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

Tom Tunguz

Founded in 2003, Tableau followed a more gradual revenue growth curve than the median SaaS company. There is a tradeoff between the predictability of the SaaS business model and the margins of a perpetual license model. In these plots, I’ve used Tableau’s colors as a consistent legend.

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Breaking Down the Ultimate Question – NPS

ChurnZero

Net Promoter Score was first developed by Fred Reichheld, Bain & Company and Satmetrix in 2003. Since then it has been used heavily by companies, both large and small, to assess customer satisfaction and has become an important metric for growth-driven technology businesses. ChurnZero Resource. NPS Cheat Sheet.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Domo and Gorgias — April 24, 2020

SaaStr

It started back in 2003, when I joined Omniture, which was an analytics company founded here in Utah. John Mellor: And that year, when I joined in 2003, Omniture did $8 million in revenue. ” Clearly, Wall Street and the Adobe team knew the benefit of a subscription business model and the transition into SaaS.

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

SaaStr

In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003. Jason : A lot of things I want to chat about with limited time, but I want to talk about business models, because we’re here about scaling revenue. Slack for Business?

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Salesforce figured out in 2003 that just having the list of partners on our site that integrated with customers wasn’t enough; we needed to facilitate the discovery, the ranking and the promotion of community advocacy around these solutions. Business models are in your favor in terms of hosting, deploying the product and ultimately scaling.

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Top 10 Lessons Learned in Getting to $100M ARR with Adaptive Insights (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

From team to vision to metrics to funding and more, these principles provide the framework for high-growth, high performing SaaS companies. We sold that to IBM in 2003, and it was a fantastic experience. Tom Bogan, CEO of Adaptive Insights, a Workday company, will review the key principles to building a successful SaaS company.

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Building Customer Success Into The DNA of Your SaaS Start-up - An Interview With Aaron Fulkerson, CEO, MindTouch

Outseta

By Geoff Roberts 20 min read As the SaaS business model has matured over the course of the past decade, it's fair to say that awareness of the importance of the customer success function has escalated dramatically. So it was clear we didn't have that business model. So I went around to the different product teams.