SaaSOptics

MAY 5, 2022

I was there when the bubble burst in 2001, the meltdown of 2008, and I’ve seen our industry rise again as SaaS businesses have attracted incredible amounts of capital over the past 10 years. How the magic happens. I’ve spent 20+ years in tech–all of it in the Internet sector. What lies ahead. Companies like Maxio don’t just happen.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 18, 2015

As the chart above shows, both companies scaled revenue rapidly, reaching $100M in revenue 7 years after founding. Both of these business weathered the dot com crash in 2001 and the financial meltdown in 2008. Both companies eventually offered talent acquisition, performance management, and learning tools for human resources teams.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 22, 2014

If this pace of fund raising continues, 2014 would mark the biggest year for VCs since 2001, when the industry raised about $38B. This shift to software has been at the expense of Infrastructure investments which saw their heyday in the 2000 era when the nervous system of the internet was built and scaled.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Founded : 2001. The integrated platform enables easy scaling and the complete set of tools for launching an online training center. from Start-Up Chile and Startupbootcamp Scale Digital Health Miami. These are only some of the exciting SaaS companies growing and scaling in Latin America. CEO : André Baldini. Hi Platform.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Second, the tech industry’s structure lends itself to economies of scale require small companies to operate at a significant disadvantage. The fraction of small IPOs with negative EBITDA has doubled to nearly 90% in about 30 years. Small IPOs. . Large IPOs. . Number. % < 0. Number. % < 0. Once public, profits don’t improve.

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Valuize Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

He has worked with world-leading technology companies to refine, optimize, and scale systems and processes while driving optimal value. I started my career working as a Digital Media Specialist at a start-up called Vision Critical, but my first full-time job was way back in 2001 as a Support Technician at Autodesk.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

Here is what he writes: Kieran Flanagan , VP of marketing at HubSpot, shared some interesting insights on approaching new ideas for scaling up your business. The Gold: these are very rare and hard to achieve at the scale-up stage, so you’ll mostly encounter them with startups. CV templates by Canva. Black Swan test by Kazi.

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Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

These customer success processes are often inefficient, haven’t been scaled to engage the full customer base and are hard to measure. Lean customer success is a continuous improvement methodology focused on engineering customer success processes to maximize their impact, efficiency and scale.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

“I saw how companies are relying on early insights of the founders, often discovered by sheer luck, and they’re failing to scale beyond that. They don’t have the discipline, they don’t have the framework to innovate and find new ideas that would scale. So it comes back to empathy.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 25, 2021

For this reason, you can get started with MailChimp early using the tool for free as you get your feet wet with email marketing and then move to a paid plan as you scale. Overall, UberSuggest is an amazing free keyword research tool that is a great choice for beginners and has enough value as a paid tool for those who are scaling as well.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

And to do this, you’ve got to scale it through your managers. As a startup, we covered a lot of processes together really quickly out of necessity and we haven’t really had time or the wherewithal to go back to them and harden them for scaling. Jason Lemkin: You were nominally founded in 2001, right? You had to pay.

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OPEXEngine

AUGUST 9, 2022

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Small successes can be scaled up quickly. Indeed, recessions catch many companies by surprise, forcing draconian measures just to survive.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

In 2001, you could raise money pretty easily at pretty high valuations, and in 2002 there were two types of companies: those who had raised large amounts of money at crazy valuations in 2001, and dead, right? The second rule I’ve taken from boom and bust is don’t get greedy, you know? And there was nothing in between.

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2019

Those that had raised a large amount of money at a ridiculous valuation prior to April 2001 or dead. So that’s the one scale is saying, “Big distraction, we can’t do this every year. Well in 2002, I know it was a long time ago. But in 2002 there were only two types of startups in existence. ” Right?

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

To do so, Uberflip offers them the ability to create, manage, personalize and optimize content experiences at scale. Founded: 2001. Comscore combines intelligence from various media sources coupled with vast demographic information to accurately quantify consumers’ behavior at a massive scale. . Founded: 2001.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 18, 2021

“First developed in 2001 by Fred Reichheld, NPS quickly became a key metric in all sorts of industries, an agreed measure of customer loyalty” First developed in 2001 by management consultant Fred Reichheld, NPS quickly became a key metric in all sorts of industries, an agreed measure of customer loyalty.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

In 2001 David joined Matrix Partners, who had backed his last two startups, as a General Partner. What changes as a SaaS business scales? In 2001 David joined Matrix Partners, who had backed his last two startups, as a General Partner. How must the mindset of the founder switch from extreme frugality to hyper-growth scaling?

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

In May 2019 we are landing in Hong Kong to help the local ecosystem (as well as those looking to expand into it) get a fast track to growth and scale. It has more than 100 investments since its founding in 2001. Founded: 2001. Join us by grabbing a ticket for SaaStock Asia before March 5th, when early bird rates expire.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron : Well, also, as someone who went through this, especially like the 2000, 2001 times. So on a scale of one to 10, what type of feedback do you want? The CEO says SaaStr scale is really important that everyone drops everything, and it’s not that important. Anthony : And I said 11. Jason : But I don’t know.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

To do so, Uberflip offers them the ability to create, manage, personalize and optimize content experiences at scale. Founded: 2001. Comscore combines intelligence from various media sources coupled with vast demographic information to accurately quantify consumers’ behavior at a massive scale. . Founded: 2001.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2018

I hosted Kate and Vanessa on the podcast, where we talked about everything from scaling design teams to how to earn a seat at the decision-making table. I was at an agency for a while and then moved to the Bay Area in 2001. Are we thinking about scaling the team and do we have them working correctly in the organization?”

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SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

As for Godard, he founded his first business, BigMachines, in 2000, a business he scaled to $50m in revenue and over 300 people up until it’s acquisition to Oracle 11 years later for $400m. Where does Godard believe that things really start to break down in the scaling of an organisation? I love that frugal scaling.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 11, 2020

A good email autoresponder gives you the ability to connect with customers, at scale, without overwhelming them. These products eliminate many of the tedious and repetitive tasks that are so essential to building relationships at scale. It only takes a few mistimed or off-target emails before your audience starts to tune them out.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 13, 2019

This was probably best illustrated in what’s been called the single most famous edit in the history of cinema, in 2001: A Space Odyssey. And of course your team changes over time – you might be scaling like crazy, so how do you make sure you haven’t already outgrown your tools and processes? Consider kaizen.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I think every one of us that had lived through 2001 and 2002 or 2000, 2001, and then again, lived through ’08, ’09, we immediately pulled out our playbooks and we’re like, “Here it is, this is the downturn we’ve been waiting for.” Sunil Dhaliwal: What have I seen? Everything just stopped.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

The 6sense account engagement platform uncovers and analyzes buyer intent at scale, identifying prospects who are in market for your solution and providing salespeople like you with the insight to create highly relevant messaging, generate more opportunities, increase deal size, and get into opportunities before your confrontation.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. Today’s sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2020

Outreach supports sales reps by enabling them to humanize communications at scale. Jay McGrath: There’s a Fortune Magazine article about Joe Torre from 2000 or 2001. You can’t scale a business that way. They support sales reps by enabling them to humanize communications at scale, as you know.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2020

To date Dimitri has raised over $145M for BigID from some of the best in the world of enterprise including Boldstart, Scale Venture Partners, Bessemer, Salesforce Ventures and Tiger Global who just a couple of weeks ago, led their latest $50M Series C. It was 2001. This episode is sponsored by Brex.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

And so that is making the tough decisions to cut people that is making the tough decisions to scale down from that fancy office that you had before to a smaller office or even no office. Ann: Yeah, I just…I go to those comments and just say… I was in the venture industry back in 2001. And it’s exactly what you need.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

They likely will have their processes and expertise optimized for analyzing data at scale. Here’s what makes NP Digital one of the best analytic companies in 2020: Founder expertise – Neil Patel is a rockstar in the digital marketing world, having started out in the space in 2001 as a teenager.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

The company scaled from a hundred people to 800, last I know, but it changes every day. Meltwater started in 2001, as you heard and grew consistently over time. Growth for us is about massive scaling and hiring. Luciana: Let’s talk a little bit about some of the more boring part of scaling. Bobby Patrick: Right.

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