Neil Patel

AUGUST 28, 2020

Top SEO agencies don’t jump into sending you quotes and invoices. FATJOE – Best For Backlinks Acquisition. FATJOE was founded in 2012. After you share your business situation, needs, and goals with an SEO company, be on the lookout for what they do next. FATJOE comes highly recommended for acquiring backlinks for SEO.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Tableau sells software the old-fashioned way, with perpetual licenses not subscriptions. To offset the mostly one-time payment from customers, Tableau employs a land-and-expand strategy. At the end of 2012, six months before the company would trade publicly, the business counted $39.3M

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The process of an acquisition is, more often than not, a black box. It’s precisely the success of that integration that often dictates the success of the overall acquisition. It’s precisely the success of that integration that often dictates the success of the overall acquisition.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2020

This was 2012, and that was really where I learned how to market and operate at scale and use data and test really rigorously and learn about a lot of the fundamental best in class practices of marketing. I look at the growth of our organic acquisitions. Because at a startup, you figure out how to be scrappy and get things done.

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How SaaS Works

OCTOBER 7, 2019

These are the real-world lessons learned from founding a SaaS company from ground zero to growing it all the way to acquisition as well as case studies from other SaaS companies who have both succeeded and failed. What company does not want predictable, recurring, scalable revenue? This is considered subscription software.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2012. ProfitWell provides industry standard subscription financial metrics that uncover pockets of hidden revenue through unmatched subscription intelligence. ProfitWell is used by over five thousand subscription companies every day, including Meetup, HubSpot, and Teamwork.com. Founded: 2012.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 18, 2023

Everything you always wanted to know about cohort analysis (but were afraid to ask) Back in 2012, I wrote a blog post titled “Know your user cohorts” , which began like this: “One of the most important tools to better understand the usage of a web application — or a service, a game or a mobile app, it doesn’t matter — is a cohort analysis.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Ratings represent obvious trust signals and an absence of, or negative, reviews could kill your marketing app acquisition strategy before you’ve even begun. This company has pioneered in-app video marketing since 2012, so has plenty of experience to offer. Your review presence will also have a big impact.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2012. ProfitWell provides industry standard subscription financial metrics that uncover pockets of hidden revenue through unmatched subscription intelligence. ProfitWell is used by over five thousand subscription companies every day, including Meetup, HubSpot, and Teamwork.com. Founded: 2012.

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 12, 2020

Because of the customer’s insatiable and ever-increasing demand for experience and not cold calls Because the customer wants to be in full control of the buying process Because according to the 2018 Demand Gen survey, 65% buyers believe peer recommendations and review sites — this figure was just 20% in 2012. The future, clearly, is PLG.

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Scale Marketplace as a Service SaaS Technical Review 10

FastSpring

APRIL 1, 2021

Because the ultimate goal of using free trials for acquisition is to increase the number of paid users, your program’s success is based on looking at how often people upgrade from a free plan to a paid one. It is a concrete way to optimize customer acquisition. What does “Free Trial Conversion Rate” mean? Types of Free Trials.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payment Methods Strategy 93

ProfitWell

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

A fascination with problem solving is what led me, Founder and CEO, to start ProfitWell in 2012. ProfitWell is not only a platform, it’s also a team that plugs into subscription management systems like Chargify and performs revenue automation activities. What is Revenue Operations?

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 9, 2020

While 2012 saw notable SaaS experts questioning the Freemium model , fast forward to 2020 and buyers now expect to have access to a free, ungated version of a product, or at the very least, access to a free trial. Companies using the Freemium model, by ARR band: Word of Mouth Acquisition . MRR Breakdown for Free to Paid Customers.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 7, 2015

Since LinkedIn’s IPO in 2012, the company has grown its market cap by 6x and as of this writing is worth about $27.5B. Unlike most SaaS companies who offer a single product, LinkedIn offers three: Talent Solutions, Premium Subscriptions and Marketing Tools. In 2007, the Premium Subscriptions generated 53% of the revenue.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 24, 2023

You should read my post about creating an organic traffic pipeline to get up to speed on the basics of traffic acquisition. The quickest way to see this in GA4 is in the traffic acquisition report, which you can find under Life cycle > Acquisition. In 2012, the average organic reach of a page was 16 percent.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 8, 2023

Back in 2012, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos shocked the tech world by admitting that Amazon doesn’t make a profit on Kindles. If you sell a subscription product or software-as-a-service, it’s easy to calculate the average value of a customer. This option gives you a recurring revenue stream. Now, what about a subscription model?

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Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 9, 2020

While 2012 saw notable SaaS experts questioning the Freemium model , fast forward to 2020 and buyers now expect to have access to a free, ungated version of a product, or at the very least, access to a free trial. Word of Mouth Acquisition. Companies using the Freemium model, by ARR band: *sample size of ~700 companies analyzed.

Scale 52

Scale Churn Metrics Retention 52

All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

Launched in 2012, Influence4you is listed in the category of the top influencer marketing platforms. Management: manages all the brand’s ambassadors, approves samples, tracks payment, and feedbacks. Supports up to 50,000 verified creators, secure payment, reports, email support, and more. Influence4you.

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SaaStr

MAY 10, 2019

Dave was CEO of Host Analytics from 2012 to 2018 where he quintupled ARR while halving customer acquisition costs in a highly competitive market, ultimately selling the company in a private equity transaction. But we are a long term subscription product. So, that’s how it works.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder. Brian Parks: 00:05:55.

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SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

User Pilot

MAY 19, 2021

Does your product help employees save time while invoicing? Product led-growth is a marketing strategy that involves using your product as the main driver of lead & profit acquisition. The company has built 9 businesses since 2012, ventures that range from music law contracts to artificial intelligence chatbots.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 28, 2022

The intuitive and data-driven platform offers a cloud-based HR platform that allows organizations to streamline their HR and talent acquisition processes. Founded in: 2012. Orca Security. Orca Security is a company that offers security solutions for cloud infrastructure. Founded in: 2015. Founder/CEO: Ronni Zehavi.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 6, 2019

Product led growth (PLG) is an end user-focused growth model that relies on the product itself as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion and expansion. Design first became critical to software success around 2011-2012 when the consumerization of IT was all the rage. Product led growth is how you thrive in it.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

So, I was fortunate to see how acquisitions work, especially in the digital media space. My expectation after coming out of a few acquisitions in CSTV and CBS is, “Oh, wow, we’ll start a company and in two years have this amazing success.” And we originated these back in 2012, I believe.

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