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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

Ultrasite is a global website builder, Chinafy is a tool for making websites China-compatible, and Connect is their collaborative content management platform for brands. It is based on blockchain and allows businesses to take care of their finances on a number of platforms and in multiple currencies. Founded : 2013. TradeGecko.

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

SaaStr

Have revenue, but early, so like 50K ARR after two months of charging for a product. People were so excited about SaaS when public companies were trading at 30 to 50 X revenue that they would want to take that meeting. Now, revenue’s coming in looking good. Last year offered checks of between five and 10, early.

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Funding in the Time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I thought it’s also worth giving you some sense of scale for how much the US government takes in in revenue every year. In revenue, the US government takes in 3.5 So the amount that we’ve handed out just in money going out of the US government is equal to 86% of the total revenue we take in in a year.

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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

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The Startup Funding & Financing Guide

Baremetrics

Company C was funded by pre-orders from customers, a friends and family round, and then through revenue-based financing for a period of time. For Companies A, B, and C, they all exchanged equity for capital, leveraged debt, and used profits from customers to fund their startup. What do I need funding for? Buffer spent $3.3

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. I usually do them with Paul or people from the product teams – it’s much more fun to be on a podcast with your boss.