OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium in SaaS is old news. The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. Freemium appeared to be declining in popularity and, when it was in place, drove next to zero new ACV for most SaaS companies.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS companies have transformed the way global businesses work. 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. In this blog we’ll talk about SaaS business and top 50 SaaS companies in 2020.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As we wrote in our launch post about expanding SaaStock New York into SaaStock East Coast , our main aim is to foster a SaaS community that spans from Florida to Quebec. The SaaS industry’s beating heart will probably always be New York, and it will also be the home of SaaStock East Coast on June 4-6. Founded: 2008.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

As we first looked at bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia and considered what help we could offer, we thought about localization and know-how about legal and cultural differences as some of the critical success factors. SaaS Investments: Goodera, and others. SaaS Investments: Ezetap, and others. Founded: 2001.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Expensify: Founded in 2008 … 13 years ago. 1M in ARR per employee could be a new efficiency record at IPO for SaaS. Their tiniest customers still have higher churn, as with almost every other SaaS company. Like Bill, it took the process seriously and became a licensed money transmitter itself. 119% NRR from SMBs!!

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

This is Zach from Plaid and I guess … well, it’s interesting because you’re not a SaaS company, we’re at Saastr … but we’ll talk about what it’s like to not be a SaaS company at SaaStr. Zach : SaaS-ish. Ari : SaaS-ish. That’s pre-Plaid.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Romain Huet : See how you can turn like a SaaS business, or a core product you have and make it a very successful developer platform. Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Let’s start with our five key steps.

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Incredo

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Do you want to grow your SaaS sales team and improve your processes? maintain healthy atmosphere in your Smarketing team, make smart choices regarding your SaaS sales model, strategy, pricing, . build smoother connections both with your prospects through optimized sales process. And from SaaS sales models to SaaS pricing.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. So I think that is somewhat of a good news in this in that SaaS businesses are sticky.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

So you look at companies, Top 10 SaaS companies in history, none of those companies got their first VP of Sales wrong. So I have a process, sort of a checklist. And you should prepare for a long process potentially to make this hire. I don’t really consider that to be a super ethical process.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. A SaaS company is a service provider that hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the internet. India has seen exponential growth in SaaS investments in the last decade. This article will help you –.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We have a lot of SaaS companies, by the way, from Denmark if you haven’t noticed. Tradeshift Pay is an entrant payment solution for supply chains, meaning no matter where your supplier is in the world, we can make sure they get paid. Obviously, we were also doing what you’ve got to do when you have a SaaS company.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 24, 2019

I’m an entrepreneur-turned-investor, co-founder of an early generation one, SaaS company called Message Labs that we founded in 2000. 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.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Eric made his way into the world of startups and SaaS. What were the biggest challenges in the process? * Why does Eric believe that the bar for execution in SaaS in 2019 is so much higher than in 2009? In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP. They see it where SaaS companies might trade at 13 times, 15 times, 17 times trailing. So what can you expect for SaaS businesses next year? I think most SaaS startups haven’t seen the full effects of what you’re going to see.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 29, 2020

Maybe they need new products and services, or adjustments to what you’ve been offering. 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. I could get full price by deferring payments by just a few months.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Chen made his way into the world of SaaS and came to found the leader in account payables with Tipalti. * How can SaaS companies have variable pricing mechanisms without disincentivizing usage? In terms of starting Tipalti, I sold another company in the telecommunication space in 2008.

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Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Ask anyone in Fintech SaaS about the shifts of the last 18 months and you’ll hear stories about investment shortages, rising churn rates, and market consolidation. This presents a significant challenge to Fintech SaaS founders. Our latest Fintech SaaS series intends to find out. Gone are the days of the free-money era.

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