SaaStr

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Take IBM’s recent purchase of RedHat to accelerate hybrid cloud adoption, or Salesforce’s acquisition of Mulesoft to coordinate, unlock, and integrate customer data better than any competitor. In 2005, eBay spent $2.6 Conservative Sprint executives clashed with scrappy Nextel personnel.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Join us for a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations, as we discuss the most common and emerging challenges facing SaaS companies today for both technical and non-technical backgrounds. Eyal Manor – VP, Engineering @ Google Cloud. Want to see more content like this session?

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Cloud Scale Trends Machine Learning 167

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

It is a cloud-based platform that offers the services of Asia’s top AI assistant for hotel staff – Gaia. Launched in 2005 in New York and Guangzhou, Gizwits has become the largest IoT development platform in China, as well as its first PaaS and SaaS platform. It provides smart hardware self-development and cloud service.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. In 2005, I was very lucky to join a company called Salesforce, which had just IPO’d.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2019

YC has funded over 1,900 startups since 2005 including Airbnb, coinbase, Dropbox, Stripe, Flexport, instacart and reddit. The company pivoted to cloud-based software in 2013 and counts Chubb, the City of Chicago and Burr Forman among its customers. Y Combinator is a seed accelerator. Michael Seibel was co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv

Scale 162

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Frontegg

JULY 15, 2021

Let’s say an organization wishes to authenticate its users without creating IAM roles and communicate assertions between the source and the target in a cloud environment. It was ratified back in 2005. Cloud-Based. First, users will be redirected to the cloud infrastructure to verify their identity. Image Source.

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Frontegg

JULY 15, 2021

Let’s say an organization wishes to authenticate its users without creating IAM roles and communicate assertions between the source and the target in a cloud environment. It was ratified back in 2005. Cloud-Based. First, users will be redirected to the cloud infrastructure to verify their identity. Image Source.

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How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

10Clouds offers a wide range of services focused on web and mobile app development, blockchain solutions, AI and machine learning, cloud solutions, DevOps, and SaaS. If you are looking for a service provider with experience in different niches and a variety of tech stacks, Schnell can be a great fit for you.

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DevOps as a Service Development Technical Review Blockchain 40

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

What will the world look like when cloud compute and storage are free? Cloud computing prices are hurtling to zero. AWS has decreased prices for EC2, elastic compute cloud, and S3, simple storage service, 42 times in eight years. The first manifestation of large scale, near-free compute I’ve seen is in machine learning.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 27, 2015

Each era (CD, License, Cloud) is shaded. Concur completed the full transition to cloud by 2005. Concur’s gross margins were highest late in its Cloud era. In the Cloud Era, the economies of scale powered the company to achieve all time gross margin highs in 2010 of about 72%.

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SaaS Cloud Travel Business Model 108

Frontegg

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

OpenID, developed in 2005, lets authentication services and websites exchange security details in a standardized manner. Without further ado, let’s learn about the two methods and compare them. What Is OpenID Connect (OIDC)? In 2014, the OpenID Foundation developed a new version named OpenID Connect (OIDC). What Is OAuth2?

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Mobile PayPal Identity management Cloud 144

BetterCloud

JUNE 17, 2021

And as a result, a growing number of organizations have adopted a SaaSOps mentality to discovering, managing, and securing their cloud-based environments. Donnelly believes that dedicated SaaSOps teams are essential for enabling employees to leverage the cloud-based tools at their disposal.

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The Angel VC

MAY 4, 2018

Until 2005 or so, most people used only one or maybe two devices to work with their files: a desktop PC and/or a laptop. Dark clouds on the horizon? More specifically, here are some factors that I think contributed to Dropbox's success, in no particular order: 1.

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Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Systems Review Software Review 143

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The startup built a cloud-based office procurement system that helps customers streamline supplier management. The same goes for Google acquiring Android for a measly $50 million in 2005 with key employees joining the company. By acquiring micro startups, companies can mitigate both risks and reap the rewards.

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Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

MARCH 3, 2010

I just read an excerpt on trust from Marc Benioff's book, " Behind the Cloud. " He tells the story of how salesforce.com dealt with a series of serious service outages in 2005 that was eroding the confidence of customers and prospects. To many, it may be a new concept. Help them understand it.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Before that, he co-founded two Internet startups (DealPilot.com in 1997 and Pageflakes in 2005). This is where the cloud meets. Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011.

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Development Team Review Software Review Management SaaS Payments 155

Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

” Towards that end, revenue multiple is a better bubble indicator than share price, so let’s take a look at the latest from Jamin Ball at Clouded Judgement. It sure does feel like 2005. Change to cloud-native. First-generation cloud solved a deployment problem; second-generation solves a development problem as well.

Blockchain 143

Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 143

BetterCloud

MARCH 23, 2018

Data Could Open a Security Breach,” warned one Washington Post headline in 2005. As the mainstream moves to SaaS and standardizes on 100% cloud, we are just hitting a tipping point now. And then, a few years later, as mobile devices proliferated, security risks emerged alongside them too. Lost a Blackberry?

Mobile 40

Mobile SaaS Government Cloud 40

Backlinkfy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

These efforts were undertaken in the days before concepts like “cloud computing” were even a glimmer in the collective eye of the internet. In 2005, Google partnered with Yahoo and MSN to announce the Nofollow attribute, which decreased the number of spammy links and comments on websites, especially blogs.

AI Search 53

AI Search Mobile Blockchain Engineering 53

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Atlassian Launches Free Tiers for All Its Cloud Products, Extends Premium Pricing Plan. Late in 2019, Atlassian introduced free tiers for all of its cloud products. In a 2015 report, Pacific Crest and Matrix Partners stated that more than 70% of cloud software businesses derived absolutely no sales from freemium strategies.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2019

With one startup acquired by Yahoo in 2005, another acquired by Google in 2007 and a background as an M&A lawyer, Craig’s perspective on M&A is insightful for any startup founder looking to acquire another company. Listen to the story of how Craig Walker, Founder & CEO at Dialpad acquired TalkIQ for $50M in 2018.

Acquisition 146

Acquisition Technical Review Systems Review AI 146

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. What is SaaS?

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

The Angel VC

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

our slightly ambitious stated goal when we started at the end of 2005) we would have needed higher organic growth rates (ironically, if Yahoo! Failure to do this is not only puts Pageflakes users in trouble, it also undermines users' trust in the cloud in general. Thank you.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 26, 2020

It is said that 2005 introduced mankind to the world of cloud computing. As Lesley MacDonald, Programs Manager, Dell EMC rightly explains, “From its early origins of SaaS, the cloud-based on-demand services category has evolved into anything-and-everything-as-a-service that isn’t nailed to the floor.

SaaS Payments 10

SaaS Payments Payment Services Transportation Payment Solutions 10

ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

Bundled service providers like AOL have phased out and cloud-based subscription services are enjoying their time in the sun. in 2005, Flickr was the first social platform based around photos, Flickr has struggled to add value to its core product. They had recently saved on server costs by switching to the cloud.

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Pricing Business Model Cloud Venture Capital 41

SmartKarrot

MAY 28, 2020

With more and more companies dealing with massive amounts of data ever since the boom of digital age in the last decade (to be specific somewhere around 2005), the cyber attackers have been presented with the greater opportunities to expose millions of records of the companies’ customers that are dealing with their private information.

SaaS 10

SaaS compliance Government Banking 10

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Cloud Hosting. Cloud hosting is relatively new. So if you’re price-sensitive and evaluating VPS plans, cloud hosting will likely be more cost-effective. Cloud plans are great for those of you who want to scale your server resources on-demand. 6 – HostGator Review — The Best Cheap Cloud Hosting.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

We’re using digital workflows and storing data in the cloud, but the rest of the world, this was an overnight just shift in how people worked and how they communicated. At the exact same time, that company hadn’t moved basic applications to the cloud. So, whether it’s cloud storage or cloud video or messaging.

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Sales Recruiting Cloud CTO Hire Scale 143

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Cool Planet Group CEO has had a fascinating career to date, having started and sold three businesses for over three-quarters of a billion dollars before he was forty – including Inspired Gaming and The Cloud. Along the way too, we also set up a business called the Cloud. Norman: Yeah.

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Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

SaaStr

JUNE 29, 2021

This is where the cloud meets. If you think about, go back to 2004, 2005. Allen Gannett. Transcript: Announcer: This is SaaStr’s founder’s favorite series, where you can hear some of the best of the best from SaaStr speakers.

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SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Harry Stebbings: And before that, Erica had an incredible 16 year tenure with Oracle Corporation where she founded and led numerous teams within the sales organization, including pioneering the company’s cloud business and leading teams for North American and Latin American markets.

Scale 154

Scale Enterprise Scaling Sales Hiring 154

SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

Over the last 10 years and 5 years with the advent of SaaS mobile cloud platforms, it’s become hard to connect so many things together and do it in a way that’s efficient and doesn’t drain a bunch of time. We have a lot of technology trends, so cloud was pivotal. I tried to raise money in London back in 2005.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tradeshift has grown to 650+ people with offices in 12 countries from its start as a mere vision in 2005. We say, “Hey, would you like a cloud platform to run your supply chain? If we think about computing, we tend to think it went in two stages: on-premise, cloud. How far is SAP to become a cloud company again?

Payment Solutions 144

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 144

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 22, 2021

1995 – 2000: The Rise of Customer-Centric Business Outlook 2000 – 2005: Customer Relationship Management and Marketing Automation Platforms 2005 – 2010: Automation and Marketing plugs in Engagement and Sales. The Customer Success Funnel SaaS and Mobile Apps Cloud and its Phenomenal Impacts. Cloud and its Phenomenal Impacts .

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Customer Success Scale Artificial Intelligence Cloud 10

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

AWS offers cloud services to businesses. Coupa is a cloud-based expenditure management software for businesses. DropBox is a file-sharing service that utilizes cloud computing technology. Ring Central is a cloud service package that caters to both small and large businesses. Founder(s): Charles Geschke, John Warnock.

Marketplace as a Service 10

Marketplace as a Service SaaS AWS Cybersecurity 10

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The challenge with all of this was, I was at university from 2005 to 2008, and we all know what happened in 2008. Experience is clouding our ability to hire great people, and it’s reinforcing stereotypes. And so there weren’t a lot of thriving startups around to go join.

Scale 99

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Review 99

Sales Hacker

JUNE 30, 2020

Dallas, Texas in 2005 was not a place that was yet ready for the wellness revolution that has since come. The trick is that any one person’s perspective on you is also clouded by their own feelings, their own issues, their own baggage, but the aggregate perspective of many different people is interesting and useful feedback.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Artificial Intelligence Travel 78