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A Solution Sale Can Capture 3-20x the Revenues of A Tool Sale. With Almost the Exact Same Core Product.

SaaStr

Both had a roughly similar make-up of customers, split between: Big Customers (Fortune 500 / Global 2000 types) — not many, but each paying a lot; Small and medium-sized businesses, each paying four or five figures a year; and then. Doing well.

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From $800k to $274M in 4 Years - The Story of Ariba

Tom Tunguz

After the company successfully completed its IPO, the company would increase its annual sales and marketing budget by 6X year-over-year to $230M and $298M in 2000 and 2001, at precisely the wrong time. In a typical year, the company invested about 20 to 30% of their revenue in research and development.

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Subscription60: Wednesday, February 13th

ProfitWell

CEO Monetization Playbook by Zuora The question for software developers is no longer if you have to make the shift to SaaS, but how to do it. According to research from the Forbes Global 2000, only one in eight companies stick the landing. Ready for the rundown? In resources. But that's easier said than done.

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What Builders Talk About When They Talk About AI

Andreessen Horowitz

For folks who are thinking about the utility of these generative AI tools that you’re building for things other than software development, this notion of flow state is a useful thing to consider. Cisco in 2000 was worth half a trillion dollars at its peak. It was worth more than Microsoft at the time.

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What We Learned from Analyzing 2000+ Series A fundings in H1 of 2022

Frontegg

From this set, we manually filtered out companies that are not offering a product, e.g. venture capitalists, software-development shops, etc. Conclusion: What we’ve learned from analyzing more than 2000 Series A funded companies in the first half of 2022.

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4 Neglected Truths About Live Chat For Start-ups

Outseta

A few examples to prove my point - LivePerson was founded in 1995 and IPOed just 5 years later in April of 2000. LiveChat Software has 21,000 customers and was founded back in 2002. Heck, software review site Capterra has over 238 live chat products listed on their site. . ”

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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

And then there was this big ERP dying, which was shot after the first ecommerce new academy scene was going down for 2000 2001. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. So I found a developer made a deal with him and say I will sell it and you will participate if you trust me. So I just had this idea.