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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Chargebee and Glassdoor — November 1, 2019

SaaStr

First, what is continuous customer development? What is the process to do it efficiently? Billion story from its launch in 2008 to its 2018 acquisition by Recruit Holdings. This podcast is an excerpt from Robert and Neeraj’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. Does one have to move to enterprise? Does it have to be in person?

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

The Angel VC

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The second issue is the timing of some of the major expenses.

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Cognota’s Ryan Austin on Creating an Entire Category (LearnOps)

FastSpring

Ryan Austin had VP-level experience in training when he decided to start a consulting business to help enterprise-level companies with their corporate learning and development initiatives. Founded in 2019, Cognota is the first and only LearnOps platform for corporate learning and development teams.

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SaaStr Podcast #217: Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson on The Trapdoor Decisions to Avoid When Scaling

SaaStr

Formerly a senior leader at Google, Claire Hughes Johnson is now Chief Operating Officer at Stripe, where she’s helped guide the online payments firm through rapid growth. Stripe today has more than 1,400 employees and processes billions of dollars for millions of users worldwide. They were self taught developers.

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2021 Financial & Operating Benchmarks: How to Become One of the ‘Haves’ of SaaS

OpenView Labs

The ‘haves’, defined by growing quickly out of the gate and then maintaining 50% or faster revenue growth at significant scale, have seen their valuations skyrocket over the years. ARR business to be top quartile in 2021 they now need to be growing at 300% or faster. The game has changed when it comes to recruiting.

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

Point Nine Land

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. The second issue is the timing of some of the major expenses.

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What Are The Top 50 SaaS Companies in 2020?

SmartKarrot

SaaS businesses are organizations that provide subscription-based software applications that are centrally hosted on their servers over the internet. Source: Byteant , December 2019. Owing to cost-effectiveness and confidentiality attributes, SaaS businesses continue to opt for cloud services. Source: Survey Sparrow.