SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

I was running corporate comms for Orange, the large French mobile operator. Mobile was really booming at that time. in about 2008. Other members of our executive leadership team do and they post that to the company. We had 200,000 employees and were part owned by the government. We were getting into digital TV.

Scale 185

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Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

2008: 317 customers. 2008: 42 employees. Most notably, $5 million in VC funding from General Catalyst in 2007, $12 million in VC funding from Matrix Partners in 2008 and $16 million in VC funding from Scale Venture Partners in 2009. So, they chose to focus on growing fast and achieving industry leadership in their space.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Before that, he worked for 12 years at Trilogy, where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a start-up to a $300 million business. How do Jeff and Sameer think about what what truly special leadership looks like today? We call them our leadership principles. What were his core learnings from that? *

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How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Their strategy encompasses four key elements related to LinkedIn branding: Profile Enhancement Lead Generation Establishing Thought Leadership Setting Appointments Their services also include content development, SEO, and paid advertising to help clients establish themselves in their respective fields. Website: www.ninjapromo.io

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

What you need to know about this story is that I founded the company back in 2008. In 2008, I founded TaskRabbit. We built a mobile product only. The leadership on the team was incredibly happy and gave everyone a pat on the back, but within a couple of quarters of this, within a year, it wasn’t sustainable growth.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

The company started back in 2007, 2008. I think the people that you hire, it’s a combination of the organization that you create, it’s the leadership that you hire and the service delivery mentality that you think about. That has extended beyond APM quite significantly over the years. So we’re into our second decade.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

But the wins that actually happen, they happen due to the work of sales leadership and sales people. That starts with sales leadership and sales management. In 2008, I started a business called RJMetrics, which was basically the first SaaS analytics platform. And in an increasing number of cases, marketers as well.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

And this goes back to ten years ago, which was 2008 and we released the ten laws of cloud computing at a CEO conference that we had that was meaningfully smaller than this. We think we’re gonna see a lot more of this and really enterprise mobile is going to take route through these vertical use cases.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

. “Over time companies that want to dominate certain categories will need to think about building a platform” Over time a lot of companies that want to dominate certain categories or have a category leadership position will need to think about building a platform. But the way that you do it is in multiple stages.

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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. So that was wearables mobile, we don’t yet know what the next platform is going to be. Nicole Quinn: [crosstalk 00:01:01]Sure, let her start to talk. Ann: Thanks, we are a very early stage firm. Floodgate is now 12 years old.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Just look at Facebook’s audience growth since late 2008. Meanwhile, over on LinkedIn, thought leadership drives the best results. Decision-makers are spending more time each year consuming thought leadership content, with most doing so for at least one hour a week. Design Your Posts for Mobile.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2023

Today’s super dynamic B2B environment mandates everyone in the leadership to be more innovative to get things done! On the other hand, Evernote was launched in 2008 by Evernote Corporation. Both the applications support majority of desktop and mobile operating systems (OSs). This means anytime, anywhere accessibility.

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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. What we’re looking to do with Uber is to create a mobility platform for human movement and monetize that. Did anti-virus and anti-spam and the cloud.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They should be able to use it on a mobile device or any other device versus desktop. Ciara : So Bela, you mentioned things like VPN and security and mobile. So I think, let’s see, if I look at Salesforce One was a project that started, I guess it was around 2008-ish, I think. They shouldn’t have to worry about VPN.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

With 20+ desktop and mobile apps, it facilitates various features like design, video editing, web development, photography, and more for around 15 million subscribers. The ‘haven for programmers’ – GitHub has been providing its services through a SaaS model since 2008. Adobe Creative Cloud. Engineering. IntelliJ IDEA. Salesforce.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2019

He’s had sales leadership experiences at Oracle, PeopleSoft, and BEA Systems. In 2008, he joined a little company called Marketo, and he helped them grow from zero in revenue to over two hundred and fifty million. The point is that it’s not that you don’t seek upward mobility. The point is lean in.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

AA-ISP Sales Leadership Summit. CSO UK is Europe’s most senior leadership community for enterprise, mid-market, hyper-growth, or unicorn companies. is the longest running sales tech conference, taking place every year since 2008. It’s an event that’s all about networking and training for people in sales leadership.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Leadership Principles from the Pizza Industry [36:37]. Since 2010, he has served as the founder and CEO of Slice, which used to be known as My Pizza, a mobile and online service that enables people to easily order from authentic pizzerias in their neighborhood. Leadership Principles from the Pizza Industry. Sam’s Corner [43:54].

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 1, 2018

The mobile app keeps everyone in touch wherever they are, with built-in messaging, chatrooms, and video conferencing capabilities. The company has been BBB accredited since 2008, with an A+ rating and 89 positive reviews. per month adds on conferencing capabilities and the mobile app. 1) Nextiva (Top Pick). per month.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

It does not matter whether it is via search engines, social media, relevant websites, mobile devices or referrals. One of the most famous of SaaS company referral success stories is Dropbox, who in 2008 grew their customer base by 3900% over the course of 15 months, 35% of which was through their referral program.

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