Chargify

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

It’s likely that you have seen one of Martech’s Marketing Technology Landscape diagrams illustrating the rapid growth from ~150 players in 2011 to over 5,000 in 2017: Increased competition and saturated markets have eroded differentiation and perceived-value between products. with numerous upsell and cross-sell opportunities.

Payment Features 75

Payment Features Subscription AWS Scale 75

Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

2014-2017 – MongoDB and Elasticsearch. Internally, too, we were suffering – our infrastructure team spent nearly all their time keeping user storage alive, and it was not the sort of problem that we could solve by spending more with AWS. Evaluating AWS Databases. Around the same time, MongoDB itself got a lot more stable.

AWS 99

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

That’s typically the AWS model, depending on how much space you take, service space, you will pay more. So if you look at the August 2017 column, they have quite a few numbers here. So there’s the flat rate pricing that we’ve all experienced. 30 dollars per month or 10,000 or 50,000 dollars per month.

SaaS Payments 246

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IT World

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Launched at the Amazon’s re:invent conference in 2017 , SageMaker aims to make machine learning adoption simpler for customers by bringing together a hosted environment for Jupyter notebooks with built-in model management, automated spin up of training environments in Amazon S3, and HTTPS endpoints for hosting capabilities using EC2 instances.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

And G2 Gives, we partner with philanthropies, we partner with some of our customers like AWS and Google Cloud, who can then make donations for every review, to thank their customers. It’s 2020 and SaaS buyers are more skeptical and suspicious, more disbelieving, more unconvinced than they were in 2019. The situation is getting worse.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app. Merchant Fees At Buffer, we rely on Stripe, Google, and Apple for our payment processing needs. Stripe payments make up 98.5

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SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2021

A look back at this great deep dive from SaaStr Annual 2017. At the end of the day, Twilio still sells communications, AWS still sells servers, but the way we’re selling it is different than how it was done in yesteryear. Twilio had just IPO’d and we were able to do a deep dive on the first $100m+ in ARR.

Scale 306

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Baremetrics

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Given you probably just finished closing your books for 2017, it’s a good time to introduce changes to plan for the coming year. For example, Amazon Web Services or AWS in the bank description is very likely to go to Cost of Revenue under Hosting.

Startup 81

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

I was an advisor to Canva starting in 2017, and got to work with Figma while I was a growth advisor at Greylock, which led the series A investment. While the core product continued to get better at covering more languages, new product efforts failed to create value, such as TinyCards in 2017. Let’s look at an example in SaaS.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago. A photo journal of SaaStock 2017. Consumerizing even more parts of the activities of a typical business (logistics-as-a-service, etc.)

Scale 71

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BetterCloud

JANUARY 8, 2021

Back in 2017, Thor Pedersen created this graph to illustrate the basics of RBAC. In AWS, these attributes are called tags. Tags can be attached to IAM principals (users or roles) and to AWS resources.” According to AWS, the approach requires fewer policies and is helpful in environments that are growing rapidly.

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Azure AWS Technical Review Scale 52

BetterCloud

APRIL 15, 2020

AWS was launched in 2006, and the term “DevOps” was first used in 2009. We only really hit the inflection point of SaaS adoption in 2016-2017, and now this movement is really picking up steam. We run Okta and most of our apps are run in AWS and GCP, so it wasn’t too difficult for us. All of this is SaaSOps.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 4, 2021

In 2017 the company shifted to a usage-based model where doctors pay based on each new patient booking. .” Healthcare marketplace Zocdoc initially charged doctors an annual $3,000 flat fee for access to the platform. Churn has since decreased by 50%. More on usage-based pricing. Dive into the Usage-Based Pricing Playbook now.

Pricing 55

Pricing Outsourced Development Marketplace as a Service AWS 55

Frontegg

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Before AWS, engineering teams had to scale their own infrastructure. David Politis: “The 2017 State of the SaaS-Powered Workplace Report”. As a result, Frontegg’s “SaaS Essentials” as a Service platform empowers organizations of all sizes to accelerate the delivery and the on-going enhancements of enterprise-grade SaaS applications.

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service K8S orchestration (Kubernetes) Innovation New CTO 52

User Pilot

JULY 23, 2020

According to Mixpanel research from 2017, the cross-sectoral average rate was 20%. It’s easy to get hung up on sectoral benchmarks that ignore the huge variety of business types covered by a term like “SaaS” – which range from the incredibly sticky, such as AWS and Microsoft Azure, to services customers may only use rarely.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. The good news for speakers is we can pick; we just say, we said no manels in 2017. That’s not helping the lack of hiring, and everyone that’s big is hiring like there’s no tomorrow. I think Azure’s like 7,000, Google.

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 18, 2019

This is already at play — services like AWS, Stripe, and others have brought down the cost of starting and running a business to a fraction of what they used to be just a decade ago. A photo journal of SaaStock 2017. Consumerizing even more parts of the activities of a typical business (logistics-as-a-service, etc.)

Scale 52

Scale SaaS Automotive AWS 52

BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

billion people in 2017. With demonstrable success from Netflix and AWS, more companies are starting to offer their core businesses as microservices to expand their customer and revenue base. Cybercriminals are targeting more people too: An estimated 6 billion people will be internet users by 2022, up from 3.8

Cybersecurity 40

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

This year, we also migrated ChartMogul to AWS cloud. You can find the ones from past years here – 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , and 2016. QR codes — added the ability to quickly copy your newly created API keys by scanning the QR code (instead of needing to type them out on your mobile device).

Software Review 52

Software Review Systems Review Payment Features PayPal 52

Audacix

MAY 11, 2023

Remember the infamous Equifax data breach in 2017? They cannot log in to your web application or authenticate with your APIs and find vulnerabilities in your software as a logged-in user. What are the benefits of using vulnerability assessment tools during software development?

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Underperforming Technical Team Software Cloud Software Engineering 52

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Other things, we had this financial plan that was showing 400 sales reps in 2017 or 2018. They’re awful. And I know it’s a novel thing. So I knew for my next company, that’s what I wanted to do. And that’s when I raised my hand and was like, “I’m out of here. I’m done. Total dog s**t.

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VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 105

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Prabhu Ramachandran, Yogendra Babu, Rajavel Subramanian, and Krishnamoorthi Rangasamy in 2017, Facilio Inc is another popular SaaS startup. The company offers a data analytics platform based on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Clouds, and Microsoft Azure. CloudConnect was founded in the year 2017 by Gokul Tandan.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform. For every, our big acquisitions that we did along the way were a company called BrainKing in 2007, 2017, and ZoomInfo, which I founded the business as a company called DiscoverOrg. It is staggering. Even at spectacular scale, they’re still growing at 30%.

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SaaStr

JUNE 25, 2019

Now, I have some background with luck because in between some long stints with other companies, seven years at Eventbrite and 15 years at Ticketmaster before, I spent five years of my life playing poker for a living and learned an awful lot about luck and positive outcomes as well. A full four years after we started building the team.

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Engineering Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 184

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Sameer Dhokalia: It turns out if you do ask those two basic questions of 100 people in your business, you will learn an awful lot about what needs to be focused on. ” And I believed at that point, our company had been, at that point, 2017, we’re eight years old. They would’ve had a number of things addressed.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS offers cloud services to businesses. Founded in: 2017. Founded in: 2017. Founded in: 1982. Founder(s): Charles Geschke, John Warnock. Coupa Software.

Marketplace as a Service 10

Marketplace as a Service SaaS AWS Cybersecurity 10

OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

They were cheap, small, and portable … but the sound quality was awful. These models used vacuum tubes and offered excellent sound quality, but they were inefficient, clunky, and expensive. Then, Sony’s transistor radios arrived on the scene. After all, it was the only radio they could afford.

Innovation 71

Innovation Technical Review Travel Business Model 71

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

com as its head marketing guy in late 2017, having known that he wanted to be a CMO since the age of 10. It was: you go to a vendor site, you fill out a form, some sales rep calls and qualifies you, and then you go through this awful process. Ryan joined G2.com Prior to G2.com, That just wasn’t the way that the process worked.

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