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The SaaS Org Chart Live with David Sacks (Podcast #491 and Video)

SaaStr

David’s first foray into SaaS was in 1999 when he joined a startup that would become PayPal, starting as the product leader and later as the COO. Positions Needed: Enterprise AEs, Mid-Market & SMB AEs, SDRs, Sales Ops, Sales Engineer. Head of Marketing. VP Marketing (15 Employees). billion in 2012. Founder/CEO.

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Freemium is Back! But You’ll Need 50 Million Active Users for Freemium to Actually Work as a Business Model.

SaaStr

In VSB or SMB business apps, you can get to one million paying customers — but you really, really need something broad-based to get there. Intuit, Microsoft, Adobe, PayPal. Not even users than use you once a year. 50,000,000 active, passionate, engaged users using your business app, on their own, electively, with some regularity.

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Top 25 SaaStr Podcast Episodes from 2020

SaaStr

Whether it was our interview with Podium’s Eric Rea on how he scaled with a team outside the Bay Area before it was really considered an option, or TripAction’s Megan Eisenberg on how to prioritize trade-offs in marketing without sacrificing pipeline, we’ve covered the gambit of relevant topics throughout the year. .

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Only 11% of Public SaaS Companies Sell Just to SMBs

SaaStr

SMB SaaS has a lot going for it: – Millions of them – Short sales cycles – Easier compete. But, it's often hard to get to $100m ARR selling just to SMBs. sell just to SMBs pic.twitter.com/Po1I2aMaBK. So many VCs and others have gotten more and more excited about SMB SaaS. Millions and millions more.

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The Startup Sector That’s Quietly Booming

Tom Tunguz

I count seven major categories of innovation to date: Math Based Currencies/Payment Networks - Bitcoin might be the most well-known and best publicized math-based currency, but there are a handful of others in the market, like OpenCoin and LiteCoin.

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Best Time Tracking Software

Neil Patel

Because no one should suffer any longer, I’m going to share the top five time tracking software options on the market today. By integrating with services like Quickbooks and PayPal, these tools can handle the job in a few clicks. 5 – Tick — Best for SMB Time Management. The Top 5 Options for Time Tracking Software.

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Snowflake, CrowdStike and SumoLogic: “How to Leverage the Cloud Giants to Scale to 100 Million ARR and Beyond”

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Rico Mallozzi: So marketplaces are fundamentally changing, go to market motions for a lot of enterprise technology companies. And we’ll also share maybe even some of our failures and best practices with this go-to-market channel. Colleen, can we get a little bit tactical on the actual kind of go to market? Good advice.

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