features has made it a popular choice for consumers since its debut in 2014. Apple never shares your card number and before the purchase is finalized your bank can even verify the payment information by looking at the dynamic security code that’s unique to your iOS device.

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Payment Features Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions 105

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Loopio is an RFP response software. Zak is the co-founder and CEO of Loopio, a Toronto-based software company that streamlines the RFP process for companies like IBM and DocuSign. After this experience, Zak took the entrepreneurial plunge in 2014. We are an RFP response software platform. Zak Hemraj: Sure.

Scale 115

Scale Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 115

Aber Law Firm

JUNE 5, 2014

On May 9, 2014, the appellate court handed down its 69-page decision in the Oracle vs Google API copyright case. The court ruled in favor of Oracle, but did push down to the lower court some remaining issues (which I will not bore you with right now…even though it is super interesting to software attorneys). So here goes.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Technical Review Education 52

Aber Law Firm

JUNE 5, 2014

On May 9, 2014, the appellate court handed down its 69-page decision in the Oracle vs Google API copyright case. The court ruled in favor of Oracle, but did push down to the lower court some remaining issues (which I will not bore you with right now…even though it is super interesting to software attorneys). So here goes.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software Technical Review Education 52

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 1, 2017

AppDynamics technology helps engineers determine how software applications behave as users interact with them. Let’s look at some of the key metrics and then compare AppDynamics to NewRelic, a close competitor which went public in late 2014. First, Subscription generated 80% of the revenue in 2014. of revenue).

Benchmarks 100

Benchmarks Metrics Software Review SaaS 100

SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

But we provide a combination of APIs and software. When I joined Stripe, we only had … So that was in 2014, at the end of 2014, we only had one marketers, and three people in sales. This photo’s from 2012, and I joined, as I said, in 2014. Dare I say SaaS. Stripe started nearly a decade ago.

Scale 163

Scale Payment Services Payment Methods Scaling 163

Baremetrics

AUGUST 21, 2021

Amazon’s Statements of cash flow for 2014–2016. This approach is more time-consuming than the indirect method as you’ll need to diligently record and track every transaction on an ongoing basis and retain all your cash receipts. Example cash flow statement Take a look at the example below: Amazon’s 2016 statement of cash flow.

Payment Solutions 97

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Software Review 97

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 17, 2018

When you think of Intercom, you probably think of software, our Messenger, perhaps this blog. The first Intercomic (although that phrase wasn’t coined at the time) was created in 2014 when I was asked to create a comic for an intern who was finishing up their time at the company. Let me explain. How did it all begin?

Company Culture 151

Company Culture Software Review Onboarding Management 151

Frontegg

APRIL 29, 2021

The old basic passwords have made way to new technologies due to today’s complex and dynamic cross-platform requirements. You can integrate Enterprise SSO with IDPs using protocols such as SAML and OIDC, by integrating just 5 lines of code. Authentication frameworks have come a long way in the last decade. Here’s a quick comparison.

Software Review 98

Software Review Technical Review Systems Review Azure 98

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud. If you think of this in the context of software, it’s particularly powerful because for years, we’ve been seeing the visionaries out there promoting this transition. The dark blue bar here is cloud as a percentage of worldwide software spend.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payments Cloud 235

ChurnZero

AUGUST 17, 2021

As you can see popularity around Customer Success started to grow more steadily in 2014, and since has really taken off, and continues to go up to this day. An interesting thing to note is that the highest peak on the chart is from February 2020, which is right before things shut down in the United States due to the spreading coronavirus.

Trends 98

Trends Customer Success Software Review Churn 98

Baremetrics

APRIL 7, 2020

In a technology driven world, where it feels like consumers are always looking for the next best service or software to jump ship to, reducing churn can be challenging for a SaaS company like Emphatic. About Emphatic Emphatic is a social media automation software, similar to Hootsuite or Buffer. LEARN MORE.

Social Media 69

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Aber Law Firm

JUNE 30, 2014

These Words are ‘Dangerous’ in Any SaaS or Software Agreement. I have seen wording like this in SaaS or software agreement orders or templates, and it has always bothered me. Summary of the Facts: The following language was included in a software agreement. 1) Be very careful with this type of wording.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software SaaS Sales Hiring 52

Aber Law Firm

JUNE 30, 2014

These Words are ‘Dangerous’ in Any SaaS or Software Agreement. I have seen wording like this in SaaS or software agreement orders or templates, and it has always bothered me. Summary of the Facts: The following language was included in a software agreement. 1) Be very careful with this type of wording.

Software Review 52

Software Review Software SaaS Sales Hiring 52

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

And, it released an algorithmic update, in July, 2014, to favor local businesses for neighborhood-focused mobile device queries. Google determines your business location and presents your listings in its results based on the presence and accuracy of NAP – Name, Address, and Phone number (with local area code). But, guess what?

Payment Methods 126

Payment Methods Branding Payments Merchant Services 126

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In fact, 92% of businesses say CRM software is crucial to achieving their revenue goals. Its early vision was to end software as we knew it instead delivering enterprise applications via the internet. Automation Powerful automation with Workflow/Flow and Apex code can automate nearly anything, but complex to set up.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 52

Aber Law Firm

JUNE 5, 2014

On May 9, 2014, the appellate court handed down its 69-page decision in the Oracle vs Google API copyright case. The court ruled in favor of Oracle, but did push down to the lower court some remaining issues (which I will not bore you with right now…even though it is super interesting to software attorneys). So here goes.

Software Review 40

Software Review Software Technical Review Education 40

Aber Law Firm

JUNE 5, 2014

On May 9, 2014, the appellate court handed down its 69-page decision in the Oracle vs Google API copyright case. The court ruled in favor of Oracle, but did push down to the lower court some remaining issues (which I will not bore you with right now…even though it is super interesting to software attorneys). So here goes.

Software Review 40

Software Review Software Technical Review Education 40

Aber Law Firm

JUNE 5, 2014

On May 9, 2014, the appellate court handed down its 69-page decision in the Oracle vs Google API copyright case. The court ruled in favor of Oracle, but did push down to the lower court some remaining issues (which I will not bore you with right now…even though it is super interesting to software attorneys). So here goes.

Software Review 40

Software Review Software Technical Review Education 40