SaaStr

MAY 22, 2019

About Brian… Our metrics suggest that our attendees were very excited about Brian as a speaker. His high marks in our “speaker likes” metric lands him at number five on our list. YC has funded over 1,900 startups since 2005 including Airbnb, coinbase, Dropbox, Stripe, Flexport, instacart and reddit.

Scale 164

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 29, 2015

Over the past decade, Netsuite has grown 37% per year, starting at about 51% in 2005 and in recent years, consistently sustaining 25% annual growth. As the company disclosed in their last annual report , Larry Ellison, the CEO of Oracle, owns 47.4% of Netsuite common stock, implying the company is strategically important to Oracle.

Benchmarks 102

Benchmarks Outsourced Development Metrics Scale 102

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 28, 2022

Sanj started working at Salesforce back in 2005, when the company had around 1,000 employees and a few hundred million in revenue, and he was a part of its growth for 14 years, holding several leadership positions in multiple markets in EMEA. In 2005, I was very lucky to join a company called Salesforce, which had just IPO’d.

Scale 210

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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. As a quickly growing SaaS business, SkyWire is often making important business decisions and adjustments on the fly, many of which rely on accurate subscription and financial metrics.

Point of Sale 44

Point of Sale B2B SaaS Mobile 44

Tom Tunguz

JULY 25, 2013

In 2005, I started as a customer support rep in the AdSense team at Google. Third, the metrics to track our response times motivated better than 24h turn around time. I think the next evolution of work email will look very much like a customer support tool: collaboration, macros/automated responses and metrics tracking.

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Software Customer Support Metrics Management 100

FastSpring

APRIL 19, 2019

Since I joined FastSpring two years ago, I have been lucky to witness the extraordinary evolution of FastSpring, and it’s even more impressive when you consider how far we’ve come since 2005. It’s easy to chalk surveys up to a one and done type of endeavor, however, it should be viewed similar to other business metrics.

Scaling 70

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 2, 2021

What has changed in sales leadership since 2005 [8:43]. What has changed in sales leadership since 2005 [8:43]. As I started to move up and oversee large teams, I really liked the metrics and the predictable revenue, more than whale hunting. It’s a lot more high volume, high velocity, very metrics-driven.

Scale 59

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Baremetrics

MARCH 7, 2021

FastSpring Established in 2005, FastSpring is a SaaS company that offers users a range of eCommerce services. The tool offers an array of subscription-management options, from generating vital metrics and reports based on customer behavior and choices to helping implement whatever strategies you choose to implement in your procedure.

Payment Features 45

Payment Features Merchant Services Payment Methods Payment Solutions 45

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

After making a series of company acquisitions, Google started its desktop web mapping service in 2005. Large brands and retailers already have access to such online-to-offline metrics. What are the performance metrics for judging the success of your ads? Google Maps actually started as a C++ program at Where 2 Technologies.

Payment Methods 126

Payment Methods Branding Payments Merchant Services 126

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. Each seller provides key metrics to give buyers an accurate idea about the sustainability of their business. When you compare that to the $7.5 billion, that’s quite a bargain. Key Features. 30-day closing period.

Technical Review 144

Technical Review Payment Methods Acquisition Development Team Review 144

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Key Metrics to Track for Converting Freemium to Paid. Here are the metrics you absolutely need to be tracking to get freemium right. Pick the wrong value metric for your freemium plan and you’ve found yourself headed straight for disaster. In April 2005 Meetup.com went from free to paid and started charging meeting organizers.

Pricing 82

Pricing Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 82

Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Net dollar retention becomes the top SaaS metric. It sure does feel like 2005. .” On “bubble,” well, we’re still at 12x compared to what I’d say is a normal ( eyeballed ) range of 6-10x — so we’re still running hot by historical standards. [2]. There are a bunch of new ideas in circulation.

Blockchain 143

Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 143

SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Traditionally we’ve been around since 2005 and traditionally have been a software on-prem business. Megan Leuders: Well, it’s certainly something that’s not overnight. And I think in answering that will give you a little bit of background quickly on Zenoss. They were changing, they were moving to the cloud.

Cloud 168

Cloud Scale Trends Machine Learning 168

SaaStr

MARCH 6, 2020

And I think that all really came down to the way that Marc Benioff instituted planning process called the V2MOM process, which was about setting a big picture vision, setting values for your organization, and then the methods and the obstacles and the metrics that you need to lay out to achieve that.

Scale 214

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 214

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 18, 2020

SpyFu is an Arizona-based search analytics company founded in 2005. It also provides a “Performance Tracker,” which tracks and measures your Google Ads performance over time so you can see which metrics are going up—and which are going down. Individual plans start at just $29 a month, but you can see limited data for free.

Data 145

Data Trends Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 145

Neil Patel

MARCH 10, 2021

The right music, leveraged in the right ways, has the potential to positively affect metrics like CTR and traffic to your website. In 2005, Sony created an ad to advertise their new HD LCD televisions. Using it in your paid ad campaigns is a powerful way to catch people’s attention or appeal to their emotions.

Marketing 138

Marketing Entertainment Advertising Branding 138

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

He co-founded Praesto Convergence in 2005 and served as its Managing Director until 2010. Talk: SaaS Crystal Ball: Revenue Performance Metrics. Talk: Sales is a Team Sport. Eric Santos, CEO, Resultados Digitais. Eric Santos is one of the most important names in the entrepreneurial world of Brazil. Rodrigo Dantas, CEO, Vindi.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Neil Patel

MARCH 16, 2021

Most of today’s top names in blogging and marketing started around the 2002-2005 mark. The point is simply that site speed will affect 100% of your critical metrics. By giving them quality content at no-charge you are building goodwill with both the influencer and the influencer’s audience. Join Forces With Tomorrow’s Influencers.

Marketing 133

Marketing Subscription Payment Features Branding 133

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

I joined Google in 2005, a little after Claire. I wouldn’t say I have an exact metric, but-. Tomasz Tunguz: So to summarize, so you would sit down as a team, you would create the goals, and then the output of that would actually be the metrics, how do I measure. She’s got an English degree and an MBA.

CTO Coach 136

CTO Coach Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting CTO Hire 136

SaaStr

MARCH 12, 2019

Erica Schultz: Well I actually started in the world of SaaS back in 2005 so about 14 years ago when I was still at Oracle Corporation and it was right after we’d acquired Siebel Systems and I took on a leadership role for what at the time was known as the CRM on demand team. Harry Stebbings: You are right.

Scale 161

Scale Enterprise Scaling Sales Hiring 161

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Key metrics like revenue growth, customer acquisition costs, and net promoter score can indicate the success of a blue ocean strategy. However, many firms fail at successful implementation due to common pitfalls. What is the Blue Ocean Strategy?

Strategy 74

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 74

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. Your job isn’t to speak clearly – it’s to create connection It’s easy to get sucked into the numbers and metrics and make that the focus of your work as a creator or marketer.

Social Media 102

Social Media Outsourced Development Marketing AI 102

Neil Patel

JANUARY 15, 2019

Google no longer has to just look at metrics like content and backlink count to figure out if a site ranks well. They can look at user metrics, such as: Are users spending more time on your site than the other ranked sites on Google? Now if you look at the latest algorithm updates, they are getting more complex and harder to beat.

Marketing 112

Marketing Artificial Intelligence Technical Review Growth Hacking 112

User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Key metrics like revenue growth, customer acquisition costs, and net promoter score can indicate the success of a blue ocean strategy. However, many firms fail at successful implementation due to common pitfalls. What is the Blue Ocean Strategy?

Strategy 52

Strategy Technical Review Business Innovation 52

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Weighing your site performance metrics against your budget can be tough. Other features and benefits of Bluehost include: 24/7 customer support Free domain name for one year Recommended by WordPress since 2005 Automatic WordPress installations and automatic WordPress updates Free SSL certificate Unmetered bandwidth.

Scale 145

Scale Outsourced Development Systems Review Cloud 145

Sales Hacker

APRIL 2, 2020

Back in 2005, Frito-Lay came out with Cheetos lip balm. There are two ways to measure battlecard impact: view metrics and competitive win rate. View metrics is self-explanatory. Competitive win rate — the most important metric to measuring battlecard impact — is the percentage of time you win a deal against a competitor.

Sales Enablement 73

Sales Enablement Sales Interviewing Metrics 73

Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

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. But I think that Salesforce helped to establish the business optics – if not the metrics and KPIs – that are needed to actually effectively run a business. Marc is always wanting more.

Scale 151

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SaaStr

AUGUST 28, 2020

You can do a strict MQL process, and scoring, and attribution, and all kinds of amazing metrics focused items there. And sometimes those can be another factor to consider if you’re going to have one ops person over all of those very different measures, metrics, margins, and all of those pieces.

Scale 159

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Technical Advisors 159

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. At this stage, you should be asking yourself these main questions: Am I tracking metrics and looking to optimize pricing? The SaaS business metrics to keep an eye on.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

There’s a reason, after all, that Y Combinator coined the slogan “make something people want” shortly after they were founded in 2005. If I had a good metric at that time that represented product-market fit, we’d probably have $500K more in our bank account and wouldn’t have spent two years in misery.”. It makes sense intuitively.

Product Marketing 52

Product Marketing Marketing VP of Engineering Scale 52

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

There’s a reason, after all, that Y Combinator coined the slogan “make something people want” shortly after they were founded in 2005. If I had a good metric at that time that represented product-market fit, we’d probably have $500K more in our bank account and wouldn’t have spent two years in misery.”. It makes sense intuitively.

Product Marketing 52

Product Marketing Marketing VP of Engineering Scale 52

SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

Tradeshift has grown to 650+ people with offices in 12 countries from its start as a mere vision in 2005. To give you a comparison metric, this is roughly three times what Amazon do in B2B. Join Tradeshift founder and CEO as he shows founders how to take control of their destiny. Want to see more content like this?

Payment Solutions 146

Payment Solutions Payments Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments 146

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Research from Demand Metric shows content marketing costs 62 percent less but produces three times as many leads as traditional marketing. Distilled was founded by Will Critchlow and Duncan Morris in 2005. They’ve been industry leaders in the online marketing and content creation space since 2005. Technical SEO.

Content Marketing 134

Content Marketing Technical Review Marketing Banking 134

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

And then they went out for their actual IPO in 2005, 2006 timeframe. Alex Konrad: We have a couple questions about when we were talking about sort of cohort analysis and metrics earlier in the conversation. And make them lifelong customers. So I love it when customers, when companies are thinking that way.

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Venture Capital Investment Travel Marketplace as a Service 216

Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Check out the video below to learn more about my strategies for link building, on-page SEO, and user metrics when trying to rank on Google. Step #3: Track and Measure the Right SEO Metrics. Next, it’s time to track some vital metrics of your site to find out what other factors you need to improve. Organic Traffic.

Outsourcing Services 145

Outsourcing Services Social Media Mobile Software Review 145

ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

in 2005, Flickr was the first social platform based around photos, Flickr has struggled to add value to its core product. One of the constraints most freemium models above impose on user is a value metric limit. There is no value metric limit. As other photo services have gained traction. Acquired by Yahoo!

Pricing 41

Pricing Business Model Cloud Venture Capital 41

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

are just as critical as understanding the fundamental SaaS metrics such as LTV/CAC, payback, etc. In 2005 I co-founded Altify, a Dublin-based global SaaS business focusing on sales and sales best practices. Understanding how various decisions impact the company’s margin (e.g.

Scale 130

Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130