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The Salesforce/Mulesoft Acquisition is a Bellwether for the 2018 M&A Market

Tom Tunguz

A recent addition to the list of public software companies, Mulesoft is a tremendous business. Year of Acquisition. If we compare this acquisition on other dimensions, we see that Mulesoft is the second fastest growing at the time of acquisition, next to SuccessFactors in 2011. Transaction. Price ($M). Growth Rate.

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Power Laws: A Look Back To Where 20 SaaS Break-Out Companies from 2012 Are Today

SaaStr

Let’s take a look back at where HubSpot, Upwork, and others were in 2011 GAAP revenue — and where they are today. Learnings for this year, for 2011 GAAP revenue (Inc. in 2011 GAAP revenue. in 2011 GAAP revenue. Where it Went: $1B acquisition by Vista in 2019. in 2011 GAAP revenue. 78 Marketo.

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How I Reverse-Engineered a $100M Exit with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin

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To the OG software people who read SaaStr, Jason is “the guy,” Sam says. He’s the person that the founders of Hubspot and companies that make tens of millions of dollars want to learn about software from. Let’s step back into the older days of software. If you want to go really big, you want ones with economies of scale.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Twilio at $3.4B in ARR

SaaStr

An acquisition well done. Still, 60% is the ideal target for being considered a “software” company. #9. Twilio’s 2011 customers are worth 10x more today a decade later. It can seemingly scale forever. While 140% at IPO , it’s still top decile today, even adding in the lower NRR from SendGrid. #2.

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2011: More of the same. only worse

Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

What's new for 2011? What I expect is that we'll see many of the same things we've been seeing for awhile in software-as-a-service (SaaS) marketing. Bottom line, don't expect a huge marketing budget windfall in 2011. Not much, really. only more of it. Or at least we could do something with less.

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We?re About To See a Lot More SaaS Debt

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With the Salesforce IPO in 2004, we saw the first sign that institutional investors were comfortable with a standard set of SaaS metrics: Churn, sales efficiency , ARPU, LTV, customer acquisition cost , and so on. . Salesforce’s IPO is also seen as a test of a new business model that could shake up the software industry.

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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. in December 2011, and Oracle bought Taleo for $1.9B In the late 1990s, two of the dominant talent management platforms were founded. But they started in different places. SAP purchased SuccessFactors for $3.4B