Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2015

Xero Income Statement 2007 2008 2009 2010 211 2012 2013 2014. You can read through Xero’s investor materials on their investor portal and sift through their annual report for 2015 here , which reveals that the company acquires SMBs by convincing outsourced accountancies migrate the SMBs these accountancies serve to Xero.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

And we leveraged this experience and vast expertise to develop a holistic, battle-tested content marketing program that helps our customers generate high-quality backlinks. In short, this is why our customers, from startup to grow-stage and enterprise companies, love working with Neil Patel Digital. million ), generating more than 3.4

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SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2019

Opening video: Hey, all these startups, they have a lot of trouble getting corporate credit cards. Anu: So, without further ado, Henrique, I know that when you first applied to YC, you actually applied with a VR startup idea, but the video showed all about credit card. Interested in sponsoring? Let us know. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 19, 2022

What type of large-scale industry events would Calendly have attended in 2012 in order to get more users? This is covered in-depth in the Developer Go-To-Market-Playbook. . This can sometimes be the toughest step of the user journey for early startups to tackle, especially if they don’t invest in design or messaging.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

297: Bob Moore is the Founder & CEO @ Crossbeam, the startup that helps companies find overlapping prospects and customers while keeping the rest of their data private and secure. Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Loving our podcast content?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2020

So, the company starts getting divided up into functional areas, or silos, product management, sales, customers support, marketing and so on, and this siloing of the org chart I think means that not everyone knows what everyone else is doing, and there’s a general feeling of disorganization or chaos in most startups. billion dollars.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

If you outsource your content to some crappy agency that recycles ChatGPT, your content marketing will fail. Q: What are the Odds of Success for a Startup to Hit $100M in Revenue? All startups are trying to figure out how to grow. There’s a stat floating around about how many startups fail. Develop a playbook.

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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: 2012. SaaS Investments: Ezetap, and others.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

How should startups decide which customer segment to focus on? * How should startups think about implementing partnerships? Eight years ago, we founded the company, September 2012. There was a small startup scene. I was working on a startup that was an early mobile payment platform. When is the right time?

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And then I’ve watched, since she made this comment to me about 13 months ago, then I’ve watched with some startups I’ve worked with, where the first marketing hire comes in, and I asked them what their top five priorities are, and then I asked the CEO. Jason : Still, I think if you can develop it, it’s a superpower.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We develop a search API to help any developer to have a very good search in their application. We founded the company 2012 in Paris. Today, there is way more variety of hardware on cloud provider when it was a case in 2012. By luck, we have met someone in San Francisco that was launching a startup on DNS.

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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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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

The company went public in 2009 and was acquired by Yahoo in 2012 for $270m, a 50% premium on existing share price. The company went public in 2009, and was acquired by Yahoo in 2012, for $270 million, a 50% premium on the existing share price. Why did Michael make the move to CRO 8 months ago?

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

Then we also hired full-stack developers, so like you said, Trisha, not Salesforce experts, but just great developers and they all learned Salesforce. You want to remain positive, but I look back at some of the first SaaStr blog posts in 2012. Rob Bernshyten: When you develop trust, and I believe trust is built on transparency.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Using APIs, smaller software companies or indie developers around the world were able to extend Atlassian products with pluggable components to solve different use cases. It gave the smallest teams a chance to outsource the sales infrastructure (like invoicing, payment processing, quotes, etc.) Finding and Solving Real End User Pain.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

While at the same time, the fact this is that every startup and every, almost every company struggles with sales in one way or another?” One of the things we always came back to (especially me having done seven startups) was that the hardest thing about starting a business is sales. .” Shifting focus to the competitor.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

Nick Mehta: Power of the developer, or the API economy, both of you play very much in both those trends. I mean, New Relic and Algolia, we’re very focused on the developer. So honestly, a lot of developers don’t want to speak to a human. When you don’t necessarily have a startup there.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Flagship Merchant Services cut the tape in 2001 and was acquired by iPayment in 2012. This company was one of the first to offer free account setup without any application or fees and real month-to-month contracts. They don’t have any contracts or cancellation fees, and they’ll wave your monthly fee if you don’t process any payments.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We wanted to automate research that was being outsourced and then we wanted to take it to the world. Ryan Smith: The backstory here is we turned down an acquisition offer for $500 million in 2012. I don’t think we thought we were going to do a startup. What we do is we help companies close the experience gap.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We’re excited to have on the show today, a luminary and one of the most dynamic tech startup CEOs out there, and the CEO and co-founder of a company called QuotaPath. So this is his second startup. I actually began my startup career in Austin. We went through an accelerator and almost got our startup MBA.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. It’s known that you can probably sell those first couple of contracts. Should I hire two backend developers or a product design?

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All that Saas

MAY 1, 2021

Launched in 2012, Influence4you is listed in the category of the top influencer marketing platforms. This all-in-one tool helps you discover influencers, manage campaigns, and negotiate contracts. Startup Plan – $ 249/month. Contract/Contact Management. What are the Best Influencer Marketing Platforms in 2021?

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Founded : 2012. Founded : 2012. Founded : 2012. The online platform has a range of functionalities, including e-signature, e-contract, and digital evidence presentation, among others. It provides smart hardware self-development and cloud service. from 500 Startups, World Innovation Lab, and others.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder. You’ll have the transactions to develop all of those those metrics. Brian, why don’t you give a quick little overview of Bigfoot Capital?

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder. You’ll have the transactions to develop all of those those metrics. Brian, why don’t you give a quick little overview of Bigfoot Capital?

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder. You’ll have the transactions to develop all of those those metrics. Brian, why don’t you give a quick little overview of Bigfoot Capital?

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 21, 2021

5 Lessons learned from growing a PM team in a hyper-growth startup Starting to feel the pain of not having product managers? I co-founded a company called Spotistic back in 2012, which we sold to Uberall in 2015. Intro Hi, my name is Victor. The healthy ratio of full-time PMs to dev is typically between 1:5 to 1:9. How is it working?

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