Sparktoro

DECEMBER 16, 2022

I joined Twitter in June, 2007. It turned out to be a very smart move; over the next decade, that network had a massive impact on my professional success. Some of that is because I did interesting or valuable things, but a lot of it was a combination of timing and serendipity. There are plenty of articles about why you…

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SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2022

While hardly the only vendor doing automated product insights, UserTesting has been doing it for quite a while (founded way back in 2007) and doing it well, with over 2,100 customers including many tech leaders. Stuck with per-seat pricing from 2007-2020, but added flex pricing in Q4′ 2020 — and quickly went to 20% of revenue.

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IT World

MAY 24, 2023

Launched in 2003, OneNote was added to the Microsoft Office suite (most versions of which are now called Microsoft 365) in 2007. There are two leading contenders for the crown: Microsoft’s OneNote and the independent Evernote. OneNote is now also bundled with Windows 10 and 11 and offered for free as a standalone product.

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TurnKey Labs

JANUARY 8, 2024

Perhaps on June 29, 2007, when the first iPhone was introduced, few people in the world realized what a huge billion-dollar industry mobile apps were turning into. Nowadays, there is no doubt that mobile app development is a thriving industry. Even when I earned my first $100 from selling primitive applications for the Nokia Ovi […]

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 8, 2020

in first angel round in 2007. First product doesn’t work, no revenue for 3 years. 2013: first investment. 200m from Silver Lake. 2016: IPO at $1.15B market cap. 2020: Worth $7B today. Zendesk : Founded 2006. Raised $500,000 (!) IPO in 2014 at $1B. Worth $2B by 2017. Crossed $1B in ARR in 2020. Today worth $16B.

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The iPhone, then and now Image by IDG / Apple The iPhone has come a long way since its arrival in 2007. First iPhone Image by IDG / Apple To read this article in full, please click here

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 11, 2020

That grew to about $5B per quarter in 2007 and early 2008. So this was a bit of a trip down memory lane. Let’s look at the data. In 2006, VCs invested about $3.5B per quarter in seed, A, B, and C rounds. Then the investing velocity fell by half to $2.9B, $2.7B, and $2.3B in the quarters following the crash.

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SaaStr

APRIL 26, 2022

Zscaler was founded in 2007, and took a decade to cross $100m in revenues — as it does for most of us, even the best of us. And pulling away from the rest. #5. 10 Years to $100m in Revenues. Then Just 5 More To $1B in ARR. Ok this is an epic example of the compounding nature of SaaS. But then boom! That acceleration kicked in.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Down from 89% in 2007, the.com designation adorns the addresses of 64% of startups founded in 2020. In fact, it has changed significantly as the chart above shows. Click to enlarge the image. Dotcoms dwarf other domain choices in demand but their dominance has diminished as the days pass.

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TurnKey Labs

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Perhaps on June 29, 2007, when the first iPhone was introduced, few people in the world realized what a huge billion-dollar industry mobile apps were turning into. Nowadays, there is no doubt that mobile app development is a thriving industry. Even when I earned my first $100 from selling primitive applications for the Nokia Ovi […]

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Mobile Development 57

SaaStr

MAY 12, 2019

Mailchimp is perhaps the most interesting one to me because they took their time until 2007 to go all-in. Hootsuite was also a web-agency spin-off. Slack was an internal tool built when the company was a gaming company. It took off. But once they did, growth accelerated. Dramatically. View original question on quora.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 5, 2023

May Habib started her career in banking at Lehman Brothers in 2007, a very interesting time to be in the frontlines of that world. She then worked at a sovereign wealth fund and started her entrepreneurial journey in software localization. May started Writer in 2020.

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Chargebee

MAY 2, 2023

In 2007, mathematical statistician and former Wall Street trader Nassim Nicholas Taleb argued that inflexibility, even in the most meticulously built systems, ultimately makes them fragile. Or, as my gym trainer says – the more you bulk, the harder dancing gets. ” The objective […]

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IT World

JANUARY 24, 2023

28, 2007 first convention on data protection. Apple this year is marking Data Privacy Week by working to educate iPhone users about the privacy protection tools they already have in hand, a move that has implications across any business that wants to maintain privacy. To read this article in full, please click here

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

No real Mini-Brand until early 2007. Not in a day, but in time. And things will being to get scaleable from there. You can see our path there above from Google Trends. Launch on January 1, 2006. A painful gap as a founder, when every day, you’re looking to make progress. Brands work, we all know that.

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IT World

DECEMBER 8, 2021

That's 34% more empty offices than the nation saw during the Great Recession of 2007-2010, according to Cushman & Wakefield, a global commercial real estate broker. Since COVID-19 was officially classified a global pandemic in March 2020, the US has shed 138.4 million square feet (MSF) of office space.

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Affected editions of Office included Office 2007, which was already out of all support; Office 2010, which was to exit support on that same Oct. Last year, Microsoft dropped support for older versions of Office connecting to its online services, such as Exchange Online, as of Oct.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

2007: Salesforce integration. We won a lot of those deals. For almost 3 years we were alone with this 10x feature. It was surprisingly hard to do well, given all the exceptions and corner cases involved. We launched in the first AppExchange class in late 2006 with the first true, deep Salesforce integration.

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IT World

MAY 19, 2022

The company began in 2007. People associate Airbnb with vacation travel. But Airbnb was founded as a service for business travelers. Then called AirBed & Breakfast, its founders' business model was simple: Buy three air mattresses, and build a website at airbedandbreakfast.com.

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IT World

MARCH 10, 2022

Global mergers and acquisitions (M&As) last year surpassed pre-pandemic levels and nearly matched the previous record years of 2007 and 2015, according to professional services firm KPMG. This year, they're poised to climb higher.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The more I got exposed to the details behind the Instacart business, the more it reminded me of OpenTable (where I had been CEO from 2007-2011). Focusing on the former was key to our investment decision. Both needed to convince businesses to join the platform with the promise that they would drive incremental revenue.

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IT World

DECEMBER 16, 2022

One of the most seemingly innovative products so far this century is Apple’s iPhone, which arrived in 2007. Let’s think about the yin and yang of innovation vs. execution, and why execution and tolerance for failure are critical to real innovation. Winning the smartphone world.

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Dubb

AUGUST 4, 2022

As Jason Duncan earned his master’s in education in 2007, he fell in love with teaching and pursued it as a career. Unfortunately, due to the Great Recession, he soon found himself unemployed. Despite not having a solid entrepreneurial vision, he started a business. Jason became an “accidental” entrepreneur, compelled by the sheer need.

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Business Education Social Media Consulting 59

Zuora

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

By Sergio Claudio, VP, Brand Experience When Zuora was founded in 2007, we had a vision that the world was […]. The post From subscription management to monetization: Evolving our brand alongside our transformation appeared first on Zuora.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Then in 2007, when it hit 10,000 users, the two decided to commit full-time”: The New Atlanta Billionaires Behind An Unlikely Tech Unicorn. This story is a good reminder that bootstrapping has its rewards.

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IT World

JANUARY 10, 2023

Things have changed a lot since Apple introduced iPhone in January 2007. When he laughed at the arrival of the first iPhone , then-Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer made it clear he thought Apple had no chance of success. The product that changed everything. At the time, Apple was an iPod company that made also-ran, underpowered PowerPC Macs, too.

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Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Pretty crazy to think about - growth adjusted multiples are near pre-covid all time highs (excluding 2020-2021 period) even though rates are as high as they’ve been since 2007 (and double what they were on average from 2010-2020). So what’s going on?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Product-market fit is “ the only thing that matters ” early on in the startup journey, wrote Marc Andreessen in June 2007. Conventionally, product-market fit comes down to early signals that the market has voted your product as the best …

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Founded in 2007, Dropbox epitomizes the freemium go-to-market. Dropbox has grown from 0 to 500 million users over that time period. 2% of those users convert to paid and pay an average of $9.33 90% of revenue originates through self serve channels - an astounding figure for company that generated more than $1B in revenue last year.

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SaaS Metrics

APRIL 5, 2022

It’s a relatively new concept that began in Japan around 2007 before making its appearance in the US in 2013. Escape room games are an actual-time adventure game which takes place inside one of our game rooms themed. If you’re new to the best escape rooms in NWI, this article is perfect. The post WHAT is an Escape Room?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 29, 2019

it wasn’t until later on in 2007 that we had enough revenue to create a large enough group of customers to go on a 10 Year Journey with. We launched on January 1, 2006 on TechCrunch , and while we closed some good names that first year (Dell, BT, Qualcomm, GE, Comcast, etc.),

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The Angel VC

MAY 4, 2018

The mighty king of Freemium Like Zendesk, Yammer, and a few other SaaS companies that were all founded around 2007-2008, Dropbox was one of the early champions of the "consumerization of the enterprise" movement. I’ll be sharing a few specific observations from the S1 review, but let’s start with some more general thoughts about the company.

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IT World

JUNE 17, 2020

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group – which will soon be rebranded as Natwest Group under new CEO Alison Rose – has been on a big technology modernization drive since its government bailout after the 2007 banking crisis.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In 2007, it became one of the first markets in the world to issue contactless (tap-to-pay) cards. (A To do this, it played to its structural strengths: The UK was an early adopter of fintech infrastructure. The UK has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. A full 8 years earlier than the U.S.)

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OPEXEngine

MAY 10, 2022

We have been asked quite a bit lately how companies navigated the Great Recession of 2007-2009 and what companies can do today to protect against a downturn. Boards are now requesting contingency budget plans if there’s a recession. . Navigating the Great Recession. Source: OPEXEngine 2022.

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

times more on customer acquisition than annual revenues, and in 2007 it spent nearly 18 times more than annual revenues. With only $455,000 in revenues in 2007, Workday funded a direct sales force and a professional marketing effort costing more than $8 million. In 2008, it spent 2.5

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SaaStr

AUGUST 24, 2019

2007: Salesforce integration. We won a lot of those deals. For almost 3 years we were alone with this 10x feature. It was surprisingly hard to do well, given all the exceptions and corner cases involved. We launched in the first AppExchange class in late 2006 with the first true, deep Salesforce integration.

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