OPEXEngine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Competitive service offerings and new technologies are driving down costs to maintain SaaS infrastructures. To see how COGs and gross margins are changing, take a look at these charts showing SaaS companies that IPO’ed in 2008 versus 2018. Average COGs in 2008 was 40% of revenue at the time of IPO, and gross margins averaged 60%.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Google Maps actually started as a C++ program at Where 2 Technologies. in September 2008, the Google maps mobile app was launched on Android. Their phone number is listed in a different format from the other places that we’ve reviewed. Understand that only 23% of customers post negative reviews out of vengeance.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Particularly within the SaaS world, where the allure of high returns in the private markets has resulted in all-time funding records due to the rise of the megaround , Softbank’s Vision Fund , and more. Efficient growth – the balance of growth and strong efficiency metrics, creates value. Growth at All Costs.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

But it was a great experience, grounding me in tech. in about 2008. in about 2008. So many of the really exciting tech companies were really broken out by Method. It’s a complex technology, but it touches all of us every day. We had 200,000 employees and were part owned by the government.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Deputy , for instance, was a reimagining of an in-house tool that took on a life of its own once we combined the core technology with the idea of product led growth and the power of a cloud-based platform. While Deputy officially launched back in 2008, its origin story actually goes back some twenty years.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

Did a lot of consulting for high tech startups, I really love the startup space. We don’t need to have them posted, we don’t need to have them, really, reviewed, they are so woven into our brand. We ask that the prospect to review it with us, and tell us where we have it wrong before we submit something formal.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

His first career steps were at Seer Technologies and Monitor Company in the 1990s. Afterward, Patrick founded several businesses in diverse sectors, including tech, healthcare, and finance. After a BA in Technology and an MBA, André Baldini made his first steps into IT, working in companies like Stefanini and Itaú Unibanco.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In early 2016 the company raised a $12mm Series A led by PeakSpan Capital to accelerate growth, largely on the back on fantastic customer success oriented metrics. What's involved with that is I focus on the development of strategic partnerships, helping the market understand how our technology is disruptive for businesses.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

Our relationship to technology has changed a lot in the last little while in a way that I don’t think we’ve really noticed yet, like the frog in the pot of water. There’s a vendor review approval process, and a security policy analyst, and their in house counsel wants to mark up the TOS. It was just harder.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

This allows anyone building an app that applies blockchain technology to do so by building directly on top of QuikNode’s globally distributed Web3 infrastructure. While blockchain technology was spearheaded by Bitcoin starting from 2008, using the technology for other applications became popularized around 2017.

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Hitenism

APRIL 24, 2017

Sean was advising a handful of high-growth tech startups including Dropbox, Eventbrite and my own company, KISSmetrics. We had been walking into board meetings after having just spent a boatload on marketing and none of our metrics had moved an inch. Someone who would look at the metrics and talk to customers on a daily basis.

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SaaStr

JULY 20, 2021

That was in no small part due to having a board that was aligned with David’s vision. I went into technical writing for a bit. Then I got into distributed computing, peer to peer technology. There’s details, metrics, and no one cared. I went to the University of Michigan. We do peer to peer content distribution.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Using her 20+ years of trench experience in B2B tech sales and support, Anita teaches sales professionals around the globe how to leverage key principles of human psychology to help buyers make a decision in the seller’s favor. I had never quit a job before unless it was due to a promotion or a better opportunity. Anita Nielsen.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

It’s now so inexpensive to go to market that having a great tech vision and product isn’t enough. I was the technical co-founder of a company, but for the most part, I was just rolling from startup to startup. We had already achieved the mission, so after 2008 we backed off the pedal, so to speak.

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BetterCloud

MARCH 11, 2021

Could SaaSOps become the next “big” thing in tech? We’re already seeing signs that SaaSOps is already the next big thing in tech. Let’s quickly review: SaaSOps : a movement that emerged in 2019 at BetterCloud’s Altitude conference as SaaS usage exploded and created unique IT operations and security risks.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP. I think the VC backed tech market will likely see its worst moments next year. The public markets have become more reliant, not less reliant on tech successes in the past decade. I think tech will continue to be important.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Since 2008, spending on SEO from 2008 to 2020 has grown over 7x from $11.5 Technically speaking, the ROI represents a ratio of costs to gains. Each SEO metric has its own purpose, but knowing when certain data points are relevant to your goal is critical to a successful SEO campaign. What is SEO? What is ROI of SEO?

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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. I’ve always wanted to be in tech. I did a consumer startup. I worked in a big company.

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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. I coded most of my life but I studied sociology because I think the interface between people and technology is more interesting than technology alone.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

However, just as the overall technology and software industries have different paths to success, so are the SaaS and cloud-computing segments evolving in a variety of directions, requiring different sales techniques and models. Being tech-savvy. The reason is because high-performing sales teams are the first to embrace technology: 2.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Build your reviews from customers. Whether a particular customer buys more from you now, they can do you a quick favor for free: write a review. Reviews on Google, Yelp and industry sites can have a big impact when people are searching for a new vendor. He didn’t charge me but asked that I write an online review instead.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We’re excited to have on the show today, a luminary and one of the most dynamic tech startup CEOs out there, and the CEO and co-founder of a company called QuotaPath. He had owned multiple businesses in New Jersey in real estate, so not in tech. This was 2008. I’m going to know every single metric in the business.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Karen Page: I think that we’re seeing a time, of course when CIOs and CSOs are up to their eyeballs with new technologies and just trying to keep up for their own companies to make sure that they are seeing the products and the services that are going to best solve their company’s problems.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 11, 2021

Izosimov in 2008 for an article in Harvard Business Review, hypergrowth means ‘the steep part of the S-curve that young industries experience that sets them from losers.’. Use data and metrics available to make the best of customer information. Some metrics that can help track this include-. First coined by Alexander V.

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2021

I’m sure you did a lot of diligence in trying to figure out whether that person would succeed. Now we building a lot of stuff, and then when we feel that it’s working, it’s a machine, we can bring… Mallun : We had some grownups in the company, but we started the company in 2008, and then took it public in 2011.

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FastSpring

APRIL 22, 2020

In 2008, the whole market share was about $5.5 Review Sites. There are more than a hundred factors that determine the ranking of your content in Google Search Engine, such as the number of links, website speed, traffic and user engagement, social metrics, etc. 4- Establish Connections With SaaS Review Sites. Free trials.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New SaaS Fintech technologies, products, and services emerge every year. 5 average rating that SaaS Fintechs boast on the software review site, and it was only a matter of time before the SaaS paradigm became an inevitability, rather than an option, for Fintech. What technology will cause the most disruption to the industry?

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