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

SaaStr

This led to our first meet-ups in 2013 and 2014, the first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , the industry’s leading podcast in 2016, the first SaaS founder coworking space in 2017, and SaaStr Pro , the first learning management system for SaaS founders in 2018. VPs were able to recruit and make new hires. It was awesome.

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Dharmesh Shah of HubSpot: From Day 0 to IPO. What Went to Plan. What Most Certainly Didn’t (Video, Podcast + Transcript)

SaaStr

Co-founder and CTO Dharmesh Shah shared with us how they got there — and the top mistakes they made — just 3 quarters after their IPO. million in 2013 to $115.9 million in 2013 to $115.9 ” We weren’t inventing new video codecs, driverless cars, or anything like that. A SaaStr Classic!!

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From Freemium to Explosive Growth in a Crowded Market – 8 Years of Learnings with Zoom (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And also, we always prioritize the features requested by our existing customers over the new prospects. Mallun Yen : So, you were an engineer by training and then you became an engineering leader, as the CTO of Webex, and then you became a CEO. That was January 2013. If you do that, you’re in user focus. Welcome Eric.

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Kevin Indig on searching for meaning and the meaning of search

Intercom, Inc.

And I’m a writer of a newsletter called Tech Bound, in which I hone in on marketing strategies and customer acquisition. The customer or user acquisition strategy is product-led and follows this concept of land and expand. But I think if I look back over my career, the update that had the most impact was the Panda update in 2013.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. Lars was one of his early customers at Cloudera and I met him at Dreamforce in 2013 and unbeknownst to me and my business partner Matt Gourniak, he came up to us. This was in 1997, and I spent two years.