Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. All of the businesses we’ve looked at in the past have been purely SaaS businesses.

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Benchmarks SaaS Payments Metrics Scale 100

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Since it’s humble beginnings in 2003 as a spinoff of the CafePress blogging platform, WordPress has grown into a powerful content management system (CMS) that directly supports a significant portion of the internet. That’s not an exaggeration.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

According to Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, the one thing necessary for any company to succeed in China – or in any of the Asian countries – is to get local investment. After singling out 38 brilliant SaaS stars , we had a suspicion we were going to find some notable fuelers of growth. And we weren’t disappointed.

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Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Soren: My Co-founder and I met in graduate school where we were creating algorithms for processing satellite imagery. In 2003 we realized that CMOs were really struggling with the auction-based nature of media buying in Search and we knew that was a math problem we could solve in a way that would tie directly to their business success.

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Interviewing SaaS Payments Payments Technical Advisors 40

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. But they were doing it earlier than Java and trying to do it in a way where it gets deployed on the internet, which is something we would call SaaS today. And as a hobby we have just launched another SaaS company called ThreeKit.

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