Tom Tunguz

MAY 13, 2015

At the time of its IPO, the company was only investing about 75% of its revenue and sales and marketing. In 2002, the company invested significantly in sales and marketing, but suffered a decline in revenue. In a typical year, the company invested about 20 to 30% of their revenue in research and development.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

We started development in early 2004. Stewart, totally disabuse me if I get it wrong, but notwithstanding all the blue chip logos you have, you’ve got a very core software development, project management core. I don’t think that Yammer had that same software developer core that could get accelerated.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The targeted functions to be replicated in the software – examples include customer relationship database management and bookkeeping – were well defined. These factors resonated well with the investment theses of venture capital firms. Formidable Competitive Advantage.

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How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 24, 2021

Some examples of such softwares as services that you have been using for quite long now are following. Gmail – We have been using Gmail since 2004. Whatsapp – A messaging service that we use is software as a service. You can replace IAAS infrastructure without losing initial investment cost.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. I think it’s a really staggering stat. We talked about growth.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

So in 2004, we got an idea to set up the largest WiFi operator in Europe and WiFi was new at the time. Like it’s gone from a hundred million of investment in 2018 to nearly seven billion in investment this year ins cellular agriculture. Norman: Yeah. Along the way too, we also set up a business called the Cloud.

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