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.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

I wrote a post on January 10, 2016 called The Downward Pressure of Public Markets on Startup Valuations that depicted the slow decline of SaaS multiples in the public markets. If you were waiting for a substantial pricing harbinger for a weaker startup fundraising market ahead, this is probably it. What a difference a month makes.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2015

Figuring out how much capital your startup may need to raise will inform lots of different strategic decisions. A startup’s growth rate is often highly correlated with the amount of capital it can invest in sales and marketing. Software companies founded in 1998-2001 raised $50M before IPO. In 2014, there were 38.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 14, 2014

And as DeCambre points out, so far through 2014, the ten largest startup financings have yielded about twice as much capital as the ten largest IPOs. To paraphrase Mark’s question, can startups raise just as much capital in the private markets as in the public market, without the hassle of public market regulation?

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

from 500 Startups, Redpoint eventures, and others. Founded : 2001. The Mexico-based SaaS startup offers simple cloud-based software for handling employee payments, benefits, and data. Pipefy was the only Brazilian startup selected for Batch 14 at 500 Startups in Silicon Valley. CEO : Tiago Dalvi. Founded : 2015.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2014

Google had grown from $220k in revenue in 19aw99, to $19M in 2000, to $86M in 2001, to $347M in 2002, to $961M in 2003, and would record $3.2B More importantly, I hope more founders and leaders of startups will post their values publicly and use them to inspire their employees to build great, enduring and unconventional companies.

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Kellblog

MAY 8, 2019

If you’re a CEO or founder of a startup and don’t understand the prior sentence, you need to. In my opinion, too many startups press their luck, trying to delay financing in favor of hitting a few more consecutive quarters to limit dilution. to 1.75x to 2.0x over three years, and includes redemption rights [3].

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Startups may be managed differently. 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. In the last 20 years, 80% of small cap companies hadn’t generated a profit in the first 3 years after IPO.

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SaaStock

MARCH 29, 2019

The Gold: these are very rare and hard to achieve at the scale-up stage, so you’ll mostly encounter them with startups. John has 22 years of experience in the world of startups. He’d been in SaaS since 2001 and had worked in every role from salesperson, leader, founder, and CEO.

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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 did you get started in Customer Success? Q: What excites you about working in the Customer Success domain? The sooner, the better!

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 14, 2021

I got an MBA and tried several startups – some failures under my belt there – and then ended up at a company in the business intelligence space called GoodData. As I mentioned, I was a PM at a fast-growing San Francisco startup and I grew to be VP product, so I’d seen the pain points and the struggles of being an individual PM.

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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? So, as a startup operator I’m very sensitive to running out of cash. So many startups don’t.

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2019

And if you work for a CEO, whether you’re on the e-staff or really any position in a startup, I’m hoping that by understand how the CEO thinks and how the CEO looks at certain issues that you’ll be better able to add value and it will help your career. Startups are like sharks. ” Send me an email. ” Right?

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Valuize Consulting

JUNE 10, 2020

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. Applying lean to the design of customer success processes is an evolution that has precedent.

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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. startup ecosystem was very early, and there were not that many accelerators, so we were part of the first class. Angeli was working for the sister company of that startup. What was the job? What did you do next?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

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? Whether we start in 2007, 2009, 2001, it’s a slow roll to Act Two, right?

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Notable mentions that have helped the Asian SaaS space are 500 Startups, Y Combinator, Sequoia, Matrix Partners, Eight Roads Ventures and Intel Capital. It has more than 100 investments since its founding in 2001. Founded: 2001. SAIF is also one of the biggest funds, investing in Hong Kong, China and India. Size of fund: $700M.

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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. How does Mark view the amount B2B startups are raising today? How should early-stage startups approach the topic of pricing? Where does Steve see most startups go wrong when it comes to messaging? Episode No.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And then I’ve watched, since she made this comment to me about 13 months ago, then I’ve watched with some startups I’ve worked with, where the first marketing hire comes in, and I asked them what their top five priorities are, and then I asked the CEO. Jason : And I thought about that a lot.

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SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

Godard Abel: Well G2 in some ways, is the fourth or fifth startup I’ve helped to build, and I really got going now about 20 years ago. So I helped them build that, and we sold to a bigger startup, Niku, which went public. The worst was right after we started BigMachines in 2000, we had a massive bust in 2001.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2018

where they help a robust portfolio of startups find their way. I was at an agency for a while and then moved to the Bay Area in 2001. I did a little bit of consulting along the way and was also at startup called Wealthfront for a while. Two decades later, these two women are blazing trails in design leadership. Scaling design.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Flagship Merchant Services cut the tape in 2001 and was acquired by iPayment in 2012. It’s made specifically for ecommerce and internet business, and tons of startups and Fortune 500 companies trust Stripe. Pros: Dedicated account manager Free account setup Free card terminal (with fees). Cons: Complicated setup May require developers.

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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. MailerLite is used by more than one million companies, startups, and freelancers because it is an intuitive, budget-friendly platform that delivers results.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 30, 2020

We have Jonny and Jane startups all the way up to Fortune 50 Companies on ProfitWell—and we obviously took out a bunch of the outliers. It’s hard to make predictions, but it allows you to understand exactly what’s going on in real time, so you can make these decisions.”. Abby : Is the index useful for companies of all sizes?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

And back then at that time, this was around 2000, 2001, everyone was freaking out about the millennium bug, if you remember that, I’m sure you do. And so there weren’t a lot of thriving startups around to go join. They’ll never be able to handle the levels of ambiguity that we need in a startup world.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It’s terrifying when I say we started at the end of 2001, which is now a very, very long time ago. We worked with organizations of all descriptions from the earliest startups to multinational foundations and giant corporations. Erika: We’ve been running Mule Design for pretty much the entire 21st century.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 24, 2020

301: Dimitri Sirota is the Founder & CEO @ BigID, the startup that provides advanced data discovery and intelligence for the data centre and cloud. So tell me, made your way from Ukraine to the flattest place in Canada and then how did you make your way and your initial entrance to the world of startups? It was 2001.

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Kraftblick

JULY 11, 2018

In 2001, this situation got publicized, and American society became aware of the true authorship of the book. Aalok Swamy , who does ghostwriting for several startups, responded to our Facebook survey looking for opinions on the ethics of ghostwriting. “ Some people advocated Feinman, saying that she was basely used by Clinton.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

We basically restarted the company in 2001 to focus on the enterprise sales model, and then we also then opened a second front in the business which was mobile search powered by voice. Is it true that was Tellme later acquired by Microsoft? That sounds like an incredibly successful pivot. Angus Davis: Yeah. It worked out.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Prabhu Ramachandran, Yogendra Babu, Rajavel Subramanian, and Krishnamoorthi Rangasamy in 2017, Facilio Inc is another popular SaaS startup. Kayako is an Indian SaaS company founded in 2001 by Jamie Edwards and Varun Shoor. Facilio Inc. This company uses IoT and machine learning to help businesses run more smoothly.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Brazil’s SaaS landscape is bustling, thanks to the number of innovative startups that entered the horizon in recent years. Founded in: 2001. Unico is a Brazilian startup that specializes in digital identity protection. Here’s the list for you –. CEO: André Baldini. This makes it Brazil’s most popular e-hailing app.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

I did have though, since you’re both starting to riff a bit about areas you’re looking at is, Venture Capital and startups are a long term game where we talked about partnerships that could be seven or 10 years between investors and entrepreneurs and startups that could take that long to kind of reach some sort of outcome.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Founded in: 2001. Workday is a software startup that focuses on assisting businesses in streamlining their management procedures and improving workflow. The platform competes Constant Contact and Klaviyo. Founder(s): Ben Chestnut, Dan Kurzius, Mark Armstrong. Founded in: 2008. Founder (s): Jeff Lawson, John Wolthuis, Evan Cooke.

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The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

While numerous, allegedly well financed, startups drove against the wall, a small group of companies also disappeared from the radar, apparently went into some kind of a stealth mode, but only to come back a few years later going puiblic on the German stock exchange. Take this to heart and communciate with other startups. Never mind.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Keep these things in mind: Similar clients – If an agency mostly works with Fortune 100 clients and you’re a small startup, they probably won’t be a good fit. One of the most objective ways to evaluate a company is to take a look at the clients they’ve worked with – and, most importantly, what results they’ve gotten for them.

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The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

While numerous, allegedly well financed, startups drove against the wall, a small group of companies also disappeared from the radar, apparently went into some kind of a stealth mode, but only to come back a few years later going puiblic on the German stock exchange. Take this to heart and communciate with other startups. Never mind.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

Meltwater started in 2001, as you heard and grew consistently over time. Any fast growing startup in here and you’rer hiring and HR to handle your employee hiring, you could probably have a robot do 88% faster, better for your employee, and not have to hire fast. Unless you just go every day and try to do your best and survive.

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