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Who is Marty Cagan: Background, Books, Product Management Tips, and More

User Pilot

He is perhaps most recognized for his influential work as a consultant, writer, and speaker on product management, particularly within the realm of software and technology companies. In this role, he drove the development of products that took eBay’s global e-commerce platform to new levels of success.

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

Tom Tunguz

Before its acquisition, which was consummated at the highest historical multiple of any software company , Ariba was the largest independent procurement software business. It sold software to help businesses buy the things they need in order to operate, everything from pens to planes.

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Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The other thing is I’ve studied enterprise software for literally 30 years. I was an intern at IBM mainframe software when I was 20 years old. I had always done general software things, database software, mainframes, PeopleSoft, run that technology groups, Salesforce.com platform for everybody. What are you doing?

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Customer Acquisition Strategy for SaaS Companies: A Complete Guide

SaaSOptics

Every dollar you spend on customer acquisition—whether through sales and marketing costs or software tools—attributes to your total customer acquisition cost. . Bubble , a no-code software development platform, uses a mix of free-trial offers and content marketing to drive most of their customer signups.

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4 Neglected Truths About Live Chat For Start-ups

Outseta

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. But like any new software trend, make sure you’re not blindly following the masses like a lemming off of a cliff.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Jason : Stewart, picking up on that, I didn’t become a Slack groupie until about three months ago when I was building some product for SaaStr, and then I got it, when I actually had to build software. You had a BlackBerry in 2002. I don’t think that Yammer had that same software developer core that could get accelerated.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

SaaS businesses are organizations that provide subscription-based software applications that are centrally hosted on their servers over the internet. But ever since 20 years, Parallels continues to rule the world of cross-platform virtualization software solutions for macOS. And the result is visible! Solarwinds. Customer Support.