Neil Patel

JULY 12, 2021

Marketo , an Adobe company, is a cloud-based tool for companies large and small that not only helps build customer relationships but helps you sustain them. You can maximize AdWords ROI and use multichannel tracking to get a full picture of both sales and marketing metrics. Automatically Nurture Leads With Marketo.

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Kellblog

MAY 21, 2019

Before doing that, I must note that I drank today’s morning coffee reading Alex Clayton’s CloudStrike IPO breakdown , a great post about a cloud security company with absolutely stunning growth at scale — 121% growth to $312M in Ending ARR in FY19. In 2012, the explanatory power of both metrics doubled.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

About Eric… Elisa Steele holds strong at number twenty-two with high-interest metrics from our attendees who looked forward to her as a speaker. Duo Security, now a part of Cisco, is a provider of unified access security and multi-factor authentication delivered via the cloud. Eric Yuan Zoom Founder/CEO.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. What were the core mistakes that he made with RJ Metrics? And that led me to co-founding a company called RJ Metrics in 2008 with my co-founder Jake Stein, who was also at Insight.

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SaaStr

MAY 1, 2020

As far as Mayfield is concerned, I’ve been leading Mayfield as its managing director since 2008 and it’s been an incredible decade of learning for the firm and me personally. I’m a firm believer in playing the long game, ensuring you have rational growth and keep an eye on metrics like CAC payback, gross margin, and LTV.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Key Metrics to Track for Converting Freemium to Paid. Here are the metrics you absolutely need to be tracking to get freemium right. Pick the wrong value metric for your freemium plan and you’ve found yourself headed straight for disaster. Atlassian Launches Free Tiers for All Its Cloud Products, Extends Premium Pricing Plan.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Founded: 2008. ProfitWell provides industry standard subscription financial metrics that uncover pockets of hidden revenue through unmatched subscription intelligence. Founded: 2008. Ultimate Software is one of the giants of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions. Based in: New York.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Deputy , for instance, was a reimagining of an in-house tool that took on a life of its own once we combined the core technology with the idea of product led growth and the power of a cloud-based platform. While Deputy officially launched back in 2008, its origin story actually goes back some twenty years.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In early 2016 the company raised a $12mm Series A led by PeakSpan Capital to accelerate growth, largely on the back on fantastic customer success oriented metrics. That was around 2008, and that's when we started selling a commercial license. In 2008 we did $1mm in cash receipts with an average deal size of $3000.

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SaaStr

JULY 16, 2019

We founded the company in 2008, which many of you who were around then know was a pretty difficult time to start a company. But, the fundraising in 2008, 2009 was pretty difficult. A change for me from kind of looking at the business from more of a dashboard view of those metrics then really being in the trenches.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Founded: 2008. ProfitWell provides industry standard subscription financial metrics that uncover pockets of hidden revenue through unmatched subscription intelligence. Founded: 2008. Ultimate Software is one of the giants of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions. Based in: New York.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

Baremetrics spoke with co-founder Dmitry Shklovsky to learn more about QuikNode and how they use Baremetrics to understand key financial metrics, translate cancellation data to inform product iteration, and sustain long-term growth. what we use today) advanced mobile usage, cloud infrastructure, and interactivity through social media, Web 3.0

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

This is where the cloud meets. And we started CloudFlare during the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. ” Because again, it was 2008. And we said, can we turn that into a global service in the cloud that customers rent from us? It’s way easier to compare business metrics.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

INTRO by Christian Lanng : We do cloud based splicing for the Fortune 5000. Did anti-virus and anti-spam and the cloud. Exited to Semantic in 2008 and had a good exit for the early SaaS businesses then set up Notion and we focus on SaaS companies, mainly in Series A in the European market. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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BetterCloud

MARCH 11, 2021

DevOps: a movement introduced back in 2008 at the Agile Conference in Toronto, in response to mounting concerns between developers and system administrators. That’s pretty remarkable when you consider that the initial movement began in 2008. These are wildly dumbed-down origin stories.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. So that’s going to require solutions that are cloud based that you can spin up in a matter of days or weeks versus a matter of months or years. ” Now we have to look to a different metric.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

As for Nick, prior to Gainsight he was the CEO @ LiveOffice where he grew cloud archiving ARR from $2m in 2008 to $25m in 2011 and drove and negotiated the acquisition by Symantec for $115m in cash. Nick Mehta: So you’re totally right and I think that’s interesting because there’s two sides to it.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

From that point on, we built a product and we launched it in February of 2008 out of a back of a coffee shop with one employee. So we launched the company in February of 2008. It’s amazing what the efficiencies and the low costs of the cloud can allow you to do as far as industry specialization. We were profitable by 2009.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * Does David Skok believe that ACV should sit at the top of the metrics stack? What are the 4 metrics that fundamentally matter in your business? I think the picture I want to play out here is why our metrics are important? Today we’ll hear from David Skok on this one.

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SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify, and Gremlin all prior guests on the show, I hasten to add. As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify, and Gremlin, all prior guests on the show, I hasten to add.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business? We really wanted to simplify supply chains.

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SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

We replace on-prem software and hardware with a pure cloud solution. Jonathan : And so the people that you’re looking for, you wanted them to resonate with that idea that you already have this amount of money in revenue as opposed to looking for other metrics that they might be interested in for a start-up? Vlad : No. Jonathan : Right.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

So for example, if you look at our journey at Box, we started out as an app that had some pretty basic capabilities – how do I take a file, put it in the cloud, and share it with people both inside and outside my organization? Ceci sees adoption as the top metric to look at, followed by overall developer activity and app quality.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

CloudCherry is a cloud-based CRM ( customer relationship management ) company that assists its clients’ tracking and enhancing their customer engagement. Companies can create content that increases conversions and dialogues by using the tool’s metrics. CloudCherry. Capillary Technologies.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

In particular, post-2008 when a SaaS solution with its OPEX offering stood out from the conventional CAPEX solutions. Case in point with Salesforce’s cloud CRM vs. SAP and Oracle’s on-site/perpetual license model. Originally this worked well. Today everyone offers a SaaS/OPEX solution and hacks no longer provide the desired results.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Take control with the DocuSign agreement cloud, a suite of tools that automates sales contracts and quotes ,all right in your CRM. Anthony Kennada: I started out of college as a tech recruiter, which, in 2008, was probably one of the worst jobs you could have; getting people jobs in a recession was not great. What We Learned.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2020

301: Dimitri Sirota is the Founder & CEO @ BigID, the startup that provides advanced data discovery and intelligence for the data centre and cloud. When things like 2008 occurred, that was a struggle to find our way through that and navigate through the turbulent waters. Harry Stebbings: Yes, no, I’m just really intrigued.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

The cloud application service market remains a huge challenge for all newcomers. This view has been fostered by the rapid growth of many commodity-oriented SaaS companies and public cloud services. . This is why you always need to look at this metric by comparing one sales rep to another.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. I think it’s something that, for me, is trusting my gut.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Ep 306: Join Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara as he takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. One of the most popular sessions from SaaStr Annual, this presentation will provide an in-depth look at the cloud computing industry across Europe and globally. This episode is sponsored by Owl Labs.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

David is also the author of foreentrepreneurs.com the must read blog in the world of SaaS metrics. Harry Stebbings: And David is also the author of foreentrepreneurs.com, the must read blog in the world of Saas metrics. . This is where the cloud meets. Loving our podcast content? Harry Stebbings: David, what can I say.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 3, 2020

As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify and Gremlin all prior guests on the show I hasten to add. As for Tom, he joined Redpoint in 2008 and has since led investments in Kustomer, Looker, Expensify, and Gremlin, all prior guests on the show, I hasten to add.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

are just as critical as understanding the fundamental SaaS metrics such as LTV/CAC, payback, etc. One of my clients sold cloud-connected sprinklers that saved money and helped the environment. She is also a passionate advocate for woman and girls in STEM and the cloud. What would you tell a woman just starting a career in sales?

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FastSpring

APRIL 22, 2020

In 2008, the whole market share was about $5.5 SaaS stands for software-as-a-service and it is a cloud-based software that efficiently solves a specific problem. Furtherly, everyone can easily reach valuable information and use newly acquired knowledge to develop specialized software that aims to solve particular problems.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

Our company, we basically unified communications in the cloud. Now we building a lot of stuff, and then when we feel that it’s working, it’s a machine, we can bring… Mallun : We had some grownups in the company, but we started the company in 2008, and then took it public in 2011. What is SaaS metrics?

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ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

Bundled service providers like AOL have phased out and cloud-based subscription services are enjoying their time in the sun. When it launched as the first cloud-based notes app during the recession in 2008, its founders didn't raise much venture capital. They had recently saved on server costs by switching to the cloud.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Michelle : During the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. And they used to buy a lot of hardware boxes and we said, “Can we turn that into a global service in the cloud that customers rent from us?” Michelle Zatelyn | COO + Co-Founder @ Cloudflare. And so we started to work on this in 2009.

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