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The First Generation of the Talent Software Wars

Tom Tunguz

Both companies eventually offered talent acquisition, performance management, and learning tools for human resources teams. Taleo initially focused on recruiting tools and SuccessFactors on performance management. in December 2011, and Oracle bought Taleo for $1.9B But they started in different places.

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The Toughest Roadblocks When Breaking Through to $15M ARR

SaaStr

Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. I co-founded Talkdesk in 2011. So we decided to take you to know three specific topics which are hiring, culture and sales. So we tried to recruit people from abroad.

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From Bootstrapped to Category Leader: Lessons from Zapier’s Founders

OpenView Labs

Since our founding in 2011, we’ve come a long way. We continue that practice today, and extend it to include roles that aren’t typically exposed to customers—operations people, accountants, recruiters, etc. We focused on addressing customers’ specific challenges rather than a broad and generic sales pitch.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

This is increasing the spending as more and more features are being offered, through acquisitions or expansion. The Atlassian Corporation has reached billions in revenue even without an enterprise sales team, all by creating user-friendly software development, team collaboration, project management tools including JIRA and Confluence.

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Founded: 2011. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+ Founded: 2011.

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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

At the helm of Udemy for Business’ customer acquisition machine is their VP of Marketing Yvonne Chen. When Yvonne joined in 2016, the business unit consisted of just 10 people across product, engineering, sales, and marketing. Turning a sales objection into a unique differentiator.

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The SaaS superstars of the East Coast

SaaStock

Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers. Toast ’s all-in-one point-of-sale (POS) and restaurant management platform helps power and grow restaurants. Founded: 2011. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+ Founded: 2011.