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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? So we started in 2008 June, 2008 I think and in three days we would celebrate our 11th birthday. It’s interesting to see how much has changed over the last 10 years, but in 2008 it was a very different time I think.

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Top 8 SaaS Development Companies in 2024

How To Buy Saas

More and more companies adopt SaaS, which enhances user experience, drives operational efficiency, and fosters innovation. Aalpha Information Systems was featured on Bloomberg and Business Insider, also receiving the Fintech Innovator Award and Software Suggest Award for best user experience.

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Building Consumer Grade Enterprise Products with Invision, Box, Google Maps and Crunchbase (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Ciara : And Shanee is the head of marketing and growth at Crunchbase, leading innovative companies to connect with the people behind them and pursue new opportunities. Ciara : So you guys are all innovators in very unique ways in this area. This super complex tool that I have at work that I could never use in my personal life.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. The ‘haven for programmers’ – GitHub has been providing its services through a SaaS model since 2008. With this, it is expected to grow by 5% annually.

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Beyond the hype: Practical advice on building a platform

Intercom, Inc.

“A majority of the innovations that we’ve seen our customers build, we had never imagined when we were building the platform” With that model of taking an apps business and importing it over to your platform, the biggest cognitive dissonance that happens is, you don’t start out with a very predefined, prescribed set of use cases. .

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8 Tough Lessons from Closing 12,000 Customers at WebPT (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. I think this leads us to lesson number four, which is continuously innovate through proactive listening. We launched the company in 2008.

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Funding in the Time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP. Well, in a booming market, executives are paid to innovate. You are almost under pressure as a corporate executive to show that you can innovate, but [inaudible 00:17:03] markets, people are not paid to innovate. How skittish are they?