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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. I love the company and the product, and the value add.

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Holiday Specials: 2023 Cyber Weekend SaaS and Software Deals

FastSpring

In case you missed it, our recent 2023 SaaS and Software Holiday Spend Report highlights how, whether your business focuses on B2C, B2B, or both , SaaS and software Q4 sales bumps are significant around the globe. a financial software company founded in 2007 and based in Southern California.

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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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How I Got Promoted: Marques Stewart, VP of Technology at Achievement First

BetterCloud

So, 2006 or 2007. I’ve noticed this about software developers, but I also see it in many IT careers. We are not going to spend the hours patching it or making new features but we could invest in a company/SaaS platform that would make that investment for us. When I started at Achievement First, there was the iPhone.

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

SaaStr

It was early 2007 the iPhone was announced. Stewart, totally disabuse me if I get it wrong, but notwithstanding all the blue chip logos you have, you’ve got a very core software development, project management core. I don’t think that Yammer had that same software developer core that could get accelerated.

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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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How Clio grew from a lifestyle business to a legal tech juggernaut

Point Nine Land

For Jack Newton and Rian Gauvreau, the lightbulb moment that led to the creation of Clio came out of a casual conversation they had in 2007 with the director of practice standards at the Law Society of British Columbia, an organization that can be compared in function to the National Bar Association in the U.S. Again, this was 2007.