The Angel VC

DECEMBER 25, 2010

Since becoming a full-time angel investor in 2008 I’ve made 14 seed investments, with 4-5 additional ones being on the way. Except for two of my first investments that didn’t work out – rookie mistakes, fortunately pretty small ones – I’m absolutely blown away by the success of each and every company in my portfolio.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

About Loyalty Prime With its award-winning enterprise SaaS platform ‘Prime Cloud’, Loyalty Prime provides a uniquely flexible solution to quickly and efficiently set up and profitably run omnichannel loyalty programs (GDPR-compliant if/as required).

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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. And, despite my headline, well in compliance with the Rule of 40.

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ProfitWell

MAY 18, 2020

Why it's never been easier to sell subscription. The beauty subscription box startup Birchbox launched in September 2010 as the unemployment rate peaked at 10 percent. Twilio , cloud communications platform, also found success after launching in the midst of a financial crisis. PaaS: Pasta as a service. In an article by Inc.

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SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

When I was starting as a first time entrepreneur in 2008, I got rejected by a lot of VCs. So that’s much more restrictive in terms of what customers can do with a technology or frankly, what the cloud providers can do with your technology. So I think it plays on both dimensions. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah. Dev Ittycheria: Exactly.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS businesses are organizations that provide subscription-based software applications that are centrally hosted on their servers over the internet. Instead of buying and installing the infrastructure, customers can simply bear the subscription costs of the functionalities they use. 5000 Rank in 2019 in the security industry.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

This guide, by LinkedIn’s Head of Global Monetization Strategy Josh Gold, is intended to teach subscription-based businesses how to evaluate whether the freemium model will drive revenue and lead gen for their business or result in failure. 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. ProfitWell is used by over five thousand subscription companies every day, including Meetup, HubSpot, and Teamwork.com. ProfitWell.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Founded in 2008, it developed this AI-powered Chrome extension. The basic version being free and the premium version halts in three subscriptions plans. It is a cloud-based data storage medium app for third-party e-learning systems and schools/districts. It comes in two plans as of now. Panorama Education.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2023

On the other hand, Evernote was launched in 2008 by Evernote Corporation. Cloud storage OneNote stores all the information, notebooks, and support documents, on the cloud. This makes it an ideal choice for businesses that use Microsoft Suite regularly (or have a subscription to it).

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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. ProfitWell is used by over five thousand subscription companies every day, including Meetup, HubSpot, and Teamwork.com. ProfitWell.

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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. You pay a subscription.

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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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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

While blockchain technology was spearheaded by Bitcoin starting from 2008, using the technology for other applications became popularized around 2017. what we use today) advanced mobile usage, cloud infrastructure, and interactivity through social media, Web 3.0 Table of Contents. In the 1990s, Web 1.0 Where Web 2.0

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On August 7, 2019 New Relic – the cloud observability company – had an abysmal day, possibly the worst in the company’s history. After being founded in 2008, the company attracted a substantial amount of funding before going public in December 2014 – a rapid clip from startup to IPO.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Phoneburner – Best for Remote Teams VanillaSoft – Best for Outbound Sales Voicent Cloud – Best Standalone Auto Dialer Software Mojo – Best for SMB Sales RingCentral – Best for Compliance Kixie – Best for Local Presence. Phoneburner , as a company, has been a 100% remote team since 2008.

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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. I eventually ran another Saas company which I ran and then sold.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Prior to joining SendGrid, he spent 4 years at Citrix, where he drove the company’s product strategy for cloud infrastructure and server virtualization. Jeff Lawson: But the most recent incarnation of it was really moving all of that to the cloud and providing infrastructure as a service.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

Finally, before that, Amit was the Founder & CEO @ SparkThis, an outsourced marketing and sales service for cloud companies. And finally, before that, Amit was the founder and CEO at SparkThis, an outsource marketing and sales service for cloud companies. It’s not guaranteed, people still churn even with annual subscription.

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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 one is less common in the SaaS industry but in general is considered by subscription based service providers.

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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. Found in 2011 by Ashish Thusoo and Joydeep Sen Sarma, Qubole works on developing a “cloud-based data lake platform for self-service AI.” CloudCherry.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

This 2014 company, Alugha is not only the first multilingual cloud-based video hosting platform, but it is also the sole open video portal in Germany. It is a subscription service available as a web and a mobile app. Founded in 2013, Inkitt is a cloud-based platform for readers, writers, and publishers. Orora Tech.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

AWS offers cloud services to businesses. Coupa is a cloud-based expenditure management software for businesses. It includes a completely integrated suite of financial tools for company expenditure management, such as invoicing, sourcing, procurement, and cost management. Founded in: 2008. Amazon Web Services (AWS).

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

David Skok: You asked a great question there and it’s sort of a problem that I helped create because I was one of the very first people back in 2008 that wrote about unit economics and got everybody excited about the importance of them and why they should be thinking about them. This is where the cloud meets.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Cassie spent the first pre-SaaS chapter of her tech career in growth roles in subscription and marketplace businesses (TheLadders.com, GLG). 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. Lindy Jones.

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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. In the SaaS industry, 35% of customer retention is considered above average, and since you’re selling subscriptions, it’s essential to generate as many leads as possible.

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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. We’ve got words like subscription, ad supported, license, and ASP, that are well understood. They had recently saved on server costs by switching to the cloud. Fast forward to the mid-aughts.

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