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Is Strategy Dead in Tech? The Winners Don’t Think So

OPEXEngine

Although the San Jose-based company has always been a leader in developing world-class creative software like Photoshop and Illustrator, its go-to-market model (licensing boxed software) eventually slowed it down. Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. Krish Subramanian: We are software engineers by training. My co-founders cut their teeth at Zoho for over 10 years building product and for over six years [inaudible] software products. When I say we, it’s me and my four co-founders.

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Portfolio Update Part 3

The Angel VC

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. Propertybase, based in Munich, offers a simple-to-use yet powerful software solution (do you see a pattern here?)

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Q&A: Understand the Growth and Retention Metrics of SaaS Companies from Recent Surveys and M&A Activity

ChurnZero

It is no secret that customer churn hits recurring revenue businesses hard, but what’s its real impact on their long-term health and valuation? To answer that and more, we invited SaaS Capital’s Managing Director, Rob Belcher, and Software Equity Group’s Managing Director, Allen Cinzori, to join us for a webinar. Q&A Recap.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. Growing at the same pace, a report from BetterCloud had anticipated that 73% of the organizations will have all SaaS apps by 2020. And the result is visible!

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

This guide, by LinkedIn’s Head of Global Monetization Strategy Josh Gold, is intended to teach subscription-based businesses how to evaluate whether the freemium model will drive revenue and lead gen for their business or result in failure. It should get you started on thinking about freemium mechanics in your own software.

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How Gravity Forms Uses Chargify To Scale More Efficiently

Chargify

Throughout the series we highlight Chargify merchants and the lessons learned as they grow their subscription-based businesses. Widely recognized as the industry leading WordPress form solution, Gravity Forms made an inspiring rise to success in the last several years. Internal subscription management tools didn’t scale.

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