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The most common mistake SaaS companies make on sales tax collection and filings

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When the company first began web app development and selling software-as-a-service in 2004, their business model wasn’t even called SaaS. And, like every software startup, their small team had a million other things to worry about. Meanwhile, new tax legislation for SaaS companies was brewing.

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

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Every week we’ll be rolling out new winners until we get to the very pinnacle of our list. Namely is an HR software company that offers HR, payroll, benefits and talent management tools to businesses. She later joined Jive Software as President and CEO before going on to Namely. From 2004-2009 he was a partner at Greylock.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

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With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. We need to hire this new head of sales, who’s going to come in and change the way that we’re going to market. Yep, we did that.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

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The fact of the matter is there are countless ways that you can choose to build your business, and even amongst this new flock of independent SaaS companies there are significant, deliberate differences in the approaches these companies have taken. TWO NEW COMPANIES PLOT THEIR COURSE. Further Reading We Spent $3.3M

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

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I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. They were building time and expense software. 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. It’s in the cloud.