Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Prior to founding Instacart, Apoorva was a fulfillment optimization software engineer from Amazon. The more I got exposed to the details behind the Instacart business, the more it reminded me of OpenTable (where I had been CEO from 2007-2011). Beyond the metrics, co-founder and CEO Apoorva Mehta had great founder/product fit.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 18, 2015

SuccessFactors 39 1300 30 2007 6. SAP purchased SuccessFactors for $3.4B in December 2011, and Oracle bought Taleo for $1.9B in February 2012. Company Revenue at IPO, $M Customers at IPO ACV at IPO, $k Year of IPO Years Since Founding. Taleo 85 1000 85 2005 6. The companies pursued slight different strategies in the market.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2019

Hubspot is an inbound marketing and sales software company based in Massachusetts. from 2007-2011 which eventually became Twitch. Jay Simons rose up the ranks from Area Sales Manager with Plumtree software to VP of Product Marketing and Strategy. Prior to Logickull Andy was a software developer at EDS (an HP Company).

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Scale Leadership Consulting Metrics 164

Network World

APRIL 18, 2017

When Simonyi quit as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect in 2002, it was to create a start-up devoted to making programming simpler. Now Microsoft has agreed to acquire that company, Intentional Software. He made his first trip in 2007 and liked it so much that he went back again two years later.

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Network World

APRIL 18, 2017

When Simonyi quit as Microsoft's Chief Software Architect in 2002, it was to create a start-up devoted to making programming simpler. Now Microsoft has agreed to acquire that company, Intentional Software. He made his first trip in 2007 and liked it so much that he went back again two years later.

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IT World

JUNE 17, 2020

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Group – which will soon be rebranded as Natwest Group under new CEO Alison Rose – has been on a big technology modernization drive since its government bailout after the 2007 banking crisis.

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Software Delivery Banking Government Technology 69

Tom Tunguz

JULY 26, 2016

McKinsey released a study of high growth software companies entitled Grow Fast or Die Slow. One salient conclusion: If a software company grows at 20% annually, it has a 92 percent chance of ceasing to exist within a few years. In other words, software companies must grow quickly to survive. Part two is more interesting.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2019

Gainsight’s customer success software empowers companies to increase revenue and decrease customer churn. Mikkel later founded Zendesk in 2007 while living in Copenhagen, Denmark. At SaaStr Annual 2017 she shared how selling Sunny Delight would ultimately teach her how to sell software.

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Sales Recruiting Software Review Technical Review PayPal 168

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 30, 2016

Salesforce’s initial public offering in 2003 demarcated the beginning of a new era, the era of Software as a Service. In the 13 years that followed, many startups have followed their path to build innovative software that has transformed their respective industries and sectors. The chart above plots the number of SaaS IPOs.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2021

Jason : You came up with the crazy idea to start Veeva in 2007, just before the worst two years that we’ve experienced in the industry, ’08 and ’09. The other thing is I’ve studied enterprise software for literally 30 years. I was an intern at IBM mainframe software when I was 20 years old.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 15, 2022

We’re sector agnostic, philosophically speaking, but with the way the economy is going now, most of our work is with software companies. Asad Zaman : I came to Canada in 2007 as an international student, to go into law. Comes to Canada in 2007, doing door-to-door sales, enters STA as an account executive, now the CEO.

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Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Acquisition Development 93

Baremetrics

MARCH 30, 2021

Zuora Founded in 2007, Zuora is an enterprise billing and invoicing company that helps businesses launch and manage their subscription-based services. Therefore, ensure that you know the features you want in billing and subscription software. Chargebee is extremely easy to use with an excellent and receptive support team.

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Payment Solutions Payments Payment Features Payment Methods 105

SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

It was launched in 2007 to operate the Criatec I Fund’s investments in São Paulo. Founded: 2007. Riverwood provides late stage venture and private equity funding for companies with high potential from a number of industries, including IT, hardware, consumer electronics, IT services, B2B software, and digital and consumer internet.

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Venture Capital SaaS Healthcare Finance 155

Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In fact, we may be at a pivot point rather like in 2007 when the “app economy” evolved and changed the entire way we communicate, work, play, and shop. Tech talent is starting to migrate away from software as new no-code/low-code technologies replace the number of people needed to do this work.

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Innovation SaaS Scale Technology 52

OpenView Labs

JULY 21, 2021

Or maybe that’s just my software engineer’s bias. The idea that the latest is also correct holds in technical genres like software engineering, artificial intelligence, and the likes. This is a list of books that describes my journey, post facto, of building online software and running a company that makes such software.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

Many software survivors of the dot-com crash pursued a more conservative strategy and were rewarded for their prudence. An example of a relatively extreme case, from 2001 to 2007, Concur grew between 0% and 35% each year. It took the company nearly five years to double revenue from $35.7M in 2000 to $71.8M

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Audacix

AUGUST 11, 2018

In the case of outsourced test automation services, most customers are trying to prevent losses of the magnitude reported by Computer Weekly magazine from the UK: One analyst, who follows the outsourced software testing space closely, believes: Cost savings are a major driver and also the need to do testing in a more professional manner.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Our timing was horrible – it was almost at the height of the global financial crisis which had started in 2007. While we were trying to raise the Series A, Lehman Brothers imploded and a collapse of the entire global financial markets seemed possible.

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SaaSHolic

MARCH 20, 2023

Nascia em 2007 outra empresa de tecnologia — chamada Zynga — que buscava agradar um público um pouco mais específico: os gamers. A Activision e a Blizzard cresceram na década de 90 se especializando nesse público (até se fundirem em 2008) e gigantes como Microsoft, Sony e Nintendo desenvolveram hardware e software para o público.

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SaaS Software Review Mobile Startup 52

Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

Then, they offered their software solution to online marketers who were interested in this “new way” of marketing. . HubSpot wasn’t just preaching inbound marketing to get people to sign up for their software. 2007: 48 customers. 2007: 15 employees. 2007:$255,000. They themselves were true believers. 2009: Unknown.

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Subscription Payment Features Revenue Software Review 40

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

The 80s and 90s were all about physical purchasing and installation of software CDs and floppy disks. This innovative software tool is a proven and tested customer engagement booster. All companies, big and small, can use Stripe’s APIs and software to receive and process payments. So pick accordingly. #1 1 Intercom. 8 Typeform.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

OpenView Labs

AUGUST 18, 2020

Since launching in 2007, UserTesting, a product that uses real human insight to bridge the gap between products and users, has helped thousands of companies deliver better customer experiences. TrustRadius asked over 1,035 software buyers what influenced their software purchase decisions in their 2020 B2B Buyers Disconnect study.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 15, 2015

The point that I made was that most of the tactics which smart SaaS entrepreneurs developed around 2007-2009 – inbound marketing, conversion optimization, lifecycle marketing, etc. – While a Tweetstorm is a nice way of gently breaking the 140 character limit, I thought it would make sense to follow-up with a blog post.

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Growth Hacking Scale SaaS Content Marketing 113

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Founded in 2007, MobileIron is a leader in the Mobile Device Management sector. MDM provides enterprises software to manage the mobile phones and tablets of their employees. The company delivers its product both as perpetual license software and as-a-Service. MobileIron employs a hybrid delivery model.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 27, 2018

You’ve got an amazing idea for a new piece of software or service that you’re confident about developing further, but is the market really ready for your idea? First coined by Marc Andreessen in 2007, “product-market fit” was initially defined as “being in a good market with a product that can satisfy that market.”.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2014

FLTX, a maker of fleet tracking software, has identical ARPC. CTCT 2007 9 31. Only WIX, CTCT and RNG had smaller figures of $86, $265 and $352. I’ve plotted a subset of them in the chart above. Company Founded Years to IPO Rev in $M at IPO. RNG 1999 14 162. QLYS 1999 13 91. DATA 2003 10 232. FLTX 2004 10 128. HUBS 2006 8 113*.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

In 2006, founded iOSXpert — now the largest partner of the Mac-based CRM and project management software Daylite. We are more or less a business consulting company as a software consulting company that as there are many outside, but we are specialized in Apple users, helping Apple users. They were creating ERP software for Mac users.

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Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Software 78

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In 2007, he and his wife started their own online store. Shannon will showcase these revenue-boosting strategies through real-life examples of customer case studies, focused on software, SaaS, and online services companies. I'm especially digging the My Wife Quit Her Job Podcast with Steve Chou.

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Payment Methods Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 40

Aber Law Firm

APRIL 4, 2014

Resources: Did you know the US Supreme Court Changed Reseller law in 2007? appeared first on Software Attorney. So remember, think through your model first, as the agreement should reflect (not define) your SaaS channel model. What customers expect in their SaaS Agreements!

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS 52

Aber Law Firm

APRIL 4, 2014

Did you know the US Supreme Court Changed Reseller law in 2007? appeared first on Software Attorney. So remember, think through your model first, as the agreement should reflect (not define) your SaaS channel model. Resources: . What customers expect in their SaaS Agreements!

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SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services SaaS 52

ProfitWell

OCTOBER 9, 2019

In 2007, he and his wife started their own online store. Shannon will showcase these revenue-boosting strategies through real-life examples of customer case studies, focused on software, SaaS, and online services companies. I'm especially digging the My Wife Quit Her Job Podcast with Steve Chou.

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Payment Methods Sales Recruiting SaaS Payments Payment Solutions 40

OpenView Labs

JANUARY 19, 2022

I vaguely remember reading Dave McClure’s pirate metrics slideshare (circa 2007!) Fast forward to the past few years, where product-led models have not only emerged, t hey’ve shown the market that it’s an excellent way to build a software company. As a result, Activation is having a moment. .

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 18, 2019

In late 2007, a pair of roommates found themselves scraping their wallets to come up with enough cash to cover their exorbitant San Francisco rent. Once you’ve figured that out, the software will naturally follow. But it can be a real challenge knowing that’s what you’re doing from the outset.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 6, 2021

So, 2006 or 2007. I’ve noticed this about software developers, but I also see it in many IT careers. I also knew that it wouldn’t be something that I’d get bored with over time. When I started at Achievement First, there was the iPhone. When did that come out again? I remember it was while I was still in college.

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Technology CTO Coach CTO Hire New CTO 98

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

is a software company that transforms sales operations into growth operations by providing sales-ops-as-a-service, combining the perfect blend of people, process, and cloud platform to accelerate sales organization growth. I was 22 in 2007. About Patrick Joyce. Company Name: fullcast.io. Title: Director of Business Development.

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Development Business Software Review Engagement 58

OpenView Labs

APRIL 16, 2020

Did that period influence how you manage a software company? Let’s fast-forward to 2007/2008 when you became an EIR for Redpoint Ventures. And we introduced a subscription business model. Both of these ideas are visible at Adobe today. The suites and the subscription model have been a huge success. It was pretty formative for me.

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Leadership Business Model Healthcare Acquisition 70

Neil Patel

APRIL 20, 2021

online course, ebook, software), so you naturally want others to believe in it, too. HelpScout doesn’t just try to sell help-desk software. Volusion.com has a unique value proposition that simply and strongly projects the core benefit of its software. BlendTec took a novel approach way back in 2007 with its “Will It Blend?”

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