SaaStr
JUNE 5, 2020
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. . What if a $5m ARR SaaS startup could do the same? .
Tom Tunguz
JULY 6, 2014
Because GoPro is the first sizable consumer hardware IPO in eons and because the startup world has a blossoming hardware segment, I thought it would be interesting to compare and contrast a top consumer hardware startup with the benchmarks of public SaaS companies using GoPro’s S-1. I have three goals with this analysis.
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SaaStr
NOVEMBER 18, 2020
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. Early on, Basecamp had to deal with banks that were wary of their subscription plans.
Chargify
AUGUST 6, 2019
Welcome to the Subscription Rockstars series! And, of course, we will pay special attention to how their subscription billing models and pricing strategies contributed to their growth. Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shash met in 2004 when they were both graduate students at MIT. Image source).
SaaSHolic
MARCH 20, 2023
Em 2004, o mundo da tecnologia viveu um evento que viria transformar a nossa forma de nos relacionar com amigos, comprar, expressar opiniões, compartilhar emoções, enfim, “socializar”. Um cliente usuário assíduo de uma plataforma requer um produto que conversa com determinada plataforma.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 2, 2019
And so I’m so thrilled to welcome back Krish Subramanian, founder and CEO at Chargebee, the startup that lets you go beyond payment, billing, and recurring invoices to delivering subscription experiences that wow and what they’re doing now in the world of rev ops, trust me, it’s pretty mind blowing.
How SaaS Works
OCTOBER 15, 2019
In true startup fashion, Ryan had an ambitious idea to bust through this wall and cobbled together the resources to bring his idea to life. The success of providing a free, interactive tool on high-value search terms led to HubSpot creating an out of office template generator , invoice generator , and more. Basecamp?—?Turning
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