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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. Hear about the early days of Glassdoor; tactical lessons on scaling—from building a business model and recruiting an all-star management team to advice on building a compelling, innovative company culture; and learn whyGlassdoor’s $1.2

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

Product led businesses need to get their products in the hands of would-be users as efficiently as possible–hopefully at near zero CAC. Not satisfied with reaching $1 billion in annual revenue, Atlassian furthered its commitment to product led growth by jumping on the freemium bandwagon. Freemium benchmarks.

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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. If you're new here, please start with part 1 , move on to part 2 and then (hopefully) return to this post.

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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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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

How can a simple offering be transformed into its own platform? Renaud Visage, Co-Founder of Eventbrite, and Romain Huet, Head of Developer Relations at Stripe, know what it takes to effectively evolve your offering into a platform without losing what made offering appealing in the first place. Want to see more content like this?

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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.