SaaStr

JULY 5, 2019

How Would a Person Start a Venture Capital Fund? Cloud is on fire! #4. What’s A Typical Price Increase I Can Expect When Renewing A SaaS Subscription? This eBook was our top performing post and page overall. If you haven’t downloaded it, it’s pretty awesome. #2. People do seem to want to know.

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2019

What did the 100,000+ subscribers to SaaStr’s Cloud Daily find most interesting in the Cloud this week? The Cloud Wars continue to heat up. Cloud is Huge. 6: “Tinder In-App Purchases No Longer Use Google Play Billing” Mobile subscriptions are becoming a big deal, although it’s early overall. . #6:

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

About Loyalty Prime With its award-winning enterprise SaaS platform ‘Prime Cloud’, Loyalty Prime provides a uniquely flexible solution to quickly and efficiently set up and profitably run omnichannel loyalty programs (GDPR-compliant if/as required). The venture capital portfolio currently consists of 31 technology companies.

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Scytale

JANUARY 22, 2024

It builds the needed level of trust between internal teams, upper management, third-party vendors, and clients and proves that you have prioritized client privacy and information security. When speaking of SOC 2, you have a report verifying that a service organization’s security controls meet industry standards.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

About the episode: Tien Tzuo is the Founder and CEO of Zuora, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies that has been at the forefront of the rise of subscription business models. About the episode: Dave Kellogg is the CEO @ Host Analytics, the leader in cloud-based enterprise performance management (EPM). Episode No. Episode No.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. Recurring payments. What is SaaS?

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 4, 2020

ChurnZero helps subscription businesses fight customer churn. and is backed by leading angles and venture capital firms such as Baird Capital, Grotech Ventures and Middleland Capital. . The SaaS Awards is a sister program to the Cloud Awards, which was founded in 2011. About ChurnZero.

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SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We’ve decided to put together a killer list, categorized and organized to help you find and consume world-class SaaS and subscription content from the best people and companies in the market. The list is organized into four categories: entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, communities, and companies.

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SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We’ve decided to put together a killer list, categorized and organized to help you find and consume world-class SaaS and subscription content from the best people and companies in the market. The list is organized into four categories: entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, communities, and companies.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And as nice as verbal assurances and a handshake are, as you grow and try to sign with more established, enterprise-level companies, you’ll find yourself more and more having to provide proofs of compliance before closing the deal: The shift to the cloud, more and more data breaches – it really put a magnifying glass on third-party risk.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Horizontal SaaS companies were the first to debut because the market for basic administrative functions was broad, the R&D work was light, and the demand for cloud-based services was limited to basic functions. These factors resonated well with the investment theses of venture capital firms.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 21, 2020

Our neighbors over at Toast , the leaders in cloud-based restaurant management software, launched a Rally for Restaurants initiative—a way to unite top brands across the tech and foodservice sectors in support of the dining community during the COVID-19 crisis. That’s a wrap on your April 21 episode of Recur Now. Get involved.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

I am a partner at Accel, the Global Venture Capital Fund, and I’m very happy to be here with one of these mythical creatures that people were talking about earlier. Transcript: Luciana Lixandru: My name is Luciana Lixandru. I’m here with Bobby Patrick, the Chief Marketing Officer of UiPath.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 2, 2020

Our neighbors over at Toast , the leaders in cloud-based restaurant management software, launched a Rally for Restaurants initiative this week—a way to unite top brands across the tech and foodservice sectors in support of the dining community during the COVID-19 crisis. That’s a wrap on your April 2 episode of Recur Now.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2020

Todd ( @tolson ) is Co-founder and CEO of Pendo.io , a product cloud that helps product teams deliver software customers love. The company has since raised $206 million in venture capital, landed more than 1,400 customers, and now employs more than 400 people across six offices around the globe. Todd Olson, Pendo.io

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 29, 2018

For example, cloud storage became feasible when bandwidth and data storage costs approached a sweet spot — Dropbox and Box were able to capitalize on this. As cloud technology adoption grew, Gainsight saw the need (and potential) for a new role within cloud software businesses, in the form of the customer success manager.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 19, 2019

They say laughter’s the best medicine, but I’m also a fan of that subscription prescription, so let’s get into the news you need to power right through. Revenue’s grown steadily since the company’s founding in 2009, so it looks like PagerDuty is a safe bet for its backers, which includes big wigs like Bessemer Venture Partners and Accel.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Amy expresses concerns about the concentration of power among cloud and AI companies and the potential dangers of generative AI, such as deep faking medical scans. The speaker emphasizes the need for read perception, which involves exploring uncharted territory and looking beyond obvious trends.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

Especially in the age of the cloud and AI copilots, you’re only ever a few clicks, prompts, and copy-pastes away from a functional skeleton of a product. We use software that runs in the cloud on top of data from other software that runs in the cloud…easy! More importantly, DALL-E’s cloud picture above is clearly wrong.

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ProfitWell

MAY 18, 2020

Why it's never been easier to sell subscription. The beauty subscription box startup Birchbox launched in September 2010 as the unemployment rate peaked at 10 percent. Twilio , cloud communications platform, also found success after launching in the midst of a financial crisis. PaaS: Pasta as a service. In an article by Inc.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

To date, Amit has raised $68m in funding for Gong from the likes of Norwest, Battery Ventures, Cisco Investments, and Wing Venture Capital, just to name a few. Finally, before that, Amit was the Founder & CEO @ SparkThis, an outsourced marketing and sales service for cloud companies.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In order to execute on this mission, founders can bootstrap their company, raise outside money ( venture capital is the most popular), or use a combination of both to help build their business. If you sell an HR platform with a subscription that starts at 50 seats, you should scratch any seed-stage startups off your list.

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ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

Bundled service providers like AOL have phased out and cloud-based subscription services are enjoying their time in the sun. We’ve got words like subscription, ad supported, license, and ASP, that are well understood. They had recently saved on server costs by switching to the cloud. Fast forward to the mid-aughts.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Leveraging the power of cloud technology, SaaS has re-engineered the way we look at modern technology and software. Ben Murray is a Certified Public Accountant whose passion for SaaS metrics, financial performance, subscription economy, forecasting, and SaaS operations drove him to kick start blogging on the same. Ben Murray.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The Software-as-a-Service Awards celebrate excellence in cloud-based software solutions, accepting entries from across the world, including the US, Canada, Australasia, UK and EMEA. Categories for the 2019 awards program include Best Enterprise-Level SaaS Product, Best Data-Driven SaaS Product and Best Security Innovation in a SaaS Product.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Perhaps best of all, the advent of cloud computing has made the barrier to entry in this field lower than ever before. But techy people love technology and end up way over-serving themselves, resulting in a mountain of subscription charges, fractionally used tools, and others that simply drive little to no business value.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

This morning, a pretty slow growing player, Ping Identity, slow to move to SaaS, slow to move to the cloud, struggled in some ways to compete with Okta and others, was acquired for 2.3 And I think it shows that the top PE firms are pretty optimistic that things are going to remain good and get even better in SaaS and cloud.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

And if the TAM isn’t big enough, you’re much better off saying, okay, let’s either recognize there’s going to be a tiny little business and not raise venture capital or build a large organization around it, or scrap the idea and go after something that’s different. This is where the cloud meets.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I think there’s this dichotomy that people swing between bootstrapping versus venture capital. The state of tooling in 2010 or 2011 was that there was no Stripe, there was no subscription management and the idea of a SaaS economy was just nonsense.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

To date Gainsight have raised over $156m from some of the world’s best VCs in the form of Lightspeed, Bessemer, Insight Venture Partners, Battery Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. I eventually ran another Saas company which I ran and then sold. We actually almost went public.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world.

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