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 But that feeling was more than just a product of the rocket ship growth of the ads business. in 2004, the year of their IPO. Digging past the business revealed a wonderful culture.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

That’s all because of our ability to constantly optimize and improve our methods according to the current trends in the marketplace. Founded in the mind-blowing 2002 they’ve helped 1500+ clients generate 1 billion dollars. So if you’re looking for the combination of highly-ranked content that will bring you much more organic traffic….

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Neil Patel

MARCH 17, 2021

These strategies are relevant to reaching young adults right now, but trends will change by the time the youngest Zoomers come of age. Just as a millennial born in the early 1980s may not share much common ground with one born in the mid-90s, there’s likely to be a lot of disparity between young and (comparatively) old Gen Zers.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 21, 2021

While it may be on-trend to make a list of 10 or seven, this list is limited to five. That was 2002. A story of times when I read a book that had been out for a while and regretted not reading it sooner. It’s a forcing function that brings impact and clarity to the list. Finally, yes, this is a listicle—but my list is different.

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SaaStr

JULY 4, 2019

One is you will be able to identify trends in your business far quicker and take action when you see those things happening when you’re focusing on the inputs. I’ve worked with him since 2002, back in our Rackspace days. What about through partnerships? What about direct? Have a point of view there.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 22, 2019

Avocode, alongside fourteen experienced designers, reflects on 2018 with its annual Design Report , celebrating creativity with a look into the state of design tools and trends, driven by 6,354,110 designs worth of data. Continuous delivery and automation platform Electric Cloud is no spring chicken, founded back in 2002.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 31, 2018

LiveChat Software has 21,000 customers and was founded back in 2002. But like any new software trend, make sure you’re not blindly following the masses like a lemming off of a cliff. A few examples to prove my point - LivePerson was founded in 1995 and IPOed just 5 years later in April of 2000.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

This is not 2002, virality does not exist anymore. While keeping ourselves updated on the current trends and online best practices, only through trial and errors in conjunction with analytics of the campaign can you have a good assessment of how to proceed. your potential customers. It is sponsored.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

As companies are increasingly interested to use SaaS as a winning strategy, several recent trends in 2020 have been observed amongst top SaaS businesses: In 2020, it is very important for SaaS businesses to create customer-success functions and take a more proactive approach towards customer success management.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

It’s hard to know whether that’s some sort of broad based trend or whether it’s very specific to the mechanics of that product. You had a BlackBerry in 2002. It got you back in the game this hyper growth. David : Zenefits is scaling faster than about anything I’ve ever seen. It was just harder.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

In 2002, Aaron Ross's Predictable Revenue playbook from his time at Salesforce was published. We've Spotted the trends, tactics & techniques from sitting deep in the data layer of scaling SaaS teams. Trend #1: The most effective users of martech are engineers. Trend #2: Growth is not marketing; Growth is operations.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 21, 2022

He was totally overlooked until the United States House of Representatives passed a resolution in 2002 honoring his contributions and work to the telephone. And that’s a trend that we’re seeing continuing well beyond the pandemic. That’s when Switch was born.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 13, 2025

Mike Walrath: Yeah, so it was incredibly unfun at the time being on the wrong side of that trend. The way we were developing product in 2009 and 2010, which felt incredibly innovative, is we’re identifying these kind of sectoral trends. How are you seeing that impact search. And it’s been some really interesting ride.

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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.

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Kellblog

MAY 8, 2019

First, it shows trends in price changes over time across various VC rounds. 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] This survey is important for two reasons.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 28, 2020

She’s seen pretty much every trend there is in the sales scheme of things. Lori Richardson: I started a sales consulting business in 2002, which seems like forever ago. Show Introduction [00:04]. She started off as a teacher and a single mom and moved into sales after that. Our sponsor is Outreach. So it involved a lot more data.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

I lucked into SaaS all the way back in 2002 when it was called ASP. Eric Christopher: I think one thing that’s an interesting trend is that a lot of early SaaS companies sell to a lot of other SaaS companies because they’re early adopters. What was that a-ha moment? Eric Christopher: Great questions. Is that fair?

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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. After your 15 hours were up (in the early days, as they transitioned to CDs, you got 1,000 hours free for 45 days!), you had to start paying at about $14/month for continued access. But it worked. It worked because AOL had the unit economics done.

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SaaStr

MAY 17, 2019

And that’s how we were able to then survive from 2002 til about 2007, when the cloud market finally took off. So it was really a near death experience. Godard Abel: So I do, in hindsight, I really value those years, although at the time it was very anxiety and doubt filled, and a very painful time.

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SaaStr

MAY 6, 2025

It felt like a trend, but I wasnt sure. Its a trend, indeed. At least since 2002: And CEO departures at public companies also hit a record. Recently weve seen the CEOs of Asana, Discord, Twilio and Ironclad step down, among others. Well, the Wall Street Journal has the data. First, 2,221 CEOs overall at U.S.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 9, 2024

or loves American football, Super Bowl Sunday is another annual event to keep an eye on for social media trends.  Every year, #backtohogwarts trends across social platforms. The day gained traction after being featured in a Miami Herald column in 2002. Even Apple’s voice assistant Siri has gotten in on the action.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 9, 2024

or loves American football, Super Bowl Sunday is another annual event to keep an eye on for social media trends.  Every year, #backtohogwarts trends across social platforms. The day gained traction after being featured in a Miami Herald column in 2002. Even Apple’s voice assistant Siri has gotten in on the action.

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Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 12, 2024

We wanted to take a step back to analyze where social media users are spending their time and effort by analyzing platform growth, trends, and engagement over the past two years. While these insights align with broader trends, they may not capture the total scope of social media activity. connections. By 2024, it has reached 1.28

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How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 21, 2025

These platforms can help you understand the latest market trends, customer behavior, competitor’s insights, and more. Key Benefits You can interact with industry experts and get expert advice on industry trends, best practices, customer behavior, potential risks about subjects, and a lot more.

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How To Buy Saas

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Best Qualities of Top Tech Blogs Going through all of the best and trending tech blogs of 2025, all of them boasting compelling storytelling and eye-catching visuals, can become quite overwhelming. You can get access to the daily news, the latest updates in the industry, brewing innovations, and the next big trends. Let’s begin!

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