SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

Another was 2011/2012 where not only were another 5 VC firms started but it’s also when international ones set their eyes on this vast market. Canary invests in Brazilian startups, aiming to transform the country’s startup ecosystem by filling an early stage funding gap that it has identified. Founded: 2011.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Notable mentions that have helped the Asian SaaS space are 500 Startups, Y Combinator, Sequoia, Matrix Partners, Eight Roads Ventures and Intel Capital. Cyberport Hong Kong is an ICT hub and a digital community whose aim is to enable network services for startups and founders. Founded: 2011. Size of fund: $25.5M. Stage: Seed.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Network effect products rely less on new product innovation unless it’s the only way to monetize. I hope that by studying these and other examples startups can get smarter about how they sequence their S-Curves and drive long term success for their companies. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Our Chairman and Co-founder, Eoghan McCabe , sat down for a chat with Harry Stebbings on the Twenty Minute VC podcast to discuss his startup journey and the lessons he learned while building Intercom. “The art is to weave the creativity and innovation in with the process” “I do get pretty tired of the minutiae of process.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2018

As Intercom’s customer base moved upmarket, it became increasingly obvious to us in Sales that what worked well in our product for early-stage startups didn’t for larger companies. In 2011 Marc Andreessen declared that software is eating the world. To fix it, we had to change how we worked with our product team.

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BrightBack

JANUARY 17, 2022

But in practice, being best-in-class at digital retention is a key challenge for most startups and enterprises, as it requires significant engineering to connect 3 to 5 systems of record (e.g. Founded in 2011, Chargebee counts businesses, like Okta, Freshworks, Calendly, and Study.com amongst its global customer base. About Chargebee.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In 2012, Patrick co-founded ProfitWell (previously known as Price Intelligently), it offers an innovative price setting tool that helps businesses price their products and services according to their true value. He was also Coordinator and Trainer of startup sales at Gama Academy, the first sales training program for Brazilian startups.

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Chargify

MARCH 28, 2018

Innovative SaaS companies are recognizing a shift in customer demand and offering their products and features “à la carte,” and are tailoring specific offers to target sets of customers rather than offering all customers the same generic packages. Jeff Matson, Community Evangelist, Gravity Forms.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 2, 2020

This post will guide you through 10 innovative pricing plays you should consider, along with high-profile examples of companies who are testing them. Patrick Campbell deconstructs and walks through the elements of a pricing strategy that enables startups to more effectively acquire customers. Download the full report to dig in deeper.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

That’s a tremendous amount of content to compete with, especially if you’re running a small business or a new startup. Criticism encourages brands to up their game and innovate, which benefits all consumers. Comparative advertising encourages product improvement and innovation, and can lead to lower prices in the marketplace.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 3, 2020

Stephanie founded her executive coaching and consultancy company focused on grooming and growing innovative talent within sales centric and growth focused teams. If you missed episode 98, check it out here: PODCAST 98: The Importance of Product-Led Growth and Focus For A Startup w/ Blake Bartlett. What You’ll Learn.

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Saasler

MARCH 28, 2017

The rise of cloud-based services and software innovations has reinvented the industry and opened up a completely new line of business for up-and-coming entrepreneurs in the tech space. His experience has helped position him as a thought leader in the sales world, which he shares on a weekly podcast, The Startup Chat.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2020

And so I came out to Silicon Valley and worked for semiconductor companies, both startups and big companies. Ryan Carlson: And so for tech startups, when they’re small, the product story and the company story are one and the same, but as they get bigger, the company story starts to take on a different angle. Why is this?

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

We’ll explore just how rapidly SaaS became a driver of innovation, the external threats against it, and how the benefits of SaaS helped IT discover a need for a more centralized way to manage all of the products its employees use in this latest installment of SaaSOps 101. New and Unpredictable Threats Against Organizations.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

It is also why clients, from startups to enterprise brands, love working with us. This company even partners with the top email marketing software brands like MailChimp, Litmus, and Campaign Monitor to drive innovation in the email space. And that’s where we, Neil Patel Digital , come in.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

ChurnZero Selected as Best Tech Startup Finalist in 2019 Timmy Awards. Tech in Motion has recognized ChurnZero as a finalist for 2019 Best Tech Startup as a part of the Annual Timmy Awards, which they host to celebrate the top workplaces for tech professionals. Every year, the event series grows alongside the tech community.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

Since 2011, over 500,000 projects have been built with PlanGrid. There’s a time and a place for it, but a startup, the lifeblood, is getting s**t done. Sam : As always, one of the things that amazes me most about the startup ecosystem is how much terrible advice is out there. Tracy Young : Hi, my name is Tracy Young.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Before that he worked for 12 years at Trilogy where he held key leadership roles helping the company grow from a startup, to a $300 million business. Every company, whether you are a tech startup, a bank, an airline, a hotel, you name it, a retailer. Jeff Lawson: Yeah, it was an interesting point in time.

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SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2019

Dan Reich is the Founder & CEO @ Troops.ai, the startup that is the ultimate slackbot for sales teams. Before that, Dan was a Co-Founder of Spinback (acquired by Buddy Media in May 2011, then acquired by Salesforce in June 2012). The startup that is the ultimate in Slackbot for sales teams. I really do so appreciate that.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2019

With one startup acquired by Yahoo in 2005, another acquired by Google in 2007 and a background as an M&A lawyer, Craig’s perspective on M&A is insightful for any startup founder looking to acquire another company. So then you started your third UCaaS company, which is your current company now, DialPad, back in 2011.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. One example I’ll give, one of the best companies out there on this metric was Shopify, which is a company that in around 2011 had about 12 million of ARR.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Paul made his way into the world of startups with Twitter and Slack and how that led to his founding SaaS company, Balsa. Paul Rosania: Well, I’ve been in and out of startups my whole career and my big break came close to 10 years ago now.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

Michael Katz: Long story short, we built a pretty interesting and innovative data platform that allowed us to ingest first and third party data signals from a variety of sources, and systems, and distill that to individual and anonymous customer profiles, and then connect that to our ad server really fast.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 29, 2019

I began my career in new product development and starting in 2011 got really excited about the high growth phase of a company. This lesson is a nod to the book, Monetizing Innovation. When Carta got started, they focused on early stage startups, things like company formation and 409 evaluations, and companies loved these features.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 10, 2019

To bolster my resume for the transition from consulting to the world of startups, I taught myself to build iPhone apps just after Apple released their first set of developer SDKs. After nine months, we launched Trello on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in September 2011.

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ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

Acquired by Microsoft in 2011, Skype basically still operates on the same freemium model. In a 2011 talk, former CEO Phil Libin called his customers his marketing team and said, "The easiest way to get a million people to pay for nonscarcity product may be to make 100 million people fall in love with it." Freemium, done right, works.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

You know, we’re fortunate to be in a phenomenal startup environment here in Austin and doing some cool things there. Startup culture is phenomenal. So startups have made me see that clearer, that I like to move with a sense of urgency. Sam Jacobs : When did you start the company? So we started 3 ½ years ago.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

276: Liat Bycel is VP of Customer Engagement @ Airtable, the startup that works like a spreadsheet but gives you the power to organise anything. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Liat made her way into the world of SaaS and came to be VP of Customer Engagement at one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups in Airtable.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

First company was Greenfield startup to IPO. I think this leads us to lesson number four, which is continuously innovate through proactive listening. We actually got to know Battery in around 2011 or so. I had the chance to join this amazing woman two and a half years ago to partner up and help fuel the growth of WebPT.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 25, 2019

There is definitely innovation in that space, Tesla comes to mind, for example. So there is “Start big,” and then depending on how much innovation matters, you can think small. And so Intercom, we believe our zoom level of innovation and newness and new things is at the kind of high product level. They’re out there.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 17, 2018

Des: For business owners, startup founders, and anyone from designers to product folks, JTBD is a way to understand the situations and motivations that would trigger your would-be customers to evaluate your product. One is the outcome driven-innovation. Then when the startup writes up the job, they say, “What does our product do?

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

And we sold that to Rupert Murdoch in 2011 for about 80 million bucks. And even now we set up new companies, we set up a new startup in COVID actually, in lockdown, and we’ve taken that. So in 2004, we got an idea to set up the largest WiFi operator in Europe and WiFi was new at the time.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Manoj Dawane in 2016, VTION is an Indian-origin media technology innovation company that aims at measuring media audiences by analyzing consumer trends and behaviors. Found by Prabhu Ramachandran, Yogendra Babu, Rajavel Subramanian, and Krishnamoorthi Rangasamy in 2017, Facilio Inc is another popular SaaS startup. Facilio Inc.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

About: Another successful SaaS company serving thousands of happy clients since founded in 2011. So, its list of customers, which has grown exponentially in the last few years, includes customers ranging from startups to market giants. Many new startups are emerging daily and creating new histories of success. ContentSquare.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Brazil’s SaaS landscape is bustling, thanks to the number of innovative startups that entered the horizon in recent years. Founded in: 2011. Founded in: 2011. Founded in: 2011. Since its inception in 2011, RD Station has expanded to 20 countries across the world. Founded in: 2011. CEO: Eric Santos.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

So many SaaS startups have cropped up in the market in the past few years, and seeing their growth traction, it is tough to choose one over the other. Orora Tech is an innovative cloud-based platform that detects and monitors wildfires from space. The German SaaS startup helps SMEs and startups save money and time on banking.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2022

Anna Griffin, CMO at Intercom: Hello and welcome to New at Intercom , our first virtual launch event designed to share new innovation and new possibilities with the Intercom platform. And that is what today is all about: innovation. “We Our level of investment in product and innovation sets us apart”. into B2B software.

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