OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Product led businesses need to get their products in the hands of would-be users as efficiently as possible–hopefully at near zero CAC. Not satisfied with reaching $1 billion in annual revenue, Atlassian furthered its commitment to product led growth by jumping on the freemium bandwagon. 10 Questions To Answer. Freemium benchmarks.

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

It often seems as if traditional strategy development processes have no place in the fast-moving, always changing technology industries. The critical difference is that they’ve discovered how to make strategy development faster, pragmatic and more agile by focusing on four key principles. At a Glance.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2020

Did you notice that I didn’t mention “revenue growth” as a priority right now? For most organizations, revenue growth has become a “nice-to-have.” If your messaging includes helping companies achieve or maximize revenue growth, take it out. In 2008, we chose “aerospace” and won three massive customers. Bottom Line.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Fresco Capital focuses on businesses developing new solutions in the enterprise, education, infrastructure, healthcare, consumer goods and entertainment. Singtel Innov8 invests in businesses developing new solutions in network capabilities, next generation devices, digital services and customer experience enhancement.

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Chargify

JANUARY 25, 2018

Prior to forming Rocketgenius, Gravity Forms’ parent company, co-founders Carl Hancock , Alex Cancado, and Kevin Flahaut worked together developing websites for clients. At the time (around 2008), there really wasn’t an easy solution for adding a form to a WordPress site. Gravity Forms went live for customers in 2009.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 4, 2011

was founded in 2008 by two extremely sharp students of the Cracow University of Science and Technology who wanted to build a simple, easy-to-use, web-based invoicing and billing application for small businesses in Poland. If you're new here, please start with part 1 , move on to part 2 and then (hopefully) return to this post.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Reduce upfront/adoption costs and offer flexible payment terms. And often the only thing standing between a deal and no deal is the financing or payment terms. Sometimes all that was needed to close the deal was allowing them to make most of the payments in the next fiscal year, with just a small down payment when the work started.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

When you’re looking to generate significant revenue as a newbie in the SaaS market, your product prices shouldn’t go above $5000. The product itself should be developed with single user persona or small teams in mind, while every touch point between the potential customer and the actual purchase should be lean and optimized for self-service.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Companies that have access to more accurate financial data have the ability to develop seamless exchanges of information, providing consumers with improved ways to manage their finances. Enter the platform company. Zach : So in our back end, we’ve integrated with about 10,000 financial institutions in the U.S.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. How did seeing the boom and bust of the dot com and 2008 affect Dave’s operating mentality? If you were very focused on financial services in 2008, you were in a lot of trouble.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

There has been a gradual shift from client/server architecture to the options provided by a hybrid cloud – the integration of public and private cloud. Owing to cost-effectiveness and confidentiality attributes, SaaS businesses continue to opt for cloud services. Hence, APIs are ubiquitously used for most SaaS businesses.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

First, what is continuous customer development? What is the process to do it efficiently? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. I do want to talk about, as you said, the type two business where we are scaling into enterprise in certain cases and scaling with our customers.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

At Traction Conference, an event all about how to keep and grow customers and revenue at scale, I explained how to build onboarding based on your customers’ goals, and why when your product improves, your onboarding must improve with it. I’ve been working with my co-founders since 2007-2008. This was around 2010.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Jason Purcell, Co-founder and CEO of Salsify, saw firsthand the crippling economic impacts of the 2008 Great Recession. But because of their prioritization, the Salsify team developed some of the critical components needed to build and manage the planning process. “At Would customers stretch out payment terms?

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M They had built a highly profitable business that was generally adored by its customers. Buffer was so hot at the time - revenues were growing 150% per year - that the terms they got for their Series A were insanely good.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In May 2008, I graduated college — with 1.56 million of my peers — directly into the 2008 recession. Basically: Today’s economic climate looks very different from 2008. Signs of recession we’re seeing now vs. 2008. Clients canceling events, reducing spend, and failing to make payments. Meet the experts.

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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?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

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. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. Did anti-virus and anti-spam and the cloud. ” No.

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Payments Payment Features SaaS Payments Underperforming Technical Team 102

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 I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky. How do we make them feel part of the team and integrate them? So a lot of lessons that can be taken from there as well.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. They process billions annually for platforms like Constant Contact, GoFundMe, Ecwid, Infusionsoft, Meetup, Freshbooks & Zoho. Want to see more content like this?

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

A report from Bain & Company predicted that “Indian SaaS companies will reach $30 billion in revenue by the year 2025”. is an Indian software development company headquartered in Chennai. The company aims at providing a single platform for automated marketing, sales, and other services. Visual Website Optimiser (VWO).

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 9, 2019

For over a decade, I’ve been doing business as a Whale Hunter. As an enterprise account consultant, I’ve consulted with hundreds of small and midsize companies (most in the range of $10m to $150 annual revenue) and trained thousands in how to grow fast by selling big deals into the enterprise market. But you couldn’t be more wrong.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP. I thought it’s also worth giving you some sense of scale for how much the US government takes in in revenue every year. In revenue, the US government takes in 3.5 What businesses will resonate with buyers and with investors?

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

Prior to founding Zylo, Eric was the VP of Sales @ Sprout Social leading the revenue operations for over 11,000 customers. Before Sprout Social he was VP of Sales at Shoutlet, responsible for global direct and channel sales teams and developing and managing strategic relationships. Before Sprout Social, he was VP of sales at Shoutlet.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

358: Chen Amit is the Founder & CEO @ Tipalti, the only global payable automation platform that scales with you and now remitting $5Bn annually across 3M suppliers. How does Chen think about aligning revenue scale to your customers? Chen Amit: But, all the rest of my career was starting new businesses. How can this be done?

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