Tom Tunguz

MAY 13, 2015

Before its acquisition, which was consummated at the highest historical multiple of any software company , Ariba was the largest independent procurement software business. It sold software to help businesses buy the things they need in order to operate, everything from pens to planes. The market would correct shortly thereafter.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 27, 2015

The first SaaS startup started as a packaged software company. After selling floppy disks and CD-ROMs of expense software in computer software stores, the company changed models for the first time, and sold software licenses directly to enterprises. The company went public on this model in 1998.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

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. Founded: 2001. Intel Capital invests in AI, autonomous tech, software and security and IoT, among other sectors. Size of fund: $305.8M.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

In 2006, founded iOSXpert — now the largest partner of the Mac-based CRM and project management software Daylite. We are more or less a business consulting company as a software consulting company that as there are many outside, but we are specialized in Apple users, helping Apple users. They were creating ERP software for Mac users.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

In 2001, Salesforce spent $35.6M In the cases of services-dependent software, companies may have to ramp payroll before being able to recognize income, thus pushing the OER higher. What percentage of revenue should be spent on payroll? on payroll and generated $5.4M in revenue. NetSuite spent $38M on payroll generated $17M in 2004.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

Many software survivors of the dot-com crash pursued a more conservative strategy and were rewarded for their prudence. An example of a relatively extreme case, from 2001 to 2007, Concur grew between 0% and 35% each year. It took the company nearly five years to double revenue from $35.7M in 2000 to $71.8M

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2015

The chart above shows the cumulative dollars raised across a basket of more than 50 enterprise software companies. Despite the fact that SaaS companies are building some of the most efficient business models ever , newer software companies are raising more capital. Software companies founded in 1998-2001 raised $50M before IPO.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Trailblazing through their home continent, venturing successfully onto the world stage or changing from on-premise software to SaaS, these companies could have a postal code in any SaaS hotspot in the world. ContaAzul was acquired by the collaborative software platform Wabbi Software S.A. Founded : 2001. Founded : 2011.

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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. But make no mistake; software investments are the real story. VCs have doubled their allocations to software compared to five years ago.

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Software Platform Consulting

AUGUST 5, 2019

If you had told me in 2001 that the procure-to-pay suite market would have generated $20 billion in market cap again, I would have told you were crazy. The post Gartner 2019 Magic Quadrant for Procure-to-Pay Suites (with Valuations) appeared first on Software Platform Consulting.

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Nicer than their 2001 predecessors, for sure, but still a layer between my content and the bare iron of delivered HTML. Content is stored in a git repo, GitHub in my case, and gets me all the benefits of software-engineering-grade version control. Ghost and Squarespace are … CMSs.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

5-10 years ago, branding didn’t matter that much in software – we lived in simpler times with fewer competing product offerings. Suddenly you find yourself creating your CV in the Canva software without realising it. He’d been in SaaS since 2001 and had worked in every role from salesperson, leader, founder, and CEO.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 25, 2021

When it comes to marketing, sales, and CRM software, HubSpot has become one of the top players. For the sake of this post, let’s focus on its marketing software solutions. Your typical free software won’t offer you much but UberSuggest isn’t your typical free software.

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Valuize Consulting

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

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. How do you recommend that software leaders make the most of their customer data and technology? How did you get started in Customer Success?

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Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

C ustomer success processes in B2B software businesses today are often inefficient, siloed and lacking scalability. Eventually, the movement made its way to the tech industry with 2001’s agile software development framework heavily inspired by lean principles and books like The Lean Startup published in 2011 by Eric Reis.

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BetterCloud

MARCH 23, 2018

All sorts of companies are finding mobile internet technology surprisingly useful,” mused the Economist in 2001. History is repeating itself—except this time around, we’re rushing headlong into Software as a Service (SaaS) applications. Lost a Blackberry? The exact same thing is happening with SaaS today.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 16, 2020

Those who went through the 2001 and 2008 economic downturns emerged with valuable lessons on navigating a crisis—not to mention a heck of a lot of resilience. Did that period influence how you manage a software company? And we introduced a subscription business model. Both of these ideas are visible at Adobe today.

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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. Consider the case of an online advertising and software company serving car dealers.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2019

Dave Kellogg: Well, Harry, I’ve been doing enterprise software for over 25 years. I also sit on several boards, and I sit on boards for various enterprise software companies. If a software company owned by a PE firm buys you, the economics of that look much more like a strategic acquisition than the classical EBITDA squeeze.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

Rati: I’m thinking that that mix of understanding the technology and the software side of things, and the business with product, this range of experience, I’m imagining, really informed your decision to found Productboard. ” So that’s the benefit of having one foot in each of the worlds.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I think I was 12 when I put together the first website for my parents’ company back in 2001,” Gette said. As a software company, you have to have the best people because the code that you write has to have good foundations. All through high school, I did it as a job during the summer, and that eventually turned into a career,” he said.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. offers an applied customer-centric AI enterprise software that helps businesses make customer interactions more natural and valuable. Founded: 2001. Atlatl Software.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

It has more than 100 investments since its founding in 2001. Founded: 2001. SaaS Investments: Consilium Software, HRBoss, and others. Its focus is on mobile and software, with an accent on collaborating with entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas. Size of fund: $700M. Founded: 1990. Size of fund: $1.4B. Singtel Innov8.

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Stax

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

As businesses increasingly go online, software vendors looking to offer integrated payment processing must consider incorporating payment tokenization as one of their data security features. TrustCommerce is attributed to having first developed data tokenization to protect card data in 2001.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

He founded four companies: Skok Systems, Corporate Software Europe, Watermark Software, and SilverStream Software and did one turnaround with Xionics. In 2001 David joined Matrix Partners, who had backed his last two startups, as a General Partner. Three of the companies he founded went public and one was acquired.

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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. Well, let me tell you, build software is really hard. Well in 2002, I know it was a long time ago. But in 2002 there were only two types of startups in existence. So these decisions can have a big impact. ” Right? I want results.”

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. offers an applied customer-centric AI enterprise software that helps businesses make customer interactions more natural and valuable. Founded: 2001. Atlatl Software.

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Chaotic Flow

OCTOBER 13, 2015

IMHO, adopting and mastering agile software development, agile marketing and pretty much agile everything should be a priority of every SaaS business. The roots of agile software development and agile marketing lie in agile manufacturing , lean manufacturing and total quality methodologies. A Little Agile History.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

Aaron : Well, also, as someone who went through this, especially like the 2000, 2001 times. And some folks would come back and say, “I want to renegotiate because the world has ended,” but enterprise software is budgeted. One is that we were budgeted, right? In bigger companies, we were budgeted.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Payment Depot is an example of an ISO, and while they usually have a more strict acceptance policy, they offer lower rates and user-friendly software compared to a direct processor. Flagship Merchant Services cut the tape in 2001 and was acquired by iPayment in 2012. Pros: Limited fees Fees based on volume Free online store software.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Mailchimp is a powerful product that hasn’t lost its simple feel, though it has grown considerably since it first hit the market in 2001. It’s sad to think, but some companies spend thousands of dollars a month on ultra-powerful marketing automation software that they don’t really need. Plus, that stuff can be really hard to use.

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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. Modern software is obsessed with tools. This night in 1968 was the birth of the modern software era. Ultimately, tools are a part of who we are and how we conceive of ourselves.

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Crafty CTO

APRIL 12, 2020

Bigger – it speaks to every aspect of the software development process. Shape Up is the Basecamp team’s distillation of how they themselves develop software, superbly written and illustrated, freely contributed to the world as an online and downloadable e-book. Big as in a 143 page PDF. ” So what is Shape Up?

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2018

I was at an agency for a while and then moved to the Bay Area in 2001. I learned about how hardware and software work together. Kate: I graduated with a graphic design degree in the late ’90s before there was anything like “user experience” and really got my start in graphic design, advertising, branding, and that kind of stuff.

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SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

But two other software engineers, building [inaudible 00:04:24] that was kind of a time and expense software system. The worst was right after we started BigMachines in 2000, we had a massive bust in 2001. And I always like to say too bad it wasn’t Larry and Sergey who were starting Uber at the time.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 13, 2020

So UiPath is a robotic process automation company software. It’s a terrible name for software – we didn’t coin it. And so what we do is use our software to connect older tech stacks to newer tech stacks, to get the work done without human intervention. Jay McGrath: Sure. We improve customer experience.

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