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The First Generation of the Talent Software Wars

Tom Tunguz

Both companies eventually offered talent acquisition, performance management, and learning tools for human resources teams. Taleo initially focused on recruiting tools and SuccessFactors on performance management. Company Revenue at IPO, $M Customers at IPO ACV at IPO, $k Year of IPO Years Since Founding.

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

Founded: 2007. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+ Founded: 2009.

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

Sales Hacker

And for leveling up your sales skills, nothing beats a good sales book. So what are the best sales books for helping you reach peak performance? Have been recommended by sales professionals. Here’s how you can find the sales books that are most relevant to you. Here they are… The 97 Best Sales Books in 2020.

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Benchmarking LinkedIn's S-1 - How 7 Key SaaS Metrics Stack Up

Tom Tunguz

LinkedIn attracts hundreds of millions of consumers to post resumes online and sells this data and access to its audience to advertisers and recruiters and salespeople. The intrinsic data and people network effects of the business create reinforcing feedback cycles that have helped the business achieve tremendous revenue growth.

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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO alongside SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. Ryan Smith: The backstory here is we turned down an acquisition offer for $500 million in 2012. Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see. ” We could do it under the Qualtrics umbrella.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson, Henry Schuck, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

If you look at the IAS vendors, they passed $130 billion revenue milestone this year. What that does is not only did it accelerate the top line revenue for Shopify, but it dramatically opened up their total addressable market on a revenue basis. . This is really founder-led sales. It is staggering.

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The SaaS superstars of the East Coast

SaaStock

Founded: 2007. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+ Founded: 2009.