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

SaaStr

The “Regulatory Moat” Strategy: Compliance as a Competitive Advantage Circle was the first to receive a New York State BitLicense, which is famously difficult to obtain, in 2015. Rapid expansion and new service integrations negatively impacted net income. The culprit? Circle trading at $85 up from $31 IPO price.

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

SaaStr

funding from Creandum Windsurf : $40M ARR, seemingly acquired by OpenAI for $3B These aren’t typical B2B metrics. In the AI coding space, we’re seeing growth rates that would make even the most aggressive VCs blush: Cursor (Anysphere) : $500M ARR at $9.9B These are venture capital fever dream numbers.

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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. They’re interested in the return on investment, they’re interested in the growth opportunities, they’re interested in the strategies and the synergies that those businesses can bring them, either as individuals or as companies.

Scale 120
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Salesforce vs HubSpot: CRM Titans Compared for 2025

How To Buy Saas

This Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) approach revolutionized the industry, making powerful CRM tools accessible without on-premise installs. Over the past two decades, Salesforce has evolved from a sales CRM into a comprehensive platform spanning sales, service, marketing, e-commerce, and app development. Open APIs for custom integration.

Scale 52
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The Definitive Guide: Product Analytics for Product-Led Growth

OpenView Labs

That’s why we’re using this post to share tested tenants for product-led growth and the charts, reports, and analysis you can use to refine your growth strategy. If you’ve ever wanted to answer: can we adopt a PLG strategy, what would we have to do to make it work, or why isn’t our PLG strategy growing our business, this is it.

Scale 52
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Smart SaaS budgeting: Refine your spend strategy for 2025

BetterCloud

SaaS budgeting is the process of planning, allocating, and managing financial resources for acquiring and using Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions within an organization. Maybe youre spending the right amount of money, but you need more seats, or you might be paying for a service that nobody uses. What is SaaS budgeting?

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5 Nonobvious Learnings from Atlassian’s Path to The First $10B in ARR With Ex-CRO Cameron Deatsch

SaaStr

By forcing self-service, they inadvertently created stronger customer champions who had to deeply learn the product themselves. The “Feature Request Arbitrage” Strategy Hidden gem in their marketplace origin: They turned their biggest product weakness (feature request backlog) into their greatest strength.