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The Most Successful SMB SaaS Acquisition Channel Ever Built

Tom Tunguz

Channel distribution represents one of the biggest and most important changes in customers acquisition for SMB SaaS startups in quite a while. As many of these channel partners move to newer distribution models, the brokerage channel model in particular, they represent an efficient and leveraged customer acquisition channel.

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Non-US-Based SaaS Companies on the Rise

OPEXEngine

According to venture firm Accel’s 2019 Euroscape, European investment grew from $2B in 2016 to over $5B in 2019, still only a quarter of US SaaS investment. The annual report looks at broad trends and figures, industry highlights, investments, valuations, and acquisitions for the Canada’s software companies. million in 2018.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. I worked at Insight Venture Partners right after college.

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What to Expect When You Switch to a Full-Service Ecommerce Solution

FastSpring

Maybe you’re unsure if your software company should outsource your ecommerce operations to a full-service platform, such as FastSpring, or just stick with a basic payment service? To help you make an informed decision, we’re providing a detailed comparison of full-service platforms vs. basic payment services.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

We’ll also hear Andrew Chen, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, talking about the changing landscape of customer acquisition. Adam Risman , a former host of the podcast, asked Rachel what made that point when Rachel joined Slack in 2016 the right time to invest in growth marketing?

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Sales Stack 2022: The Tools

yoursales

With sales consulting, lead generation, and outsourced sales clients in the range of 1 to 1500 full time employees you can imagine we come across quite a few different CRMs. Pipedrive has been part of YourSales and many of our outsourced sales assignments since the beginning. Acquisition by Dropbox announced on March 9th 2021.

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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO alongside SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. We wanted to automate research that was being outsourced and then we wanted to take it to the world. What about bigger partners and things like that? Ryan Smith: Ish.