Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. Yes, the tech giants could develop the software these micro startups are making, but by the time it’s ready for market, a competitor might have rolled a similar product out and taken all the glory.

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OpenView Labs

MARCH 4, 2021

Today we know of HubSpot —the maker of marketing, sales, and service software products—as a preeminent public company with a market cap above $17B. As customers used the software to generate more leads, they would proportionally increase their spend with HubSpot. But HubSpot wasn’t always on the IPO trajectory.

Pricing 55

Pricing Outsourced Development Marketplace as a Service AWS 55

SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

The challenge, however, is that because of the limited disposable income that both consumers and businesses have, you can’t charge a lot of money for services there. ” At this point we were offering the service for free. The competitors of the customer that we offered the free service now wanted to pay us for it.

Scale 162

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

The critical nature of software for business growth is a key reason for the exceptional growth of Software as a Service (SaaS) companies in recent times. BugHerd provides top-notch services for bug tracking and website feedback. Founded in 2014, Employment Hero is a SaaS-driven human resource management software.

SaaS Payments 10

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 10

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. In 2016, André joined Superlógica Tecnologias, a management system designed to service small businesses with a recurring revenue model. Aaron Ross is a name many would be familiar with.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

The company then helps the more than 11,000 schools that use its services to analyze and act on the amassed data. Founded in 2014, it makes it easy to get student work in one place and give parents a window into the classroom. The team designs the surveys (which can be taken securely via mobile) and administers them. Location: Norway.

Technical Review 21

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 28, 2020

Here are five quick takeaways: One of Aircall’s superpowers is that it built an App Marketplace – and then opened it up for partners to build their own integrations. Today, more than 60% of the tools on the marketplace have been built by third parties. Short on time? That’s the power of becoming a platform.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

So, Aaron and I wrote a book together in 2014 or something. Our monthly self-service churn went from like 3% to like 9%, right? And some folks would come back and say, “I want to renegotiate because the world has ended,” but enterprise software is budgeted. So, we’ve got three of them here. Jason : All right.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Rob Gonzalez: Operationally, I look at, in particular, my experience at Endeca, but also another startup that sold to pharmaceutical companies and other life sciences businesses and financial services companies called Cambridge Semantics. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general.

SaaS Payments 261

SaaS Payments Scale Payment Services Payment Solutions 261

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

What we try to do is this integration between two or three companies to be so flawless that for the customer seems like it’s only one application, but you are taking advantage of the best E-mail service, the best chat service, the best voice service. In 2014, when we met, the cloud was accelerating.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Rachel Hepworth: In 2014 and 2015, Slack had this incredible growth, but it was growth off a small base, based on very early adopters. There’s more of a habit, whereas the drivers are always comparing their earnings with Uber to other opportunities like picking up a part-time job within the services industry. Here’s Rachel.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Software as a Service (SaaS) is currently the most practical model of software distribution. It is the model in which a cloud service provider hosts software or application and makes them available for the end-user. The cloud service provider can either be a third party or the software vendor itself.

SaaS Payments 10

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Tienpay offers digital banking software that handles wallet, digital exchange, and digital assets. The platform integrates with 100+ shipping services and ensures discounts for many of them. Founded : 2014. It is a cloud-based platform that offers the services of Asia’s top AI assistant for hotel staff – Gaia.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

Chargify

MARCH 28, 2018

While the convenience of combo meals abounds in all fast food restaurants today, in 1958 the opportunity to purchase a main dish, side, and drink for a set price (and less than if all the items were purchased individually) was a novel idea, and one that helped them stand out in a very competitive marketplace. TV is a great example.

Pricing 47

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SaaStr

APRIL 3, 2019

Some of the same investors ended up placing me at URX, which was sort of the deep linking standard of 2014. The biggest companies on earth spend billions of dollars on this service no one’s ever heard of called freight forwarding and they all hate their vendors. Ben Braverman: June, 2014, when I started, we had an $18,000 month.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The best products, services, and ideas are nothing without a way to turn them into currency, and sellers are a big part of making commerce happen. Cassie spent the first pre-SaaS chapter of her tech career in growth roles in subscription and marketplace businesses (TheLadders.com, GLG). Anita Nielsen. Anne Slough. Beth Sunshine.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Pigeon (July 2014): Worked to integrate local search results like Google Maps. You can get a quick fix through services like Mobify or Duda Mobile. To start your introduction, you could begin like this: There are several senior irons in the marketplace. Tips to Make your Site Mobile-Friendly.

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Outsourcing Services Social Media Mobile Software Review 145

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 10, 2019

I remember when I wrote that blog post in 2014, Google Now had just been announced. I don’t know when Stripe was founded, but in 2014 they weren’t very mature. Google Now looks a lot like it did in 2014. Again, that’s something I would have thought in 2014 was happening imminently. But it exists now.

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