SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

It has more than 100 investments since its founding in 2001. Founded: 2001. Grab a ticket before March 5th when prices increase. SAIF Partners is one of the top private equity firms that provides growth capital financing for Asia businesses. SAIF is also one of the biggest funds, investing in Hong Kong, China and India.

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SaaS Payments Venture Capital Payment Services Telecommunications 190

SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

Starting from 2001 with the establishment of DGF Investimentos, there has been a steady addition to the roster of funds, with key periods where a few were started around the same time. Grab an early bird ticket for SaaStock LatAm before February 15th to get the best possible price. Founded: 2001. Size of fund: $305.8M.

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Venture Capital SaaS Healthcare Finance 155

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Small caps share prices fell -10%. Without significant barriers to entry, new entrants use lower prices and freemium strategies to win market share. Such strategies ultimately reduce price points and decrease the value of a market reducing profitability for all market players. . % < 0. Once public, profits don’t improve.

Marketing 100

Marketing Scale Venture Capital Finance 100

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Flat-rate processing is a simple solution for small businesses, but interchange pricing is generally more affordable. Square – The Best For Transparent Pricing/Fees. Cons: Confusing ownership Little information regarding price. Flagship Merchant Services cut the tape in 2001 and was acquired by iPayment in 2012.

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Merchant Services Payment Services Payment Methods Helcim 135

Neil Patel

JANUARY 13, 2021

Yahoo launched Groups in January 2001. There are currently two pricing options: $4.99 The price for Local Deals depends on your neighborhood and how long you want to advertise, but the average cost is $75. Thankfully, if you were a fan, there are a plethora of alternatives to Yahoo Groups. What Was Yahoo Groups Used For?

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Social Media Advertising Branding Communication 131

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Typically, email autoresponder pricing is based on the number of subscribers you have and the number of emails you send each month. If your email marketing strategy takes off and you need to bump up into a higher pricing tier, will that be a problem for your budget and ROI? Staying effective in the long term means making adjustments.

Scale 144

Scale Mobile Pricing AI Search 144

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

You don’t really care who that human is, you care about the price. I think every one of us that had lived through 2001 and 2002 or 2000, 2001, and then again, lived through ’08, ’09, we immediately pulled out our playbooks and we’re like, “Here it is, this is the downturn we’ve been waiting for.”

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Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 211

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It’s terrifying when I say we started at the end of 2001, which is now a very, very long time ago. It’s so funny how much businesses talk about the net promoter score, which is how likely are you to recommend this to a friend, but they don’t name products or services or pricing tiers to help people do that.

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Underperforming Technical Team Education Development Startup 198

OpenView Labs

APRIL 16, 2020

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. One of the things we did early on in this pivot was a pricing/bundling strategy that simplified our marketing and positioned value for our customers.

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Leadership Business Model Healthcare Travel 98

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Here’s what makes NP Digital one of the best analytic companies in 2020: Founder expertise – Neil Patel is a rockstar in the digital marketing world, having started out in the space in 2001 as a teenager. The agency he founded has his fingerprints all over it, which means that you will be working with world class marketers and analysts.

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Technical Review Software Review Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 137

SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Which is why you should sign up for the 2 for 1 Insider Sale and get two people for the price of one. He’d been in SaaS since 2001 and had worked in every role from salesperson, leader, founder, and CEO. You will see many of these topics and themes covered extensively on four separate stages this year.

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Scale Sales Hiring CTO Hire Social Media 103

Software Platform Consulting

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you apply the same price-to-sales metrics for Coupa to Ariba, Ariba would represent about 20% of SAP’s market cap. If you had told me in 2001 that the procure-to-pay suite market would have generated $20 billion in market cap again, I would have told you were crazy. Jaggaer, however, recently sold for $1.5

Machine Learning 40

Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Consulting Mobile 40

OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

Record inflation, supply chain shocks, volatile energy prices, and rising interest rates have raised the risk of recession in most countries. In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended.

Scale 59

Scale VP of Engineering Payment Services Underperforming Technical Team 59

CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 7, 2022

Additionally, according to Statistica, IKEA has seen year over year growth since 2001, except in FY2020 as the pandemic affected retail. Back to my previous example about IKEA: their core purpose is high quality, low price products. Low prices. in profits. The brand promise for IKEA: High-quality products. appeared first on.

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Churn Management Retention Customer Success 52

How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 10, 2024

It was started in 2001, and today it is growing strong as one of the most popular small business marketing tools. With loads of robust features, affordable pricing plans, and impressive customer support, they are growing as one of the most popular WhatsApp marketing tools.

Social Media 52

Social Media Marketing Business AI Search 52

Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Back then, big names included Vignette StoryBuilder and Interwoven TeamSite –and they came with big price tags as well. Nicer than their 2001 predecessors, for sure, but still a layer between my content and the bare iron of delivered HTML. Ghost and Squarespace are … CMSs.

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CTO Hire New CTO CTO Software Engineering 40

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

We basically restarted the company in 2001 to focus on the enterprise sales model, and then we also then opened a second front in the business which was mobile search powered by voice. Is it true that was Tellme later acquired by Microsoft? That sounds like an incredibly successful pivot. Angus Davis: Yeah. It worked out.

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Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 60

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2020

Jay McGrath: There’s a Fortune Magazine article about Joe Torre from 2000 or 2001. All of which, because the more problems you’re solving, and the more complicated the requirements are, it helps with that pricing thing you were talking about. Jay McGrath: That’s the problem with being a salesperson.

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VP of Engineering Scale Communication Banking 57

Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

The decline of seat-based pricing and rise of outcome-based models. 31:00 Seat-based pricing is dying how to move to value-based contracts. 31:00 Seat-based pricing is dying how to move to value-based contracts. The role of hyperlocal data, competitive analysis, and personalized content in GTM strategy. Mike Walrath: Yeah.

AI Search 71

AI Search AI ChatGPT Software Review 71

SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron : Well, also, as someone who went through this, especially like the 2000, 2001 times. And he increased the price from 12K to 18K during the buying process because he said the discount expired, which she didn’t know about. This rep, this seasoned rep, he refused to give my head of marketing a demo.

Sales Hiring 237

Sales Hiring Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 237

Neil Patel

MARCH 25, 2021

Not only is keyword research a challenging task, but it can also get expensive with the price of premium keyword research tools. Sometimes though, you’re just looking for a quick job that someone can turn around fast for an affordable price. UberSuggest.

Payment Methods 144

Payment Methods Social Media Marketing Business 144

Kellblog

MAY 8, 2019

First, it shows trends in price changes over time across various VC rounds. Let’s look at the survey highlights , starting with pricing and moving into terms. the share price was higher in the round last than the previous one). Here is direction and magnitude price change data by sector.

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Venture Capital Finance Pricing Startup 74

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

It’s not that old, the Agile Manifesto was written in 2001, but now everybody gets it, or hopefully, most people in the digital world get it. For example, we’ve just done a big pricing study and research. The interesting thing is that when it comes to engineering, for example, we have Agile methodology.

Strategy 225

Strategy Scale Systems Review Technical Review 225

SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2020

Thinking about that, maybe not taking the optimal in terms of price, how do you think about what specifically is the right way to manage a situation where investors and founders interests are no longer aligned? It was 2001. Obviously having the capital at a reasonable price, it wasn’t diluted of all these other type of things.

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Scale Sales Hiring Technology Enterprise 239

SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

How much of a role does price play in selecting the ultimate acquirer? In 2001, you could raise money pretty easily at pretty high valuations, and in 2002 there were two types of companies: those who had raised large amounts of money at crazy valuations in 2001, and dead, right? How long do they last? Is that a concern?

Sales Hiring 161

Sales Hiring Payment Services SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 161

SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

The worst was right after we started BigMachines in 2000, we had a massive bust in 2001. I’m fascinated by pricing mechanisms, and I’m always concerned by volume based pricing because of the discouragement that users might feel from using the product, so to speak. Godard Abel: Yeah, and I lived through two busts.

Scale 157

Scale Sales Hiring Software Review Leadership 157

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

Unfortunately a lot of less experienced 2001+ founders were far to optimistic in their planning, anticipating recovery within 8 – 12 months. Listen to those who have gone through the mega crises of 2001 and 2008 as entrepreneurs or investors. Consider small fixed price trials, that may at present just cover your cost.

Underperforming Technical Team 94

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 94

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

Unfortunately a lot of less experienced 2001+ founders were far to optimistic in their planning, anticipating recovery within 8 – 12 months. Listen to those who have gone through the mega crises of 2001 and 2008 as entrepreneurs or investors. Consider small fixed price trials, that may at present just cover your cost.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 52

OpenView Labs

APRIL 25, 2020

Michael Burry (of “The Big Short” fame) wrote in a 2001 investor letter (opens PDF) : “$1 selling for $0.50 What these two stories highlight is that each player in the game has their own motivations, and the prices set by the market reflect the sum knowledge of all participants. one day, $0.60 the next day, and $0.40

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Marketing Government Forecasting Pricing 52