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5 Interesting Learnings from Upwork at $400,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Upwork is one of those products and marketplaces many of us use all the time — including Team SaaStr — but we don’t often see discussing that much as a public SaaS / Cloud company. 80% SMB, 20% Enterprise. While Upwork has made inrounds into the enterprise, it remains squarely an SMB product.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

SaaStr

Jessica Alexander, Senior Director Cloud Technology & OEM Partnerships, Crowdstrike. So for the audience, cloud giants are turbocharging startup sales, and the predominant reason for this is because they’re fundamentally changing IT budgets at the customers that we’re all selling to. Rico Mallozzi, Sr.

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The Most Successful SMB SaaS Acquisition Channel Ever Built

Tom Tunguz

Channel distribution represents one of the biggest and most important changes in customers acquisition for SMB SaaS startups in quite a while. One of the most interesting examples is Microsoft’s Office 365 SMB business. It’s the most successful SMB SaaS acquisition channel ever built. by Thomas Hansen.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. Omie main goal is to bridge the efficiency gap in Brazilian SMB, helping customers to be more prosperous. Omie main goal is to bridge the efficiency gap in Brazilian SMB, helping customers to be more prosperous.

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Salesforce vs HubSpot: CRM Titans Compared for 2025

How To Buy Saas

Salesforce: A Pioneer in Cloud CRM Salesforce, founded in 1999 by Marc Benioff, was a trailblazer in bringing CRM to the cloud. This Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) approach revolutionized the industry, making powerful CRM tools accessible without on-premise installs. Rapid SMB adoption with 200K+ customers.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The SaaS Trust Crisis is making it harder to market and sell software and services than ever before. And today, I’m very excited to be the co-founder and CEO of G2 where we’re building the world’s leading marketplace for SaaS software. They’re scrutinizing their existing status and cloud spend more than ever.

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Top 4 SaaS Valuation Metrics at Different Growth Stages

OPEXEngine

According to Bessemer ’s State of the Cloud 2021 as of this January, there were a total of 527 private unicorns (a unicorn is a private company with a valuation over $1B), with a total cumulative value of more than $1.9 More and more Cloud companies are translating usage fees to ARR which can be tricky if usage is hugely variable.