Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

They may also require less dilution because of the smaller investment size. 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. More runway implies better odds of success.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

And for Intercom’s VP of Sales EMEA, Sanj Bhayro , scaling is just what you need to invest in to ensure growth becomes as constant and linear as it can be. Attract and develop talent and invest in supporting resources like onboarding, sales enablement, and sales engineering. The second moment was after I became a leader.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 28, 2014

Below is a chart of the dollars VCs have invested by month of year. I’m using Crunchbase data since 2005 for tech companies in the US. I’d estimate there are a few weeks latency in the data between when the investment commitment is made and the investment is disclosed.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

Its partners boast diverse venture experience and have previously invested in more than 70 companies. SaaS Investments: Pipefy, HeyDoctor. Canary invests in Brazilian startups, aiming to transform the country’s startup ecosystem by filling an early stage funding gap that it has identified. Founded: 2017. Size of fund: $20M.

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Mattermark

AUGUST 28, 2017

Mr. Khosrowshahi has been the CEO of Expedia since 2005, building it into the $23 Billion company it is today. Mike Williams of Thinkbox explains how he is “ Getting Started Angel Investing “, his methodology, and inviting discussion in a new online group. The Search is Over.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2016

For all the talk about late stage rounds, megarounds and unicorns, early stage startups are benefitting disproportionately from near-record years of venture capital investment. Of the $42B invested in startups in 2015, 34% or about $14B was raised in series A and seed rounds. That figure is up from 18% in 2005.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 15, 2015

In Q2 2015, VC investment totaled $16.7B, about a 66% of the $28B deployed in Q2 2000 according to a new report. A big contributor to this growth are nontraditional investors including mutual funds and hedge funds, which now account for approximately 40% of dollars invested. And the trends shows no sign of stopping. exceeding the $13.1M

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Neil Patel

MAY 31, 2021

And compared to the digital channels I started with, I bet the new additions won’t have as high of a conversion rate or even return on investment. The goal is to build a big business and sometimes you have to invest even when no ROI can be made because you know in the long run building a brand with your ideal audience will pay off.

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The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

I had always been a consumer Internet guy, having founded comparison shopping engine DealPilot.com back in 1997 and personalized homepage Pageflakes in 2005. I was excited, but it was also a little bit scary because it was my first angel investment (aside from a few small investments that I had made many years earlier).

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 18, 2014

Just a few months ago, Pure Storage raised $150M in the largest ever venture investment in a storage company. 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. 75M investments spiked in 2013. But there are a few outliers.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 18, 2015

Taleo 85 1000 85 2005 6. Interestingly, despite the smaller contract sizes, SuccessFactors invested substantially more in sales and marketing as a percentage of revenue to generate their top-line growth than Taleo. SuccessFactors 39 1300 30 2007 6. The companies pursued slight different strategies in the market.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Ultimate Software ran mostly unprofitably through 2005, and has a strong history of operating with positive profits for the last 6 years. of gross margin per sales and marketing dollar invested. Since 2004, Ultimate Software has generated positive cash flow. The median publicly traded SaaS company operates with 71% gross margins.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

In the same period, the amount of seed capital invested in the US has increased about 10x from $200M per year to $2B. Series A used to be the first institutional investment in a company, but with the rise of institutional seed investors, that’s no longer an accurate definition. That’s up from 50% ten years ago.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It kept investing in making its overall growth model stronger. Modeling your loops helps you start investing in building out those new growth loops or products well in advance of when you need them to sustain your growth, because of course developing them takes much more time than improving a current loop. Why did they do this?

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

While there are a handful of startups that raise blockbuster Series As of greater than $10M, the average Series A investment size remains relatively constant over the past 6 years just around $5.3M Below is a chart of 726 startups who raised a seed and a follow-on Series A anytime from 2005-2013. Let’s go to the data.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

That’s an expensive mistake if you make the wrong investment. Instead, larger tech companies like Twitter and Pinterest are making investments in small startups. Over the last couple of years, there have been clear trends in why big companies are choosing to invest in these small teams and use them as part of their growth strategy.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In 2005, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft were vying to win dominant share of advertising pages across large publishers. Ascertain whether the customer believes the return on investment is wildly in their favor. When I was a PM at Google, we conducted customer research often to understand our customers’ opinions on AdSense.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Using Crunchbase data , I charted the financing follow-on rates across the 12 US cities in which at least 10 seeds, 3 Series As and 3 Series Bs have occured in the Crunchbase data set from 2005-2014. The third chart shows the success rates of raising a B having raised a seed round.

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How To Buy Saas

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Ellen Davis of the National Retail Federation and Scott Silverman coined the term, which was first used on November 28, 2005. What are you investing in this year? Now that you’ve seen all of these fantastic deals, the big question is: what are you going to invest in this year?

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Crafty CTO

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Ray Kurweil ’s book, “ The Singularity is Near ,” was published in 2005. Simon Willison , maker of the excellent Datasette open source data exploration tool, had commented on a post by Stratechery’s Ben Thompson , who had captured Bing in the act of misbehaving. Alarm over AI isn’t something new.

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FastSpring

APRIL 19, 2019

Starting with the investment from Accel-KKR then expanding into a second office in Santa Barbara, opening a new office in Amsterdam, bringing on 30 new hires, and most recently, welcoming our new CEO David Nachman. We invest in developing our employees because it helps keep them engaged and happy.

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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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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

They aren’t investing in their blog like the business it is. Since 2005, Arianna Huffington and her Huffington Post co-founders have been publishing news stories as they unfold. Not only does HuffPost make money with blogs, but its revenue consists of online ads and money from corporate investments.

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Point Nine Land

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Our investment in Soda Today, our portfolio company Soda announced an 11.5M€ Series A led by our friends at Singular. Just to name a few: Splunk (started in 2003, $27bn market cap), Dynatrace (started in 2005, IPO, $12bn market cap), AppDynamics (started in 2008, acq for $3.7b You might have noticed that it makes A. Welcome S….

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yoursales

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Going local works better, and the countries may not be large enough markets to justify that investment. They’re their weight, from 2005 to 2014 turning in “almost 10% of all global BUSD tech exits, trailing only US and China (on an absolute level), while only representing around 2% of GDP.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 19, 2013

I started working in ad tech in 2005 and during the past eight years, the ad tech ecosystem has progressively become more sophisticated, competitive and oligopolistic. Unless a startup continues to invest heavily in algorithm improvement, it will forever be in a cat-and-mouse game. It’s hard to innovate in ad tech.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

For this, you need to invest in Amazon PPC. And the company that comes highly recommended is Thrive Agency : Thrive Agency has been helping Amazon sellers drive sales via PPC management since its existence in 2005 and have grown into a household name with offices in 25 locations in the US.

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Baremetrics

MARCH 7, 2021

Increased Returns on Investment Most businesses spend a notable amount on their customer acquisition process. FastSpring Established in 2005, FastSpring is a SaaS company that offers users a range of eCommerce services. The platform can be integrated with payment platforms to fully automate your subscription-management processes.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 23, 2021

Most small and medium sized companies do not invest much on communication, and they struggle with this concept. Sony certainly learned a reputation management lesson back in 2005. Easier said than done! As a result, their efforts usually are incorrect or inconsistent. Being transparent is risky. Our apologies.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Before diving in, let me remind readers that I do these predictions in the spirit of fun, they are not business or investment advice, and that all of my usual disclaimers and terms apply. It sure does feel like 2005. Well it’s time for my annual predictions post, a series now in its eighth year. Everyone is talking about them.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Traditionally we’ve been around since 2005 and traditionally have been a software on-prem business. Eyal Manor : But there is a lot of investment in that direction. So auto email and automation are on machine learning is something we’re investing heavily in just to make it really easy to use. Megan Leuders: Yeah.

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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. Listen to the story of how Craig Walker, Founder & CEO at Dialpad acquired TalkIQ for $50M in 2018.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

This was in 2005 after I graduated. Matt Rizzetta: We started to really invest significantly, Sam, in our operating infrastructure about five or six years into the business, 2015, 2016. For me, it was all about making a decision to move away from a lifestyle business and really invest in our company, N6A, with enterprise value in mind.

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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. When companies invest in automation initiatives like process automation or machine learning solutions, they want assurance that their chosen provider will deliver as promised.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

MARCH 11, 2019

Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation was started by her parents in 2005 to continue the work that Alex began. org, are asking Americans to “break up” with fossil fuels by divesting from fossil fuel investments. With fossil fuels providing about 80% of our energy, McKibben’s proscription for the U.S.

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SmartKarrot

MAY 26, 2020

It is said that 2005 introduced mankind to the world of cloud computing. Companies are now free to invest in opportunities, hire new talent, and inculcate new marketing schemes. Gone are the days when a company needed financial assistance to stage a large investment to take advantage of the technology.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The UK has had real-time payments since 2005, via the Faster Payments network. And UK institutions continue to invest: This summer, Mastercard, Barclays and the London Stock Exchange Group announced a £1 billion fintech fund to back British growth-stage fintech companies. A full 8 years earlier than the U.S.)

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