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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Fmr. CEO of Host Analytics and CEO of Namely — Jun 14, 2019

SaaStr

In his most recent role, Dave was the CEO @ Host Analytics where he quintupled ARR, halved customer acquisition costs and increased net retention rates before selling the company to a private equity sponsor. What does Dave believe is crucial to achieve in these in person meetings? How does the selection for who receives the book look?

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

This is increasing the spending as more and more features are being offered, through acquisitions or expansion. Cisco’s growth is often referred to as the ‘growth by acquisition’. It records an average of 32 payment transactions per active account. It was acquired by eBay in 2002 but split in 2014. billion by 2022.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online. And for me as I mentioned BigMachines is a very personal problem. I think in 2002 we only signed up two customers and this was after the dot-com bubble burst, 9/11 happened.