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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

SaaStr

What started as a simple WordPress blog in 2012 has now become the world’s largest community of SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs. And SaaStr Europa brings 2,500+ SaaS execs, founders, and VCs together to Europe every summer. We were the first major SaaS event back in the SF Bay Area. SaaStr is turning 10!

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10 Tips to Fundraising in The Tumultuous Times of 2023

SaaStr

It’s a time when SaaS and Cloud spend are also at record highs , and many Cloud leaders are still growing at strong rates … yet many startups have stopped growing at all. What public (and private) SaaS companies are valued at as a multiple of revenue. Another month of progress, another set of new customers, etc.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

These 18 women are powerful, relentless and are all making SaaS and tech in general a better place. They have impressive professional achievements, all the way from founding companies through to running international operations across continents all the way to funding the SaaS companies of the future. They are stars in tech in Asia.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Braze at $260,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Braze is yet another SaaS leader growing even faster past $200m ARR. Dramatically accelerating its new customer count at scale. But the past several quarters Braze has doubled its new customer growth, from 22%-29% to 48% today. 2016 customer cohort spends 3.2x Blaze’s 2016 customers spend 3.2x more today.

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What If Chat Overtakes Email in the Workplace?

BetterCloud

Last year, our CEO David Politis sat down for a wide-ranging chat with Bharat Mediratta, CTO of Dropbox. In 2016, Walt Mossberg wrote an article for The Verge in which he argued that Slack beats email, but still needs to get better. “At As of April 1st, 2016, that number had rocketed to 2.7

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It’s Wise to Question the Big Assumption about Consumption Pricing

OPEXEngine

Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models” headlined a recent TechCrunch article. It’s the kind of notoriety that is leading to a wave of consumption pricing for new software companies and causing established companies to consider whether they too should switch to a usage-based model.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

By Geoff Roberts Last year Clement Vouillon of Point Nine Capital wrote an article entitled The Rise of the Non “VC compatible” SaaS Companies. And it expressed a growing sentiment in the world of SaaS start-ups; for the majority of SaaS founders the traditional VC model is a clusterfuck that makes very little sense.