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A SaaS History Lesson – The First SaaS Company's Exceptional Journey

Tom Tunguz

But soon after the crash of 2001, the startup’s market cap totaled only $8M. So the business evolved again and became a pure SaaS business, selling software accessible to anyone with a browser. Second, Concur’s history provides a mechanism to contrast the license software and a SaaS business models.

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SaaStr’s Podcast “Best Of Guide” Our Top 10 Podcasts of All Time

SaaStr

In 2001 David joined Matrix Partners, who had backed his last two startups, as a General Partner. About the episode: Tien Tzuo is the Founder and CEO of Zuora, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies that has been at the forefront of the rise of subscription business models. What changes as a SaaS business scales?

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Be the Up in a Downturn: Advice From SurveyMonkey’s Tom Hale

OpenView Labs

Those who went through the 2001 and 2008 economic downturns emerged with valuable lessons on navigating a crisis—not to mention a heck of a lot of resilience. You were SVP of Business Strategy at Macromedia as the dot-com bubble burst and the economy halted after 9/11. And we introduced a subscription business model.