SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Aaron Levie, CEO and Co-founder of Box, discusses the approaches he used for scaling his company in terms of hybrid work, adjusting to a dynamic economy during the pandemic, and the importance of the Cloud and digital technology for every business. Box has always lived in the Cloud, anti-on-prem. About the podcast.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When it launched in 2011, Treasure Data’s positioning was a Hadoop-based big data warehouse in the cloud. Commoditization From AWS & Google Cloud. The Platform: $0 – $5 Million ARR. Competition in the market rose sharply.

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

2004-2010 marked the early days of SaaS where the model was still risky, and cloud providers were competing hard with their on-prem predecessors. . Things started changing in 2011. In 2011, Hootsuite raised $3m in venture debt before raising another $50m in debt from CIBC in 2018. . Don’t VC’s Want This Dealflow?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Since leads still came in, and the internet still grew, and SaaS still had true ROI, everyone was sort of unprepared for when the economy got even a little better in 2011. Cloud is a tidal wave. Cloud momentum is unstoppable. More and more of the $1 trillion spent on IT is still going to continue to move to the Cloud.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Founded : 2011. It is a cloud-based platform that offers the services of Asia’s top AI assistant for hotel staff – Gaia. Founded : 2011. It provides smart hardware self-development and cloud service. Mobingi integrates server deployment, scaling and application lifecycle automation through its cloud solution.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Founded : 2011. Founded : 2011. Omie is a management platform in the cloud for small and midsized companies, bringing together ERP, Financial Services, Entrepreneur Education and a vibrant Marketplace for vertical 3rd party solutions, all combined in an easy to use environment. Founded : 2011. Founded : 2011.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2011. Founded: 2011. Founded: 2011. Ultimate Software is one of the giants of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions. iCIMS offer a variety of cloud-based employment management solutions to help mid-sized and enterprise employers find the talent they need. Based in: Boston, MA. Founded: 2015.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. One of the most popular sessions from SaaStr Annual, this presentation will provides an in-depth look at the cloud computing industry across Europe and globally. Want to see more content like this? A few more.

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ChurnZero

JULY 27, 2021

A sister program to the SaaS Awards, The Cloud Awards ( [link] ), will soon accept submissions for a new 2021-22 program, continuing its recognition of excellence in cloud computing, with an October deadline. . The SaaS Awards is a sister program to the Cloud Awards, which was founded in 2011. Genesys (Genesys Cloud).

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BetterCloud

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

BetterCloud was born out of a need to secure critical business data in the cloud. We started in 2011 by focusing on the security and management challenges with Google. The BetterCloud Platform APIs deliver the much-needed control to automate management workflows and security policies across any cloud technology.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

In 2011, Tiago Paiva won a Twilio hackathon by embracing the overlooked call center industry. You were founded in 2011. But I had forgotten it was in July 2011. Tell folks what Talkdesk is today, and why Contact Center’s a big space, and is that the same as 2011? In 2014, when we met, the cloud was accelerating.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

You Make Something Awesome, and No One Buys It Before Monroy joined Digital Ocean, he built a SaaS product with a friend in 2011. Tech companies realized that this cloud thing might be for real, but the word on the street was that AWS was too hard and complex for customers to realize its benefits.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2019

from 2007-2011 which eventually became Twitch. The company pivoted to cloud-based software in 2013 and counts Chubb, the City of Chicago and Burr Forman among its customers. YC has funded over 1,900 startups since 2005 including Airbnb, coinbase, Dropbox, Stripe, Flexport, instacart and reddit.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Founded: 2011. It’s also running the Capital Innovation Accelerator Fund targeted at cloud computing, Internet of Things (IoT), mobile and e-commerce startups. Founded: 2011. It invests in high-growth businesses developing solutions in mobile, telecommunications, IT, cloud, and internet. Size of fund: $25.5M. Stage: Seed.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2011. Founded: 2011. Founded: 2011. Ultimate Software is one of the giants of cloud-based human capital management (HCM) solutions. iCIMS offer a variety of cloud-based employment management solutions to help mid-sized and enterprise employers find the talent they need. Based in: Boston, MA. Founded: 2015.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

The SaaS Awards are part of the Cloud Awards program , which has been recognizing businesses for their cloud-based “solutions as a service” since 2011.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 4, 2020

The SaaS Awards is a sister program to the Cloud Awards, which was founded in 2011. ChurnZero is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and is backed by leading angles and venture capital firms such as Baird Capital, Grotech Ventures and Middleland Capital. . About the SaaS Awards.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

And like the modern cloud based CRM system was somewhat novel and new. They’re not replacing a license and maintenance-installed shrink-wrapped piece of software with that version, only in the cloud. Then by 2011 or 2012, some of the tech components of the Great Recession had started wearing off and the market started waking up.

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Totango

JANUARY 22, 2018

In her current role at SAP, Krista leads a global team of digital engagement professionals focused on delivering a game changing and scalable digital post-sale experience for SAP cloud customers. Dante is the Manager of Partner & Customer Experience at Google Cloud. Dante Otero. Manager, Partner & Customer Experience.

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Sixteen Ventures

JULY 17, 2020

Read on to learn the answer… As a consultant to SaaS and Cloud providers that are looking to grow, I get asked what an acceptable SaaS churn rate is all the time. Churn is the reason that – though you acquired a lot of new logos in 2012 – you had no significant year over year growth from 2011.

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BetterCloud

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

When I started the company in 2011, I knew that our success depended largely on our ability to consistently delight our customers. What makes this recognition from G2 so unique is that it’s based on feedback we received from actual IT professionals that have used the platform, engaged with our team, and seen the value that we can deliver.

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SaaStr

JUNE 10, 2020

Before founding BetterCloud, David was an early employee of Cloud Sherpas (acquired by Accenture), where he led the company to become the leading cloud services partner to SMB worldwide. How has David seen the rate of cloud adoption within enterprise over the last 5 years? Has it been faster or slower than he thought?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And as nice as verbal assurances and a handshake are, as you grow and try to sign with more established, enterprise-level companies, you’ll find yourself more and more having to provide proofs of compliance before closing the deal: The shift to the cloud, more and more data breaches – it really put a magnifying glass on third-party risk.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

In 2011, she co-founded Grab (previously known as MyTeksi) together with fellow Malaysian and Harvard graduate Anthony Tan. With more than 15 years of solid experience, today she is the Chief Operations Officer at the Ping An Health Cloud, known as the most advanced AI healthcare technology.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app. A look at our pricing history Our ASP also reflects the changes we’ve made to our pricing model over the years. Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc.

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BetterCloud

OCTOBER 5, 2021

VMware is bringing this vision to reality through VMware Anywhere Workspace —an integrated solution featuring cloud-native endpoint management, endpoint protection, secure access service edge technologies (SASE) technologies and now SaaS app management. Why VMware chose BetterCloud. But What About SaaS?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Both of us and our third co-founder, Jason Purcell, were at a company called Endeca, which was a search engine for e-commerce, exited to Oracle for over a billion dollars in 2011. So I think we’re in a generation now, which is more, what is only uniquely possible in the cloud. And so that understanding has evolved a lot.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 25, 2010

With a world-class management team and Board , one of the best products and brands in B2B software and a recent $19M cash infusion Zendesk is ideally poised to bring Cloud-based zen and good karma to even more people in 2011. Mange tak to Mikkel , Morten , Alex , Michael and the whole crew.

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Totango

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Written by Dante Otero, Manager, Partner & Customer Experience, Google Cloud. About the Author: Dante is the Manager of Partner & Customer Experience at Google Cloud. Prior to joining Google in 2011, Dante has held several roles in higher education, consulting, and in software development.

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Totango

JANUARY 22, 2018

In her current role at SAP, Krista leads a global team of digital engagement professionals focused on delivering a game changing and scalable digital post-sale experience for SAP cloud customers. Dante is the Manager of Partner & Customer Experience at Google Cloud. Dante Otero. Manager, Partner & Customer Experience.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Imagine having the opportunity to sell into a company like Lyft in 2011. Back then, in 2011, Lyft was a small Series-A startup called Zimride with under 50 employees. Founded in 2011. Imagine growing with them on their journey to becoming a publicly-traded company with an $11+ billion market cap. Founded in 2010.

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SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2020

342: On this episode of the SaaStr podcast, our CEO, Jason Lemkin, chats with Zapier CEO, Wade Foster, on Distributed Teams and Building a Cloud Product. This is where the cloud meets. ” The Cloud is everywhere. But there’s a lot of Clouds in those apps that you’re connecting. But you want to zap stuff.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 10, 2011

Bringing the healthcare industry, which at least in Germany is pretty old-school and bureaucracy-ridden, into the Cloud age is a very tough nut to crack but there's a huge reward for the company that pulls that off. Thank you, Katrin and Alex, and on to a great 2011! This was the last part of my little series.

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Most people at that company hadn’t even imagined the concept of things like email or Microsoft Word living exclusively in the cloud—especially on the enterprise level. But as enterprises and startups move to the cloud en masse, new threats enter the picture on a daily basis. The only real SaaS product we used was Salesforce.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 4, 2021

So in 2011, they introduced usage-based pricing. Products like Snowflake and Google Cloud Platform take this a step further and even offer $300+ in free usage credits for new developers to test drive their products. The company struggled with poor churn and anemic expansion revenue. Something needed to change.

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ChurnZero

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Through 2022, Gartner projects the market size and growth of the cloud services industry at nearly three times the growth of overall IT services— Sid Nag , Gartner Research Vice President. billion in sales in 2016, up from a mere $57 million in 2011.” – McKinsey & Company, Thinking inside the subscription box.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 24, 2023

It’s a pattern that can be seen across the 2007–09 recession, the recovery that followed, the slow-growth years of 2011–19, and even during the pandemic period of 2020–21. In fact, the top-quartile TSR performers outpace the bottom-quartile companies more than twofold in both revenue growth and cost productivity.

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