SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? This episode is sponsored by Lightmatter. Does it not matter for the chart on the left? I think by segment.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

Duo Security, now a part of Cisco, is a provider of unified access security and multi-factor authentication delivered via the cloud. Adaptive Insights is a cloud-based platform for modernizing business planning. Dug Song founded Duo Security in 2019 and grew the company as CEO until it’s acquisition in October of 2018.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Deputy , for instance, was a reimagining of an in-house tool that took on a life of its own once we combined the core technology with the idea of product led growth and the power of a cloud-based platform. The first time I worked with Steve was back in 2003. The Catalyst – The Hybrid Product/Human Solution.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2019

Craig Walker: And so, it just looked like a massive opportunity that every bit our bet was, and this was 2010 when we were leaving Google, that every business was going to move to the cloud for their email and productivity suite. So, I joined Google early on in 2003. Dan O’Connell: Yeah. It’s funny. So it’s funny.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2023

Microsoft launched OneNote in 2003, and it became a part of its Microsoft Office suite in 2007. Cloud storage OneNote stores all the information, notebooks, and support documents, on the cloud. Currently, OneNote is offered as a bundle with Windows 10 and 11. In addition to this, OneNote can also be used as a standalone product.

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Outseta

AUGUST 23, 2017

What would happen is one of the development guys would come to me and say ‘We need more cloud hosting servers, I think we should use these, can we do it?’ Founded in 1999, POD Group only recently began embracing self management after Towers-Clark realized, “Everything was being held up by me.” and I’d ask, ‘Do we need to get more servers?’

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Outseta

OCTOBER 16, 2017

This was in 2003 or 2004, and we were spending $2B dollars a year in research which is nothing by today's standards but it was for the most that was being spent at that time. I'm like Steve I don't know; I get that delivery in the cloud is faster and it's better for the customer. So I went around to the different product teams.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

Look at this, the BVP Cloud Index we plummeted in March and then as we were talking about before, if you just put all your money just into Square on March 20th, you would have doubled your money, right? Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? Does it not matter for the chart on the left? I think by segment.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Founded: 2003. It’s also running the Capital Innovation Accelerator Fund targeted at cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile and e-commerce startups. It invests in high-growth businesses developing solutions in mobile, telecommunications, IT, cloud, and internet. Size of fund: $9.9M. Founded: 1959. Size of fund: N/A.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

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. John Mellor: I got into SaaS before I knew I was getting into SaaS. And that was kind of my entree into SaaS.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. And by 2003 we were almost out of business. It’s in the cloud. We built a CPQ in the cloud, can we partner?” We became the number one partner for Salesforce in the cloud. Dell was selling configural PCs online.

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Backlinkfy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

These efforts were undertaken in the days before concepts like “cloud computing” were even a glimmer in the collective eye of the internet. In 2003, for example, the company rolled out its “Florida” update, which would mark a drastic change in Google’s algorithm. But this was no easy undertaking. Not on keywords alone.

AI Search 53

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Take control with the DocuSign agreement cloud, a suite of tools that automates sales contracts and quote, all right in your CRM. I came out of school in 2003 and really for the first six years of my career, I was pretty much what you would label a complete failure. Every sales org feels the pressure to close deals faster.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

AWS offers cloud services to businesses. Coupa is a cloud-based expenditure management software for businesses. DropBox is a file-sharing service that utilizes cloud computing technology. Ring Central is a cloud service package that caters to both small and large businesses. Founder(s): Charles Geschke, John Warnock.

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SaaStr

MAY 30, 2019

We sold that to IBM in 2003, and it was a fantastic experience. And, during that period of time we began to see the early phase of cloud and SaaS companies, and we saw the change in the business model and had conviction that it was a powerful change and would really fundamentally alter the way we thought about software companies.

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