SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova. However, her path changed in 2008 when she took on a new challenge: an MBA in Business and Management. Business Consultancy.

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OPEXEngine

MAY 10, 2022

If you look at public companies in 2008, for example, Salesforce and Netsuite, these SaaS leaders maintained their growth despite the Great Recession. They maintained spending on Sales and Marketing, and investing in R&D. may mean there is room for growth opportunities thru increased investment in Sales and Marketing.

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FastSpring

APRIL 22, 2020

In 2008, the whole market share was about $5.5 Key Benefits of Investing in SaaS Marketing Strategies. Before deciding to invest resources into a long-term marketing campaign, it’s crucial to understand the goals and potential ROI the campaign can bring. It all slows down a website speed, which is one of the key ranking factors.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

We chose to invest in Loyalty Prime as it provides an effective solution to deliver on the widely preached but seldomly fulfilled promise in data-driven marketing and personalization: being able to provide “the right offer to the right person at the right time, in the right channel and with the right message for impactful business results.”

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Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

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. Jos White : We were fortunate enough to lead a Series A investment into Tradeshift back in 2010, I think. You pay a subscription. Christian Lanng : Absolutely.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

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. Shifting from subscriptions to a new consumption-based pricing model. In New Relic’s case the impact has been well worth the investment.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 30, 2020

Today, we’re proud to officially launch the ProfitWell Subscription Index —a dataset to keep you up to date on subscription market trends and the status of the B2B SaaS vertical as it stands today. About the ProfitWell Subscription Index. Listen wherever you get podcasts: How is B2B SaaS growth trending over time? ??7

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Is something very important because when we think about simplicity, you don’t want to present an invoice every time they want additional help. How does your customer success and customer support functions change with the move to enterprise?

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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? .” Why is this?

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Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 144

Buffer Resources

MAY 18, 2023

“I've been doing this since around 2008, starting in the world of personal essays and personal blogging when it was more prevalent on the Internet.” Whether you have a team or you're a solopreneur, you’ll likely need to block out time for tasks like bookkeeping and invoicing.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 10, 2020

Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. After looking at 3,000 SaaS and subscription companies we saw that, in the early stages, remote companies are growing at a much slower rate than those companies where everyone is co-located. Or would you invest in a person’s time in this regard? Work from wherever.

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Compensation Subscription Payment Features Company Culture 66

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

It then laid out a careful strategy to transform Adobe, largely via M&A, into a company offering cloud-based subscriptions that would “give everyone everything they need to design and deliver exceptional digital experiences.” Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 25, 2010

As 2010 is drawing to a close I’d like to take a moment to give you a quick update on my angel investment activities and more importantly, thank the incredibly talented and hard-working people who have made it such an amazing year.

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Cloud Investment B2B Subscription 106

Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

At some point in their growth, businesses usually start investing in customer research. And whether it’s things we’re doing in our lives or boring everyday business things like paying an invoice, every person, every company has a different process. And that was a revelation for me as a product manager.

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The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

Listen to those who have gone through the mega crises of 2001 and 2008 as entrepreneurs or investors. In times of frozen budgets for investments in non essencial software and innovation, acquisition cost will exeed rational, affordable levels. Better a paused subscription than a churned subscription.

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

In 2008, it spent 2.5 What's the payoff from this significant and on-going investment in sales and marketing? And in addition to the subscription fees, many pay for implementation, training and other professional services. (It In its early years, Workday spent well in excess of its annual revenues on sales and marketing.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

We got started in 2008 when we first spotted this sort of new place in investing, which we called seed. At the time, there may be four or five other firms doing this same strategy of investing somewhere between $500,000 and $2 million into companies that were just getting started we would call it pre product market fit.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

We chose to invest in Loyalty Prime as it provides an effective solution to deliver on the widely preached but seldomly fulfilled promise in data-driven marketing and personalization: being able to provide “the right offer to the right person at the right time, in the right channel and with the right message for impactful business results.”

Generative AI 52

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 52

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

Dev Ittycheria: And in some ways even though I’ve been a VC, and an operator, in some ways as an operator, I’m just now investing my time, not my money. When I was starting as a first time entrepreneur in 2008, I got rejected by a lot of VCs. 20 VCs do come to me to invest in the company now. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

I have seen my fair share of storms and or crises from the early days of the dot-com boom and bust to 2008, 2009 crisis and then having a front-row seat at some of these turnarounds that iconic brands like Evernote, and more recently on the board at Gap which is undergoing its own transformation. And what’s the best case?

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

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. I could get full price by deferring payments by just a few months. Develop subscription models. Offer volume discounts, not general discounts. “It

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Payment Methods Marketing Sales Hiring Advertising 54

ChurnZero

JUNE 19, 2020

What data you need to get the investment in your Customer Success team. You Mon]: So, in other words, you don’t really take on clients who haven’t invested in that part of the organization. They didn’t really exist in mass during 2008 and 2009, so we’ve never really seen it. Q&A Recap. Allen]: I agree.

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SaaS Payments Retention Metrics Payment Solutions 72

Valuize Consulting

AUGUST 6, 2021

I was working as a film and media producer in New York City when the recession of 2008 hit and things took a shift; I needed to make a change. When things shifted to deliver technology as a service through a renewable subscription, customer/vendor relationships and outcome management became critical beyond their previous weight.

Scale 52

Scale Customer Success Interviewing Scaling 52

User Pilot

MAY 19, 2021

Does your product help employees save time while invoicing? How many even made the investment to really figure out the platform? Diving deeper into the activities of your audience can also help determine where to invest the most resources. What job do they need to get done with your product? Source-Clubhouse.com.

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B2B Marketing SaaS Social Media 119

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

Subscription business model. The lesson here is to view your products in terms of S Curves and ensure you’re investing in your next greatest hit. The Circle of Competence Warren Buffet and Charlie Munger developed the Circle of Competence to help guide their investment decisions at Berkshire Hathaway. Customer data.

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service 213

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Renaud Visage: What was okay in 2008 is not okay anymore today, because you have great platforms like Stripe, that have set the bar very high as to what kind of experience you should have when you’re a developer trying to integrate, and you have to at least offer something that’s in the vein of what’s available out there.

Payments 119

Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payment Services 119

Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

With such low SaaS product prices, you should be more careful with your large investments in lead generation and control your resources even more effectively.That means that the customer experience you provide should be streamlined and infallible enough to generate leads and convert customers on its own. Residual commission.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

In terms of starting Tipalti, I sold another company in the telecommunication space in 2008. Chen Amit: So, the way I look at it, I’m willing to invest in a business that has this ROI. We will get to the return on investment, it just starts later in the process. It’s a land grab.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Investment funds like Indie.VC Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M Their first round of Angel investment in 2008 had not been a round for the sake of raising a round, or funds really even earmarked to invest heavily in growth.

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CTO Hire CTO Coach SaaS New CTO 65

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: Now, if they’re not, you can say should we invest in enablement to make them successful?

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Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale Sales Recruiting 115

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. Instead of marketing, Zoho invests in R&D and customer service. Capillary Technologies was founded in 2008 by Ajay Modani, Aneesh Reddy, and Krishna Mehra. The company is aimed at providing solutions for companies invested in remote hiring.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Jeff Lawson: You got that with people were quite a bit in the early days of Twilio and we, in fact, we spent the whole summer of 2008 trying to fundraise and didn’t raise a dime. Jeff Lawson: You can get started with very little investment and very little risk and then see where it goes. Of starting that innovation.

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Underperforming Technical Team Development Software New CTO 123

OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

We’re living in a remarkable era for investing. In the decade or so since the 2008 financial crisis, the market’s demand for returns has enabled a risk-on mentality to permeate, driving the majority of investors and operators to believe that the phenomena described by Palihapitiya is the only way to achieve success in tech.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

To date, Amit has raised $68m in funding for Gong from the likes of Norwest, Battery Ventures, Cisco Investments, and Wing Venture Capital, just to name a few. To date, Amit has raised $68 million in funding for Gong from the likes of Norwest, Battery Ventures, Cisco Investments, and Wing Venture Capital, just to name a few.

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Outsourced Development Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Scale 130

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Ilir Sela: It was around 2008, 2009, I started getting a lot of these family and friends that were asking for some help in terms of websites and online ordering. Sam Jacobs: So let’s focus on how you pitch, do they have to pay a subscription? The Magnitude of an American Staple. Why Slice Won’t Push New Technology.

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Scale Scaling Venture Capital Interviewing 63

OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

Netflix has become the largest subscription video provider in the US, outstripping cable and satellite. Blockbuster’s former CEO, Jim Keyes, told the Motley Fool in 2008 that Netflix isn’t ‘even on the radar screen in terms of competition.’ By 2010, Blockbuster had gone bankrupt.”. Personal copiers.

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