{"id":269,"date":"2018-11-15T19:30:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-15T14:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saasworthy.com\/blog\/saas-weekly-roundup-4\/"},"modified":"2020-04-09T13:40:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T08:10:48","slug":"saas-weekly-roundup-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.saasworthy.com\/blog\/saas-weekly-roundup-4","title":{"rendered":"SaaS Weekly Roundup #4"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:28px;\">SaaS Articles<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:28px;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.saasworthy.com\/saasweeklyroundup_0_blog_editor_1542290441_l7ghw.jpeg\" style=\"width:400px;height:209px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;border:0px solid black;\" width=\"400\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" height=\"209\" border=\"0\"><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:20px;\"><strong>Qualtrics quits IPO plans to conduct VC&#8217;s biggest SaaS sale in history<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>SAP has agreed to purchase Qualtrics for $8 billion in cash, pre-empting the enterprise software company&#8217;s planned public offering. The $8 billion price tag makes the deal the biggest VC-backed SaaS acquisition in history.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pitchbook.com\/news\/articles\/qualtrics-quits-ipo-plans-to-conduct-vcs-biggest-saas-sale-in-history?utm_source=saasworthy.com&amp;utm_medium=blog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.saasworthy.com\/saasweeklyroundup_0_blog_editor_1542290441_wrvkq.jpeg\" style=\"width:300px;height:300px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;border:0px solid black;\" width=\"300\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:20px;\">Should I use in-house or SaaS tools to develop APIs?<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nAPI is an interface that allows external programs to use services of an application but still shields the underlying application from outside users. It&#8217;s perfectly viable to approach API development using either in-house or SaaS-provided tooling, but each path has its place.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/searchmicroservices.techtarget.com\/answer\/Should-I-use-in-house-or-SaaS-tools-to-develop-APIs?utm_source=saasworthy.com&amp;utm_medium=blog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.saasworthy.com\/saasweeklyroundup_0_blog_editor_1542290441_xwehp.jpeg\" style=\"width:400px;height:200px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;border:0px solid black;\" width=\"400\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" height=\"200\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:20px;\"><strong>Why bootstrapping your SaaS business is a great idea<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>India is a fertile ground for SaaS startups these days and VC Funding in 2017 was around $17.6 billion, which is an all-time high. Even though it looks like VC funding is the only way to Success, Bootstrapping is&nbsp;also a viable alternative which worked for the success of many companies like Zoho, Wingify, etc.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/yourstory.com\/2018\/11\/bootstrapping-saas-business-great-idea\/?utm_source=saasworthy.com&amp;utm_medium=blog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:28px;\">SaaS Stories<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reilly Chase - Founder of HostiFi\" src=\"https:\/\/images.saasworthy.com\/saasweeklyroundup_0_blog_editor_1542290441_m6acj.jpeg\" style=\"width:300px;height:300px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;border:0px solid black;\" width=\"300\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:20px;\">Watch me build my second SaaS business, GhostiFi &#8211; Reilly Chase<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reilly Chase is&nbsp;the Founder of successful SaaS startup&nbsp;HostiFi. He shares his ideas about how he is developing his&nbsp;second SaaS business&nbsp;<strong>GhostiFi<\/strong>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@reillychase\/watch-me-build-my-second-saas-business-648160533021?utm_source=saasworthy.com&amp;utm_medium=blog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/images.saasworthy.com\/saasweeklyroundup_0_blog_editor_1542290441_ijvzd.png\" style=\"width:300px;height:300px;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;border:0px solid black;\" width=\"300\" vspace=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" height=\"300\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:20px;\"><strong>GhostiFi \u2014 The complete MVP database design and pseudocode<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Reilly Chase continues to share more details about his new product <strong>GhostiFi. <\/strong>Here, he explains most of the database design and technical stuff behind developing GhostiFi.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@reillychase\/the-complete-database-design-and-pseudocode-for-ghostifis-mvp-ec37b6834113?utm_source=saasworthy.com&amp;utm_medium=blog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:28px;\">SaaS Tips<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/searcherp.techtarget.com\/feature\/The-8-features-all-enterprise-SaaS-applications-must-have?utm_source=saasworthy.com&amp;utm_medium=blog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;\">The 8 features all enterprise SaaS applications must have<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/freshdesk.com\/customer-support\/reduce-customer-support-cost-blog\/?utm_source=saasworthy.com&amp;utm_medium=blog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-size:20px;\">4 Tools to Reduce Cost for SaaS Customer Support<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey folks! 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