SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Founded : 2004. from CKD Venture Capital Corporation, and others. SurePromise is a full-stack e-commerce supply chain that enables the efficient movement of goods from production to the client — with the goal of connecting products and people. Founders : Angus Chan. Based in: Guangzhou, China. Founders : DJ KIM, Jinu Ha.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

These factors resonated well with the investment theses of venture capital firms. Contrast this success with that of Intuit, which launched the desktop app QuickBooks in 1998 and its online version in 2004 (before Xero launched).

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Kellblog

JULY 25, 2020

3] Per the footer, since Salesforce’s June, 2004 IPO. [4] 1] Comps = comparables. [2] 2] EV/NTM Revenue = enterprise value / next twelve months revenue, a so-called “forward” multiple. [3] 4] As are most stock indexes. See here for more. [5] 5] And not everybody does. structural change).

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Kellblog

JANUARY 3, 2022

6] I am not speaking of MarkLogic in its contemporary form (about which I know fairly little), but as it was in the 2004-2010 period when I ran it. The amateurs might offer 100 different excuses and/or forms of hope. [5] 5] Happily, I’ve also done plenty of time in Box 2! [6] Disclaimer: I own some residual shares in MarkLogic. [7]

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. And I remember they were born in 2004 our business was kind of at the bottom but they were also wound up being born nine weeks premature. We’re starting to having lay people off.” ” We had to do that three times.

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Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shash met in 2004 when they were both graduate students at MIT. Brian, who was helping venture-backed startups with marketing, noticed that people had gotten really good at ignoring intrusive advertising. Now, without any further ado, let’s see what we can learn from HubSpot… (Image source).

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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. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. All right, so the answer is there are actually 61 a cloud unicorns, and we’ll flash them up. How long can this last?

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

Just before 9/11 occurred, we’d hit a USP domestic travel record and it took three years until May 2004 to get back to the level. If 15 to 20% are COVID beneficiaries, can that absorb all the ventured capital? Does venture capital even need to bother? And then there’s going to be others that take years.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

And this is why I struggle to say when I started my business, I think in 2004 or five, I started I had a lot of free time because I had just lost my job it is big ERP going word was going down in Germany. What what do you think the danger is of being too focused on those types of venture capital type ideas.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

I think one thing about RJ Metrics that maybe goes on that list of mistakes is that even though we founded the company in 2008, the next thing that happened the day after we founded the company was the Lehman Brothers collapsed and the venture capital market was non-existent. The business ran for four years completely bootstrapped.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. Buildium (founded in 2004) was set up as a LLC with a membership units plan to help drive employee retention and deliver financial rewards to employees in the case of a liquidity event.

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