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The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With – Lessons From Host Analytics (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Well in 2002, I know it was a long time ago. But in 2002 there were only two types of startups in existence. There was no other type of startup in 2002 when the internet bubble burst. Well, let me tell you, build software is really hard. So these decisions can have a big impact. And then finally delivery track record.

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company. So, you just raised your series E one of the European software unicorns, congrats on that. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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4 Neglected Truths About Live Chat For Start-ups

Outseta

Pile on the growth expectations that come with the amount of venture capital that’s been poured into this space (Intercom and Drift alone have raised a collective $347M to date), and next thing you know live chat tools are being presented as something new. LiveChat Software has 21,000 customers and was founded back in 2002.

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Benchmarking Atlassian's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

Founded in 2002, the Australian software maker Atlassian is an exceptional company in many regards. Atlassian counts 1600 employees and sells five products JIRA (bug tracking software), Confluence (project management), HipChat (internal chat/collaboration), BitBucket (code repository) and JIRA Service Desk (help desk software.

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

SaaStr

They were building time and expense software. But my co-founders has done an amazing job, creating a scale platform that now has 600,000 reviews and 3 million SaaS software buyers coming every month looking for products like yours. We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it.

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SaaStr Podcast 215: Ryan Smith, Qualtrics Co-Founder & CEO On The Things Nobody Tells You About an $8 Billion Acquisition

SaaStr

Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO Ryan Smith sits down with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. Ryan Smith: I think if you look at this, this is a great way for those who are new into tech, if you look at 2002, we were in the shadow of the.com.

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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO alongside SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. Jared started, this is in 2002, he’s got the Antonio Banderas look going on there. Or can you redefine the TAM based on what your software does? ” Right?