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Because I had raised a bunch of money for my first startup, BigMachines, in 2000, raised over 20 million dollars, hired up to about 70 people, and then by 2002, realized we were on our way to going bankrupt, and we met deep recession in 2002, weren’t able to sell any customers, and they all thought the internet had been a fad and good thing it was over. And that’s how we were able to then survive from 2002 til about 2007, when the cloud market finally took off. MORE
Continuous delivery and automation platform Electric Cloud is no spring chicken, founded back in 2002. Good day, world. Abby here on Earth Day, so we take today to appreciate Mother Nature, but we don’t stop at that. We practice gratitude and ecofriendliness every dang day. But also, subscription. The Rundown In resources. A B2B Proposal c/o PandaDoc. MORE
Founded : 2002. The Latin American SaaS landscape is hustling and bustling, having seen more IPOs in the last 6 months than the previous 20 years combined. We are excited to be part of its history in the making as we bring SaaStock to Sao Paulo from April 23rd to the 25th. We will gather 300 leading SaaS founders, executives and investors for three days packed with opportunities and rich exchange of knowledge to push the whole ecosystem forward. MORE
Kevin Egan: Between Oracle and Salesforce, I had a couple stops, but I got to Salesforce in 2002. This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Kevin Egan, VP of North American Sales at Slack. Kevin’s sales career has taken him from Oracle, to Dropbox, to Salesforce, and now, to Slack. MORE
This is the illusion of explanatory depth or IOED, which Rozenbilt and Keil described in 2002. Draw an image of a bicycle that depicts how the bicycle works. You might draw something like this bike above. Or this one. Or this one. But as Gianluca Gimini discovered when he asked 50 people over the course of six years to draw a bicycle, most people cannot - despite their great confidence of the contrary. MORE
All the way back in 2002, Jeff Bezos issued a 6-point mandate to engineers at Amazon. In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. What once took millions of dollars and a team of engineers to create, a lone developer could suddenly hack together in half an hour. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS. AWS is now an $11.5B MORE
Well in 2002, I know it was a long time ago. But in 2002 there were only two types of startups in existence. There was no other type of startup in 2002 when the internet bubble burst. Dave Kellogg is the former CEO of Host Analytics and prolific blogger. Join him as he takes you through lessons learned from Host Analytics on the top questions every SaaS CEO wrestles with. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. MORE
In 2002, pushed by new head coach named Sir Dave Brailsford, the team implemented philosophy of continuous incremental improvement. In 76 years, the British cycling team have recorded only one gold medal. And the results were astounding. In the last two Summer Olympics, the British cycling team has won seven of a possible 10 gold medals at each event, a remarkable transformation. But, it wasn’t a 1% improvement on any arbitrary metric. MORE
As an example, there were two kinds of startups in 2002: those that raised large amounts of money at crazy valuations in 2001 and dead. [3] Every so often I post highlights from the quarterly Fenwick & West Venture Capital Survey , as much to share knowledge about the existence of the survey [1] as to share its current-quarter data. This survey is important for two reasons. First, it shows trends in price changes over time across various VC rounds. MORE
In 2002 the “bubble” burst to wipe out most of the Silicon Valley. The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provides practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. In this blueprint, we take a tactical approach on how to build a go to market strategy. This will then help you diversify your revenue, make your business more resilient to economic setbacks and help you plan for growth. 5 Steps To Building Your Go To Market Strategy. Where you can apply this GTM strategy. MORE
From its bootstrapped founding in 2002 all the way to a $5 billion valuation in 2016, Atlassian famously had no sales people. ‘No Listen to this post below. . link]. No sales’ became nearly as synonymous with Atlassian as ‘no software’ was with Salesforce. The software company’s stated strategy was to offer great products paired with low pricing and self-service purchasing, a Product Led Growth (PLG) recipe that fueled the company’s sustained profitable growth. MORE
Founded in 1996, the company initially sold licensed software and migrated to multi-tenant SaaS in 2002 with a product called UltiPro. The Ultimate Software Company is a $5.5B market cap provider of SaaS Human Capital Management software. Today, more than 82% of revenues are subscription dollars. MORE
Jason Lemkin: But looking back, you started in 2002, and it was a terrible time to start, but also good because there weren’t 10,000 companies each year out of Y Combinator and EF and others. Ryan Smith: I think if you look at this, this is a great way for those who are new into tech, if you look at 2002, we were in the shadow of the.com. MORE
You’ve had a number of roles at Salesforce since you joined the company back in early 2002, from product management to startup relations. When I started in 2002, I was the first product manager for the API. Knowing when it’s time to become a platform is a delicate thing, as Mike Kreaden , Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, discovered. MORE
I think in 2002 we only signed up two customers and this was after the dot-com bubble burst, 9/11 happened. Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups. Want to see more content like this session? Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW. Godard Abel – CEO @ G2 Crowd. MORE
Founded in the mind-blowing 2002 they’ve helped 1500+ clients generate 1 billion dollars. Imagine this…. Your website is ranked for every keyword you can think of. MORE
Start raising own fund in 2002. But … from a fund you started raising in 2002. Because it takes so, so long to make money from it. At least from very early-stage investing. So while not a young person’s game per se, it really helps to start early. It doesn’t take that long in venture to make a decent salary. You can start there on Day 1 in a big fund, or a few years in in a smaller fund that does well. MORE
When Simonyi quit as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect in 2002, it was to create a start-up devoted to making programming simpler. Serial space tourist Charles Simonyi is going back again -- to his former employer, Microsoft. Now Microsoft has agreed to acquire that company, Intentional Software. During his absence from Microsoft, Simonyi also found time to fly to the International Space Station -- twice. MORE
40 I’ve worked with him since 2002, back in our Rackspace days. Matt Schatz is SVP of Sales at WPEngine, responsible for defining and executing the global sales strategy. Matt has nearly two decades of senior leadership experience in sales and customer growth, specifically for technology companies with customers around the world including Bazaarvoice, CityVoice and Rackspace. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Matt Schatz, SVP of Sales @ WPEngine. MORE
Following five years at Oracle, I was lucky to land at Salesforce.com in 2002. One thing as a salesperson at Salesforce.com in 2002 and beyond, that I don’t really think we appreciated at the time to the extent that we should’ve, was this concept of a free trial. Join Kevin Egan, Slack’s VP of North American Sales and Dannie Herzberg, Slack’s Director of Sales as they walk you through Slack’s Freemium to Enterprise strategies. MORE
In 2002, the company invested significantly in sales and marketing, but suffered a decline in revenue. in 1999, and ultimately wrote off about $1.4B, which had to be recognized in the period from 2000 to 2002. Ariba went public in 1999 three years after having been founded. In its first year of selling, the company generated $800,000 in revenue. Then it ramped. $8 8 million, then $45 million, then $274M. MORE
I lucked into SaaS all the way back in 2002 when it was called ASP. 252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. To date, Eric has raised over $12m for Zylo from some of the best in the business, including Byron @ Bessemer, Salesforce, GGV, Semil @ Haystack, and the team at High Alpha. MORE
The average disclosed sale price in the same period has increased about 10% annually, inflation adjusted[2], each year since 2002, substantiating the hypothesis that big acquisitions are fewer in number, but command higher price points. The startup acquisition market is poised to have its best year in nearly a decade. MORE
Felix : I think now looking back, I think the big proxy there is we sell typically into the chief data officers, I think the first chief data officer that was ever hired was at capital one in 2002 and 2008 we started Collibra in 2010 so two years after we started Collibra world, there were 15 chief data offices, one five and in 2014 there were 400. How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? MORE
When Simonyi quit as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect in 2002, it was to create a start-up devoted to making programming simpler. Serial space tourist Charles Simonyi is going back again -- to his former employer, Microsoft. Now Microsoft has agreed to acquire that company, Intentional Software. During his absence from Microsoft, Simonyi also found time to fly to the International Space Station -- twice. MORE
40 Jared started, this is in 2002, he’s got the Antonio Banderas look going on there. Jason Lemkin: But looking back, you started in 2002, and it was a terrible time to start, but also good because there weren’t 10,000 companies each year out of Y Combinator and EF and others. Ryan Smith: I think if you look at this, this is a great way for those who are new and the tech, if you look at 2002, we were in the shadow of the.com. MORE
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) Public Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act was passed in 2002. In the first part of our month-long series on compliance essentials , we looked at content scanning. MORE
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.” MORE
Looking at the gross dollars invested in engineering, the 2014 cohort spends much more than the 2010, 2006 and 2002 cohorts, setting aside one outlier year in the 2006 cohort. 2002 44 7. Last week, we proved SaaS startups are raising more than they have in the past and newer SaaS companies seem to be generating more revenue per dollar invested. But do newer SaaS companies actually spend less on sales and engineering than their older counterparts? MORE
He was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002. Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted go-to-market guru Kenny van Zant. Kenny is a serial entrepreneur started his career as founder and COO at BroadJump, a broadband software company that grew to $100M in bookings. MORE
The company was founded in 2002 with just $10k in credit card debt. When software as a service (SaaS) companies first began to enter the market, traditional methods of measuring businesses didn’t apply to them. There just wasn’t a way to determine the health of a business. If we look at two of the early SaaS companies to go public, Concur (1998) and Salesforce (2004), markets had no idea what to do with them. MORE
Founded in 2002, the Australian software maker Atlassian is an exceptional company in many regards. But foremost, Atlassian is one of the best examples of flywheel SaaS companies yet. Atlassian counts 1600 employees and sells five products JIRA (bug tracking software), Confluence (project management), HipChat (internal chat/collaboration), BitBucket (code repository) and JIRA Service Desk (help desk software. MORE
In 2002, Aaron Ross's Predictable Revenue playbook from his time at Salesforce was published. If you're interested in getting started with Hull's customer data platform, take a look at our customer's most common playbooks for data-driven sales & marketing (it is not 2002 any more) and our guide to getting started with customer data integration. Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. MORE
She founded Score More Sales in 2002, which is her sales consulting sales training business, and she founded Women Sales Pros in 2014 and she’s passionate about pursuing, advocating, and furthering the cause of female sales leadership, female sales executives and just helping women make sure that they don’t hit that glass ceiling and that they advance through their career. Lori Richardson: I started a sales consulting business in 2002, which seems like forever ago. MORE
Ryan Smith Qualtrics in 2002 alongside his father in their family basement in Utah. Meet SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders of 2019. Our most popular CEO, COO’s and Presidents that spoke at SaaStr Annual 2019. Curious how we came up with this list? We found our most popular speakers by speaker views and likes, session bookmarks and ratings weighing categories more heavily for overall rating than initial interest. MORE
He served as CEO for the company until 2002 before moving on to Materna. Meet SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders of 2019. Our most popular CEO, COO’s and Presidents that spoke at SaaStr Annual 2019. Curious how we came up with this list? We found our most popular speakers by speaker views and likes, session bookmarks and ratings weighing categories more heavily for overall rating than initial interest. MORE
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 Earlier this week, Google celebrated the tenth anniversary of its IPO. I re-read the Founder’s IPO Letter and found this passage which captured so much about Google’s values: Google is not a conventional company. MORE
2002 71 3.0 One of the cloud’s great promise has been cost-reduction and for a while, we’ve chanted a mantra that startups require less capital than before to get started and ultimately succeed. As the number of publicly traded SaaS companies has grown with time, it’s possible today to examine whether those statements are proven in the data, at least for those 41 publicly traded companies. MORE
LiveChat Software has 21,000 customers and was founded back in 2002. By Geoff Roberts 9 min read If you’ve been hanging out anywhere near B2B marketing circles the past few years, you couldn’t possibly have missed it - live chat, modern messaging apps, conversational marketing - call it what you will. It’s a space that’s on fire in 2018. MORE
Created in 2002, the awards honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and working professionals worldwide. Totango was named the winner of two Silver Stevie American Business Awards including “Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year – Up to 2,500 Employees” and “Cloud Application / Service”. The Stevie American Business Awards are the US’s premier business awards program. MORE
Before 2002, the median ROIC never exceeded 0.9. 2002 1.05 Last week, we analyzed the fund raising history of billion dollar SaaS companies and determined SaaS startups are raising nearly twice as much capital as 16 years ago before going public. Given that trend, I wondered if there is there any truth to the idea that startups today require less capital than before to succeed. MORE
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When Simonyi quit as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect in 2002, it was to create a start-up devoted to making programming simpler. Serial space tourist Charles Simonyi is going back again -- to his former employer, Microsoft. Now Microsoft has agreed to acquire that company, Intentional Software. During his absence from Microsoft, Simonyi also found time to fly to the International Space Station -- twice.
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Network World
APRIL 18, 2017
When Simonyi quit as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect in 2002, it was to create a start-up devoted to making programming simpler. Serial space tourist Charles Simonyi is going back again -- to his former employer, Microsoft. Now Microsoft has agreed to acquire that company, Intentional Software. During his absence from Microsoft, Simonyi also found time to fly to the International Space Station -- twice.
SaaStr
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Ryan Smith Qualtrics in 2002 alongside his father in their family basement in Utah. Meet SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders of 2019. Our most popular CEO, COO’s and Presidents that spoke at SaaStr Annual 2019. Curious how we came up with this list? We found our most popular speakers by speaker views and likes, session bookmarks and ratings weighing categories more heavily for overall rating than initial interest.
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All the way back in 2002, Jeff Bezos issued a 6-point mandate to engineers at Amazon. In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. What once took millions of dollars and a team of engineers to create, a lone developer could suddenly hack together in half an hour. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS. AWS is now an $11.5B
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He served as CEO for the company until 2002 before moving on to Materna. Meet SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders of 2019. Our most popular CEO, COO’s and Presidents that spoke at SaaStr Annual 2019. Curious how we came up with this list? We found our most popular speakers by speaker views and likes, session bookmarks and ratings weighing categories more heavily for overall rating than initial interest.
BetterCloud
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) Public Accounting Reform and Investor Protection Act was passed in 2002. In the first part of our month-long series on compliance essentials , we looked at content scanning.
Kellblog
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As an example, there were two kinds of startups in 2002: those that raised large amounts of money at crazy valuations in 2001 and dead. [3] Every so often I post highlights from the quarterly Fenwick & West Venture Capital Survey , as much to share knowledge about the existence of the survey [1] as to share its current-quarter data. This survey is important for two reasons. First, it shows trends in price changes over time across various VC rounds.
SaaStr
MAY 23, 2019
Well in 2002, I know it was a long time ago. But in 2002 there were only two types of startups in existence. There was no other type of startup in 2002 when the internet bubble burst. Dave Kellogg is the former CEO of Host Analytics and prolific blogger. Join him as he takes you through lessons learned from Host Analytics on the top questions every SaaS CEO wrestles with. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.
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In 2002, the company invested significantly in sales and marketing, but suffered a decline in revenue. in 1999, and ultimately wrote off about $1.4B, which had to be recognized in the period from 2000 to 2002. Ariba went public in 1999 three years after having been founded. In its first year of selling, the company generated $800,000 in revenue. Then it ramped. $8 8 million, then $45 million, then $274M.
SaaStr
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Because I had raised a bunch of money for my first startup, BigMachines, in 2000, raised over 20 million dollars, hired up to about 70 people, and then by 2002, realized we were on our way to going bankrupt, and we met deep recession in 2002, weren’t able to sell any customers, and they all thought the internet had been a fad and good thing it was over. And that’s how we were able to then survive from 2002 til about 2007, when the cloud market finally took off.
Tomasz Tunguz
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This is the illusion of explanatory depth or IOED, which Rozenbilt and Keil described in 2002. Draw an image of a bicycle that depicts how the bicycle works. You might draw something like this bike above. Or this one. Or this one. But as Gianluca Gimini discovered when he asked 50 people over the course of six years to draw a bicycle, most people cannot - despite their great confidence of the contrary.
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Tomasz Tunguz
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In 2002, pushed by new head coach named Sir Dave Brailsford, the team implemented philosophy of continuous incremental improvement. In 76 years, the British cycling team have recorded only one gold medal. And the results were astounding. In the last two Summer Olympics, the British cycling team has won seven of a possible 10 gold medals at each event, a remarkable transformation. But, it wasn’t a 1% improvement on any arbitrary metric.
ProfitWell
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Continuous delivery and automation platform Electric Cloud is no spring chicken, founded back in 2002. Good day, world. Abby here on Earth Day, so we take today to appreciate Mother Nature, but we don’t stop at that. We practice gratitude and ecofriendliness every dang day. But also, subscription. The Rundown In resources. A B2B Proposal c/o PandaDoc.
SaaStr
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Following five years at Oracle, I was lucky to land at Salesforce.com in 2002. One thing as a salesperson at Salesforce.com in 2002 and beyond, that I don’t really think we appreciated at the time to the extent that we should’ve, was this concept of a free trial. Join Kevin Egan, Slack’s VP of North American Sales and Dannie Herzberg, Slack’s Director of Sales as they walk you through Slack’s Freemium to Enterprise strategies.
SaaStr
FEBRUARY 26, 2019
Jared started, this is in 2002, he’s got the Antonio Banderas look going on there. Jason Lemkin: But looking back, you started in 2002, and it was a terrible time to start, but also good because there weren’t 10,000 companies each year out of Y Combinator and EF and others. Ryan Smith: I think if you look at this, this is a great way for those who are new and the tech, if you look at 2002, we were in the shadow of the.com.
SaaStr
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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.”
SaaStr
MARCH 11, 2019
Jason Lemkin: But looking back, you started in 2002, and it was a terrible time to start, but also good because there weren’t 10,000 companies each year out of Y Combinator and EF and others. Ryan Smith: I think if you look at this, this is a great way for those who are new into tech, if you look at 2002, we were in the shadow of the.com.
Sales Hacker
APRIL 10, 2018
In 2002 the “bubble” burst to wipe out most of the Silicon Valley. The Winning By Design Blueprint Series provides practical advice for every part of a SaaS sales organization. In this blueprint, we take a tactical approach on how to build a go to market strategy. This will then help you diversify your revenue, make your business more resilient to economic setbacks and help you plan for growth. 5 Steps To Building Your Go To Market Strategy. Where you can apply this GTM strategy.
Totango
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Created in 2002, the awards honor and generate public recognition of the achievements and positive contributions of organizations and working professionals worldwide. Totango was named the winner of two Silver Stevie American Business Awards including “Most Innovative Tech Company of the Year – Up to 2,500 Employees” and “Cloud Application / Service”. The Stevie American Business Awards are the US’s premier business awards program.
Hull
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In 2002, Aaron Ross's Predictable Revenue playbook from his time at Salesforce was published. If you're interested in getting started with Hull's customer data platform, take a look at our customer's most common playbooks for data-driven sales & marketing (it is not 2002 any more) and our guide to getting started with customer data integration. Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer.
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The company was founded in 2002 with just $10k in credit card debt. When software as a service (SaaS) companies first began to enter the market, traditional methods of measuring businesses didn’t apply to them. There just wasn’t a way to determine the health of a business. If we look at two of the early SaaS companies to go public, Concur (1998) and Salesforce (2004), markets had no idea what to do with them.
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The average disclosed sale price in the same period has increased about 10% annually, inflation adjusted[2], each year since 2002, substantiating the hypothesis that big acquisitions are fewer in number, but command higher price points. The startup acquisition market is poised to have its best year in nearly a decade.
SaaStr
APRIL 18, 2019
I think in 2002 we only signed up two customers and this was after the dot-com bubble burst, 9/11 happened. Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups. Want to see more content like this session? Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW. Godard Abel – CEO @ G2 Crowd.
SaaStr
JULY 4, 2019
I’ve worked with him since 2002, back in our Rackspace days. Matt Schatz is SVP of Sales at WPEngine, responsible for defining and executing the global sales strategy. Matt has nearly two decades of senior leadership experience in sales and customer growth, specifically for technology companies with customers around the world including Bazaarvoice, CityVoice and Rackspace. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Matt Schatz, SVP of Sales @ WPEngine.
Tomasz 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 Earlier this week, Google celebrated the tenth anniversary of its IPO. I re-read the Founder’s IPO Letter and found this passage which captured so much about Google’s values: Google is not a conventional company.
Tomasz Tunguz
APRIL 2, 2014
2002 71 3.0 One of the cloud’s great promise has been cost-reduction and for a while, we’ve chanted a mantra that startups require less capital than before to get started and ultimately succeed. As the number of publicly traded SaaS companies has grown with time, it’s possible today to examine whether those statements are proven in the data, at least for those 41 publicly traded companies.
Sales Hacker
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
Kevin Egan: Between Oracle and Salesforce, I had a couple stops, but I got to Salesforce in 2002. This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we talk to Kevin Egan, VP of North American Sales at Slack. Kevin’s sales career has taken him from Oracle, to Dropbox, to Salesforce, and now, to Slack.
Outseta
OCTOBER 31, 2018
LiveChat Software has 21,000 customers and was founded back in 2002. By Geoff Roberts 9 min read If you’ve been hanging out anywhere near B2B marketing circles the past few years, you couldn’t possibly have missed it - live chat, modern messaging apps, conversational marketing - call it what you will. It’s a space that’s on fire in 2018.
SaaStr
JULY 26, 2019
I lucked into SaaS all the way back in 2002 when it was called ASP. 252: Eric Christopher is the Founder and CEO @ Zylo, the software management system built for the cloud pioneering a new standard in software management. To date, Eric has raised over $12m for Zylo from some of the best in the business, including Byron @ Bessemer, Salesforce, GGV, Semil @ Haystack, and the team at High Alpha.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
Felix : I think now looking back, I think the big proxy there is we sell typically into the chief data officers, I think the first chief data officer that was ever hired was at capital one in 2002 and 2008 we started Collibra in 2010 so two years after we started Collibra world, there were 15 chief data offices, one five and in 2014 there were 400. How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019?
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APRIL 28, 2020
She founded Score More Sales in 2002, which is her sales consulting sales training business, and she founded Women Sales Pros in 2014 and she’s passionate about pursuing, advocating, and furthering the cause of female sales leadership, female sales executives and just helping women make sure that they don’t hit that glass ceiling and that they advance through their career. Lori Richardson: I started a sales consulting business in 2002, which seems like forever ago.
OpenView Labs
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
From its bootstrapped founding in 2002 all the way to a $5 billion valuation in 2016, Atlassian famously had no sales people. ‘No Listen to this post below. . link]. No sales’ became nearly as synonymous with Atlassian as ‘no software’ was with Salesforce. The software company’s stated strategy was to offer great products paired with low pricing and self-service purchasing, a Product Led Growth (PLG) recipe that fueled the company’s sustained profitable growth.
Tomasz Tunguz
NOVEMBER 9, 2015
Founded in 2002, the Australian software maker Atlassian is an exceptional company in many regards. But foremost, Atlassian is one of the best examples of flywheel SaaS companies yet. Atlassian counts 1600 employees and sells five products JIRA (bug tracking software), Confluence (project management), HipChat (internal chat/collaboration), BitBucket (code repository) and JIRA Service Desk (help desk software.
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He was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002. Last night, SaaS Office Hours hosted go-to-market guru Kenny van Zant. Kenny is a serial entrepreneur started his career as founder and COO at BroadJump, a broadband software company that grew to $100M in bookings.
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You’ve had a number of roles at Salesforce since you joined the company back in early 2002, from product management to startup relations. When I started in 2002, I was the first product manager for the API. Knowing when it’s time to become a platform is a delicate thing, as Mike Kreaden , Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, discovered.
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