SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

from 500 Startups, Redpoint eventures, and others. Founded : 2002. 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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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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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

Peter : 2002, I guess or so. Jason : The world ended in 2002 too. ” Most startups fail, so I don’t have to worry about it. Most startups do fail. Most restaurants that startup fail, most technology companies. Most cases for most startups, the next quarter doesn’t really matter.

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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. the share price was higher in the round last than the previous one). 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.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? And then as we went to events, we tried to stay a week longer at be able to visit customers and we actually closed quite a lot of real enterprise customers just over the phone from a small 15 person Belgian startup.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

2002-2019: Founders jealous of VCs, with their easy life, diversified. The Rise of 1000 Unicorns and 100 Decacorns, combined with the overnight changes to fundraising processes from Covid, have radically changed venture capital: Tiger alone is deploying $100 billion , mostly into Cloud startups, and very quickly. With many more coming.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 10, 2018

In 2002 the “bubble” burst to wipe out most of the Silicon Valley. It explains why so many SaaS startups use SMB as a jumping board. Think of the differences of calling on a pro-user vs. an enterprise. CASE IN POINT: In the late 90s, SkyStream followed Cisco’s footsteps in infrastructure sales. It primarily sold to high tech companies.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Wether they are Harvard graduates or high school drop outs, many startupers leave everything to invest all their time, money, connections, and efforts into their dream project, their baby, their golden ticket for a sweet exit: their start-up project. I have been to start-up incubators/accelerators, and met and talked with many startupers.

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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. ” Right?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Short on time?

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

This is the illusion of explanatory depth or IOED, which Rozenbilt and Keil described in 2002. So how does this illusion apply in the world of startups? Gimini rendered these drawings (on the right) to highlight incorrect most people’s understanding of a bicycles anatomy truly is.

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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. So I want to start with a couple of great decades in the business. And so that was my first.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

He was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002. At each stage in a startup, it’s important to figure out exactly the characteristics of the total universe of customers that are addressable by a product, and focus exclusively on those. Other companies offer super complex, highly customizable price plans.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 21, 2020

In about 2002, I got into more of a leadership position for satellite offices of larger companies. Given that I was running a startup for the last two and a half years, I don’t have many hobbies. How long have you been working in the SaaS/Tech industry? I’m going to date myself. I started with Java 0.9 So, everything.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

In 2002, pushed by new head coach named Sir Dave Brailsford, the team implemented philosophy of continuous incremental improvement. I’m not sure the three core focuses of the British Cycling team translate to startups. In 76 years, the British cycling team have recorded only one gold medal. And the results were astounding.

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SaaStr

JULY 2, 2019

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. Following the-. Dannie : Clicker fail. Pretty natural right?

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups. But then after joining them, and we sold that startup to another startup NICU, I went home to Pittsburgh in 1999 which led to the inspiration for starting our first business. He’d work with me at our prior startup NICU.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

Over the past few years, we've seen a new role emerging at within scaling startups - the growth engineer. In 2002, Aaron Ross's Predictable Revenue playbook from his time at Salesforce was published. Brian Halligan, CEO, and JD Sherman, COO, at HubSpot did a really good job at giving us basically a startup within a larger company.

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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. If I can get $1 billion for my startup or should I keep pushing on? Jason Lemkin: Everyone would love to bootstrap.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Eric made his way into the world of startups and SaaS. I lucked into SaaS all the way back in 2002 when it was called ASP. I was introduced to them, luckily, through an investor connection that I had after I had a failed startup in college, who inspired me to join ExactTarget at the time.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Jared started, this is in 2002, he’s got the Antonio Banderas look going on there. I don’t think we thought we were going to do a startup. So you’re not running your MBA exercise and saying, “Hey, let’s do a startup. If I can get $1 billion for my startup or should I keep pushing on?

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

You had a BlackBerry in 2002. You set up Google Apps if you’re a new startup. Stewart : If we had started in 2008, your question before, we would not have taken off like this, for a number of other reasons. It was just harder. I’m sure, probably half the people here did. ” You start going.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 26, 2020

Although I know it’s important, I was itching to be back more up in the startup mode. Because they’re like, “Oh, you were around in 2008, you were around in 2002, you saw a major… It’s the same principles, right? Is that a lot of times in the past, I was the resource for the head of sales or what have you.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Prior to its July 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100M, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world. So I think it’s possible to get fabulous board members in the US for startups.

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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: 2002. Unico is a Brazilian startup that specializes in digital identity protection. Here’s the list for you –. CEO: Jaime De Paula. This makes it Brazil’s most popular e-hailing app.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 18, 2015

In the Innovator’s Dilemma for SaaS Startups , I outlined the path of many software companies, which disrupt incumbents by first serving the small-to-medium business and then move up-market by transitioning to serve larger enterprises with outbound sales teams. The pyramid above describes the Traditional Model.

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ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

From 1992 until 2002, the number of AOL subscribers grew 125X, from 200,000 to 25,000,000. MailChimp CEO Ben Chestnut made a point of saying that the company was not a startup when it launched a free plan, 8 years after its founding. you had to start paying at about $14/month for continued access. But it worked.

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