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Why GoToMeeting’s SaaS Playbook Wouldn’t Work Today

InfoChachkie

During the early 2000’s, my team grew the company to one of the largest SaaS businesses of its day, with sales of $70 million. In November of 2015, Citrix announced that it will spin out the “GoTo” Division, of which GoToMeeting remains the flagship product, as a standalone public company. Share and Enjoy.

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Recurring revenues: Oil or glue?

Berkonomics

Some types of businesses generate more and more recurring revenues over time, often growing to a size where recurring revenues pay all of the overhead of the company – an enviable position. There is a phenomenon I have observed time after time with mature companies receiving over 75% of their revenues from recurring sources.

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53 Questions Developers Should Ask Innovators

TechEmpower

What are some sites or companies in the same space? What functionality would make your company launch-ready? Will you validate new members’ email addresses and/or phone numbers? Do they generate emails or push notifications? Email / SMS Does your application send out transactional emails or SMS messages?

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Simplify your commission structure. Please.

Berkonomics

Far too often, I come across companies with commission structures that take into account “all” the possible permutations of profit on a sale, causing everyone to wait for an accounting person to complete a cost analysis in order to find the magic number, or for a manager to rule on percentage splits for territories or products.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

If you follow the tech media you would be subject to a lot of narrative biases that are completely off base – and this includes the value of email and phone calls. It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. billion email accounts.

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9 Innovative Startups To Watch For in 2024

Tech.Co

Sign up to Tech.co's weekly newsletter today Please fill in your name Please fill in your email Subscribe By signing up to receive our newsletter, you agree to our Privacy Policy. The startup was listed in TIME100 Most Influential Companies 2023 too, alongside industry heavyweights like Nvidia and SpaceX.

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j2 Global Raising $300M In Convertible Notes For Acquisitions, Growth

socalTECH

The publicly held company--which owns a significant number of Internet services, in addition to publisher Ziff Davis--said it will use that debt funding for general corporate purposes, including acquisitions. backup cloud saas software efax capital acquisition merger j2global' READ MORE>>.