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FastSpring

And this is why I struggle to say when I started my business, I think in 2004 or five, I started I had a lot of free time because I had just lost my job it is big ERP going word was going down in Germany. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. So I just had this idea. And I had even no money to do it.

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

SaaStr

David : One of the big changes obviously is mobile. If I had it to do all over again, I would have made mobile the primary way that the product worked. The specific way mobile translates into faster growth is that you can slurp the address book. We could have been way more viral had we done mobile from the beginning.

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Top 20 SaaS Companies in Australia

SmartKarrot

Launched in 2004, Campaign Monitor is an email marketing platform catering to businesses of different sizes. The platform comes with different capabilities, such as dynamic content, customizable templates, social sharing, mobile-ready capabilities, and A/B testing. Founder/ CEO: Alan Downie and Matt Milosavljevic. Campaign Monitor.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. I think it’s a really staggering stat.

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