Tom Tunguz

MAY 5, 2020

In March, I published analysis of the fundraising market in 2008. What could be driving some of these trends? It showed that the later rounds, the series B and series C were the most impacted. The early data from March 2020 shows a different pattern. Seed and Series A rounds are first to bear the compression in the market.

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SaaStr

MAY 9, 2020

Perhaps it’s part of the general trend in eLearning all across-the-board. 9: Founder/CEO Lessons from 2000 & 2008 Applied to 2020 with Jeff Lawson, Twilio and Byron Deeter, Bessemer Venture Partners. #10: Since Shelter-at-Home, we’ve seen a micro-explosion in growth on our YouTube Channel. Let’s take a look! #1:

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 28, 2014

Since 2008, there has been a secular trend to increase cash compensation and decrease equity to startup management teams. Above, I’ve charted the cash compensation trends, (salary+bonus), for the different roles and different locations. Cash +10% +16%. Equity -19% -17%. Cash +26% +8%. Equity -31% -25%.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 31, 2022

They’re not where we throw a parade yet, but the metrics are trending in the right direction.”. 14 years ago, in 2008, at the onset of the last global recession, Google pulled their full-time offers for all their summer interns, which included my co-founder at Cloudflare, Michelle Zatlyn.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Downward trending cost of goods (COGs) benchmarks are improving SaaS gross margins. 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%.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 15, 2023

since the launch of the App Store in 2008, highlighting the cast opportunity in the marketplace. A few weeks ago, Apple released a stunning statistic: they’ve paid developers over $320B — yes, billion! And around the same time, a16z Consumer Partner, Olivia Moore, compiled a list of the top apps across the US app store throughout 2022.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 7, 2019

In 2008, there was a $5M series A product and a $10M series B product. In an economy with a very low cost of capital, these trends are to be expected. If we examine the same market share trends with dollars instead of count, we see slightly different picture. $1M Those were the most popular.

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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. None of these trends is a negative implication necessarily. If we look at the ROIC across IPOs across the last 12 years or so, we see that same initial dynamic of incredibly efficient companies in the 2010 and 2014 IPO cohorts.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 5, 2020

In March, I published analysis of the fundraising market in 2008. What could be driving some of these trends? It showed that the later rounds, the series B and series C were the most impacted. The early data from March 2020 shows a different pattern. Seed and Series A rounds are first to bear the compression in the market.

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Marketing Trends Startup Investment 153

SaaStr

APRIL 23, 2020

Let me reassure you: Remote selling is not a temporary trend. Just as the economic downturn of 2008 led to the cloud-based SaaS boom that became the new norm for digitally modern businesses, remote work will become ingrained in the core of the new “business as usual” following this pandemic.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 29, 2018

After the Lehman collapse and the crisis of 2008, the IPO closed, and startup age spiked to 16 years median. Since then, the trend has continued. Will this trend continue? From 2000-2005, the “typical” IPO-bound startup listed on an exchange 5 years after founding. They grow bigger with time.

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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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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Banking Payment Services 78

Buffer Resources

DECEMBER 20, 2023

But not every trend was a welcome one. This year Forekast , in partnership with Something Great Marketing , explored the events that shook social media to its core, captivated our feeds, and reminded us that you never know what trend is just around the corner. More on those trends later.  So many memes. 

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Hitenism

JANUARY 6, 2017

It was 2008, and I was having a classic founder moment. Back in 2008, “content marketing” wasn’t a thing. According to Google Trends, the term didn’t become a hot search item until 2011. (We We founded KISSmetrics in 2008.). It was 2008! Twitter in 2008 was pretty limited. I had no idea what I was doing.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 5, 2022

I was there when the bubble burst in 2001, the meltdown of 2008, and I’ve seen our industry rise again as SaaS businesses have attracted incredible amounts of capital over the past 10 years. How the magic happens. I’ve spent 20+ years in tech–all of it in the Internet sector. What makes Maxio special?

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Scale Technical Review Subscription Payment Features 98

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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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 27, 2020

The idea of “ 1000 true fans ” — first proposed by Kevin Kelly in 2008 and later updated for Tools of Titans — argued that to be a successful creator, you don’t need millions of customers or clients, but … The post a16z Podcast: The Truth about a 1000 True Fans (and Our Attention)!

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

Since 2008, spending on SEO from 2008 to 2020 has grown over 7x from $11.5 This trend isn’t stopping any time soon, so let’s quickly cover what moves the needle to drive ROI. It’s also important to prepare to find the signs things are starting to trend in a good direction. What is SEO? billion to just under $80 billion.

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Social Media Forecasting Branding Investment 75

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Then our 2023 SaaS Benchmarks Report brought light to how performance trends were reacting to a changing economic context. 2008: SaaS is Really Hard … 2016: SaaS is Really Hard 2017: SaaS is a Great Business 2018: Everyone Invests in SaaS 2019: SaaS Eating the World 2020: I’m Genius 2021: King of World! Bring on 2024!

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Scale Subscription Payment Features Benchmarks 52

Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

2021 saw a surge in investment off the back of the Covid-19 pandemic – just as the 2008 financial crisis spurred customer demand for new waves of non-traditional banking and FS, the pandemic could be seen as the springboard that propelled Fintech SaaS to new heights. Yet comparisons between the last few years aren’t so black-and-white.

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SaaS Payments Payments Technical Review Payment Services 75

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2015

Publicly-traded SaaS companies founded from 2008 through 2014 needed 50% less time to reach $50M than their counterparts founded between 1998 and 2005. I stumbled across this trend when looking at a different chart used in my S-1 analyses that compares the time to $50M for each of the 51 or so publicly traded SaaS companies.

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SaaS Engineering Trends Enterprise 108

Neil Patel

MARCH 15, 2021

percent of the population , and this trend is set to continue well into the 2050s. Take Your Cue From Millennial Trends. The boozy brunch, avocado toast, and emojis are just some of the reported millennial trends in recent years. This is a great example of brands capitalizing on millennial trends in a positive way.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? So we started in 2008 June, 2008 I think and in three days we would celebrate our 11th birthday. It’s interesting to see how much has changed over the last 10 years, but in 2008 it was a very different time I think.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 10, 2014

I analyzed the 41 publicly traded SaaS companies comparing to understand the trends in SaaS IPO. Here are four charts depicting the trends. Some of this downward pressure on time-to-IPO may be because a company founded in 2008 needing ten years to go public hasn’t had the chance to appear in the data set.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 26, 2021

Today, she brings her corporate governance experience to bear on public and private boards, advising companies on a wide range of critical topics such as enterprise risks, technology trends, innovation, strategy, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”.

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VP of Engineering Management Cybersecurity PayPal 93

ProfitWell

APRIL 30, 2020

Today, we’re proud to officially launch the ProfitWell Subscription Index —a dataset to keep you up to date on subscription market trends and the status of the B2B SaaS vertical as it stands today. Listen wherever you get podcasts: How is B2B SaaS growth trending over time? ??7 How are churn and new revenue trending over time?

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Baremetrics

MARCH 16, 2021

While blockchain technology was spearheaded by Bitcoin starting from 2008, using the technology for other applications became popularized around 2017. In addition to seamlessly collecting data, Cancellation Insights also calculates trends by cancellation reason to help guide your team’s focus. Table of Contents.

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Blockchain Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence Payment Services 90

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

In 2008, iGoogle represented 20% of traffic to Google. The broader trend is the important one. Seven years later, the mobile phone is the home screen of choice for a billion people. iGoogle is dead. Mobile killed it. The typical mobile phone user checks their phone 110 times per day.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

We discussed five trends in the seed market and the outlook for 2013. These are the five most important trends for 2013, in my view. In 2008, when I first started in venture, a$500k seed was sizable. Lacking accurate census data to illustrate the trend, I’ll use an extreme case to prove the point: Virool raised $6.6M

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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. And, and I don’t love to run around all these trends. Alf Ruppert Yes.

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 10, 2024

Since it first started in 2008 with a small team of SEO and IT specialists, Semrush has grown successfully, and it continues to cater to thousands of clients with its world-class services. You can perform thorough keyword research, check their ranking, and get trending keyword suggestions through the Keyword Explorer tool.

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Teamgate

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In 2008, research carried out by Forrester revealed that more than 40% of SMBs and 50% of enterprises have begun utilizing and rolling out smartphone applications to automate salesforce. Rate of Adoption of mobile CRM. Just like the world is evolving daily, the same way technology is evolving and advancing at a meteoric rate.

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Mobile Strategy Technical Review Artificial Intelligence 95

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 1, 2017

Founded in 2008, AppDynamics is a leader in the application performance management space. There are three interesting trends. AppDynamics technology helps engineers determine how software applications behave as users interact with them. The company filed their S-1 recently to take the company public. of revenue).

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InsightSquared

JULY 27, 2018

Understand the data-driven trend discovery methods Nate Silver uses for predictions and how you can apply them to your business decision-making. Nate Silver was named one of “The World’s 100 Most Influential People” by Time magazine after he successfully called the outcomes in 49 of the 50 states in the 2008 U.S.

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Revenue Sales Hiring Trends Sales 48

Kellblog

MAY 21, 2019

Key trends in 2018, including setting records in three areas: (1) public company revenue multiples, (2) IPO volume (by over 2x), and (3) M&A volume (by over 2x). Key trends from their 2017 report that are still alive, well, and driving software businesses. The four eras of software evolution. It could be worse, I suppose.

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compliance Startup Software Trends 75

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

If you think about catching up with one of the biggest tech trends in recent years, this list will provide you with IT service providers working in different industries, with different tech stacks, and from different countries. Businesses of any size and industry can find reliable SaaS development partners.

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DevOps as a Service Development Technical Review Blockchain 40

The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

JULY 30, 2018

If you’re good at something, do it for free The Dark Knight © copyright 2008 Warner Bros. During the 2008 Batman movie “The Dark Knight”, in what is now considered an all-time classic scene, Joker, the main protagonist?—?if Personal branding has never been more in trend. All rights reserved. if I could say?—?, Writing articles.

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