ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. Recurring payments.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

It sure does feel like 2005. Flood of venture capital (VC). Venture capital continues to flow. PLG brings many good ideas that companies should consider and map to their own business models. There are a bunch of new ideas in circulation. Everyone is talking about them.

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Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 142

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

” When I took the helm at Evernote in 2005, many people had written the company off. It attracted capital from the top venture capitalists on the planet, could do no wrong until in many ways it could do no right. And the leading indicator for this is the flows of venture capital money.

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ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

In that one sentence Dyson created the most prolific business model of the next two decades: freemium. Wilson calls it his favorite business model, and points to examples such as Skype, Flickr, Trillian, Newsgator, Box, and Webroot as paradigms. Do we have a word for this business model? Acquired by Yahoo!

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Pricing Business Model Cloud Venture Capital 41

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

Brian, if you don’t know who Brian is, conceived of HubSpot in 2005. We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? It’s been a long time.

Scale 106

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 106

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

Brian, if you don’t know who Brian is, conceived of HubSpot in 2005. We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? It’s been a long time.

Scale 49

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 49