FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Messente is a global messaging SaaS that helps companies send SMS messages and PIN codes in countries around the world. Lauri’s Advice for Other SaaS Leaders Looking to Grow.

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SaaS Payments Technical Advisors Payment Services Payments 138

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

In 2011-2013, about 1450 software companies were founded each year on average. This is counterintuitive considering the broader venture capital backdrop of near record venture investment in software. Second, the key systems of record in SaaS are already in place. Machine learning in SaaS is nascent.

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Venture Capital SaaS Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 100

Kellblog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Please join us tomorrow morning at 8:00 AM Pacific for the (final in this form — see below) SaaS Product Power Breakfast with Skilljar cofounder and CEO, Sandi Lin , discussing why product managers make great founders and the potential pitfalls they should look out for along the way. The End of This Format; The Start of a New One.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2016

For all the talk about late stage rounds, megarounds and unicorns, early stage startups are benefitting disproportionately from near-record years of venture capital investment. The 35% attained in 2013 share for early investment ties the 1996 record. Perhaps the strong IPO year in 2013 enticed investors.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve been in venture capital for about 20 years, made my first SaaS investment about 18 years ago and have really been focused on this space for a long time. I work at a firm called Shasta Ventures. So they had an idea and fast forward 2013 the company went public. I’ll just do a quick introduction.

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SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Innovation 138

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“Industry-Centric” SaaS business models offer an alternative SaaS company categorization to the “Customer-Centric” SaaS model, which is defined based on the “go-to-market” strategy used by a management team. Both the Customer-Centric and Industry-Centric classifications provide valuable frameworks for evaluating SaaS companies.

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Business Model Business SaaS Scale 52

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Latin America is undergoing a digital transformation, and the SaaS community is exploding as a result. The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS. Our agenda is a reflection of the ecosystem.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. This episode is an excerpt from Keith and Jason’s session at SaaStr Summit: The New New in Venture. Jason Lemkin: It was boarded up until 2013. It’s near Wahlburgers.

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Venture Capital Travel PayPal Scale 169

Point Nine Land

JANUARY 5, 2021

A few years ago, Rory O’Driscoll of Scale Venture Partners, an early investor in Box, DocuSign, ExactTarget, and many other large enterprise SaaS companies, published a fascinating article titled ”Understanding the Mendoza Line for SaaS growth ”. on 75 publicly listed SaaS companies. How predictable is growth in SaaS?

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2020

Jay Nathan, Higher Logic Jay ( @jaynathan ) is Chief Customer Officer at Higher Logic , a leading SaaS-based online community and communications software. Previously Jay founded Customer Imperative, a consultancy focused on B2B SaaS, which eventually developed the Gain Grow Retain customer success leadership community.

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Scale Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 69

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. But they were doing it earlier than Java and trying to do it in a way where it gets deployed on the internet, which is something we would call SaaS today. And as a hobby we have just launched another SaaS company called ThreeKit.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 161

Kellblog

JULY 25, 2020

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]. in 2013) it can get well above 10x. Only in 2013 did it get close to these levels. Sometimes (e.g., 2008) it can get well below 5x. Sometimes (e.g.,

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Technical Review Software Review Pricing Metrics 96

Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For example, HR and finance SaaS vendor Workday bought Scout RFP (a San Francisco startup with a team of 8) for $540 million. You can buy or sell online businesses and products like: Blogs E-commerce stores Affiliate sites SaaS businesses Apps Shopify stores Amazon FBA stores Domains. Tiny Capital. Key Features. Who Is It For?

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

The SaaS Garage

APRIL 27, 2017

Bayern Kapital und Vogel Ventures investieren gerade gemeinsam mit den Business Angels Michael Brehm und Andy Goldstein sowie dem Altinvestor Linden Capital eine siebenstellige Summe in Cobrainer. Im Rahmen der Finanzierungsrunde komplettierte Jens Hartmann das Gründerteam. Loyalty Prime.

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Venture Capital Startup Innovation Business Model 40

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

500 2013 list of fastest-growing media companies in the United States. The Content Bureau focuses its attention on the technology, venture capital, and financial sectors, working almost exclusively with global corporations who rely on them year-round. Web Profits – Best for SaaS Content Marketing.

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Content Marketing Technical Review Marketing Banking 134

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Considering that most investors are pretty obsessed focused on finding companies that follow the legendary T2D3 growth path (directionally confirmed by the responses to our SaaS napkin survey earlier this year), you might expect that your chances are low. In that case, I used 2013 for the “founded” year. Here are my findings: 1.)

SaaS 40

SaaS Revenue Subscription Payment Features 40

SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

I looked a little while ago and I wrote an early Sastry post in 2013. I rented a small office in downtown Palo Alto, and it was middle of 2013 when the last boards came down on a retail store. Jasom Lemkin: I was boarded up until 2013. Jasom Lemkin: 2013 had been boarded up. Does venture capital even need to bother?

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Investment Scale Travel Venture Capital 148

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We’re going to be talking about building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. I know our attendees today are excited to hear from you, Brian and Ari, on building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses.

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SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We’re going to be talking about building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. I know our attendees today are excited to hear from you, Brian and Ari, on building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We’re going to be talking about building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. I know our attendees today are excited to hear from you, Brian and Ari, on building a roadmap for early stage SaaS growth. We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

Point Nine Land

JUNE 5, 2019

On Tuesday, the day before SaaStr Europa will turn the City of Love into the City of SaaS for two days, we’ll kick things off with a full-day CTO event featuring four keynotes, two panels and 16 discussion groups with 100 tech leaders from the #P9family and some of the best CTOs from the local ecosystem.

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CTO Startup Investment B2B 50

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 29, 2018

This was in 2013, and my job was to figure out how to redirect or pivot the company, because it was going through some tough times. Eric: We’re working with Series A companies and beyond, so a lot of SaaS companies like Recurly, Lever and 15five. When I ask SaaS companies, “Hey, what’s your webinar strategy?”

Scale 192

Scale Business Content Marketing Interviewing 192

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Musing after a decade spent building SaaS start-ups By Geoff Roberts 20 min read. Today I can look back across a full decade that’s been spent building SaaS start-ups. 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.

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Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2022

Back in 2013, it was quite rare to hear terms like billion-dollar valuation, unicorn valuation, or unicorn startup. Startups, especially SaaS startups, aim at achieving unicorn status. The same goes for a B2B SaaS startup as well. B2B SaaS startups are technology-driven by default. But what exactly is a unicorn startup?

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B2B Startup Technical Review SaaS 11

Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

How the AI wave could impact the B2B software industry in the next decade Last year I explained in a video, embedded below, that I believed the B2B software industry was entering a new stage: the SaaS wave was now in its deployment phase, and at the same time, the next big innovation wave, driven by AI, was in its installation phase.

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AI Search AI B2B Software 70

Kellblog

AUGUST 1, 2019

I think for many sales-aggressive enterprise SaaS startups, a fair amount of churn actually happens at inception. For example, back in 2013, shortly after I joined Host Analytics, I discovered that there were a number of deals that sales had signed with customers that our professional services (PS) team had flat out refused to implement. (Huh?)

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Churn Systems Review Customer Success Software Review 75

ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

We want to clear the air about freemium and its place in the SaaS landscape. Consider this guide the final word on how to make freemium work in SaaS from the people that have seen inside more SaaS companies than anyone else. This model would also become common in SaaS—the free trial. Flickr in 2013.

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Pricing Business Model Cloud Venture Capital 41

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

These are things which today are expected of a SaaS company, but at the time it wasn’t necessarily a no brainer.” That platform ended up evolving into the Clio Cloud Conference, launched in 2013 in Chicago. even after hundreds of hires and tens of millions of dollars in venture capital investment?—?everything

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Technical Review Scale Sales Hiring Business 40

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

David is also the author of foreentrepreneurs.com the must read blog in the world of SaaS metrics. In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How David made his way into the world of SaaS at the age of 22. How David went from founding 3 public companies to entering the world of venture with Matrix. Loving our podcast content?

Scale 183

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 183

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I think it’s, in SaaS, in cloud, if you define it that way, I think it’s about 15 to 20%. But I do think … we’re investors in a company called Homebase that basically sells SaaS for small-medium size businesses to do hourly work management. Aileen Lee: 2013. Aileen Lee: Yeah. What do you think?

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 155