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TAM is Great. But What Really Matters is That You Believe You Can Hit $100m ARR in 7 Years.

SaaStr

And the model said we’d need it … It also showed me that, barely, if you squinted, and the market grew just right … by 2013, there’d be $100m in ARR in our space. We probably should have raised $2m more, since it was offered. And so it is, although we didn’t capture 100% of it.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

User-centric behavior data is a MUST: You are getting access to user-centric behavior metrics to scale up fast – your user journey can be optimized by the people who matter most – your clients. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2

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In the Vault: Placing Multiple Bets on a ‘Mosaic of Solutions’ With Former Global Payments CEO Jeff Sloan

Andreessen Horowitz

A lot of the things that we ultimately did when I was running Global Payments from 2013 to 2023, a lot of things that we ultimately did were not even like a glint in my eye back in 2009, 2010 when I was just thinking about coming over. And this is also embarrassing to do it myself. Global Payments and I are like exactly the same age.

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The Fundamentals of Role-Based Access Control

BetterCloud

A layperson might (and often does) assume that the biggest SaaSOps challenges are fairly straightforward, especially when it comes to granting access to your company’s data. Of course, access control isn’t that simple—and as a result, even some of the world’s biggest companies have fallen victim to some high-profile data breaches.

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How AI could impact the B2B software industry in the next decade

Point Nine Land

If building the infrastructure of a SaaS product seems easy nowadays (with AWS and the myriad of developer APIs available), it was not the case fifteen years ago. Challenges faced by SaaS companies during the SaaS deployment phase (2013?—?now) During the AI installation phase, data moats are not crucial for success.

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Passwordless Is Coming—Don’t Let Your Guard Down

Frontegg

The user experience with passwords is never good and can be downright awful. Enter FIDO, WebAuthn and Passkeys — The New Awesome Sauce The Passwordless movement was started in 2013 by the FIDO Alliance , a global technology standards body governed collectively by its members. A coping tactic is to use easy-to-remember passwords.

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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

million in 2013 to $115.9 One is, lots of folks that have been through the startup cycle, you have this extrapolation from a single data point problem, which is, “OK, we have this story. We’re like, “This is actually good, because we’re getting this data, and we’re going to charge monthly.”