SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company. And I think any.

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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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ProfitWell

MAY 18, 2020

How is DTC growth trending over time? ??7 Some good news regarding this data—overall, DTC growth is continuing to trend upward. How are churn and new revenue trending over time? 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

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

In terms of replacement, what does Bob believe will be the emerging trends in SaaS Go To Market that will replace it? * And that led me to co-founding a company called RJ Metrics in 2008 with my co-founder Jake Stein, who was also at Insight. We didn’t take our first dollar of outside capital until 2012 for that business.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Pile on the growth expectations that come with the amount of venture capital that’s been poured into this space (Intercom and Drift alone have raised a collective $347M to date), and next thing you know live chat tools are being presented as something new. SnapEngage was founded in 2008, and Olark was founded in 2009.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP. The challenges of global supply chains and the global competition for resources, particularly the US, China, but this is really a trend happening everywhere. That happens in venture capital, and that’s happening right now.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

From that point on, we built a product and we launched it in February of 2008 out of a back of a coffee shop with one employee. So we launched the company in February of 2008. We launched the company in 2008. We saw this opportunity to grow faster, but we needed capital. We might have stumbled onto something here.

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