Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. All of the businesses we’ve looked at in the past have been purely SaaS businesses.

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How SaaS Works

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The How SaaS Works series simplifies the complex world of software-as-a-service (SaaS) into the practical fundamentals for anyone involved in SaaS. Introduction The software-as-a-service business model appeals to companies of all sizes from tiny startups to massive Fortune 500 companies. What is SaaS?

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a community of top SaaS companies that spans all the way from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

And Rent the Runway adds a new membership option to amp up its presence in the subscription clothing space. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. We’ve had our eyes on Rent the Runway on the show before , as one of the more popular clothing subscriptions out there. They’re calling it Walmart+.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Manual processes first. Dare I say SaaS.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

359: The Secrets to Vertical Growth, What it Really Takes to Build a $1B SaaS Company with Matt Garratt, SVP, Managing Partner @ Salesforce Ventures, Trisha Price, Chief Product Officer @ nCino and David Schmaier, CEO & Founder @ Vlocity. There’s a lot of services. This episode is sponsored by Linode. Actually, two.

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SaaStr

MARCH 18, 2019

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. Dare I say SaaS. The exchange of value.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a SaaS community that spans from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6. Founded: 2012.

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FastSpring

APRIL 1, 2021

I want to sign up and try that service! ”. Luckily, you can take a lot of actions to influence that process and showcase your value. Or maybe the onboarding process is too complicated. The activation process solely focuses on conversion. There’s a science to SaaS pricing, and you should always be evaluating your pricing.

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ProfitWell

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Today on Recur Now, the astronomical findings of Zuora’s Subscription Economy Index are released. We’re also talking subscription sports with a pricing expert, and highlighting a former Netflix culture-building badass. Your top subscription news. Subscription Cavaliers. Can you guess who? Over the past 7.5

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The process of an acquisition is, more often than not, a black box. Behind closed doors, negotiations are dragged on for months while founders and executives figure out ways to eliminate friction and create a synergy that can drive the most value of their shared cultures, processes, and systems. And so, yeah, very surreal.

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All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

To save your time and make your decision process easy we have reviewed some of the best platforms. Launched in 2012, Influence4you is listed in the category of the top influencer marketing platforms. Manages budget per client and also keeps track of the payment sent to the hired influencer. iFluenz provides a free subscription.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Brazil’s SaaS landscape is bustling, thanks to the number of innovative startups that entered the horizon in recent years. In an attempt to know more about the SaaS environment in Brazil, we have researched the best SaaS companies in Brazil and came up with a list of 20 SaaS companies in Brazil. Founded in: 2012.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 8, 2023

I see marketing, strategy, outreach, UX, development, product, customer service, management decision-making, sales, PPCs — basically everything that makes an e-commerce business viable. Back in 2012, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos shocked the tech world by admitting that Amazon doesn’t make a profit on Kindles. Special thanks to @avinash.

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Chargify

MARCH 6, 2018

Throughout the series, we highlight Chargify merchants and the lessons learned as they grow their subscription-based businesses. Founded in 2012, the seeds for EdPlace were planted many years before that. EdPlace, 2012 ( Source ). This blog post is part of our Customer Spotlight series. It’s working. The birth of EdPlace.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

And so I worked with a whole bunch of companies in technology and financial services, consumer goods, helping them on things like growth strategy, developing new products, M&A. The state of tooling in 2010 or 2011 was that there was no Stripe, there was no subscription management and the idea of a SaaS economy was just nonsense.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 28, 2022

The nation has produced 2,000 startups in the past decade, and a majority of these start-ups have been SaaS-driven. This has helped us come up with the list of the top 25 SaaS companies in Israel. Binah AI is one of a kind SaaS-based startup founded in Israel. The web-based GUI is used to manage and monitor security.

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