SaaStr

MAY 21, 2021

Squarespace is a personal favorite (and one we run many SaaStr sites on) because it took a category of software that was a commodity and often a free give-away and made it magical. But took a full decade for mobile to get mature enough to make construction software really work, because it had to work in the field. More on that here.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2023

Not easy, but easier and easier: There was a bump in 2016, a Flash Crash in SaaS, when budgets were slashed, but it didn’t last long enough to really impact renewal cycles.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2023

“Our analysis indicates that approximately 19% of jobs have at least 50% of their tasks exposed to GPTs when considering both current model capabilities and anticipated GPT-powered software.” ” How much might US GDP grow assuming large-language models enable US workers to do more?

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Artificial Intelligence AI Search Government Banking 176

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 28, 2021

Founded in 2005 in Bucharest, Romania, by Daniel Dines and Marius Tirca, the company now operates more than 60 offices housing nearly 3000 employees. UIPath offers software to build robots, programs that automate repetitive work. The UIPath suite includes the software to write, execute, monitor, and maintain these robots.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2023

As you’ll learn further down in this article, ARR now means any type of software-related revenue with 100%+ Net Revenue Retention (NRR), even if it’s not truly recurring. The Number One Thing That Has Changed In SaaS Since 2005 “The number one thing that has changed over my entire journey with SaaS since 2005 is efficiency,” shares Lemkin.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2021

We never sustainably fell behind from what one could actually do with computing and software because of this—not being on-prem didn’t destroy us. If you can nail that for the category you’re in, it will be magic that makes SaaS so much more compelling than the prior era of on-prem software. Don’t neglect your existing customer base.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Recurring software revenue is now recognized as a great way to generate tons of cash for investors,” says Gerety. Lemkin’s been a SaaS entrepreneur since 2005, and SaaS didn’t come into fashion until 2019. He had never found a successful software company that wasn’t necessary. But that wasn’t always the case. It took a while.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Historically, video game and software developers have relied on open computing with PC and Mac platforms because it has enabled developers to release titles as they see fit, have a direct relationship with their players, and choose payment solutions that work for them. For more information, please visit [link].

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FastSpring

JANUARY 22, 2024

Founded in 2005, FastSpring is a privately owned company headquartered in California with offices in the UK, Netherlands, and Canada. As a Merchant of Record, FastSpring provides a fully managed payment solution including checkout, fraud mitigation, and 100% automated sales tax and VAT compliance. For more information, please visit [link].

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Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 88

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

The Ultimate Software Company is a $5.5B market cap provider of SaaS Human Capital Management software. Founded in 1996, the company initially sold licensed software and migrated to multi-tenant SaaS in 2002 with a product called UltiPro. Since 2004, Ultimate Software has generated positive cash flow.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 18, 2015

Taleo 85 1000 85 2005 6. SAP purchased SuccessFactors for $3.4B in December 2011, and Oracle bought Taleo for $1.9B in February 2012. Company Revenue at IPO, $M Customers at IPO ACV at IPO, $k Year of IPO Years Since Founding. SuccessFactors 39 1300 30 2007 6. The companies pursued slight different strategies in the market.

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IT World

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

That could interest a lot of CIOs: SAP has offered its software on the Power platform since 2005, and ported HANA to the Power architecture in 2015. The move introduces a new hosting option for enterprises running modern ERP systems with large databases on the Power platform. Comparison shopping?

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2019

Hubspot is an inbound marketing and sales software company based in Massachusetts. YC has funded over 1,900 startups since 2005 including Airbnb, coinbase, Dropbox, Stripe, Flexport, instacart and reddit. Jay Simons rose up the ranks from Area Sales Manager with Plumtree software to VP of Product Marketing and Strategy.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 25, 2013

In 2005, I started as a customer support rep in the AdSense team at Google. Over the next few months, I was trained in the art of handling hundreds of emails per day.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Since our beginnings in 2005, our brand has evolved many times to accommodate our ever-growing capabilities and larger industry changes. These three concepts have been central to our success since 2005. After a decade of experience helping software companies grow, the FastSpring visual identity was ready for evolution.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 20, 2016

About 15 years since the creation of the first SaaS companies, public SaaS companies account for 14% of total software revenues generated by public companies, a figure growing at about 17% per year. in 2005 to $24B in 2015. Perhaps SaaS products generated 20-25% of all software revenues, an astoundingly high figure.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2015

Publicly-traded SaaS companies founded from 2008 through 2014 needed 50% less time to reach $50M than their counterparts founded between 1998 and 2005. SaaS startups are growing faster than ever before.

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SaaS Engineering Trends Enterprise 108

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is one of the transformative services in the modern digital landscape. 8 Best SaaS Development Companies in 2024 Clockwise Software Rate: $50 – $99 / hr Employees: 50 – 249 Founded: 2014 This Ukrainian company from Dnipro is one of the leaders in JavaScript development.

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DevOps as a Service Development Technical Review Blockchain 40

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

Many software survivors of the dot-com crash pursued a more conservative strategy and were rewarded for their prudence. in 2005, but they were nearly cash-flow break-even throughout the period. NB: Tableau is perpetual license, not pure SaaS, but I’ve included them because I consider them part of the new software movement.

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SaaS Startup Pricing Mobile 108

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 27, 2015

The first SaaS startup started as a packaged software company. After selling floppy disks and CD-ROMs of expense software in computer software stores, the company changed models for the first time, and sold software licenses directly to enterprises. Concur completed the full transition to cloud by 2005.

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How To Buy Saas

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Ellen Davis of the National Retail Federation and Scott Silverman coined the term, which was first used on November 28, 2005. BeforeSunset is a user-friendly time tracking and budget management software that gives actionable insights to increase … Add to wishlist Added to wishlist Removed from wishlist 0. Buy product.

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SaaS Payments Payment Methods Software Review Payment Solutions 52

The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

The first date When I stumbled on Zendesk in 2008 I knew absolutely nothing about enterprise software, B2B or SaaS. I had always been a consumer Internet guy, having founded comparison shopping engine DealPilot.com back in 1997 and personalized homepage Pageflakes in 2005.

Scale 155

Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital Software Review 155

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In 2005, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft were vying to win dominant share of advertising pages across large publishers. How important is this product compared to other software? When I was a PM at Google, we conducted customer research often to understand our customers’ opinions on AdSense.

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Product Marketing Development Team Review Software Review Startup 114

Tom Tunguz

JULY 29, 2015

Over the past decade, Netsuite has grown 37% per year, starting at about 51% in 2005 and in recent years, consistently sustaining 25% annual growth. As the company disclosed in their last annual report , Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, owns 47.4% of Netsuite common stock, implying the company is strategically important to Oracle.

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Benchmarks Outsourced Development Metrics Scale 101

Teamgate

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Isn’t a well-conceived sales strategy, and a properly analyzed sales pipeline, planned and implemented using modern Sales CRM software a much more valuable model throughout the whole business year? Cyber Monday is the brainchild of the US National Retail Federation (NRF), who coined the phrase back in 2005. Photo credit: TimeIncUK.

Software Review 75

Software Review Merchant Services Software Pricing 75

Point Nine Land

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A good occasion to speak about monitoring software, show a few screenshots of the Soda product and explain why we backed the company. Just to name a few: Splunk (started in 2003, $27bn market cap), Dynatrace (started in 2005, IPO, $12bn market cap), AppDynamics (started in 2008, acq for $3.7b Welcome S…. Soda is their go-to platform.

Enterprise 40

Enterprise Data Technical Review Blockchain 40

FastSpring

APRIL 19, 2019

Since I joined FastSpring two years ago, I have been lucky to witness the extraordinary evolution of FastSpring, and it’s even more impressive when you consider how far we’ve come since 2005. FastSpring is the better way to grow for software companies, but we also do our best to help employees grow in their careers.

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Scaling Company Culture Leadership Education 70

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

It’s incredible to think about how much things have changed since the company was first started in 2005. I loved being able to see everybody in one place, and collaborating with people I don’t normally get a chance to work with day-to-day.” – Brian Hardy, Senior Software Engineer.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 7, 2021

2 Subscription Management Vs. Recurring Billing 3 Advantages of Subscription Management 4 Subscription Management Software Tools Chargebee FastSpring Salesforce Baremetrics Want to Reduce Your Churn? Subscription Management Software Tools There are several software tools available to help with subscription- management.

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Payment Features Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 45

SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

Founded: 2005. Riverwood provides late stage venture and private equity funding for companies with high potential from a number of industries, including IT, hardware, consumer electronics, IT services, B2B software, and digital and consumer internet. The target fields include logistics and transportation, finance, and healthcare.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

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”. Before that, he co-founded two Internet startups (DealPilot.com in 1997 and Pageflakes in 2005). Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011.

Development Team Review 153

Development Team Review Software Review Management SaaS Payments 153

ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

This isn’t surprising by any means - Europe has one of the highest densities of software engineers in the world and thriving startup ecosystems are growing across the region.". We’re referring to Apple, which has offered podcasts since 2005. Parul Singh Launches Event. We’re wondering if Spotify has a trick up its sleeve it step ahead.

Payment Solutions 40

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments Entertainment 40

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

is a self-hosted, open-source, CMS that was founded way back in 2005. Using the latest software helps improve site security, which is one of the ranking signals search engines use to determine where they show your content. What Is Joomla? Joomla (also stylized as Joomla!) Similarly, all extensions need to be up-to-date.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Yes, the tech giants could develop the software these micro startups are making, but by the time it’s ready for market, a competitor might have rolled a similar product out and taken all the glory. The same goes for Google acquiring Android for a measly $50 million in 2005 with key employees joining the company.

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Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

MARCH 3, 2010

In subscribing to software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, customers aren't really buying a product ; they're buying a promise. 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. Help them understand it.

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Mattermark

AUGUST 28, 2017

Mr. Khosrowshahi has been the CEO of Expedia since 2005, building it into the $23 Billion company it is today. You have to read this interview with Oni Chukwu , CEO of etouches , ( who you’ve probably never heard of ) and his three $100M+ exits as an executive at software companies. The Search is Over.

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BetterCloud

MARCH 23, 2018

Data Could Open a Security Breach,” warned one Washington Post headline in 2005. History is repeating itself—except this time around, we’re rushing headlong into Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. And then, a few years later, as mobile devices proliferated, security risks emerged alongside them too. Lost a Blackberry?

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