Blog Posts, Marketing, Marketing, Scale
Everyone has tough quarters, and usually, at least one tough year (more on that here). As we approach $10m, and then again as we approach $20m, and then again as…
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MongoDB is one of the most interesting “commercial open source” success stories, taking a disruptive but open source database technology and building into an incredible business approaching $1B in ARR…
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Q: Which are some lesser known [SaaS/B2B] companies from the dotcom boom and subsequent crash of 1999-2000 that are still doing very well today? A few: eLance was founded in…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
You may not have heard of Procore if you aren’t in construction, but it’s a quiet SaaS leader we can all learn from if we think about it as a…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Wrike never went public, but instead was acquired by Citrix for $2.2B. But since Citrix is public, we can still learn a bit about how Wrike looked right at the…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
So the last time we caught up with Zoom on the 5 Interesting Learnings series, it had just IPO’d. Boy, a lot had changed. Especially Covid. It wasn’t that long…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Happy 22nd Birthday Salesforce & Thank You to our Ohana who have made it all possible! March 8th 1999 we were founded at 1449 Montgomery Street, a 1 bedroom apartment…
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Tim Kopp, CEO and executive chairman of Terminus shares how net retention revenue fueled their growth and recent series C funding.
5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Upwork is one of those products and marketplaces many of us use all the time — including Team SaaStr — but we don’t often see discussing that much as a…
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5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
So we’ve had a lot of fun in our 5 Interesting Learnings profiling the top SaaS and Cloud companies at scale, from Slack to Zoom, from Shopify to Datadog, from…
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Brian Halligan, CEO and Co-Founder of HubSpot shares the story behind the company’s journey to $1B ARR and 100,000 happy customers.
5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
Remember when it seemed like websites were just a commodity? Well, it turns out, people care. They want a slick site that does more, from eCommerce to payments to marketing…
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Naomi Rozenfeld, VP of Revenue at Wix Answers shares how to execute a winning self-service strategy, including when to launch, cross-functional implications, and how to find the right balance between self-service and customer support.
5 Interesting Things, Blog Posts, Scale
So is GoDaddy a SaaS company? Probably, or at least, close enough. Its Business Applications segment is now its fastest growing of its 3 product segments, at a $650m+ run-rate…
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Farhan Thawar, VP of Engineering at Shopify, has spent years perfecting his internship program and shares his insider tips for launching your own successful intern program.