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Power Laws: A Look Back To Where 20 SaaS Break-Out Companies from 2012 Are Today

SaaStr

The second SaaStr post ever, way back in late 2012, was “ Everybody Lies: SaaS Revenues in the Inc. Let’s take a look back at where HubSpot, Upwork, and others were in 2011 GAAP revenue — and where they are today. Learnings for this year, for 2011 GAAP revenue (Inc. in 2011 GAAP revenue. generation.

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WP Engine passes $100M in revenue and secures $250M investment from Silver Lake

A Smart Bear

Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue. That revenue is thanks to 75,000 customers, earned through the hard work of 500 employees across six offices on three continents. We just announced a few more things. Period, full-stop. And everyone else at WP Engine would tell you the same thing.

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Top 10 Mistakes In 10 Years From Gainsight CEO Nick Mehta

SaaStr

But what I learned, after years of procrastinating on tough moves for our leadership team, is that the leaders’ teams suffer greatly through that inaction. Mistake: Not being myself Our first Pulse conference – which became the industry event for Customer Success – was in a small San Francisco ballroom in 2013.

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Are We Due for a SaaSacre?

Kellblog

Here’s the first one, which shows the progression of the EV/NTM revenue multiple [2] for a set of 50+ high-growth SaaS companies over the past 15 or so years [3]. While the green line (equity-value-weighted [4]) is most dramatic, the one I gravitate to is the blue line: the median EV/NTM revenue multiple. Sometimes (e.g.,

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PODCAST 180: Talent Retention with Whole-Person Benefits Package

Sales Hacker

The first is Outreach , with a new way to learn how Outreach does outreach, how the team follows up with every lead in record time after virtual events and turns them into revenue. He recruits for people, finance, and legal functions, and he’s been in startup land since 2013. Head to Outreach.io/onOutreach Head to Outreach.io/onOutreach

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Sales Hacker’s 35 Most Influential Women in Sales

Sales Hacker

by The American Association of Inside Sales Professionals 2013-2018. GirlsClub helps women sales reps navigate the tricky path to sales leadership with their management training, mentoring, confidence building, and community. She has strong leadership experience in inside sales, field sales, operations, and marketing.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Keith Rabois and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

And so obviously the people that need consumers to spend money for their revenue and then their contribution margin just had no shot of selling things. They’ve been actually quite clever and scrappy and figured out how to offset the decline of revenue. Jason Lemkin: It was boarded up until 2013. Keith Rabois: Yeah.