Neil Patel

JULY 12, 2021

Marketing automation is the act of using software and technology to create and implement applications to automate repetitive tasks, such as (yes) email marketing, ad campaigns, tracking, and much more. This marketing software lets you drive revenue with lead management, mobile marketing, and more. What is Marketing Automation?

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

While there are local guide Android app platforms released, in this article, I’ll particularly focus on Google Maps marketing paying attention to the mapping app in an iPhone and iPad as well as any Android device. in September 2008, the Google maps mobile app was launched on Android. And, where will the ads be displayed?

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ChurnZero

JUNE 19, 2020

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. Allen Cinzori , Managing Director, Software Equity Group. This is also annual payments only. The compounding effects that churn has on your bottom-line.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2020

Give the buyer the tools to negotiate their own discount through accelerated payments, longer commitments, or predictable deal signature. Does the path to realization of the benefits provided by your solution look relatively easy? In 2008, we chose “aerospace” and won three massive customers.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

It should get you started on thinking about freemium mechanics in your own software. How to Increase Your Payment Customers In a Freemium Model. 7 Tips for Successfully Introducing Freemium Business Software. Some of the top software companies in business today use freemium models to engage customers.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

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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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

E-commerce is one of the most popular uses for the PHP framework because it allows you to do things like create a shopping cart , optional upsells, and integrate payment processors like Stripe. In 2008, Google stated they can (and do) crawl dynamic URLs. Still, there are some SEOs who think dynamic URLs are bad for SEO.

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. In 2008 he became an angel investor and discovered Zendesk, Clio, FreeAgent – and his love for SaaS. Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011. This is where the cloud meets.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 1, 2018

I’ve been working with my co-founders since 2007-2008. It is effectively the app store for the web, but it’s weirdly even more addictive. Signing up for your app is the only thing that everyone does. You can argue Stripe’s entire product is simply a much better onboarding for payments.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Recorded Future is a leading universal threat intelligence solution that arms enterprises’ security teams with all the tools they need. Founded: 2008. Based in: New York. Founded: 2015.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

How did seeing the boom and bust of the dot com and 2008 affect Dave’s operating mentality? Here’s what Elisa talks about: How to win Talentshare when the system is stacked against you. Dave Kellogg: Well, Harry, I’ve been doing enterprise software for over 25 years. Missed the session?

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

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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Chargify

JANUARY 25, 2018

Widely recognized as the industry leading WordPress form solution, Gravity Forms made an inspiring rise to success in the last several years. At the time (around 2008), there really wasn’t an easy solution for adding a form to a WordPress site. Gravity Forms was the result. ” The first version of Gravity Forms was simple.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Expensify: Founded in 2008 … 13 years ago. It was just amazing that when iPhone launched, you could now take a picture of receipts and have them somewhat automatically “expensed” A jaw dropping, amazing use of the first generation on mobile apps. A long, tenacious path to $100m ARR, and then … Boom!! *

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Recorded Future is a leading universal threat intelligence solution that arms enterprises’ security teams with all the tools they need. Founded: 2008. Based in: New York. Founded: 2015.

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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. There were solutions for the stadiums for the very large conferences, but nothing really for under 20,000 people. So first, I would say the API and Stripe.js

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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. Signs of recession we’re seeing now vs. 2008. Clients canceling events, reducing spend, and failing to make payments. Meet the experts.

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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. Reduce failed payments.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M Their first round of Angel investment in 2008 had not been a round for the sake of raising a round, or funds really even earmarked to invest heavily in growth. TWO ESTABLISHED COMPANIES CHANGE COURSE.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Fresco Capital focuses on businesses developing new solutions in the enterprise, education, infrastructure, healthcare, consumer goods and entertainment. SaaS Investments: Consilium Software, HRBoss, and others. BEENEXT is a Singapore-based VC investing in fintech, platforms, payments and SaaS businesses. Founded: 2008.

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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. So we have over 260 portfolio companies globally, it’s all enterprise software, predominantly SaaS. So a lot of lessons that can be taken from there as well. Adnan Chaudhry: Thanks, Matt. Good to be here.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a background doing software and standards for trade, and we thought that there’s a massive opportunity in this space. It is if you took LinkedIn, combined it with the app platform from Salesforce, and looked at the domain, which is supply chains. Third parties are developing apps for our platform.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. I’ve learned a lot about just the financial system at scale. Bill Clerico : We, I think are going after super exciting part of the market, which is software companies trying to embed payments.

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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. Ari : And so what is your relationship with the banking system today? Zach : Well, I guess in the truest sense we do sell software as a service.

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CustomerSuccessBox

APRIL 10, 2020

The last time the world had an economic meltdown was 2008-09 during the subprime crisis. So I thought we should discuss some of the challenges and their possible solutions to help customer success teams worldwide manage this situation without affecting business continuity. Explain the downside of not using your software now.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. Found in 2015 by Vijay Yalamanchili, Keka, Keka is an HR and payroll management software designed for modern organizations. The word Keka is a slang word in Telugu (founder’s native language) that translates to Perfect – how the software is. IBSFintech.

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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. When you’re small, or small-ish in comparison, you think all the fear is on your side! But you couldn’t be more wrong.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Reduce upfront/adoption costs and offer flexible payment terms. And often the only thing standing between a deal and no deal is the financing or payment terms. Sometimes all that was needed to close the deal was allowing them to make most of the payments in the next fiscal year, with just a small down payment when the work started.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

This means that such companies are product-oriented as well, but also include a small inside account management team to help them catch and convert by providing real-time assistance during the software purchase process. Besides selling a high-priced SaaS software, Passkey also makes multi-year deals that can be worth millions of dollars.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

We woke up February 2020 with a shock to the system and no idea what it would mean for our business. So we had a shock to the system with no idea what it actually meant. Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP. Mark Suster | Managing Partner @ Upfront Ventures. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Don’t just check the box because the retained search firm wants to get the second half of their payment. And then the next morning you wake up and you’re thinking about solutions. You may have been at Box in 2006 or LinkedIn in 2008. You take as long as you need. So aim high, aim low, aim in the middle.

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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. But invoicing happens to be connected to something really, really important, which is payments. Did anti-virus and anti-spam and the cloud. ” No.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. Eric Christopher: Time is the silent killer and running out of cash.

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ProfitWell

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Another 21% were only using the product one or a few times per week, which makes us think that usage is probably correlated to payment (Spotify has 70M paid users and approximately 3X that many free users). We can attribute these results to how Spotify has thought about the product and pricing strategy since its inception in 2008.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

In terms of starting Tipalti, I sold another company in the telecommunication space in 2008. Well-established where a board member of that ventral customer told them to explore that larger company if they want to look at the solution. We’re building an ADSL system, way back when, 96. They are one of the levers.

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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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