SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

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. In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003.

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Kellblog

JULY 11, 2020

” His dismemberment of bad strategy is so surgical and so deft that it alone is worth the price of the book. For example, say it’s 2003 and you’re at CRM leader Siebel Systems. Your biggest strategic challenge is your indirect competitor Salesforce.com, who is disrupting the business model with software as a service.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We’ve actually done studies on this and it turns out many startups that try to do this end up with non-software margins. The primary use cases that we talked about are clearly mostly software-based, at least for now. The narrative is this episodic thing with summers and winters and all of these false promises.

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Generative AI AI Artificial Intelligence Scale 95

Point Nine Land

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A good occasion to speak about monitoring software, show a few screenshots of the Soda product and explain why we backed the company. Just to name a few: Splunk (started in 2003, $27bn market cap), Dynatrace (started in 2005, IPO, $12bn market cap), AppDynamics (started in 2008, acq for $3.7b Welcome S….

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Today, we’ll examine Tableau, the market leader for data visualization software. Tableau sells software the old-fashioned way, with perpetual licenses not subscriptions. Customers pay a fee for the software up-front, in addition to an annual maintenance fee of about 20-25%.

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Benchmarks SaaS Payments Metrics Scale 100

SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

It started back in 2003, when I joined Omniture, which was an analytics company founded here in Utah. It was back when you used different words for it, things like managed software or application service provider. John Mellor: And that year, when I joined in 2003, Omniture did $8 million in revenue.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2014

HubSpot’s target customer base are SMBs and with this price point, it’s possible to support a profitable inside sales model if the team is very efficient. FLTX, a maker of fleet tracking software, has identical ARPC. DATA 2003 10 232. Only WIX, CTCT and RNG had smaller figures of $86, $265 and $352. RNG 1999 14 162.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

SaaS Investments: Consilium Software, HRBoss, and others. Founded: 2003. Its focus is on mobile and software, with an accent on collaborating with entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas. Grab a ticket before March 5th when prices increase. Its investment focus is on tech companies, including SaaS. Founded: 1990.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

Hosting & domain – Most website builders will host your website on the web, which is typically included in the price. If you plan on making money from your website, either by selling products directly or to capture leads, then price should not be a key consideration for you. In fact, WordPress powers a whopping 37.6%

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SaaStr

MAY 30, 2019

So, early in my career, I started in technology a long time ago, and had the privilege of being President and running Rational Software in the early 2000’s and, as you may recall, we sold that. That was perpetual license software. We sold that to IBM in 2003, and it was a fantastic experience. I joined Rational Software.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

I graduated school in 2003 and my dad had been in sales for 41 years. And I jumped in in 2003, and to be very honest, for the first six years of my career, I sort of had this very meandering career where I moved from small town to small town. I thought this was an incredible software product. Justin Welsh: Yeah.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

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. And by 2003 we were almost out of business. We’re starting to having lay people off.”

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SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley. Even within software-based, SAS-based enterprise businesses. Let’s shift now to the dynamics, or rather the stages of the startup, right? What’s the smallest deal you’ve done? One, a VP sales.

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Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 218

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley. Even within software-based, SAS-based enterprise businesses. Let’s shift now to the dynamics, or rather the stages of the startup, right? What’s the smallest deal you’ve done? One, a VP sales.

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Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 191

Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

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. Soren: This was 2003, and I was working as Head of Business Development for a web engineering company in Boston.

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