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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

SaaStr

What started as a simple WordPress blog in 2012 has now become the world’s largest community of SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs. SaaStr began in 2012 as a simple WordPress blog and a few answers on Quora sharing Jason Lemkin’s learnings of going from $0 to $100m ARR at EchoSign. Founders were able to recruit on-site.

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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 February 2012. But they started in different places. SAP purchased SuccessFactors for $3.4B

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From Bootstrapped to Category Leader: Lessons from Zapier’s Founders

OpenView Labs

We continue that practice today, and extend it to include roles that aren’t typically exposed to customers—operations people, accountants, recruiters, etc. For instance, recruiters with first-hand customer experience are able to give job candidates real examples of what it’s like to work at Zapier.

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

SaaStock

Founded: 2012. 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: 2012. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. Does Bob agree with the notion that channel sales have completely died in the world of SaaS? I always say kind of tele-sales are the most important form of kind of training in terms of sales.

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The SaaS superstars of the East Coast

SaaStock

Founded: 2012. 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: 2012. During 2018 Black Friday/Cyber Monday, sales through Shopify reached a record-breaking $1.5+

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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO alongside SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. Ryan Smith: The backstory here is we turned down an acquisition offer for $500 million in 2012. Ryan Smith: 500 million in sales. Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see.