why saas (in helsinki)?

Why SaaS(in Helsinki)

whois me

HelsinkiJS organizer MoscowJS founder

occasional speaker

random tech DD person

partner at Helsinki Ventures

founder of StartHQ

SaaS in Europe

lots of small players as opposed to US

few experienced early stage SaaS investors Christoph Janz

few acquirers telcos SAP

SaaS in Finland

Games in the spotlight see Startup100

Established software cos starting to do SaaS but still focusing on the Finnsh market

Many consultancies and integrators

Helsinki SaaS Meetup

focus on business rather than tech lots of tech amp startup meetups

understand what to build rather than how to build it

create community amp exchange ideas since we are facing similar challenges

discover early adopters talk to end users and thought leaders

Bad SaaS

vitamin not aspirin users over revenue monetized through AdSense confusing direct sales with customer dev competing on features in a crowded market not factoring customer acquisition in going mobile first

Badass SaaS

lean and mean customer centric collecting metrics experiment driven laser focused yet adaptable global from the get go scalable

AARRR

acquisition activation retention referral revenue

- Profit

SaaS support as a service specific functions

Buffer niche verticals

Farmeron ChurchApp complementary solutions

Import2 unobtrusive SaaS

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SaaS Trends

modular SaaS wave of resellers managers as curators consumer SaaS

Links

SaaS topic on Quora Saastr blog by Jason Lemkin BoS conference videos StartHQ )

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