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5 Interesting Learnings from Circle at $2.3 Billion in “ARR”

SaaStr

So Circle is the latest tech IPO and it’s not really B2B or SaaS per se — it’s a fintech that issues and manages “stablecoins” Cypto that converts 1:1 to U.S. ✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) June 5, 2025 5 Interesting Learnings for B2B and SaaS Founders from Circle’s IPO: 1. The culprit?

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From $10M to $100M ARR in 5.5 Months: Inside Replit’s AI Coding Rocketship

SaaStr

valuation—the fastest to $100M ARR in SaaS history (12 months) Replit : $100M ARR at $1.16B valuation—10x growth in 18 months Lovable : $50M ARR by April 2025, €14.3M What This Means for B2B: The New Playbook Replit’s success signals fundamental shifts in how successful SaaS companies will be built: 1.

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From marketplace to SaaS business: How Udemy acquired 80% of the Fortune 100

Intercom, Inc.

Seeing a real demand for business courses in their consumer marketplace, the team identified an opening in the market to disrupt corporate training and hypothesized that employers would be more than willing to pay. At the helm of Udemy for Business’ customer acquisition machine is their VP of Marketing Yvonne Chen.

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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

If you own a SaaS or other digital product business such as a Slack plugin, Chrome extension, online publishing business, mobile app, or even a blog and youre looking to exit, you may have a lot of questions about how best to go about it. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services.

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Eventbrite’s Brian Rothenberg on growing a marketplace

Intercom, Inc.

Fast forward to today, and Eventbrite is the world’s largest self-service event ticketing and registration platform – processing more than 3 million tickets each week. Going back a bit, Brian was a co-founder at SkillSlate, a local services marketplaces similar to Thumbtack. We raised a $1.5-million

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Data Network Effects in SaaS Enabled Marketplaces

Tom Tunguz

SaaS Enabled Marketplaces benefit from a unique advantage in their go-to-market. In between, Google operates an advertising marketplace, AdX. Because SEMs deploy SaaS to both the supply side and the demand side, these companies can develop an exceptional understanding of their market.

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10 Mistakes in Building Out Your Revenue Organization with Insider CEO Hande Cilingir

SaaStr

SaaS is a fast-paced industry. Only go-getters survive in the SaaS marketplace. From increasing competition to new products in the marketplace, there are too many variables for a salesperson to control. If you ask a SaaS founder the most crucial metric for his sales pipeline, they’ll likely say MRR.

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