Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Here, we trace some of the biggest trends and stories in technology over the past decade, and try to find a narrative to make sense of it all. There is a great responsibility to ensure it trends towards the former, not the latter. Rise of the cloud and SaaS businesses. Big tech takes over.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. Founded in 2007, MobileIron is a leader in the Mobile Device Management sector. Two trends surface from the data.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 21, 2021

While it may be on-trend to make a list of 10 or seven, this list is limited to five. In the book are 111 plays for building a hyper-growth SaaS startup from the SaaS founder who started it all. If you want to learn how to scale your SaaS company, start here. A year later, in 2007, Steve Jobs made the phone your browser.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

If you’re in SaaS, I’m sure you know Tien. Tien founded Zuora in 2007 and took it public in 2018. Long story short: Tien is a pioneer in the SaaS and Subscription space and we’re gonna learn a thing or two from his book, Subscribed. It’s a quick and engaging read, important for anyone in SaaS. About the Author.

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ProfitWell

MAY 20, 2020

Listen wherever you get podcasts: How is the B2B SaaS market trending? ??7 How are churn and new revenue trending over time? We may be a bit sleepy, but it looks like the B2B SaaS world is still cranking. So we're uncovering the data on sleep and its correlation to your business' growth, as well as your overall happiness.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 7, 2022

The company kickstarted the SaaS revolution we know so well today, but as SaaS was booming, so too was churning. From packaged goods to SaaS. 2007 was when the iPhone was launched and when LinkedIn finally became profitable. .” They only worked on things they deemed important; “no fluff,” they said.

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Chargify

MARCH 28, 2018

In 2007, combo meal sales began to drop. From 2007 to 2012, combo meal sales at fast food restaurants declined by 12% , according to a NPD Group study. Interestingly, we’re seeing a similar trend in SaaS. The “why” behind the SaaS customized product offering shift. Need to differentiate in saturated markets.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

In this session, hear from three women who founded, funded and are leading WebPT, one of the nation’s fastest-growing SaaS companies in the specialty electronic medical record sector. Learn what it takes to create your own category, achieve scale in a niche SaaS vertical and how it requires more than just discovering an unmet need.

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Hitenism

JANUARY 6, 2017

I was founding a SaaS business, KISSmetrics. SaaS Marketing Step 1: Who is your target customer? SaaS Marketing Step 2: Where do they hang out? According to Google Trends, the term didn’t become a hot search item until 2011. (We SaaS Marketing Step 3: How do you engage with them? I had no idea what I was doing.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Blake is a partner at one of the most well known SaaS venture capital firms in the world, OpenView Venture Partners, based in Boston. He’s been a VC since 2007, and prior to OpenView was at Battery Ventures, where he invested in companies like Glassdoor, Wayfair and Optimizely. Blake Bartlett: Some of that is personal preference.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 24, 2023

It’s a pattern that can be seen across the 2007–09 recession, the recovery that followed, the slow-growth years of 2011–19, and even during the pandemic period of 2020–21. This future-back view requires a rigorous assessment of key competitor and customer trends. At the same time, Microsoft deprioritized lower-value areas.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

It’s hard to know whether that’s some sort of broad based trend or whether it’s very specific to the mechanics of that product. It was early 2007 the iPhone was announced. For many SaaS companies, it might destroy their economics. It got you back in the game this hyper growth. As founders, we love our product.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We’re going to be talking about building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. I know our attendees today are excited to hear from you, Brian and Ari, on building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We’re going to be talking about building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. I know our attendees today are excited to hear from you, Brian and Ari, on building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We’re going to be talking about building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. I know our attendees today are excited to hear from you, Brian and Ari, on building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 10, 2018

Adam: A lot of our listeners are going to know you best through your writing; isn’t that how Marc originally found you back in 2007? With B2B, bottoms-up SaaS companies, even Intercom, there is a lot of viral spread because so many people are busy collaborating with each other. Andrew: That’s right. of their coworkers.

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SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

In This Episode We Discuss: * How did Godard make his way into the world of SaaS over 20 years ago? How did you make your way, though, into the world of SaaS, and come to found G2 today? And that’s how we were able to then survive from 2002 til about 2007, when the cloud market finally took off.

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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. I bootstrapped the company with my co-founder in 2007. Henry Schuck: Yeah.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Plus, from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership, and strategic alliance activities. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Karen made her way into the world of SaaS as one of the first employees at Box and then how that led to her transition to the world of investing with B Capital.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The first, launched in India in 2007 while they were teenagers, created radiology software that helped fight female foeticide. Will and Erik (Rannala) are really good for that because they’re trend spotters. We can also do a lot of trend analysis that can help companies and departments analyze what they are missing.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2020

I’ve pulled together the top 97 books from a range of sales disciplines to give you the information you need to stay relevant, lead conversations, understand the trends — and of course, improve your game. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. Blueprints for a SaaS Sales Organization. Management and Operations. Agile Selling.

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