Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Marc founded the business and served as its first CEO until Reed Hastings took the helm in 2003. Marc has helped many companies get off the ground, but the most famous is Netflix. In [That Will Never Work](), Marc recounts the early days of the $130B market cap company first started in Santa Cruz and it’s a remarkable story.

Scaling 219

Scaling Product Marketing Marketing Business 219

SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

SaaStr was created in 2012 to democratize learning and how to build B2B companies, and WordPress was started in 2003 to democratize publishing. Matt’s been in the game for 20 years, and throughout that time WordPress and Automattic, and even what it means to publish, have expanded and evolved.

Underperforming Technical Team 333

Underperforming Technical Team Social Media Government Subscription 333

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 30, 2016

Salesforce’s initial public offering in 2003 demarcated the beginning of a new era, the era of Software as a Service. In 2003, Salesforce kicked things off. In the 13 years that followed, many startups have followed their path to build innovative software that has transformed their respective industries and sectors.

Marketing 113

Marketing SaaS Software Delivery Scale 113

SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Bai Xue believed in the internet – and in 2003 she did the unthinkable: she quit a secure and well-paid job at Panasonic to join the startup movement. Today Grab is Southeast Asia’s leading ride-hailing platform, valued at $3 billion. It’s no wonder that Hooi Ling Tan is on Fortune’s 40 Under 40 List.

VP of Engineering 264

VP of Engineering CTO Coach Venture Capital SaaS 264

IT World

MAY 24, 2023

Launched in 2003, OneNote was added to the Microsoft Office suite (most versions of which are now called Microsoft 365) in 2007. What’s the king of the note-taking apps? There are two leading contenders for the crown: Microsoft’s OneNote and the independent Evernote.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

From 2003 on he has been with WordPress in a role he best describes himself “My roles with WordPress have spanned development, support, design, systems, event planning, janitorial, and public advocacy — thankfully, the community now includes people far better than me at all those tasks.”. Matt Mullenweg is the Founder and CEO of Automattic.

CTO Coach 30

CTO Coach New CTO CTO Web Developers 30

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 5, 2020

Salesforce figured out in 2003 that just having the list of partners on our site that integrated with customers wasn’t enough; we needed to facilitate the discovery, the ranking and the promotion of community advocacy around these solutions.

Marketplace as a Service 171

Marketplace as a Service Transportation Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 171

IT World

MAY 16, 2022

Then in October 2003, Microsoft formalized the release of normal security updates on the second Tuesday of the month. Microsoft has released patches for years. But they haven’t always been released on a schedule. In the early days, Microsoft would release updates any day of the week. Thus was born Patch Tuesday.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 10, 2015

The rate at which startups are raising follow-on rounds is decreasing, and has decreased steadily from 2003 through 2013. Between 2003 and 2006, post-Series A startups raised series Bs about 57% of the time. However from 2011-2014, that figure fell to 28%.

Finance 100

Finance Startup Trends Data 100

IT World

MAY 11, 2023

That’s a far cry from 2003, when Internet Explorer had a 95% market share. In search, Google has a stranglehold with 85% of the worldwide search market share in the first quarter of 2023, compared to 9% for Bing. In browsing, Edge fares even worse: it accounts for a 5% market share compared to 64% for Chrome and 20% for Safari.

Development 93

Development Marketing 93

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2013

William Gibson, quoted in The Economist, December 4, 2003. An entrepreneur shared this quote with me a few weeks ago. The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.

Startup 114

Startup Technology Mobile Education 114

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Since the bottom in 2003-2004, consumer deals have increased their share of venture dollars growing by 250% to about 25%. Consumers share growth is also evident when compared just to enterprise investments. After the bubble burst, enterprise deals outnumbered consumer deals 9 to 1.

Trends 100

Trends Investment Healthcare Enterprise 100

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.

Education 100

Education Trends Startup Technology 100

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2014

DATA 2003 10 232. FLTX, a maker of fleet tracking software, has identical ARPC. I’ve plotted a subset of them in the chart above. Company Founded Years to IPO Rev in $M at IPO. RNG 1999 14 162. QLYS 1999 13 91. FLTX 2004 10 128. CTCT 2007 9 31. HUBS 2006 8 113*. WIX 2006 7 81. estimated from the first six months of the S-1.

Benchmarks 114

Benchmarks SMB Metrics SaaS 114

User Pilot

MAY 29, 2024

Since 2003, he has co-founded and successfully sold two technology companies , Sunshine Business Development, LLC and AdNectar, Inc. He frequently speaks and writes about the psychology behind user behavior and how businesses can leverage these insights to create engaging and effective products. How did Nir Eyal begin his career?

Underperforming Technical Team 105

Underperforming Technical Team Consulting Engagement Technology 105

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Founded: 2003. Its goal is to provide funding to high-potential tech businesses through its Cradle Investment Programme. Cradle Fund offers grant and equity funding, as well as support through coaching and growth assistance. Size of fund: $9.9M. Stage: Pre-seed, Seed and Early Stage. SaaS Investments: SalesCandy, KEPP, Dropee.com, and others.

SaaS Payments 190

SaaS Payments Venture Capital Payment Services Telecommunications 190

FastSpring

AUGUST 14, 2018

Since their start in 2003, WordPress has become the leading content management system for individuals and businesses alike. In fact, WordPress currently runs 31% of all websites around the world. Odds are some of your favorite sites on the internet are powered by WordPress.

Business 60

Business Management 60

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Now to be fair, this was back in 2003 when it wasn’t that hard to rank on Google (or any other search engine for that matter). Well, this story will help explain it…. The old days. When I first started my journey as an SEO, I got really good at one thing. Getting rankings!

Scale 145

Scale Engineering Pricing Scaling 145

Kellblog

MAY 12, 2024

Era 4 (2003-2005). Era 3 (1999-2002). We believe the Internet will require a wholesale rewrite of business intelligence (BI) tools and enable both existing internal and new external use-cases for BI. We believe that customers will increasingly want to buy an integrated suite of BI tools, including Q&R, OLAP, and enterprise reporting.

Strategy 126

Strategy Government Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 126

Neil Patel

JANUARY 27, 2021

Launched in 2003, LinkedIn has become the most popular social network for professionals. With over 700 million users globally, it is now one of the biggest social media platforms. That’s why every brand should be using LinkedIn to grow their brand. One way to do that is by creating a LinkedIn newsletter. What Is a LinkedIn Newsletter?

Social Media 137

Social Media B2B Branding Engagement 137

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

However, since Google’s acquisition in 2003, you can display Google Ads on your blog to make a little extra money on the side. It works well for simple blogging, but you can’t create a full-fledged website, so I don’t recommend it if you want to build a brand and make money blogging. Summary.

Software Review 145

Software Review Social Media Government Branding 145

Neil Patel

MARCH 17, 2021

Of 18 to 21-year-olds who weren’t in high school in 2018, 57 percent were in college, compared to 52 percent of Millennials in 2003, and 43 percent of Gen Xers in 1987. What’s more, despite the growing cost of college tuition, Gen Z are better educated than earlier generations.

Social Media 145

Social Media Advertising Sales Recruiting Branding 145

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Founded in 2003, Tableau followed a more gradual revenue growth curve than the median SaaS company. In these plots, I’ve used Tableau’s colors as a consistent legend. Tableau company data is blue, median values are black, and other company values from a basket of about 40 publicly traded SaaS companies are gray.

Benchmarks 100

Benchmarks SaaS Payments Metrics Scale 100

SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley. Let’s shift now to the dynamics, or rather the stages of the startup, right? What’s the smallest deal you’ve done? Because you’ve done a lot of angel investments in your time as well.

Merchant Services 274

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 274

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 28, 2021

To see search growth for a particular topic, simply set your search duration to “2003 to present,” so you can see long-term traffic on the topic. If you’re searching for a new niche, Google Search Trends is a great way to identify rapidly-expanding niches that may have content gaps you can fill.

Trends 115

Trends Entertainment Technical Review Branding 115

yoursales

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Since 2003 LinkedIn in has increasingly become a critical part of the sales process. With – among many great features – automatic activity logging, automatic contact creation, and an endless array of integration possibilities to top it off. All of these features contribute to reduced friction in the sales process.

Sales 79

Sales Sales Outsourcing Software Review Technical Review 79

SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

I think it’s more overall more like 2000 to 2003 in Silicon Valley, but there’ll be some industries and some verticals that either aren’t affected as much or snap back very quickly. Keith Rabois: No, I think it’s going to be more inconsistent. I think by segment.

Venture Capital 239

Venture Capital Travel PayPal Scale 239

IT World

MARCH 21, 2022

Then, around 2003, Microsoft developed a product that bundled many of the items a small business might need. The company can develop the product, but it’s that last delivery mile that can be hard to manage.

Consulting 54

Consulting Software Development Management 54

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

in 2003, Sebastian Thrun had just won the DARPA Grand Challenge, right? ” Like, autonomous vehicle is a solved problem back in 2003. And one of the best examples of this is autonomous vehicles or robotaxis. So, when I joined Stanford to do my Ph.D. So, he had driven a van autonomously across the desert and won this.

AI Search 77

AI Search AI Artificial Intelligence Technology 77

Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

employees reported working remotely all or some of the time in 2017, compared to just 23 percent in 2015 and 19 percent in 2003 , per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Per Gallup, the size of the remote workforce has nearly doubled in the last few years. A whopping 43 percent of U.S.

Sales 77

Sales Communication Benchmarks Engagement 77

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley. Let’s shift now to the dynamics, or rather the stages of the startup, right? What’s the smallest deal you’ve done? Because you’ve done a lot of angel investments in your time as well.

Merchant Services 220

Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 220

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 21, 2025

Content: Early 2000s: The Era of Centralized BI Companies like MicroStrategy, Cognos, BusinessObjects, and Hyperion Powerful but slow and IT-dependent reporting solutions High accuracy, low agility 2003: The Rise of Self-Service Analytics Tableau revolutionized the industry Empowered business users to directly access and analyze data The Cloud Data (..)

Data 100

Data AI Search Scale Software Engineering 100

FastSpring

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

SyncBack, our class leading backup software, was first released in 2003. Deal: “ 50% off everything. Deal starts: November 18, 2023 Deal ends: November 28, 2023 No coupon code required. 2BrightSparks Pte Ltd “ 2BrightSparks was incorporated in 2004 and has established a reputation in developing high quality, easy to use utility software.

Payment Solutions 88

Payment Solutions Software Review Payment Methods SaaS Payments 88

CustomerSuccessBox

JUNE 28, 2021

Net Promoter Score (NPS) was first developed in 2003 by Bain and Company and it measures the loyalty of customers to a company. If back in 2003 you’d ask me what are the chances that you’re going to recommend me, my friends, or my family on a scale of 1 to 10? Net Promoter Score scores can range from -100 to 100.

Customer Success 52

Customer Success Scale Churn Trends 52

OpenView Labs

MAY 4, 2020

I learned this lesson in resilience in the spring of 2003 when I was leading the sales team at BMC Software in Houston. Here are four that seem relevant today: Learning resilience #1: Lean towards the obstacles. You need to see yourself on the other side of this crisis.

Leadership 75

Leadership Travel Communication Development 75

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

So since Reicheld published his seminal Harvard Business Review article “ The One Number You Need to Grow ” in 2003 – NPS rapidly grew to prominence. Today, 55% of businesses say that they depend on it.

Software Review 98

Software Review Churn Software User Experience 98

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 12, 2020

The platform has come a long way since it launched in 2003 and is the most popular content management system on the web today. . #4 – WordPress / Website builder — The Best For Content Management. One of the oldest and most reliable website builders is WordPress. In fact, WordPress powers a whopping 37.6% of all websites.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Technical Review Software Review Systems Review 145