The Angel VC

MAY 12, 2018

In last week's post I shared some thoughts about Dropbox and why, although Dropbox is unquestionably one of the most amazing SaaS companies ever built, I am a tad less confident in the company's long-term future than I am in other SaaS leaders such as Salesforce.com, Zendesk, or Shopify. 8 – Weaning off AWS Look at this.

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The Angel VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

Now let’s talk about SaaS. In the last few years I’ve come to the realization that Josh’s observation can also be applied to the SaaS world: Building a SaaS business with $1-2 million in ARR is not that hard and not that valuable. Starting a new company is always hard and most SaaS startups never get to $1-2 million in ARR.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Up until 2016, we had retreats twice a year. This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app. We aim to have one company-wide retreat every year.

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BetterCloud

APRIL 15, 2020

The session, “SaaSOps: A Practice to Discover, Manage & Secure Your SaaS Apps,” which was presented on April 2, focused on the evolution of SaaSOps and the main pillars of the practice, and included a customer panel. SaaS has changed the way we work. SaaS has driven a best-of-breed world. If you missed it, here’s a recap.

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Audacix

AUGUST 4, 2019

In years gone the "freemium" model was the favoured one of marketing SaaS platforms that were trying to attract new startup or SME customers. Now even enterprises are willing to use "free trial" offers from new marketing SaaS providers in an effort to secure a winning edge on the cheap. But you should remember that time is your friend.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Freemium in SaaS is old news. The much-discussed pricing strategy took over the SaaS world and helped fuel the phenomenal success of SaaS pioneers like Dropbox, Evernote, SurveyMonkey and Hootsuite. I actually wrote about the phenomenon , which I called ‘The Slow Death of Freemium’, back in 2016. That is the question.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron : 2016. Jason : 2016. And then, we ripped it out and Aaron went and talked to some of the top SaaS companies from today and added the case studies. Maria is one of the top SaaS leaders in marketing, just finished up the CMO Vanna plan, which IPOed. This is the best of times in SaaS, right? Maria : Yeah.

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BetterCloud

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Since 2011, BetterCloud has been on a mission to help organizations realize the promise of SaaS by empowering them to more easily manage and secure SaaS applications. With this, BetterCloud is providing you with three key ingredients: Empowered outcomes to rise above the challenges of managing a multi-SaaS environment.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. I learned a million lessons about SaaS, about start-ups, and about life along the way. How the hell does that happen?

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

In 2016, Hubspot was still a scrappy player that had only recently IPO’d, with a market cap around $1B. I’m going to skip by my life story, and how I grew up as a small child in India, and how the dusty streets influenced my take on unit economics, and SaaS subscription models. Hubspot today is a $23B juggernaut.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 1, 2020

OpenView recently analyzed the publicly traded SaaS companies with a self-service, go-to-market strategy (including Zoom). Back in 2016, Slack’s CEO, Stewart Butterfield, told Business Insider , “ I think we can get away without having a sales team in any kind of traditional way probably forever. Sounds an awful lot like Sales.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

SaaS (Software as a service) has become a buzzword in recent years. A SaaS company is a service provider that hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the internet. The SaaS company is responsible for maintaining databases and servers and making sure that users can access the applications from almost all devices.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Our mission is to build the world’s most powerful subscription analytics platform for the SaaS community. This year, we also migrated ChartMogul to AWS cloud. This year, we also launched mogul.io , a slack-based community exclusively for SaaS Founders and CEOs with ARR between $0.5M Most popular SaaS open mic podcasts.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Paul made his way into the world of startups with Twitter and Slack and how that led to his founding SaaS company, Balsa. So tell me Paul, how did you make your way into the world of SaaS and how did you come to found Balsa most recently? How does Paul approach such large product decisions today?

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Cassie spent the first pre-SaaS chapter of her tech career in growth roles in subscription and marketplace businesses (TheLadders.com, GLG). are just as critical as understanding the fundamental SaaS metrics such as LTV/CAC, payback, etc. Understanding how various decisions impact the company’s margin (e.g. Alexine Mudawar.

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