Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

The average seed stage startup has a 20% chance of raising a Series A according to Crunchbase data for IT startups who raised seed and Series A rounds between 2006 and 2013. Finance was quietly booming , but since Bitcoin broke 1000:1 USD:BTC exchange rate, financial innovations are hard to miss.

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Transportation Startup Finance Innovation 100

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Innovative startups. The first army are innovative startups. Since 2006 the era of “Everything as a service” has advanced quickly. As we were able to benefit from the pace of AWS innovation (and adopt AWS Aurora when it came along) we got 5x throughput at a 30% cost reduction. Cloud computing is dominant.

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Software Review Outsourcing Services Software Outsourced Development 224

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

APRIL 10, 2018

First up, while HubSpot’s Dublin office opened in 2013, we have been selling into EMEA since the company was founded back in 2006. This means in many markets there are few innovators left - instead we’re selling to early adopters and the early majority, who in many cases are more conservative and require greater persuasion.

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Scale Sales Sales Enablement Software Review 112

OPEXEngine

MAY 19, 2020

Still others tolerated poor results during the downturn, waiting to see what would happen, and then finally took action—too late because they bought the wrong asset or fell behind in product innovation. How winning companies behave differently.

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Scale Strategy Technical Review Acquisition 59

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 25, 2021

Proactive experience, reliability, and innovation. Jeanne: The first Chief Customer Officer book came out in 2006. It’s not about tackling problems as they pile up or chasing survey scores, it’s about building the foundation for customer-driven growth. The five competencies: Customers as assets. Align around customer experience.

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VP of Engineering Scale Business Leadership 181

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

We coined the term way back in 2006 when we founded the company, and a lot of our story, historically speaking, has been around marketing. Michael: I’m really excited about the pace of innovation in terms of automation: our ability to bring self-service to customers. The pace of innovation is way up and to the right, currently.

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: “You build it, you run it. Doing this will help you transition your team from building and relying on someone else to monitor and manage what they've built (in case you haven't already heard, a central team to run DevOps "ops" is bad form!).

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DevOps as a Service Cybersecurity Scale New CTO 75

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

It’s a great way to essentially build a brand as being an innovative tech company that you can then use to sell to larger customers later. Twitch started as an online reality TV show, and if you look at the story, it started in 2006, and by 2012 it was worth $24. If you take the case of Justin.tv By 2014 it was worth a billion.

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Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 167

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

To me, companies will always be trying to innovate around how do they serve their customers better and their employees better in order to build their businesses and drive more revenue. The company was founded all the way back in 2006, amazingly. The first is just literally funding the company in 2006. Just a bit of history.

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SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Innovation 144

Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it. Doing this will help you transition your team from building and relying on someone else to monitor and manage what they've built (in case you haven't already heard, a central team to run DevOps "ops" is bad form!).

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DevOps as a Service Technical Review CTO Coach Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We started the company back in 2006, so we’re obsessed like grandparents these days. That’s the big winners in the market today for people who really innovate on that side. We need to have an innovative go to market model. .: I think it’s always interesting for people to hear the founder’s story.

Scale 107

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 107

Chargify

MARCH 28, 2018

Innovative SaaS companies are recognizing a shift in customer demand and offering their products and features “à la carte,” and are tailoring specific offers to target sets of customers rather than offering all customers the same generic packages. The software was hard to use and implement, and offered little in the way of user experience.

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Pricing Innovation Scale SaaS 47

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Ceyuan Ventures selects entrepreneurs who show promise in crafting leading technologies, backed by powerful teams and innovation. It finances innovative tech companies across the globe, supporting them also via the Group’s resources and knowhow. Founded: 2006. Vietnam Innovative Startup Accelerator. Founded: 2004.

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SaaS Payments Venture Capital Telecommunications Payment Services 190

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As a testimony to the quality of their service, Forter was recently again included in Forbes 50 “Most Innovative Fintech Companies In 2019” list. Founded: 2006. Recently, Recorded Future were honored with the 2018 CRN Tech Innovator Award. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers.

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SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

Kellblog

JULY 4, 2020

That’s how you get known as an innovator. 1] This post is a fresh take on a post I did in 2006 entitled On Branded Features , which actually uses the same example. [2] We’ll save money by not having to register all those marks in 47 countries around the world. 2] This is a fictitious conversation about a real example.

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Branding Leadership Innovation Startup 96

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We started the company back in 2006, so we’re obsessed like grandparents these days. That’s the big winners in the market today for people who really innovate on that side. We need to have an innovative go to market model. .: I think it’s always interesting for people to hear the founder’s story.

Scale 48

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 48

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As a testimony to the quality of their service, Forter was recently again included in Forbes 50 “Most Innovative Fintech Companies In 2019” list. Founded: 2006. Recently, Recorded Future were honored with the 2018 CRN Tech Innovator Award. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers.

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SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

Crafty CTO

JUNE 10, 2023

Audi has likewise innovated on its internal combustion engine: starting in 2006, Audi made an unprecedented switch to diesel power. It’s shaping up to be a great race, perhaps as exciting as the classic Audi - Peugeot duels of 2006-2011.

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Engineering Travel Technology Interviewing 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The WebPT store starts in 2006. I think this leads us to lesson number four, which is continuously innovate through proactive listening. We started building in 2006. I think sometimes when you can’t actually find a solution for something, it does take a little bit of initiative to just go out and build it yourself.

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Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 169

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

And that went on to become a monster, I floated it on the London Stock Exchange in 2006, exited it in 2008 for about a half a billion bucks and that brings us up to the latest bunch of companies. I realized after three or four weeks that retirement was boring and then set up a gaming software company called Inspire Gaming Group.

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Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Brendan Schwartz and Chris Savage founded the company in 2006 and got their first client, a medical devices company, that year. Shopify has been amply rewarded for its innovations in ecommerce. In 2019, the picture is pretty rosy for Wistia. UiPath is a platform for robotic process automation.

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Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

I had the good fortune, my first SaaS experience was at the Mothership Salesforce in 2006, prior to even the word cloud being thrown around. Travis Bryant: Of course, well the genesis of it was a conversation with Tom about the innovations that are happening in Venture around platform. And that was really the fork in the road for me.

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Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 158

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

I joined the ranks of Prime Point Media in 2006 selling national accounts, and by 2008 I had built the entire Midwest territory. If you’re looking to become a VP of Sales at a young age, you have to find innovative ways to stand out and be noticed. My answer to all of the above was ‘yes.’ Get creative in your communications.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 69

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Founded in: 2006. Founded in: 2006. Founded in: 2006. Service Now focuses on workplace innovation. Squibler is an innovative software application that allows writers to create content and edit them to match their tastes. AWS offers cloud services to businesses. CEO: Adam Selipsky. Founded in: 1999. Service Now.

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Marketplace as a Service SaaS AWS Cybersecurity 10

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Chandra Mohan Grover in 2006, IBSFintech is a SaaS company that offers financial solutions for managing corporate trade finance and Forex treasury. Found by Manoj Dawane in 2016, VTION is an Indian-origin media technology innovation company that aims at measuring media audiences by analyzing consumer trends and behaviors.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

I feel like I’ve been in and around sales since I was a kid, but my first real ”sales” job was while I was in college, back in 2006. A win — it can be a deal, an innovative idea, it could be big or small, or even just be doing the laundry, but I need a win every day. #GirlsClub Mentor. How long have you been in sales?

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Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 90

ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

Boom and bust: 2006-2017. What was an RSS aggregator in 2006 is now an internal messaging app for your company in 2017, called Sitrion. Flickr's pricing now looks the same as 2006, but their pricing structure has changed time and again over the last decade to find a happy medium between revenue growth and user growth.

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Pricing Business Model Cloud Venture Capital 41

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

And then also constantly to be thinking about r&d constantly be thinking about innovation. And then they went out for their actual IPO in 2005, 2006 timeframe. And so it really is important to like lean in and make sure to be pushing the team around like learning’s when you do have like a flat period and growth.

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Venture Capital Investment Travel Marketplace as a Service 218

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 28, 2022

The SaaS platform offers several innovative features, including continuous threat monitoring, network segmentation, continuous vulnerability detection, and security posture assessment. Founded in: 2006. Founded in: 2006. Workiz is an innovative Field Service Management solution. Founder/CEO: Yoav Izhar-Prato. monday.com.

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 10

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 30, 2020

When ITV combined this innovation with visual storytelling, they were able to merge the benefits of broadcast TV advertising with modern tablets and smartphones. He once shared a powerful guest post on Problogger , telling the story of how he was hit by a car in April 2006. Jon Morrow. His leg was broken in 14 places.

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Social Media Content Marketing Communication Branding 145