Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2023

This surge could parallel the personal computer’s doubling of the US labor productivity rate from 2005-2015 when computers penetrated most business operations which correlates to Moore’s Law according to a research report by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2023

Founder Has Been CEO since founding in 2005, ownership down to 3.7%. Not enterprise-high NRR, but about what I’d expect from their ACV and category. And a few other interesting learnings: #6. 80% of customers sign multi-year contracts.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

So far back, to 2005 and beyond, it’s arguable too far back to matter today. This chart before from data Meritech tracks helps illustrate the bear case here: I like t he Meritech data not only because it’s well presented, but because you can go way back in time. Back to the early days in SaaS public companies. Yet we see trends.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Dynatrace was founded way back in 2005 and has been in the “steady growth” camp, now crossing $1B in ARR and a $10.5 Leaders like Crowdstrike and adjacent players from Datadog to Okta and more are higher profile. But it’s what’s in fashion today.

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SaaStr

MARCH 31, 2021

It was founded way back in 2005 as an outsourcing company, then developed Windows software to automate scripts and more, and turned this into a powerhouse for automating complex functions integrating Cloud and on-prem. 2005: Started as a tech outsourcing company. Even ten years on, in 2015, it still had just 10 full-time employees.

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The Daily Egg

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Heatmaps have been our signature product since 2005. But we’ve grown quite a bit since then, and you may be surprised to learn about the full range of website optimization tools that we offer.

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SaaStr

APRIL 19, 2023

One leader in SMB commerce is Lightspeed Commerce, founded way back in 2005. But “POS” systems and software are everywhere, and are a lot more than just Toast and Square. They are strongest in retail, but also have a presence in restaurants as well.

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Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 243

SaaStr

MAY 21, 2021

It was founded in 2005 and took 10 years to get to $1m in ARR!! It took 3 years just to get to $1M in ARR and 7+ years to get to the first $10M ARR. But today, it’s at an incredible $700,000,000+ in ARR !! More on that here. UiPath was the most extreme of all. More on that here.

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Web browser functions like those trace their roots back more than a decade, and the feature — first found in a top browser in 2005 — spread quickly as one copied another, made tweaks and minor improvements. Private browsing. Privacy mode. Protect Your Privacy. Online privacy: Best browsers, settings, and tips.

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JUNE 20, 2023

The Commission was instituted based on the Gambling Acts of 2005 and is tasked with the job. Both residents and visitors are allowed to play at licensed casinos including Paybymobileslots.com. The activities of these casinos are regulated by the United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC).

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I remember joining Google in 2005. A few weeks ago, Office Hours at Redpoint welcomed Claire Hughes-Johnson, former COO at Stripe and VP at Google. Claire’s operational experience is one-of-a-kind, and the conversation focused on scaling startups. In the halls, I heard colleagues say great things about how terrific a leader Claire is.

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Scale Scaling Payment Services Metrics 229

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2023

The Number One Thing That Has Changed In SaaS Since 2005 “The number one thing that has changed over my entire journey with SaaS since 2005 is efficiency,” shares Lemkin. Lemkin and the Monday team share how this manufactured metric doesn’t determine cash flow and what metrics you can use instead.

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SaaS Metrics Retention Revenue 197

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In 2005, eBay spent $2.6 One of the most notorious examples of a post-M&A culture misfit is the 2005 merger of Kansas-based Sprint and Nextel. in 2005), recently acquired TalkIQ, a leader in the artificial intelligence and machine learning, and our shared culture and values have been a key factor to the success of this deal.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 28, 2021

Founded in 2005 in Bucharest, Romania, by Daniel Dines and Marius Tirca, the company now operates more than 60 offices housing nearly 3000 employees. UIPath, leaders in the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) category, filed their S-1 last week , revealing an impressive business.

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Adhere Creative

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In 2005 , we saw the rise of inbound marketing. Marketing is evolving once again, and with the rise of big data and integrated technology, it’s changing rapidly.

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IT World

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s a trend that’s been building since 2005. Mega-commercial real estate broker Cushman & Wakefield admits, “ No one is expecting workers to come into the office to primarily answer emails —that and any other heads-down tasks can be done anywhere.” of its office workers doing their jobs remotely.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Lemkin’s been a SaaS entrepreneur since 2005, and SaaS didn’t come into fashion until 2019. “Recurring software revenue is now recognized as a great way to generate tons of cash for investors,” says Gerety. But that wasn’t always the case. It took a while. That’s 14 years of waiting for people to get excited!

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Sales Hiring SaaS Retention Headcount 233

IT World

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

That could interest a lot of CIOs: SAP has offered its software on the Power platform since 2005, and ported HANA to the Power architecture in 2015. The move introduces a new hosting option for enterprises running modern ERP systems with large databases on the Power platform. Comparison shopping?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Will Ferrell SNL Oracle Skit 2005 from Alford Media Services on Vimeo. Have reasonable, achievable expectations. Don’t let PR just be a cost center line item in your VPM’s budget. And if it ain’t working … make a change. note: an updated SaaStr Classic post).

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SaaStr

APRIL 6, 2021

It got started in 2005 with a $500k seed round. Only burned $24m to get to $100m+ in revenues — but it took a long time as a result. Prior to IPO, Olo had raised $100m, but it still had $76m of cash on hand — so net of revenue, it only burned $24m to get to $100m+ in ARR. And growth was very modest in the early years.

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SaaS Payments Payments Merchant Services Scale 250

IT World

MARCH 5, 2020

Etsy was founded in 2005, well into the internet era but long before the explosion of public cloud services. The Etsy website and mobile app provide an online shop window to makers of hand-crafted and niche goods. With two million items being sold in 2018, the in-house bare metal infrastructure was starting to creak.

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Cloud Scaling Marketplace as a Service Machine Learning 75

SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2021

He’s the visionary behind the Box product and platform strategy and has also served on the Board of Directors at Box since April 2005. Aaron Levie is the CEO and Co-founder of Box, a cloud-based content management and collaboration platform. Previously, he was the CEO and co-founder of EchoSign, which was acquired by Adobe in 2011.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The UK has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. To counter this “too big to fail” risk—and to promote the UK as a global tech hub—the UK kicked off a policy initiative to become a global superpower in financial services and technology. A full 8 years earlier than the U.S.)

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

has had real-time payments since 2005 via the Faster Payments network. In Brazil, for example, Pix became the most popular payment method in the country in just two years—as well as the second-most used instant payments system in the world. Today, U.K. consumers use contactless payments for nearly 90% of in-person transactions.

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Payment Solutions Payment Services Payments Software 95

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

O Reino Unido tem um sistema de pagamento em tempo real desde 2005, com a rede Faster Payments. No Brasil, por exemplo, o Pix se tornou o método de pagamento mais popular do país em apenas dois anos—e o segundo sistema de pagamento instantâneo mais popular do mundo.

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Payment Solutions Software Payment Services compliance 88

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 20, 2016

in 2005 to $24B in 2015. Over the last ten years, the total amount of revenue generated by software companies has tripled from $53B to $169B, meaning SaaS companies are both taking share and growing the market. The growth rate of SaaS revenues follows a geometric growth curve ramping from $1.3B

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The Daily Egg

APRIL 10, 2019

Crazy Egg was founded in 2005, and ever since then we’ve built a globally distributed team of super smart, talented, hard-working humans from around the world. Not to sound too hipster, but we’ve been working remotely before it was cool.

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SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2022

When we started EchoSign / Adobe Sign in 2005/2006, the web-based e-signature market was $1m in market size. And other markets, the best founders like Benioff, Jobs, Gates, Zuck, etc. redefined markets. You can do it that way, too. Add 10-100x more value to a market than existing before, and the market size can grow 10-1000x, too.

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Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital Startup 361

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 3, 2018

Founded in 2005, SkyWire provides the hospitality industry with award-winning point-of-sale (POS), spa and workforce management SaaS solutions. Originally focused on mobile marketing, the company expanded into POS technology and today is one of only two POS companies certified for gaming interfaces.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 28, 2014

I’m using Crunchbase data since 2005 for tech companies in the US. There’s a rule of thumb batted around the valley that the worst times to raise capital are in the dog-days of summer and after Thanksgiving. As it turns out, this aphorism is only a half-truth. Below is a chart of the dollars VCs have invested by month of year.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2015

Publicly-traded SaaS companies founded from 2008 through 2014 needed 50% less time to reach $50M than their counterparts founded between 1998 and 2005. SaaS startups are growing faster than ever before.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 6, 2015

I remember reading about Google’s Android acquisition in 2005 and wondering what would become of the technology; and then later at Google seeing some of the first versions of the G1, the first Android phone. Yesterday, Redpoint announced something amazing: Andy Rubin, the creator of Android is joining Redpoint.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2019

YC has funded over 1,900 startups since 2005 including Airbnb, coinbase, Dropbox, Stripe, Flexport, instacart and reddit. About Michael… Number six on our list, Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel who was popular across all metrics but saw especially high interest in his speaker profile and pre-registrations months before the event.

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Scale Metrics Software Product Marketing 164

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Google Trends data shows a massive dropoff since RSS hit its peak back around 2005. Google launched Google Reader in 2005 and quickly built up a loyal following because it was simple, efficient, and free. Then, in 2013, Google Reader was switched off, and their popularity has dwindled. Dwindled, but not vanished entirely.

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Social Media Content Marketing Pricing Trends 143

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Using Crunchbase data from 2005 to 2012, I’ve plotted the follow-on rates by size of seed investment quintiles across 2906 companies in that period. They may also require less dilution because of the smaller investment size. Startups who raised $300k or less in their seed raised Series As about 12% of the time.

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SaaStr

JUNE 14, 2023

UiPath was founded back in 2005, and its origin story is similar to many technical engineers-turned-founders. UiPath’s CEO, Daniel Dines, has emphasized the importance of being open to customer feedback and building amazing connections with some of their biggest clients. Dines’ story is humble, embodying his company values early on.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 18, 2014

Each chart shows the number of rounds raised bucketed by size from $0 to $5M and up to $150M to $200M from 2005 to 2013. The chart above breaks down fund-raising activity in US tech companies using Crunchbase data. Each bucket has grown over the past 8 years and most of them steadily. But there are a few outliers.

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