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Subscription Rockstars: How HubSpot Went From Zero to $500+ Million in Annual Revenue

Chargify

Welcome to the Subscription Rockstars series! And, of course, we will pay special attention to how their subscription billing models and pricing strategies contributed to their growth. 2007: 48 customers. 2007: 15 employees. 2007:$255,000. 2008: 317 customers. 2009: 1,150 customers. 2010: 3,855 customers.

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SaaStr’s Podcast “Best Of Guide” Our Top 10 Podcasts of All Time

SaaStr

About the episode: Tien Tzuo is the Founder and CEO of Zuora, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies that has been at the forefront of the rise of subscription business models. 4: Upfront Ventures Partner Mark Suster on The One Thing That Kills Sales. Episode No. Episode No. Episode No.

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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We started the business in 2007. We raised $0 of venture capital. ” Now, seven years later, SalesLoft has over 400 employees, has raised over $75 million of venture capital, and in the next two years, if not sooner, my prediction is that they will be a unicorn that you’ll be able to read about on Tech Crunch.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses. Exclusively, we have a modern financial platform for early stage and growth subscription businesses and really focusing on three major pain areas of these businesses. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses. Exclusively, we have a modern financial platform for early stage and growth subscription businesses and really focusing on three major pain areas of these businesses. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses. Exclusively, we have a modern financial platform for early stage and growth subscription businesses and really focusing on three major pain areas of these businesses. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56. Excellent, great.

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Memories of the bad old days

The SaaS Garage

A few days ago I had lunch with some friends, all of them softare and Venture Capital veterans, who I all know from the early days of the 21st century. A very similar situation in 2007/8 with the proliferation of the financial crisis. . Better a paused subscription than a churned subscription.