The Angel VC

MAY 31, 2016

With constantly rising table stakes and a fundraising environment that looks quite a bit less favorable than last year’s, I believe the bar is higher than in the last 18-24 months (although raising money is still much easier than it was in “Silicon Valley’s nuclear winter” in 2008 ). Update 1: Here's a mobile-friendly version of the napkin.]

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SaaS Finance Mobile Enterprise 193

SaaStr

AUGUST 24, 2019

2008: Cross-platform. We had basic mobile, Mac and Windows, whatever you wanted. As the web began to grow, just having Mobile Sign and Safari compatibility alone could win deals. “Do you want 80% of your customers to be able e-sign your contacts? We know this, because we sure were lacking a lot of other key features!

Scale 171

Scale Mobile Branding Engineering 171

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Millennials and Gen Z have been hard-hit by the one-two punch of the 2008 and 2020 financial crises. That experience has radically shaped their approach to finances and their mindset around credit and debt.

Finance 136

Finance Education Mobile 136

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. 5) Mobile expands the market to non-desk workers About ten years ago, the number of smartphone users was negligible. Here are some of them.

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SaaS Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Construction 173

SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

One of those was 2008/2009 when 5 funds were started. Founded: 2008. Founded: 2008. The sectors of interest for Qualcomm Ventures include AI, automotive, data center, digital health, IoT, and mobile. Founded: 2008. Size of fund: R$65M. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed. Valor Capital Group. Size of fund: $3.3B.

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Venture Capital SaaS Healthcare Finance 155

SaaStr

JANUARY 7, 2021

SaaStr 308: RevenueCat CEO Jacob Eiting on Managing Millions in Mobile Subscriptions While Growing 20% a Month. Most of us think a lot about standard B2B SaaS and Cloud subscriptions, but we are still new to the issues, challenges, and opportunities in mobile subscriptions. We’re obviously in a very unique situation today.

Scale 225

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling B2B 225

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Aalpha Information Systems Rate: >$25 / hr Employees: 50 – 249 Founded: 2008 This full-service software development company was founded in Bangalore, India, and now has three more offices in Mumbai, Hubli, and Delhi. 10Clouds mainly works in healthcare, education, business services, fintech, and blockchain industries.

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DevOps as a Service Development Technical Review Blockchain 40

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Instead of going through the hypergrowth Shishir experienced during his time at YouTube, Coda stayed in stealth mode for three years to make sure they could truly deliver a mobile experience that truly offered docs that were as powerful as apps. The most important piece of launch is a brand-new mobile experience, which is pretty awesome.

Software Review 171

Software Review Mobile Systems Review Technical Review 171

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 26, 2015

Mobile phones. As banks stopped lending after 2008, market place lenders like LendingClub and Prosper bloomed and originated $12B of loans in 2014. Communications. Healthcare. Entertainment. In the past ten years, is there an industry startups haven’t upheaved? WhatsApp delivers 50% more messages than all global SMS volumes.

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Entertainment Healthcare Banking Startup 100

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Then you must snatch the golden opportunity to grab consumer attention with the ultimate local guide, on a mobile device including the iPhone and iPad as well as all Android device products. ? of mobile searches are based on location. Overall, local searches are growing 50% faster than overall mobile searches.

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Payment Methods Branding Payments Merchant Services 126

SaaSHolic

MARCH 20, 2023

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. Você percebe que existe uma demanda pelo seu produto, que inicialmente foi desenvolvido para usuários mobile iOS.

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SaaS Software Review Mobile Startup 52

OpenView Labs

JULY 26, 2021

That belief is part of why she loves what Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said during the commencement speech she gave at Harvard in 2008: “The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”. Listen to the episode.

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VP of Engineering Management Cybersecurity PayPal 93

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Hi inov targets young innovative companies in the digital B2B economy, especially in the areas of e-services, mobile Internet and IoT, point-of-sale and data technologies, and SaaS software dedicated to the digitalization of companies. The fund typically invests between € 0.5 – 3m initially and up to € 12m in total per company.

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Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2013

Mobile messaging and big data are knee-jerk reactions at this point. Consumer Credit - After the crash of 2008, bank lending collapsed. Mobile first banking - The Durbin amendment to the Dodd-Frank Bill regulated interchange fees, reducing the profits payments companies generate on credit card swipes.

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Merchant Services Payments Point of Sale Startup 100

OpenView Labs

APRIL 16, 2020

Those who went through the 2001 and 2008 economic downturns emerged with valuable lessons on navigating a crisis—not to mention a heck of a lot of resilience. Let’s fast-forward to 2007/2008 when you became an EIR for Redpoint Ventures. What got you here may not get you where you want to go.

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Leadership Business Model Healthcare Acquisition 70

Tom Tunguz

MAY 2, 2015

Enabled by web and mobile app distribution, the bottoms up software business acquires individual users, small teams and eventually departments. and $8.9M, both of which occurred in 2008, would likely have been substantially larger today. Second, the cyclicality of the venture market has a greater impact on total dollars raised.

Startup 108

Startup Venture Capital Mobile Acquisition 108

Neil Patel

JULY 12, 2021

The best part about this tool is that it integrates with your mobile app or website so you can see data in real-time and triggers actions by adding in predefined rules. This marketing software lets you drive revenue with lead management, mobile marketing, and more. Basically, it makes personalized messages simple.

Payment Methods 145

Payment Methods Scale Payments Marketing 145

FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

Like the iPhone is 2008. But I mean, if you go back to 2006 2007 2008 like that, yeah, that was just not a thing that people did. So the iPhone as we know it today was not even the iPhone of 2008 and the iPhone of 2008 was revolutionary. So take me back, like how did how did this project start? Like the way that we do it.

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Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Software 78

The Angel VC

MARCH 21, 2012

Our focus continues to be on SaaS, marketplaces, lead generation, eCommerce and mobile. Point Nine Capital II has made four investments already – one is a great Canadian SaaS startup called Jobber , the rest hasn't been announced yet – and we're looking forward to making many more investments in the coming months and years.

Mobile 108

Mobile Startup Investment SaaS 108

OPEXEngine

JULY 28, 2020

Since 2008, its revenue has tripled and its stock price has soared 14-fold in response. When Google launched the Android mobile operating system in 2008, for instance, it was a tiny speck in a mobile universe dominated by Symbian OS and Apple’s iOS. That has turned into a big win for Google.

Payment Solutions 52

Payment Solutions Strategy Payment Services Scale 52

Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

2008: 317 customers. 2008: 42 employees. Most notably, $5 million in VC funding from General Catalyst in 2007, $12 million in VC funding from Matrix Partners in 2008 and $16 million in VC funding from Scale Venture Partners in 2009. Take a look at the numbers from their first five years : Customer growth: 2006: 3 customers.

Subscription 40

Subscription Payment Features Revenue Software Review 40

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Hi inov targets young innovative companies in the digital B2B economy, especially in the areas of e-services, mobile Internet and IoT, point-of-sale and data technologies, and SaaS software dedicated to the digitalization of companies. The fund typically invests between € 0.5 – 3m initially and up to € 12m in total per company.

Generative AI 52

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 52

ProfitWell

JUNE 30, 2020

Let’s not forget: Apple’s App Store has paid out $155 billion to developers since 2008. He worked closely with Apple last year, as we were launching our own mobile app. Pusher helps developers create collaboration and communication features in their web and mobile apps.

Company Culture 52

Company Culture B2B Mobile Government 52

Tom Tunguz

JULY 20, 2014

In 2008, when I started working at Redpoint I knew very little about how the venture business worked, and before I started at the firm, I wanted to prepare by learning as much as I could about the industry. The only difference is today, we might replace the word Web with mobile. Ann Winblad, Hummer Winblad.

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Interviewing Venture Capital Banking Benchmarks 100

Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

From 2008 to ’11, she acted as the co-general manager of the core business managing over 2,800 employees across the world and delivering profit on a $300 million P&L. Then mobile devices come along. The next generation of mobile devices takes that number up to about 127.

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Artificial Intelligence Sales Hiring Technical Review Machine Learning 75

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Finding and identifying a Mobilizer to help you sell within a large enterprise. The different types of Mobilizers and what you need to arm them with to get them on your side. The Three Types of Mobilizers [34:41]. Brent Adamson: If you go back to 2008/2009, things were not so great if you were selling. Sam’s Corner.

Scale 55

Scale Sales Mobile Enterprise 55

Crafty CTO

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In fact, according to Paul Collins’ 2008 New York Times article The Oddball Know-It-All , Herter’s catalog printer Brown Printing, also located in Waseca, MN, grew with Herter’s to become “one of the country’s largest commercial printers.”

Scale 52

Scale Compensation Startup Mobile 52

How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 1, 2021

Semrush was founded in the year 2008, like 12 years ago by its saas owner Oleg Shchegolev and Dmitry Melnikov and now it has approximately 6 million user base. Its interface is not mobile friendly hence you need to use semrush app which doesn’t share all metric. So, this tool I would say is not too mobile friendly.

Technical Review 64

Technical Review Software Review Pricing Engineering 64

Kraftblick

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Here are some possible variants: The company is certified to a certain standard: “Top Mobile App Developers. It is often not an advantage at all, but simply the first thing to demonstrate to customers: “We’ve been developing iOS Apps since 2008”. We help retailers increase online sales by developing mobile apps”. Last Words.

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Outsourcing Services Outsourced Development Software Sales Hiring 45

ProfitWell

AUGUST 19, 2019

Evernote was one of the first big freemium players in 2008, and they executed that acquisition strategy better than anyone else. They were also one of the first companies to double down on mobile apps. How freemium acquisition can go wrong over time.

Acquisition 76

Acquisition Scale Social Media Branding 76

SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Expensify: Founded in 2008 … 13 years ago. It was born in the age of mobile, and from the moment it launched, everyone I knew started to use it to track their own expenses. A long, tenacious path to $100m ARR, and then … Boom!! * 60% growth in Year 13 at $140m+ ARR!! * 119% NRR from SMBs!! Super Profitable (35% EBITDA!!)

Scale 277

Scale SaaS Payments SMB Payment Solutions 277

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Founded in 2008, it developed this AI-powered Chrome extension. The team designs the surveys (which can be taken securely via mobile) and administers them. Additionally, the company makes eBooks, mobile applications and digital curricula. Location: San Francisco. It comes in two plans as of now. Location: Norway. Location: Ohio.

Technical Review 21

Technical Review SaaS Software Review Systems Review 21

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2020

I was running corporate comms for Orange, the large French mobile operator. Mobile was really booming at that time. in about 2008. We had 200,000 employees and were part owned by the government. So it was about as far away from SaaS startup land as you can possibly get. But it was a great experience, grounding me in tech.

Scale 173

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Leadership Branding 173

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

David : One of the big changes obviously is mobile. If I had it to do all over again, I would have made mobile the primary way that the product worked. The specific way mobile translates into faster growth is that you can slurp the address book. We could have been way more viral had we done mobile from the beginning.

Scale 330

Scale Sales Hiring PayPal Development Team Review 330

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

Founded: 2008. Founded: 2008. The GoCanvas mobile platform helps companies replace paperwork and outdated processes, along with automating new ones. Founded: 2008. Collibra is a definite leader in the field, and as proof recently raised $100 million in series E funding ! Based in: New York. Funding to date: $234M.

SaaS Payments 271

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2023

On the other hand, Evernote was launched in 2008 by Evernote Corporation. Both the applications support majority of desktop and mobile operating systems (OSs). Easy access Along with compatibility with all major OSs and mobile and web platforms, OneNote synchronizes perfectly across multiple devices.

Artificial Intelligence 10

Artificial Intelligence AI Search Underperforming Technical Team Machine Learning 10

SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

They should be able to use it on a mobile device or any other device versus desktop. Ciara : So Bela, you mentioned things like VPN and security and mobile. So I think, let’s see, if I look at Salesforce One was a project that started, I guess it was around 2008-ish, I think. They shouldn’t have to worry about VPN.

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Enterprise Underperforming Technical Team Scale B2B 131