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My Top 10 Year One SaaS Mistakes. Save Yourself Some Pain & Just Don’t Make Them Yourself.

SaaStr

I thought updating that list would create a useful checklist for things not to do in SaaS in the early days … since they are all avoidable. – My Top 10 Mistakes Starting An (Ultimately Successful) SaaS Company. – My Top 10 Mistakes Starting An (Ultimately Successful) SaaS Company. – Launching Too Early.

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Dear SaaStr: Is a Big Market Really Better Than a Niche Market?

SaaStr

This is the reason 70%+ of SaaS companies that IPO are just new version of old, successful things: About 70% of SaaS Unicorns Are New Versions of Existing Categories of Software | SaaStr But … but … Small markets can grow into large markets if you change the market or there is otherwise disruption in the market. What Should I Expect?

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Run Less Software

Intercom, Inc.

I’m referring to the full spectrum of business execution, from product management to design to engineering to marketing to sales to support and all the other functions needed to scale a business. We are the soldiers companies are trying to recruit to help them win the battle for talent. The second army are your main competitors.

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8 Tough Lessons from Closing 12,000 Customers at WebPT (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In this session, hear from three women who founded, funded and are leading WebPT, one of the nation’s fastest-growing SaaS companies in the specialty electronic medical record sector. Learn what it takes to create your own category, achieve scale in a niche SaaS vertical and how it requires more than just discovering an unmet need.

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How to Become a VP of Sales by the Time You’re 30

Sales Hacker

Have you ever wondered how to become a VP of Sales? By the time I was 30 years old, I was working at Oracle (via startup acquisition) helping them build the #1 performing SaaS sales team in my region. At the time, I had two years as a VP of Sales under my belt. How can you become a VP of Sales? So how did I do it?

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Understanding the SaaS business model

ProfitWell

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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Top 30 SaaS Companies in India

SmartKarrot

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. A SaaS company is a service provider that hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the internet. The SaaS company is responsible for maintaining databases and servers and making sure that users can access the applications from almost all devices.