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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’m CEO of Dataiku and Dataiku is a software platform that enables business analyst and data scientist to work collaboratively to deliver a large machine learning projects.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

SaaS businesses are organizations that provide subscription-based software applications that are centrally hosted on their servers over the internet. This is increasing the spending as more and more features are being offered, through acquisitions or expansion. And the result is visible! Solarwinds. Customer Support. Raising a $2.8

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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. That was our hint that people wanted to connect tools and get their software working together. We continue that practice today, and extend it to include roles that aren’t typically exposed to customers—operations people, accountants, recruiters, etc.

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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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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.

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SaaStr Podcast #212: Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight Discusses Why Burying Customer Success Under Sales Does Not Work

SaaStr

As for Nick, prior to Gainsight he was the CEO @ LiveOffice where he grew cloud archiving ARR from $2m in 2008 to $25m in 2011 and drove and negotiated the acquisition by Symantec for $115m in cash. What should the optimal sales to customer success relationship look like? Why does this have such a high rate of failure?