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

SaaStr

How can that scale over time? Does it make sense, and scale, from an input-output perspective? 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. What will your ACV really be?

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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 if we’re doing the right thing, we need to scale it quickly.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is a consumer-centric scaling, conversion, and retention philosophy that uses the product itself as the primary growth driver. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Best For: Product Adoption. 3 Frontegg.

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The Fundamentals of Role-Based Access Control

BetterCloud

Achieving RBAC at scale. Grimes said as recently as 2013 that, “My favorite applications are the RBAC ones where almost no one is an admin, and even the admins are limited in what they can do.” Achieving RBAC at scale. In AWS, these attributes are called tags. The role is the new perimeter. Avoiding excess permissioning.

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

SaaStr

I just thought that if there was anybody left at the end of day two that had anything they wanted to talk about, scaling SaaS, fundraising, hiring, anything, and I could be helpful, we could do a little extra Q&A. I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. It works out.

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Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this. So they had an idea and fast forward 2013 the company went public. Responses was acquired by Oracle, Neolane was acquired by Adobe all in 2012 and 2013. We were trying to go public in 2013.

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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 On a scale of 1 to 10, I’d give it a 7, if you round up from 6.3. Jason : You can find at your scale, because this is what I think is hard, is unhappy engaged customers. What have you learned in these contra obvious things that will scale to a billion? million in 2014.). It got better.