2008 Customer Support Development Venture Capital 
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 13, 2015
Sometimes, financial discipline in startups is imposed by financial markets, like in 2008 when the total amount of venture capital investment plummeted after Lehman imploded. market cap company serving developers, who deliberately raised small arounds at the outset of the company to impose financial discipline on his business.
Point Nine Land
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Jack had a background in software development and Rian was working as an IT manager at Gowling, Canada’s largest law firm. Up until this point, Jack and Rian had been dividing up all the tasks between them, including software development, sales, and customer service. There was only one problem: this was at the end of 2008.
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ProfitWell
MAY 18, 2020
It launched November 2008 with only $30,000 in the bank. million in funding from venture capital firms and now has a market cap of $17.1 The TLDR: Subscription boxes are doing well because they provide an experience customers crave. In addition to developing more products, the team also tested out the membership model.
Outseta
OCTOBER 31, 2018
Live chat tools come with the promise of completely changing your approach to marketing, of revolutionizing the way you deliver customer support, and there’s even companies like Swayed that are building live chat tools with the goal of replacing sales reps altogether. LiveChat Software has 21,000 customers and was founded back in 2002.
SaaStr
MAY 21, 2019
And this goes back to ten years ago, which was 2008 and we released the ten laws of cloud computing at a CEO conference that we had that was meaningfully smaller than this. Last year was a record in terms of total combined capital by a large multiple. However, you forgot a few, for those of you who kind of eased into it.
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