IT World

MAY 18, 2023

In January 2006, Apple took an important step toward success in the business world — it began to transition the Mac onto Intel processors. In so doing, the company paved the way for Macs to natively run Windows and Windows applications.

Business 89

Business Software 89

SaaStr

JUNE 15, 2023

SaaS eSignature Market: From $1 Million in 2006 to $1 Billion in 2018 to $5 Billion in 2023 | SaaStr Dear SaaStr: I’ve Been Asked to Take Over as CEO of a 1 Year Old Startup with 20 Employees. A small segment of a large market is often where most of us star t. What Should I Expect?

Marketing 214

Marketing Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring SaaS 214

SaaStr

AUGUST 3, 2019

That was back in 2006 in SaaS! Going from no product to $200k in ARR in SaaS in 2006 was pretty awesome, actually. To tell me $2m ARR in Year 1 wasn’t just ambitious, but borderline insane for a new product in a new market in a new category in 2006 in SaaS. And for real. I was 100% sure we’d hit it. We probably hit $0.2m

SaaS 131

SaaS Business Marketing 131

Cobloom

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

It's how I originally grew my file storage service, File Den , to 3 million registered total users and thousands of paying customers way back in 2006. A lot's changed since I began marketing File Den in 2006, and in this post I outline the steps you need to take to maximise success.

SaaS 52

SaaS Marketing Software 52

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2021

Founded way back in 2006, adoption was slow as first, but they kept at it and Smartsheet is now growing faster than ever 15+ years later. It’s an interesting one, with a very broad base of SMBs and a slow-and-steady path to going upmarket. They are now growing a stunning 42% year-over-year at over $400,000,000 in ARR!!

Payment Features 305

Payment Features Enterprise Business Scaling 305

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Some are laughably dated, but some are still as relevant today as ever: 2006: Fax integration. We launched in the first AppExchange class in late 2006 with the first true, deep Salesforce integration. Actually, looking back I see I made a video of our 10x Features in order. Many companies still wanted fax at this point.

Scale 212

Scale SaaS Branding Mobile 212

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Congratulations to the entire Amplitude team on having built an impressive business and importantly the first publicly traded analytics company since Omniture debuted in 2006. Following the model of Asana, Slack, Spotify and others, Amplitude will conduct a direct listing on the day of their IPO.

Metrics 227

Metrics Benchmarks PayPal Revenue 227

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

An incredible journey from a fairly simple product at founding in 2006. Wix has benefitted from those trends, not just crossing $1B in ARR, but growing a very impressive 29% year-over-year at $1B in ARR! And a $15B+ market cap!! 5 Interesting Learnings: 1. Existing $1B in Customer ARR is Worth $9.2B Over Next 8 Years.

Payment Methods 281

Payment Methods Payment Solutions Payments SMB 281

Chargebee

MARCH 1, 2023

Since 2006, Xero automated the problem of high-performance business accounting, amassing 3.5 million subscribers, to become one of the most popular business accounting platforms in the market.

Business 52

Business Marketing 52

SaaStr

MARCH 27, 2022

When we started EchoSign / Adobe Sign in 2005/2006, the web-based e-signature market was $1m in market size. SaaS eSignature Market: From $1 Million in 2006 to $1 Billion in 2018 to $5 Billion in 2023. Add 10-100x more value to a market than existing before, and the market size can grow 10-1000x, too. THat’s 2000x growth.

Scale 361

Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital Startup 361

Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 26, 2022

. “The magic of Intercom’s technology is that it makes the internet feel human, which is a compelling value proposition at this stage of the digital evolution” She joined Google in 2006 and for 10 years was in a variety of business leadership roles including Vice President of Global Sales and Vice President and Managing Director for (..)

AI 118

AI Leadership Healthcare Sales Hiring 118

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 11, 2020

In 2006, VCs invested about $3.5B The most recent event to use as an analogy is the 2008 financial crisis. In 2008, I had just joined the venture industry, and then Lehman fell. So this was a bit of a trip down memory lane. Let’s look at the data. per quarter in seed, A, B, and C rounds. in the quarters following the crash.

Marketing 301

Marketing Startup Investment Trends 301

SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2020

SaaS eSignature Market: From $1 Million in 2006 to $1 Billion in 2018. I don’t know if you’ve built a strong enough team yet to really execute here. But I do know that if you hit $10m ARR with 100%+ net revenue retention, and happy customers … well, it can be you, too.

SaaS 250

SaaS Retention Churn Revenue 250

Nimble - Sales

MARCH 25, 2019

For example, Facebook marked the beginning of a new era in digital marketing when they went public in 2006. Many technologies and trends have disrupted the digital world in the past. Today, almost every brand (local or global) uses this and several other social media platforms for marketing. The digital landscape will witness a few […].

Trends 105

Trends Marketing Social Media Branding 105

SaaStr

MARCH 1, 2019

More here: SaaS eSignature Market: From $1 Million in 2006 to $1 Billion in 2018 | SaaStr. But in the end, I didn’t ride the rest of the wave that would have also carried us to 20x growth by 2019. We couldn’t quite see it at the time. Now I know.

Startup 126

Startup SaaS Revenue Marketing 126

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Atlassian customers started building many plugins for different use cases in 2006, so the company built a website for customers to share and exchange their plugins for free. Having solution partners on your side translates into more resources to solve customer pain points. This meant so many new features to use for every Atlassian customer.

Scale 228

Scale Scaling Marketplace as a Service Enterprise readiness 228

IT World

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Launched in 2006, it has 8 million users (almost 1 million of them paid users) and is deployed by nearly 100,000 companies, ranging from Google and Netflix to the US General Services Administration. Smartsheet is a flexible spreadsheet-centric work management tool designed to track team projects.

Management 68

Management Marketing Business 68

SaaStr

JANUARY 22, 2022

But what I see time and time again, in 2006, 2016, 2022, every single year I’ve been in SaaS … a Dec 31 year-end works. Jan 31 just isn’t the same. I know some will disagree, and it probably doesn’t matter when your bigger, or have a truly excellent VP of Sales on board. It’s glorious in fact.

Scale 228

Scale SaaS SMB Sales 228

Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

In 2006, LendingClub introduced a then-novel business model: the ability to offer online personal loans to millions of underserved customers. The peer-to-peer lender was a media and investor darling, hailed as a tech-enabled alternative to traditional banks. When LendingClub went …

Business Model 80

Business Model Banking Business Mobile 80

SaaStr

AUGUST 24, 2019

Some are laughably dated, but some are still as relevant today as ever: 2006: Fax integration. We launched in the first AppExchange class in late 2006 with the first true, deep Salesforce integration. Actually, looking back I see I made a video of our 10x Features in order. Many companies still wanted fax at this point.

Scale 176

Scale SaaS Branding Mobile 176

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

SaaS eSignature Market: From $1 Million in 2006 to $1 Billion in 2018 to $5 Billion in 2023. Really, because of that, because no one has ever really heard of you in the grand scheme of potential customers — I highly doubt at this point you have even tapped 1% of your practical, addressable market. .

Marketing 313

Marketing Scale SaaS Scaling 313

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Launch on January 1, 2006. If you do that, and the world doesn’t change from under you … you’ll get a Mini-Brand. Not in a day, but in time. And things will being to get scaleable from there. You can see our path there above from Google Trends. No real Mini-Brand until early 2007.

Scale 291

Scale Branding SaaS Enterprise 291

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 15, 2017

Written in 2006, the book summarizes Kofman’s experiences as a management consultant to some of the great leaders in technology and other industries. I’ve been reading Fred Kofman’s book, Conscious Business.

Management 184

Management Consulting Communication Technology 184

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The company was founded all the way back in 2006, amazingly. The first is just literally funding the company in 2006. But back in 2006 they were fighting conventional wisdom and the conventional wisdom at that time was that you could not make money selling software to marketers. So this was the Marketo journey.

SaaS 144

SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Revenue 144

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Above, I’ve plotted the mean and median investment amounts for Series As, Bs, and Cs from 2006 to through September of 2014 in the US, as reported by Crunchbase data. In fact, the median Series A in 2006 equals the median in 2014: $5M. The data reveals three trends. Second, Series C sizes have ballooned.

Startup 100

Startup Venture Capital Marketing Trends 100

SaaStr

DECEMBER 22, 2020

A bit more of a deep dive here: SaaS eSignature Market: From $1 Million in 2006 to $1 Billion in 2018 to $5 Billion in 2023. But these can often be enough in the Seed and Series A days to convince investors to go on the unicorn journey with you. Even if your TAM isn’t quite huge today. I’ve lived this myself.

SaaS 238

SaaS Scale Cloud Marketing 238

Neil Patel

JANUARY 27, 2021

The term “inbound marketing” was coined by HubSpot in 2006. That original HubSpot inbound playbook was introduced in 2006. You can’t keep doing the same things that worked in 2006, or we’d all be keyword stuffing our blog posts to rank #1. Inbound marketing has changed quite a bit since HubSpot first introduced it in 2006.

Trends 142

Trends Marketing Social Media Content Marketing 142

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2014

Looking at the gross dollars invested in engineering, the 2014 cohort spends much more than the 2010, 2006 and 2002 cohorts, setting aside one outlier year in the 2006 cohort. But in the 2006 cohort, DealerTrack spent only 4% on engineering investment, besting the 2014 engineering winner, Fleetmatics. 1998 34 11.

SaaS 100

SaaS Engineering Investment Sales 100

SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2021

SaaS eSignature Market: From $1 Million in 2006 to $1 Billion in 2018 to $5 Billion in 2023. Instead of just focusing on hitting the number for this year, and working on the next — a full time job already — I should have found a way to also focus on hitting the numbers for 4 and 10 years out. But it’s not. My 10, FWIW.

SaaS 265

SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting 265

Frontegg

JULY 24, 2022

That left us with 2006 companies that raised their series A funding rounds in H1’22 and in total raised between $1-$150M. Then, one by one, our dedicated market research team went through those 2006 companies and segmented them into B2B or B2C segments. Out of those 1,418, only 27 are both B2B and B2C.

B2B 45

B2B Enterprise readiness B2C SaaS 45

30 Day Leadership

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Jay explains what he would have told himself back in 2006 with the 15 years of experience he has now, which starts with getting out of the constraints of your day job and being a people leader as well. 19:34 — You don't need to have all the answers — Why your direct skill set no longer matters as a leader. Connect with Jay Nathan at [link].

Leadership 52

Leadership B2B Business Development 52

Hitenism

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

In 2006, after Amazon Web Services (AWS) helped pioneer what we now call the cloud, product development changed forever. What once took millions of dollars and a team of engineers to create, a lone developer could suddenly hack together in half an hour. Today, one-third of daily internet users visit websites built on top of AWS.

AWS 189

AWS Scale New CTO Cloud 189

30 Day Leadership

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Jay explains what he would have told himself back in 2006 with the 15 years of experience he has now, which starts with getting out of the constraints of your day job and being a people leader as well. 19:34 — You don't need to have all the answers — Why your direct skill set no longer matters as a leader.

Leadership 52

Leadership B2B Business Development 52

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 3, 2014

But afterwards, in both the 2006 and 2010 buckets, the median exceeded 1.15, indicating a remarkable increase in capital efficiency. The line chart above shows the trend across the four different IPO cohorts from 1998-2014. The blue line shows the median ROIC and the red line shows the average ROIC. over the course of the same 16 years.

Startup 100

Startup SaaS Revenue Trends 100

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 2, 2014

The first row contains data from IPOs between 1998-2002, the second bucket contains data from IPOs between 2002-2006 and so on. 2006 66 4.0 These figures are inflation adjusted and are in 2014 dollars. IPO Cohort Median VC$ Raised Median # of Rounds Median Round Size $M Median IPO Size Number. 1998 42 2.5 2002 71 3.0 2010 101 4.5

SaaS 100

SaaS Finance Trends Startup 100

Tom Tunguz

JULY 26, 2016

To cite one critical counterexample, Concur’s rapid revenue growth in 2006 and 2007 occurred after nearly a decade of tepid expansion. Though there is some truth to the assertion, the Humpty Dumpty characterization is overly broad. Second winds aren’t uncommon.

Startup 146

Startup SaaS Software Compensation 146

SaaStr

DECEMBER 29, 2019

We launched on January 1, 2006 on TechCrunch , and while we closed some good names that first year (Dell, BT, Qualcomm, GE, Comcast, etc.), At EchoSign, now Adobe Sign, there’s a large group of well-known customers that I closed, Back in The Day … that now have been customers for 10 years.

Scale 349

Scale Churn Customer Success SaaS 349