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From 0 to $500 Million ARR in 6 years: Learnings from Innovating in Underserved Markets with Samsara CPO Kiren Sekar (Pod 549 + Video)

SaaStr

One example is from the earliest days of product development. This also encourages employees not on the product team to take ownership in product development. By 2001, when laptops started to surf the web, about 1 million devices existed. Serve them and make their feedback important for guiding your product development.

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From $800k to $274M in 4 Years - The Story of Ariba

Tom Tunguz

After the company successfully completed its IPO, the company would increase its annual sales and marketing budget by 6X year-over-year to $230M and $298M in 2000 and 2001, at precisely the wrong time. In a typical year, the company invested about 20 to 30% of their revenue in research and development.

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18 investors fueling Latin America’s SaaS superstars

SaaStock

Starting from 2001 with the establishment of DGF Investimentos, there has been a steady addition to the roster of funds, with key periods where a few were started around the same time. The VC firm focuses on ensuring entrepreneurs the right conditions for developing a winning business. Founded: 2001. Founded: 2017. Stage: Seed.

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Is Now a Good Time to Start a Company?

Tom Tunguz

The fundraising markets have infused more cash into startups in 2015 than in any year since 2001. The best time to start a company is when you have a unique perpective on a market, you have developed a strong network of people who can form your founding team, and you can convince a few of these friends that the idea is worth pursuing.

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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

Our former Director of Content and Community spoke to Alf about managing a happy team, how he’s grown his company without external funding, the history of developing in the Mac ecosystem, and running a consulting and software business. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. And I love that very much.

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Are Tech IPOs Dying?

Tom Tunguz

The chart above compares the total number of MegaRounds, those VC investments of $50M or more, from 2001 through 2013. The rise of MegaRounds as a new financing tool for founders is a terrific development for founders. Note, I’m excluding Facebook’s IPO in 2012 as an outlier and I’ve adjusted for inflation.

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Profitability and the IPO Market

Tom Tunguz

The authors of the paper speculate economies of scale are to play - larger companies operate more efficient sales channels, close higher value customers and leverage distribution strength to develop near monopolies. The fraction of small IPOs with negative EBITDA has doubled to nearly 90% in about 30 years. Small IPOs. . Large IPOs. .

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