Tom Tunguz

APRIL 21, 2020

In particular, narratives stoked three depressions and recessions in the US in 1920, 1929, and 2008. The founders have built three companies in the domain, sold their last one to Salesforce, and developed Kustomer with all the knowledge and insights from those experiences. Positive narratives are just as mighty.

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SaaStr

MAY 20, 2020

Started Twilio in January 2008, just as the last downturn happened. VCs didn’t think developers would buy anything. A deep dive on how to sell, how to sell to developers, how to expand products and markets, and much more. ” A good reminder to us all. For months, they couldn’t raise any money at all.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2019

The era after 2006 and through the 2008 financial crisis was a different time to raise capital. With more capital, startups can take more risk, explore more customer acquisition channels (some which may not work), develop more products and potentially grow faster. But the efficiency is declining, markedly. It was harder.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 19, 2019

If you prefer to build a business that consumes more capital either for ramping GTM or developing a more technical product, a $5M seed might be a better bet. The previously fixed financial products that existed in 2008 of a $4-6M Series A and a $10-12M Series B are gone. Seed investors are moving up, with some raising bigger funds.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In 2008, he founded Yammer, an enterprise software company that David grew to 500 employees and $60 million in sales. Positions Needed: Developers (Front-End and Back-End), Client Applications, Core Services/Platform, Analytics, and DevOps. David Sacks: SaaS Background and Investments. Microsoft acquired Yammer for $1.2 Team Size: 12.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

One of those was 2008/2009 when 5 funds were started. The VC firm focuses on ensuring entrepreneurs the right conditions for developing a winning business. It supports them with their go-to market strategy, marketing, sales, customer success, and business development. Founded: 2017. Size of fund: N/A. Stage: Seed. Founded: 2012.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 1, 2024

Luis Caballero and Sung Choi (Muse) Luis Caballero , born in Oklahoma City, acquired a diverse set of self-taught skills at an early age, including music production, website development, and social media growth. His career began in advertising, but the 2008 recession prompted him to shift to radiology.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Seventy-six percent of Colombians use fintech services, according to an Ernst & Young report, the highest fintech adoption rate in Latin America, and from 2008 to 2022, the percentage of Colombian adults who hold a banking product rose from 55% to over 90%.

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2019

From 200-2008 she held leadership positions at Allegis Corporation and Intuit before ultimately joining Intercom in 2017. His tenure at Atlassian began in 2008 where he rose from VP of Sales and Marketing to President. Prior to Logickull Andy was a software developer at EDS (an HP Company). Andy Wilson Logikcull Founder / CEO.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Christoph Janz, General Partner of Point Nine Capital, shares what it takes to raise capital in SaaS, overall investment activity in 2023, and how to develop a convincing AI strategy. So, what happened is most of the craziness from 2020 and 2021 has been erased, yet we’re not back to the nuclear winter of fundraising in 2008.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Its been called the “Facebook for developers” so it’s no surprise that this particular unicorn has our ears perked for insights on how it helped other startups grow along the way. Github was founded in 2008. Erica Brescia, Github COO.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 27, 2023

years, and while it attracted lots of developers and enabled the spectacular success of companies like Jasper.ai , its speed of adoption was nothing compared to the never-seen-something-like-this-before growth of ChatGPT (5 days to 1 million users, I’m sure you’ve seen the chart). enabled ChatGPT’s meteoric rise.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The Summit gathered ~40 CPOs and product leaders to chat through topics centered around product development and product-led growth. Too much new product development that didn’t pan out and too much trying to regain what we had lost vs. leaning into new areas that were working.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Eight months later, we’re learning what functionality matters most to our end users, and as the first customer, our sales team have been fundamental to developing the product. Almost 10% of our customer base has tried it out, and over $4m in pipeline has been created in ChartMogul CRM. We have a clear focus, strong plan and a great team.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

She is also an active tech investor in Asia, complementing the financing with business development insights. In 2012, she became Assistant VP at JJL Overseas Education in Beijing, soon enough becoming its VP of Global Development. And then she studied software development at Fullstack Academy. Jessica Liu. Anita Varshney.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 26, 2016

Conway’s Law arises in software development projects. In 2008, Alan MacCormack and his co-authors researched and validated Conway’s Law in HBR by studying the software produced by companies and contrasting that with open source software produced by communities. Hence microservices.

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The Angel VC

MAY 17, 2017

Had I seen a SaaS startup with this growth curve in my first 2-3 years of SaaS investing (in 2008-2010) I probably would have asked “where do I have to sign?”. (We of course might be wrong, and maybe we’ll have to add both companies to our growing anti-portfolio list in a couple of years. I’ll keep you posted.)

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The Angel VC

AUGUST 26, 2015

According to a survey by technology evaluation business Software Advice , 88% of buyers with a deployment preference preferred on-premise solutions in 2008. Here are some of them. 1) SaaS is quickly becoming the norm In the last years there’s been a dramatic shift in deployment preferences of software buyers.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The NoSQL movement launched officially in 1999 but rose to prominence much later perhaps closer to 2008 when Hadoop and other key value pair technologies became en vogue. These bridge technologies enable more developers and users to leverage the database. Today, it’s hard to argue with the success of the movement.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Tenbound Sales Development Conference. Marketing professionals who help develop sales enablement content. As the longest-running sales tech conference around (since 2008), the annual Sales 3.0 Tenbound Sales Development Conference. Sales Development Strategy – Leadership (March 24). Unleash 2021. Sales managers.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 6, 2015

How can I evangelize my product to developers? And later in the year, Maia Josebachvilli, the VP of People & Strategy at Greenhouse will join us to share insights about recruiting metrics and Adam Gross, head of product at Heroku and former VP of Platform and Developer Marketing at Salesforce, about building developer products.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

Our former Director of Content and Community spoke to Alf about managing a happy team, how he’s grown his company without external funding, the history of developing in the Mac ecosystem, and running a consulting and software business. Like the iPhone is 2008. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

However, this flexibility is what gives developers room to work without too many restrictions. The goal of every SEO, site builder, and creator is to develop a website that is engaging, simple, entertaining, and effective at a certain goal. In 2008, Google stated they can (and do) crawl dynamic URLs. Pay Attention to Meta Data.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 17, 2020

To see how COGs and gross margins are changing, take a look at these charts showing SaaS companies that IPO’ed in 2008 versus 2018. Average COGs in 2008 was 40% of revenue at the time of IPO, and gross margins averaged 60%. with a number of companies at over 80% gross margins.

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The Angel VC

JULY 17, 2015

It took a few years – which shows how much ahead of its time 37signals was – but eventually other SaaS companies redesigned their websites or rebuilt them from the ground up: Campaign Monitor in 2008 (click for a larger version) The trend was clear: Less and less text, bigger font sizes, larger images, videos.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 15, 2015

Yesterday I shot off a Tweetstorm about some important developments that I'm observing in the SaaS world as we're entering 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. –

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 29, 2015

Netsuite began developing ERP (enterprise resource planning) tools to help companies manage their finances, expenses and supply chain. Netsuite’s revenue per customer averaged $19k in 2008, and $23k in 2009, the last years for which the company provided customer counts. Most ERP systems require substantial configuration.

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Benchmarks Outsourced Development Metrics Scale 101

SaaStr

JULY 25, 2021

When I was starting as a first time entrepreneur in 2008, I got rejected by a lot of VCs. The third thing I would say is in our business, you know, obviously developers are an important constituent, in fact, the most important constituent. Jyoti Bansal: Yeah and it’s anyone selling to developer market which I’ve done it.

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Clouded Judgement

JUNE 5, 2023

It's important to note that QT is a relatively new concept in monetary policy, largely coming into discussion after the extensive QE programs that were launched in response to the 2008 financial crisis. Treasury General Account (TGA) The Treasury General Account (TGA) is essentially the checking account of the U.S.

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Payment Services Cloud Government Banking 169

OpenView Labs

JULY 26, 2021

Over her career, she has established a proven track record of operationalizing strategy and developing award-winning products while in pivotal roles at leading companies including Intuit, Yahoo, PayPal, Adobe, Joyent, and Sun Microsystems. Merline Saintil agrees. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

million dollar Series B to drive the development of its next generation AI-based loyalty software. Founded 2014 in Munich, Germany, Loyalty Prime has quickly developed itself into a leading loyalty program tech provider, serving blue-chip companies around the globe from a wide range of industries. Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5

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OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

It often seems as if traditional strategy development processes have no place in the fast-moving, always changing technology industries. The critical difference is that they’ve discovered how to make strategy development faster, pragmatic and more agile by focusing on four key principles. At a Glance.

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Kraftblick

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Perhaps, you even know when you need to start a PPC campaign and why SEO is the option that is perfect for your developing startup. Well, we don’t live in 2008 anymore. The studies of Wordstream , a successful PPC software developers’ agency, show that the world has turned upside-down in terms of clicks on paid search results.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 9, 2013

In the summer of 2008, a crisis evolved on my team at Google: social networks had grown exponentially. We shed our daily responsibilities, relocated our desks to a conference room in a deserted building on the edge of campus where we brainstormed and debated and wrote patents and developed a plan of action.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 7, 2021

Written by Marcus Sheridan, a pool company owner who overcame the 2008 housing collapse and is now one of the highest-volume pool installers in the nation, this book takes readers through his experiences, offering tips and perspectives along the way. Does your current marketing strategy need a refresh? If so, this book is for you.

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Teamgate

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Mobile CRM can be described as a tool or software developed and designed to work on Mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets, and other internet-enabled devices. What is Mobile CRM? . Rate of Adoption of mobile CRM.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2020

Prior to Work-Bench, Jessica was a Learning and Development Manager at Cisco Systems, where she worked with the Engineering organization on Agile transformation, innovation and culture. He’ll cover remote work, team management, sales, marketing, product development, and more. This podcast is sponsored by Guru.

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