SAP

The Startup SaaS Bundle: One Login Instead of 34

Elaine's biggest idea: the average Series A company runs 34 separate SaaS apps. Build an out-of-the-box bundle covering the core 60% of functionality for early companies — payroll, CRM, HR, accounting — as modules under one login, captured before they buy anything.

“the idea here is if you look at the average Series A company they're using, I think the stat is there's 34 different SaaS applications. And what happened was we used to have these monoliths, which are SAP and Oracle, and I used to joke like, bring back SAP. And I don't really mean that, but what I mean is I am so sick of now having to deal with 34 vendors, 34 UIs, 34 logins and passwords, you know, 34 different bills and renewal cycles and all that kind of stuff.”

Steal thisCatch startups when they have nothing and sell them a bundled 60%-functionality version of the core 8 apps, then add modules as they grow.