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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil. In 2013, Thiago joined Resultados Digitais, one of the most renowned SaaS businesses in Latin America.

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8 BIG RYG Speakers to Follow on Twitter

ChurnZero

A three-time entrepreneur, Todd teamed up with fellow product leaders and technologists from Red Hat, Cisco, and Google to launch Pendo in October 2013. The company has since raised $206 million in venture capital, landed more than 1,400 customers, and now employs more than 400 people across six offices around the globe.

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SaaS “Industry-Centric” Business Models

OPEXEngine

These factors resonated well with the investment theses of venture capital firms. Despite Intuit’s timing lead, Xero grew faster than Intuit’s Small Business Segment (products and subscriptions), outperforming the large competitor with an eight-year Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 52% versus 3% for Intuit.

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Selling into Startups 101: What You Need to Know to Find a Unicorn

Sales Hacker

In order to execute on this mission, founders can bootstrap their company, raise outside money ( venture capital is the most popular), or use a combination of both to help build their business. If you sell an HR platform with a subscription that starts at 50 seats, you should scratch any seed-stage startups off your list.

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There are over 100 SaaS unicorns. How long did it take them to get to $100 million in ARR?

Point Nine Land

In most cases, this doesn’t make a huge difference (if all revenue is subscription based, GAAP revenue trails ARR) but note that for companies with a larger percentage of setup fees, revenue from professional services or other non-recurring revenue sources, the difference is bigger. In that case, I used 2013 for the “founded” year.

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The Birth of Freemium

ProfitWell

Bundled service providers like AOL have phased out and cloud-based subscription services are enjoying their time in the sun. We’ve got words like subscription, ad supported, license, and ASP, that are well understood. In May 2013, Flickr moved almost completely to an ad-supported model. Flickr in 2013.

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

I’ve been working remotely since 2013, when I walked into the office of the best boss I’ve ever had and asked for permission to work remotely. It’s a common sentiment that one year of start-up experience is equivalent to two years of experience at a larger company, which I wholeheartedly agree with.