Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This year, topics ranged broadly from incorporating AI to deliver world-class consumer experiences to defining and measuring different forms of community-powered growth. The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

Founded: 2005. The sectors of interest for Qualcomm Ventures include AI, automotive, data center, digital health, IoT, and mobile. Intel Capital invests in AI, autonomous tech, software and security and IoT, among other sectors. The target fields include logistics and transportation, finance, and healthcare. Founded: 2000.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The same goes for Google acquiring Android for a measly $50 million in 2005 with key employees joining the company. When you combine this with the shortage of AI talent , there is a race to scoop up startups and their teams who are in the early stages of funding and research. When you compare that to the $7.5

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2019

With one startup acquired by Yahoo in 2005, another acquired by Google in 2007 and a background as an M&A lawyer, Craig’s perspective on M&A is insightful for any startup founder looking to acquire another company. At the time conversational AI was really heating up here in Silicon Valley. How do we make them successful?

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SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. Before that, he co-founded two Internet startups (DealPilot.com in 1997 and Pageflakes in 2005). Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Traditionally we’ve been around since 2005 and traditionally have been a software on-prem business. And whether they want to know more about security or scalability or automation or AI, the customers are really demanding that the vendors are coming to market with answers to these questions.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

McKinsey is producing some strong content on the future of work as is my friend Dan Turchin on his AI and the Future of Work podcast. It sure does feel like 2005. At this point perhaps for the wrong reasons (i.e., omicron), but where and how we work has already changed and many of those changes will become permanent.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Customer nurturing now starts from the first touch, and AI can help with that. So in 2005 when we announced the AppExchange, we actually had at that point 70 applications that would then be ready for launch in January. Short on time?

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Buffer Resources

MAY 8, 2023

His journey on social media began when, as a sports journalist in 2005, he started a blog while interning and writing for a student paper. On one side, if they think the job is to create content, will worry about or use AI as a creator replacement. Jay Acunzo has been creating content on the Internet for a long time.

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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. But the real value comes from its AI assistant, Leo. Dwindled, but not vanished entirely.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

He co-founded Praesto Convergence in 2005 and served as its Managing Director until 2010. Starting with a degree in Network and Telecommunications, she further delved into engineering and AI. She has founded three companies, all the while studying AI at Udacity and Exponential Technologies at Singularity University.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

has had real-time payments since 2005 via the Faster Payments network. As generative AI tools become more widespread, the cost to fraudsters of iterating malicious content drops to near zero: they can write and test thousands of phishing attack emails in minutes and continuously tweak the ones that work best. Today, U.K.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Definition and Origin The concept of blue ocean strategy was first introduced in the 2005 book “ Blue Ocean Strategy : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant” by professors W. Using advanced analytics and AI to identify attractive white spaces backed by data. What is the Blue Ocean Strategy?

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SaaStr

JULY 30, 2018

I was hearing UiPath right before here talking about how you run everything through their platform, layer on some AI, and voila, you’ve got more automated and better processes. AI is driving the next wave of requirements. I tried to raise money in London back in 2005. It was pretty interesting. What advice would you give?

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Definition and Origin The concept of blue ocean strategy was first introduced in the 2005 book " Blue Ocean Strategy : How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant" by professors W. Using advanced analytics and AI to identify attractive white spaces backed by data. What is the Blue Ocean Strategy?

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Backlinkfy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

In 2005, Google partnered with Yahoo and MSN to announce the Nofollow attribute, which decreased the number of spammy links and comments on websites, especially blogs. From email to browsers, search engines, mobile, AI and now blockchain, he feels fortunate to witness it all and is really excited to see what’s next.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Their solutions span a wide range of verticals: from E-commerce, HR and Health to collaboration, infrastructure and AI. It is a cloud-based platform that offers the services of Asia’s top AI assistant for hotel staff – Gaia. It provides visual search and image recognition solutions based on AI. Founded : 2005.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tradeshift has grown to 650+ people with offices in 12 countries from its start as a mere vision in 2005. Join Tradeshift founder and CEO as he shows founders how to take control of their destiny. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Christian Lanng | Founder and CEO @ Tradeshift. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. 9 SaaS Businesses we know and love.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Through that, he went to university where he studied AI and cybernetics, ultimately leading big teams in EMEA for AppDynamics. The challenge with all of this was, I was at university from 2005 to 2008, and we all know what happened in 2008. He now leads the sales function at a really promising and high-growing unicorn called Instabase.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 22, 2021

1995 – 2000: The Rise of Customer-Centric Business Outlook 2000 – 2005: Customer Relationship Management and Marketing Automation Platforms 2005 – 2010: Automation and Marketing plugs in Engagement and Sales. 2000 – 2005: Customer Relationship Management and Marketing Automation Platforms. Customer Success: Present.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 22, 2020

Five people in the digital team were looking at blockchain projects and three people on that digital team were looking for long term AI transformation. If there’s a social security number and other pieces of AI, then automatically it’s limited to this org or this subset of the org. Aaron Levie: Exactly.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

This AI-driven platform serves as an engine, generating more leads at affordable rates. Founded in: 2005. Founded in: 2005. Founded in: 2006. Founder (s): Noah Eisner, Dave Stephens. Drips is a SaaS platform that has revolutionized the way organizations approach interactive marketing. Founded in: 2013. Founder: Rob Walling.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 27, 2024

This is where Matt believes AI is useful and will start to help. Automattic was started in 2005 to democratize publishing, and WooCommerce was purchased in 2016 to democratize e-commerce. What if, instead of doom-scrolling, we ask ourselves what kind of person we want to be? What’s the Business Model Behind Automattic and WordPress?

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

We will do four and a half times what we did last year and be able to be a half a billion dollar AI company in about 18 months. 2005: Started as a tech outsourcing company. The market now called RPA, which is the fastest path to using AI in a company now. We’ve already done more than all of last year, Luciana. seed round.

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