FastSpring

JANUARY 23, 2025

and now very big in the case of, say, a zero, which is cloud accounting software. I ran one of the fastest growing online travel agencies, of course is ecommerce here in Australia called Luxury Escapes. And I’ve done that. So I’ve worked in SaaS businesses that were fast growth. That’s now a billion dollar company.

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How To Buy Saas

JUNE 26, 2025

ProProfs Knowledge Base is an easy-to-use, cloud-based knowledge management tool designed to help organizations build online FAQ pages, help centers, user manuals, internal knowledge repositories, and more. Internal Knowledge Base for Employees: Develop a private, cloud-based knowledge repository for your employees.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 1, 2025

Just had your SKO appreciate you taking the, the hour amongst all the crazy travels. And if not, it was a small fraction of cloud and I was brought in to, to lead the, when I first joined it was to, uh, to lead the enterprise. You’ve been a busy man. Hayden Stafford: My pleasure, man. Scott Barker: Yeah, I love it.

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Buffer Resources

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

You can find these topic clouds in a social listening dashboard. Interestingly, these topic clouds can also offer insight into various aspects of your competitors’ business – and they may help you fill the gaps in other sections in your competitor analysis spreadsheet.

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Social Media Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring 124

How To Buy Saas

JULY 2, 2025

Digital Document Storage: Rather than shuffling manila folders, all documents are stored in the cloud. The result is more control over your marketing and guest experience, plus higher profits since you’re not paying OTA (Online Travel Agency) fees. LIst your saas Get Your SaaS Discovered By Buyers!

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Software Review Payment Services 59

User Pilot

MARCH 30, 2025

57% of users want to receive push notifications from social media platforms, followed by news apps (45.94%), e-commerce apps (25.29%), mobile games (19.05%), travel apps (10.08%) and blogging apps (9.24%). Use push notifications to nudge users to your app. Push notifications and in-app messages are a great way to bring users back to your app.

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Payment Solutions Retention Payment Methods Strategy 52

Stax

MARCH 11, 2025

The payment gateway : this is a cloud-based payments software integrated with your website thats responsible for the secure transfer of your customers credit card information to your payment processor.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Merchant Services SaaS Payments 88

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

More people are adopting cloud-based products across industries leading to rapid digital transformation and SaaS hypergrowth. Nina Herold, EVP & General Manager of TripActions Travel, shares insights into her team’s tactics to tune into customers’ needs throughout the product experience. billion dollars.

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Travel Scale Marketplace as a Service Management 240

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 11, 2020

For most software companies, COGs encompasses cloud hosting costs and some fraction of customer success and professional services salaries. Operating expense, or OpEx, includes the salaries the remaining employees plus marketing and selling costs, travel, food, real estate, and other expenses. The company burns $1.9M

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SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2020

Portfolios in many cases were hit hard, with startups in travel, events, fitness, etc. hit hard, and VCs distracted with working out the issues in their portfolios: But the slow down lasted, at best, 60 days: First, Cloud stocks went on an unprecedented tear. As did Cloud revenues. That meant more competition.

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Venture Capital Travel Cloud Investment 312

SaaStr

JUNE 12, 2023

We’ll see you, Expensify, and 12,000+ of the Best in SaaS and Cloud at 2023 SaaStr Annual in the SF Bay Area, Sep 6-8!! More than 12 million people use Expensify’s free features, which include corporate cards, expense tracking, next-day reimbursement, invoicing, bill pay, payroll, and travel booking in one app.

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Payment Solutions Payment Features Travel Cloud 321

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

Two related reasons: First, the stock market for public SaaS and Cloud companies is at an all-time high. It’s a bit non-obvious, but let’s take an example of a hypothetical VC portfolio of 10 companies (to keep it simple): 3/10 are “Covid Decimated” in travel, events, etc. And yet … and yet.

Airlines 343

Airlines SaaS Travel Cloud 343

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2023

As one of the most successful, slightly under the radar, pre-IPO “trueicorns” (not fake-icorns), the CEO of Navan , Ariel Cohen, disrupts an old space of expense and travel management and remakes things. It was a Frankenstein for transient travelers. Enterprise doesn’t care too much because they’re huge. Should you push more on GTM?

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Payment Solutions Payments Travel Scale 282

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2024

It’s tougher times for many, job hunting is tougher, and in general meeting the best of the best in SaaS and Cloud IRL is more valuable than ever. Admittedly, many might not still be in the SF Bay Area, making travel tough. So we decided to do some folks a solid this year for SaaStr Annual. But if there’s a will, there’s a way.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 1, 2020

This has been an incredible roller-coaster for us in SaaS and Cloud since March 15, for some even more than others, but an incredible amount of change for all of us. Some of you are in the “Covid Decimated” category (travel, IRL events, etc) and things in many ways are as tough and rough as March. This was hard on all us.

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Sales Hiring Venture Capital Cloud Travel 363

SaaStr

MARCH 23, 2023

Services include Public Cloud, Private Cloud, Hybrid Hosting, Colocation, Content Delivery Network, Cyber Security Services, and Dedicated Servers supported by exceptional customer service and technical support. Navan is the all-in-one solution that makes travel easy so you can focus on being there, not getting there.

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Payment Features SaaS Payments Payments Payment Methods 246

SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2020

Cloud is on fire. Our holiday hotels and cruise ships and destination travel aren’t coming back soon enough. SaaS and Cloud can’t escape the mass bankruptcies coming. That can be your base plan to start, for both top line (revenue) and burn rate. More on that here : The Power and Honesty in a L4M Model.

Airlines 363

Airlines Government Entertainment Travel 363

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

More than 10 million people use Expensify’s free features, which include corporate cards, expense tracking, next-day reimbursement, invoicing, bill pay, and travel booking in one app. Expensify is a payments superapp that helps individuals and businesses around the world simplify the way they manage money.

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Payments Payment Services AI Search Payment Solutions 273

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 25, 2023

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) & Microsoft Azure had strong quarters with about 28% annual revenue growth each. cloud services business, of which I assume Azure constitutes 75% of revenues, implies the Azure ML business is roughly on a $900m run rate [1], with customers growing 10x - a phenomenal business.

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AI Search AI Azure GCP(Google Cloud Platform) 261

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Things were slow for a while during the last downturn, but then the Cloud just picked itself up and … ran. Most tradeshows and events in China are running at their maximum allowed capacity pre-Covid, with the delta being mainly from lack of travel. Let’s take a look over in China.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 21, 2024

May Habib, CEO and Co-Founder @ Writer.ai

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Less Travel. But likely even Q3’21 would be too early for significant international travel. Our digital events have brought 100,000+ Cloud execs, founders and investors together at scale. Yup, we’ll still be wearing them then. As would 100% of everyone that attends. Will it happen? We don’t know.

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Travel Cloud Scaling 206

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

The foundational idea that RingCentral was built on was about empowering people to work the way they want with cloud communications technology. Vlad suggests always being on the lookout for people who have traveled the road ahead of you, and strategically align the board with where the company wants to go. Advisory Board.

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Startup Business Scale Travel 259

SaaStr

JULY 12, 2024

They believed talent was global, and the co-founders loved to travel. Cloud was a big unlock for monetization. Stage three was going all-in into the Cloud. Grafana deploys a lot of new features that they develop on their Cloud first before making them open source, the opposite of how you might intuitively do it.

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 291

Incredo

JANUARY 29, 2020

It covers many categories including travel, fashion, animals, film and more. Here are a few that you can consider: Unicheck – This is a cloud-based software that’s commonly used by writers, bloggers, lawyers and editors. Whilst it’s unlikely, it’s always good to make sure.

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Software Review Engineering Technical Review Branding 328

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

They had a last-minute speaker switch for their session, they had to swap team members who couldn’t travel last minute, and they had to rally their entire team behind creating collateral and product features in time for the live event. Go to the events they’re going to. . Mark answered, “We’re in SaaS.

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Strategy Travel Branding Interviewing 274

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 26, 2020

In addition to our temporary work-from-home policies, we suspended business travel and visitors to our offices beginning on March 5. AWS is the leading cloud provider in the industry, and we leverage their portfolio of globally redundant services to ensure Intercom runs reliably. Business continuity.

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CloudKettle

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Using Salesforce Marketing Cloud To Deliver Relevance Travel is back in the collective consciousness and executives in the tourism industry need to meet travellers where they are right now – their inbox. The post 4 Automated Email Journeys Every Travel Brand Needs appeared first on CloudKettle.

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Travel Branding Cloud Marketing 59

SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2024

Next, they moved to credits, which are very popular, with AWS and Google Cloud being great examples of companies that are always giving credits out to startups. Those travel so fast from venture teams straight to founders, boards, and other VC funds. Ultimately, it was a little too complex for Zendesk to implement at the time.

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Startup Scale Underperforming Technical Team AWS 262

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? Keith Rabois: I think international travel is almost permanently affected. This episode is sponsored by Lightmatter.

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Venture Capital Travel PayPal Scale 233

Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 25, 2023

There’s a lot of info to digest, so in the sections below I’ll try and pull out the relevant financial information and benchmark it against current cloud businesses. The purpose of the detailed information is to help investors (both institutional and retail) make informed investment decisions.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

We created and served up apps via the cloud on a subscription basis. The founder was my age at the time, so we were in our early 20s and he ended up leaving to go travel and left me in charge, so it gave me a lot of leeway to really run the company how I wanted to. Now, we did really cool stuff at this startup.

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Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales 292

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The Cool Planet Group CEO has had a fascinating career to date, having started and sold three businesses for over three-quarters of a billion dollars before he was forty – including Inspired Gaming and The Cloud. Along the way too, we also set up a business called the Cloud. Norman: Yeah.

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Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 27, 2015

That company is Concur, the travel and expense business. Each era (CD, License, Cloud) is shaded. Concur completed the full transition to cloud by 2005. Concur’s gross margins were highest late in its Cloud era. SaaS history isn’t very long. The license model increased gross margins to better than 60%.

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SaaS Travel Cloud Business Model 111

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Our ability to do basic things such as protect ourselves from earthquakes and hurricanes, to travel and to extend our lifespans is barely increasing [since the 1960s]. For example, coupling cheap computing with virtualization enabled cloud computing - a potentially $100B industry. And efficiency innovations will attract another.

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IT World

JUNE 30, 2022

Back in the 2010s, I averaged almost 100,000 miles a year on business travel. I went to endless Linux, open-source, and cloud conferences. So, do I recommend traveling for business again? When COVID-19 hit, I went from flying around the country and to Europe every few weeks to driving to the grocery store every few weeks.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 17, 2019

Travel apps. It’s an online productivity tool for those often finding themselves traveling, in flights, or in online meetings. On this cloud-based platform, DocuSign make it easy to get an eSignature –– today’s standard for getting a digital signature on practically any device, from almost anywhere, at any time.

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Travel Mobile Pricing Social Media 111