OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 17, 2019

High gross margins together with high customer retention rates for a SaaS company at scale contribute to higher valuations, up to 20X or even 30X revenues in today’s market. Heading into 2020, the SaaS market is expected to continue with strong growth. Have SaaS Gross Margins Improved Over Time?

Scale 40

Scale SaaS AWS Revenue 40

OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 23, 2019

On the other side, there’s business-based innovation, which might have to do with how you go to market or a business model. In addition to having both these kinds of innovation in play, your entire idea needs to be underpinned by a unique insight or set of insights into the market, the problem space, the customer, etc.

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Innovation Outsourced Development AWS Technology 41

FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

Nathan Collier I remember when that was happening because I was I was working at a company right around, you know, or 2010 around that time when that whole like making calls out of your computer tied to a CRM that was pretty new during I mean even I mean, that was after it had already been on the market. Like the way that we do it.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

It’s a brutal, awful slog in the start. I would say, it’s always good to call out just how awful it is to be a founder, to be an entrepreneur, because that is a unique perspective that you bring to the board room that no one else shares. That sounds like an awful idea,” and then you have to work for it.

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Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring AWS Business Model 242

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Byron Deeter and Elliott Robinson, partners at Bessemer Venture Partners, offer macro trends in the public and private cloud markets, strategic advice to cloud founders, and insights into why entrepreneurs should feel auspicious about the future. We’ve all seen AWS and what they’ve done with their platform.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Doug Pepper | Marketing Director @Shasta Ventures. And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this. Salesforce was already successful, they were selling seat based, and the feeling was that CMOs and marketing didn’t have enough seats.

SaaS 143

SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Innovation 143

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The US market has high demand and supply of SaaS service providers. Many companies across industries use adobe tools and services, including marketing, printing, publishing, and digital media. Amazon Web Services (AWS). Amazon, the global marketplace, also offers several other services, one of which is Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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Marketplace as a Service SaaS AWS Cybersecurity 10