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5 Interesting Learnings from UserTesting at $160,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

So UserTesting is a case study on how great SaaS can be (innovating and creating a market leader, and driving it to $160m+ ARR) … and also hard SaaS can be. It’s not that easy out there in SaaS land these days, folks. These are still great times in SaaS. And fairly sales-heavy, at 43% in sales and marketing.

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Holiday Specials: 2023 Cyber Weekend SaaS and Software Deals

FastSpring

Cyber Weekend — the weekend encompassing Black Friday and Cyber Monday — is a great time for businesses to slash prices and increase sales volume as the year wraps up. 2023 Cyber Weekend SaaS and Software Deals World Anvil “ World Anvil is the ULTIMATE all-in-one software for anyone who loves creative worldbuilding!

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Veeva: The Biggest Vertical SaaS Success Story of All Time (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

While it can be frightening to think differently, doing so has helped him make Veeva the biggest vertical SaaS success story of all time. Jason : You came up with the crazy idea to start Veeva in 2007, just before the worst two years that we’ve experienced in the industry, ’08 and ’09. Peter : Yeah.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! It was early 2007 the iPhone was announced. I’m like, “Where can I talk to a sales rep?” Jason : Forever.

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Employee Spotlight: Bill Wilson, Senior Director of Product and Kite Designer

FastSpring

How long have you been working in the SaaS/Tech industry? My first job in tech was in 1998 as a software developer. In 2007, I decided to build my first company, MindSea, and in 2018 I went on to start SalesRight. We needed to figure out a way to sell our service in a productized way, kind of like a SaaS product.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in the US

SmartKarrot

SaaS – Software-as-a-Service – is an umbrella term referring to a range of technologies and tools that facilitate the processing, storage, and management of big data using remote servers. The recent years have witnessed how SaaS products and companies have changed the way organizations operate online. Founded in: 2007.

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In this presentation, Pluralsight co-founder and CEO Aaron Skonnard will discuss how Pluralsight successfully transformed its business to serve both individual and enterprise customers independently and will share his lessons for SaaS companies looking to tap into individual customers to sell into enterprises and vice versa.

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