SaaStr

MAY 22, 2019

Hubspot is an inbound marketing and sales software company based in Massachusetts. Prior to this, he was a Venture Partner at Longworth Ventures, VP of Sales at Groove Networks (acquired by Microsoft.). Jay Simons rose up the ranks from Area Sales Manager with Plumtree software to VP of Product Marketing and Strategy.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Cyber Weekend — the weekend encompassing Black Friday and Cyber Monday — is a great time for businesses to slash prices and increase sales volume as the year wraps up. 2023 Cyber Weekend SaaS and Software Deals World Anvil “ World Anvil is the ULTIMATE all-in-one software for anyone who loves creative worldbuilding!

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 13, 2015

in sales and marketing efforts in the years before generating more than $200 million in revenue. At the time of its IPO, the company was only investing about 75% of its revenue and sales and marketing. Ariba enjoyed terrific sales efficiency through its first three years. Ariba’s growth was remarkably efficient.

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

MARCH 26, 2010

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. The evolution of application software development Application software development is on a similar path.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

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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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! We started development in early 2004. I’m like, “Where can I talk to a sales rep?” Jason : Forever.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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. Usually, it requires an outbound sales motion. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history.

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