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We?re About To See a Lot More SaaS Debt

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2004 Salesforce IPO Brought Financial Capital to SaaS Founders. With the Salesforce IPO in 2004, we saw the first sign that institutional investors were comfortable with a standard set of SaaS metrics: Churn, sales efficiency , ARPU, LTV, customer acquisition cost , and so on. . Don’t VC’s Want This Dealflow? Why Let Banks In?

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The impact of the cloud and PaaS on marketing

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

Though "the Rouge" continued to operate as an assembly plant until 2004 when one last convertible Mustang GT rolled off the line in May of that year, Ford had decades earlier moved to a more decentralized manufacturing process. Cloud computing, and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) in particular, are further destinations on this same path.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Mayfield and TripActions — May 1, 2020

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In my early twenties I founded three companies between 1995 to 2004 which all had successful exits, including an acquisition by Microsoft and an IPO. Navin Chaddha: I joined the venture capital business as an entrepreneur in residence in 2004 to work on my fourth company and one thing led to the other and I became a venture capitalist.

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

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Founded: 2004. By making sense of the data, businesses can increase their customer acquisition and retention. Ultimate Software is one of the giants of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions. Founders: Tobias Lütke, Daniel Weinand, Marcie Murray, Scott Lake. Based in: Ottawa, ON. Funding to date: $253.3M.

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

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And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. And I remember they were born in 2004 our business was kind of at the bottom but they were also wound up being born nine weeks premature. But the other thing that made it successful, in 2004 I went to one of the first Dreamforce’s met Marc Benioff.

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How Customer-Driven, Pay-As-You-Go Pricing Changes Everything

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In 2004, Logikcull was a highly profitable services company that streamlined legal discovery by processing and packaging data from customer hard drives. Instead of shipping us hard drives to process, our customers could process their own data with our software if we made it self-service and put it on the cloud.

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More of SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards List Revealed!

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