SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

How did seeing the boom and bust of the dot com and 2008 affect Dave’s operating mentality? What does Dave believe is crucial to achieve in these in person meetings? How to use Culture as the lever to maximize the ROI that you get out of the biggest investment your business will ever make. How long do they last?

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

It made the rounds in tech circles online. Investment funds like Indie.VC Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M Series A investment). TWO ESTABLISHED COMPANIES CHANGE COURSE. Don't fret, we just bought out our investors and took on some debt.

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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. But, in the words of my personal household saint, LeVar Burton, you don’t have to take my word for it. Signs of recession we’re seeing now vs. 2008.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. SEMrush is an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform that helps businesses get measurable results from online marketing.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

According to Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, the one thing necessary for any company to succeed in China – or in any of the Asian countries – is to get local investment. It has more than 100 investments since its founding in 2001. SAIF is also one of the biggest funds, investing in Hong Kong, China and India.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The idea for Stripe, I’m sure most of you know in the early days was to have just a few lines of code and lead developers accept payments in the apps and services. It was a distribution API in a very rudimentary form, and it allowed us to be present in other properties than our website.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Most commonly, startups that employ it sell their products completely via ecommerce, so that they can remain focused on quality of the product and design. The same goes for the website, customer support, and user onboarding. Focus: Product and Customer Journey. Focus: Customer Onboarding and Face-to-Face Conversion.

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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. Matt Garratt: So for those that aren’t familiar with Salesforce Ventures, we are the strategic investment arm for Salesforce. Right now, learning for companies is only at 10% online. Good to be here.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Or if you’ve ever gotten a 2 cent and a 4 cent deposit into your account as you’re trying to set up direct deposit or payments transfers, that’s a pre-Plaid world. Quovo had focused on investment accounts and allowing you to programmatically interact with your investment accounts through third-party applications.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP. So the ability for people to store oil doesn’t exist. When the future is predictable, people like to invest. Maybe you want to launch a business.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Don’t do this via a survey; actually talk to them via Zoom or a phone call. Toast was quick to pivot their offerings to help restaurants adapt to online ordering, closed dining rooms and contactless delivery—and this feature even helps restaurants get the word out. He didn’t charge me but asked that I write an online review instead.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

You can come up to me after this and I can give you a list of 10 people, but find somebody that’s been a VP of Sales before successfully in a startup, scaled that to some level of success and make that person sort of an independent arbiter of that process. You may have been at Box in 2006 or LinkedIn in 2008. I don’t care.

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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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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. Found by Abhijit Pattanaik in 2016, Playtonia is an e-sports platform technology company that helps online gamers connect and develop communities. Visual Website Optimiser (VWO).

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I think on the plus side, coming into a firm like JPMorgan, we were a 200 person company when we were acquired. The day that acquisition closed, we became a 250,000 person company. Bill Clerico : Yeah.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 9, 2019

I co-authored Whale Hunting: How to Land Big Deals and Transform Your Company , published in 2008, a book which devoted considerable attention to what we knew from experience to be a serious issue. They lost that bid, and later learned, “We were afraid your lead person is just too young for this role.”. But you couldn’t be more wrong.

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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. Jos White : We were fortunate enough to lead a Series A investment into Tradeshift back in 2010, I think. Did anti-virus and anti-spam and the cloud. ” No.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

She likes to invest across consumer, B2B saas, and technology infrastructure companies at the earliest stages. In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. It’s not about the convincing sales rep or the old school view of a sales person anymore. Look at Eric Yuan at Zoom.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

Chen Amit: So, I started in the tech world many years ago and actually started and made money as a youngster before the personal computer was created. In terms of starting Tipalti, I sold another company in the telecommunication space in 2008. Both of them were a thousand person company. It was Commodore 64, Vic 20.

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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. Some customers may reconsider churing if you offered them tailored payment schedules.

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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. Some customers may reconsider churing if you offered them tailored payment schedules.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ask anyone in Fintech SaaS about the shifts of the last 18 months and you’ll hear stories about investment shortages, rising churn rates, and market consolidation. Our own SaaS originated as an internal solution for a leading payment gateway provider. But a key challenge impacting the Fintech scene is investment—or lack of.

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