SaaStr

MAY 21, 2022

The markets for SaaS and Cloud stocks are down 50%+ in just a few months, and it hasn’t spared even the leaders. But let’s step back a bit … the damage hasn’t been even, and capital-efficient SaaS stocks in many cases have held up pretty well. Now all these stocks were even higher at the 2021 peaks. They’re worth $2.7

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2023

So there was a quiet SaaS IPO you may have missed in the craziness of 2021 — SEMRush, a tool your marketing department quite likely uses to keep track of the performance of your SEO and marketing site. And again a challenge to everyone in SaaS to go global. #4. 2022 Growth Was Down from 2021, But Almost the Same as 2020.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 4, 2022

So are we in a downturn in SaaS? And inflation is awful. But where is SaaS are we really today? Alteryx, a leading public SaaS ETL company, announced it was growing 33% at $730m in ARR! Not a crazy 2021 multiple. I’m not saying things aren’t very, very different than 2021.

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SaaStr

MAY 6, 2022

Many SaaS and Cloud leaders are down more than 50% from their all-time highs. A Covid Hangover in SaaS stocks.’ Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and even Google Cloud are on fire, adding insane amounts of revenue this year. The top SaaS and Cloud leaders are even accelerating at $1B in ARR, for goodness sakes!!

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How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Black Friday Saas Deals is one of the greatest sales of the year and this sale is going to live now with exciting discounts on tons of SaaS Tools that usually businesses need in order to manage their operations. Refund Policy: Check the refund policy of every saas before buying it. Discounts On Black Friday Saas Deals.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Ok the Best But Craziest Year Ever for SaaS isn’t quite over, but as it drives to a conclusion, we thought it would be worth looking back at top posts you may have missed in 2020. “The Era of the SaaS Decacorn is Here” That’s for sure. The Era of the SaaS Decacorn is Here. More on that soon!

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SaaStr

APRIL 27, 2021

Just how fast is SaaS and Cloud growing? Cloud software spending grew a stunning 23% in 2021, from $270 billion to $330 billion. Budgets and spend are increasing a stunning 20% a year in SaaS. Yes, we all now know top SaaS leaders have world-class NRR, from 110% to 160%. of all enterprise SaaS spend is going to Slack.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Email will continue to be an effective way for entrepreneurs to connect with their audience and meet them where they are in 2021 and beyond. These days, it can really feel like the Old Bag of Sales Tricks is starting to just not work anymore: With maybe 500x the SaaS vendors of 10 years ago, there’s so much noise.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2023

So there are a lot of rough and arm chair metrics for fundraising in SaaS in terms of valuations. For years, the standard was “about 10x” Top tier SaaS companies would tend to raise at around 10x ARR, with ones with slightly lower growth often raising at 5x. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds.

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How To Buy Saas

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Cyber Monday Saas Deals 2021: As you know November is flying by and the first cyber Monday discount of the year will be soon here! Cyber Monday Saas Deals2021 is the opportune opportunity to buy SaaS-based services because most companies are offering attractive discounts. Best List For Cyber Monday Saas Deals.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Despite economic headwinds, SaaS spending continues to grow, with most companies having self-reported increasing or maintaining SaaS spending. G2 track, their proprietary SaaS spend management platform. This includes data from companies on how they utilize SaaS and their spending.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

The SaaS sales model seems so well-established, as hundreds of founders build their businesses and raise funding. Mark Roberge, Founder of Stage 2 Capital and Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School, shares insights from his years of experience into common SaaS sales missteps and how you can avoid them.

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CloudGeometry

MARCH 22, 2022

When developing a SaaS product plan, it’s important to recognize two foundational principles. First, SaaS is a business strategy, not a technology strategy. Second, there is no one-size-fits-all SaaS architecture (the second principle is a corollary of the first).

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Clouded Judgement

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Yes, I wouldn't say it's all back to where 2021 was, but there are some green shoots, right? ” From AWS (paraphrased): They said they expect the reaccleration they saw in Q4 to continue into 2024 2024 Estimate Updates One important metric I’m tracking this quarter is the change in 2024 estimates pre / post earnings.

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Clouded Judgement

JULY 28, 2023

AI = Data + Compute I’ll continue beating this drum, but we got two great quotes from Azure and AWS this week. ” Then at AWS Summit they called out “Your data is your differentiator when it comes to Generative AI.” AWS reports next week. ” Data is more important than ever! So what did we learn?

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

With last year in the rearview mirror, we can look at OpenView’s 2020 Expansion SaaS Benchmarks Report to tell us how exactly COVID-19 impacted SaaS companies. What’s more is that despite falling nearly 50% from an all-time high in March, SaaS company valuations have rallied. More SaaS companies will adopt product-led growth.

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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

In 2021, ChartMogul experienced a transformative shift in data strategy when we introduced a dedicated data engineering team. Nowadays, these are packaged and deployed in docker images, and executed via AWS lambda or EKS pods each day. We used our daily AWS RDS snapshots and loaded them daily to Snowflake tables.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 24, 2022

What does this mean for B2B SaaS businesses? In our webinar, 2022 SaaS retention benchmarks , SaaS Capital Manager Director Rob Belcher shares the results from their 11th annual B2B SaaS benchmarking survey. It’s the largest survey of private SaaS companies in the world with over 1,500 responses.

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All that Saas

JUNE 22, 2021

Working remotely has become many organizations culture for 2021. Ayoa Review (2021) – Mind Mapping & Whiteboarding Software. The post Ayoa Review 2021: Features, Functionality, Pricing, and More appeared first on All That SaaS. RRP) by author & CEO, Chris Griffiths. Sales Inquiries: click here.

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ChurnZero

JUNE 24, 2022

What does this mean for B2B SaaS businesses? In our webinar, 2022 SaaS retention benchmarks , SaaS Capital Manager Director Rob Belcher shares the results from their 11th annual B2B SaaS benchmarking survey. It’s the largest survey of private SaaS companies in the world with over 1,500 responses.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app. This means our software is hosted on the cloud and used over an internet connection via a web browser or mobile app.

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User Pilot

MAY 10, 2023

Amazon grants its AWS customers access to its recommendation engine to help them personalize their user experience. Using this tool, Amazon AWS users can now offer up to 50% better recommendations to their website visitors, email marketing lists, and more, thus improving the customer experience and their conversion/click-through rates.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 2, 2021

— Jakob Greenfeld (@jakobgreenfeld) February 22, 2021. It might be awful. Whatever you decide to do after your SaaS business is acquired, don’t get swept up in the excitement of the sale. What do investors look for in a SaaS startup? SaaS Q&A: How can a B2B SaaS startup acquire customers from day one?

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 16, 2021

7 Reasons Usage-Based Pricing is the Future of SaaS. The shift from pure subscription to usage-based pricing is nearly as complex as going from on-premise to SaaS. Usage-Based Pricing: What SaaS Companies Need to Know. Usage-based pricing is often lauded as the holy grail of SaaS pricing models. Financial implications.

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

This is the first part of our blog series on achieving effective SaaS management using a Zero Trust security model. With an increasingly mobile workforce and the spread of shadow IT, plus the rapid rise of cybercrime, companies must find new ways to effectively manage their sprawling SaaS portfolio. Cloud and SaaS sprawl.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Also, no PLG strategy can work with traditional SaaS indicators. Top 10 PLG Tools in 2021. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Stripe is soon becoming the default payment infrastructure for all things SaaS. So pick accordingly. #1

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2021

2021 is the 30th anniversary of the birth of Linux. Open Source is here to stay—and Open Source + SaaS is the future. Databricks started out in the Cloud; we never provided an on-prem offering, only a SaaS Cloud offering. Those are the companies that are going to be dominant in this new SaaS era.”. Key takeaways.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2023

The average mid-size company has 111 SaaS applications. There’s so much competition in SaaS that it can feel confusing to figure out where to start and compare solutions. This is the biggest trend in SaaS. SaaS changed that. Buying software has changed significantly over the past 27 years.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We reached out to SaaS founders, operators, … Before 2023, the term “generative AI” was met with blank faces. We reached out to SaaS founders, operators, and investors to get their hot takes on what new “normals”, shake-ups, and challenges the new year will bring to the SaaS industry. What will 2024 bring?

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What’s new in ChartMogul in 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. Overall, in 2021, we logged and resolved 10,007 tickets with an average first response time of 20 minutes. So let’s dive in.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

To find out which of these features are most common, OpenView surveyed over 500 SaaS companies ranging from pre-revenue to $100 million in ARR. Despite disparities in reporting, self-reported data on CAC payback does reveal a clear trend: The fastest growing SaaS companies report a median CAC payback period of only 8 months.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Super Bowl is around the corner: Gong did Super Bowl ads starting in 2021 and 2022 before it was ‘cool’ for B2B companies, setting a new record week for pipeline creation at the company. Amazon: A year and a half after announcing its intention to acquire iRobot, Amazon has dropped the deal.

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OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Cloud marketplaces like AWS Marketplace, Azure Marketplace and Google Cloud Platform Marketplace are digital storefronts where companies can list their offerings for software buyers to find, purchase and provision software. . This data revealed a clear picture of where cloud marketplaces are heading in 2021. Here’s what we learned. .

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2021

As part of the run up to 2021 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area Sep 27-29 , we’re taking a look back at some of our favorite classic sessions. (And And grab the best deal ever on 2021 Annual tickets here ). We’ve got a bunch of MBAs trying to build a SaaS business here. Hubspot today is a $23B juggernaut. It’s OK.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Let’s look at an example in SaaS. Canva launched Presentations in 2021, and it has become a heavily used product. Figma launched Figjam, a Miro competitor in 2021. Snap, however, probably would not have survived without product innovation because its first product had low monetization potential.

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Frontegg

MARCH 22, 2023

Modern SaaS providers need a comprehensive, secure user management solution that offers a range of authentication factors and the flexibility to configure it themselves. The user experience with passwords is never good and can be downright awful. This is why in 2021, the U.S.

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OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Over the course of the conversation, she shared valuable insights about the role of the chief customer officer (CCO); the guiding concept of “customer in, not function out;” how to stay agile working with a large, cross-functional team; and how her team is redefining growth for 2021. Redefining growth for 2021 and beyond.

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