The Angel VC

JULY 17, 2015

This little journey through time has shown that up until now, the evolution of the SaaS landing page has been a development towards ever more simplicity. It will be interesting to see if this trend continues in the coming years. Disclosure: I'm an investor in Clio, Zendesk, Geckoboard and Typeform.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

DST Global is a global investor in growth internet businesses, founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner. Founded: 2009. Fresco Capital focuses on businesses developing new solutions in the enterprise, education, infrastructure, healthcare, consumer goods and entertainment. China Development Industrial Bank (CDIB). Founded: 2012.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2022

Grammarly was founded in 2009 and is a successful consumer product revolving around a virtual writing assistant that individuals and students use to write better content in their professional, educational, and personal lives. Overview: Grammarly’s Enterprise Evolution. Since its founding, Grammarly has grown to over 30 million daily users.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 14, 2018

To answer the question, I took a look at the historic revenue development of ~70 of the largest SaaS companies. If the fiscal year ends on October 31, I allocated it to the same calendar year. In that case, I used 2013 for the “founded” year.

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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

MAY 10, 2024

In 2009 Discord cofounder and CEO, Jason Citron, started building tools and infrastructure for games. Now, with Discord’s recent release of embeddable apps, what can we expect now that it’s easier than ever for developers to build? Fast forward to today and the platform has over 200 million monthly active users.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

From 2004-2009 he was a partner at Greylock. Automattic is a web development company best known for “Wordpress.com”. Twilio allows software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls, text messages, and other communications through its web service APIs. He was the CFO of SQA and Orange Nassau.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 13, 2015

In a typical year, the company invested about 20 to 30% of their revenue in research and development. Of course, given the large size of professional services contracts, a fair amount of custom software development was completed at the behest of customers. Ariba attained profitability in 2009 for the first time.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Pricing positioning based on regional purchasing power (2 minutes): Note: Check out our Recession-Proof Pricing Report for a collection of data from the 2009 recession and the global inflation surge in 2021 to look for trends. Schedule a demo to see if we’re a good fit to be your next global commerce partner. About Our Presenters.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 12, 2014

In 2009 and 2010, the company recognized more revenue from services than subscription. In dollars, WorkDay $30M on research & development on revenues of $25.2M Unlike these other companies, WorkDay has employed a huge professional services team in addition in investing massively in their R&D to create a broad suite of products.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

I have, since 2009, hired 20+ outsourced resources from all over the world for tasks such as data research, web design, translations, voiceover talent and more. No wonder you never want to eat out again… The Sales Development outsourcing industry is broken for that exact reason. I have learned quite a bit about it.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Launched in 2005 in New York and Guangzhou, Gizwits has become the largest IoT development platform in China, as well as its first PaaS and SaaS platform. It provides smart hardware self-development and cloud service. Founded : 2009. It is a social network designed for developing countries with large rural regions.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2018

How to execute “developer marketing” and how to build a developer community. Un-Marketing to Developers [14:16]. Meghan Gill: We make database technology, so we make a more flexible and scalable database solution that makes developers more productive. How did you end up at Mongo back in 2009? What You’ll Learn.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2015

ServiceNow’s software allows clients to develop custom applications for their own needs, often with the help of the company’s professional services team. The business was founded in 2004, but hit its stride 2009 and went public in 2012. ServiceNow has recorded a better than 1.0 at $93M in revenue.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Over the weekend, I watched Page One, a documentary which chronicles the turmoil occurring within the New York Times in 2009 and 2010 when newspapers were going out of business all over the country. Since 2009, the NY Times has created more than 40 successful blogs. Many wondered if the Times would also file for bankruptcy.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The data makes clear that Atlassian employs a fundamentally different go-to-market than the classic sales development rep to inside sales model championed by books like Predictable Revenue and popularized by Salesforce. They also imply a sales efficiency, normally in the 0.8-1.2 range of 2.5 Atlassian operates at 83.4%

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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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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Numbering more than 400 people, Optimizely has built an amazing business since 2009, serving thousands of customers. Before Optimizely, Pete was a product manager at Google building Google App Engine which grew to support 150,000 developers. Before App Engine, Pete worked in the AdSense team and managed the OKR process at Google.

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The Angel VC

MARCH 21, 2012

In 2009 TEV raised a ~ €6M fund, which was managed by Pawel and invested in 24 companies. 16 out of these 24 companies were co-investments with myself, some led by Pawel, some by me, some by both of us together.

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Totango

APRIL 7, 2021

In 2009, Apple debuted its “There’s an app for that” commercials – and started a worldwide phenomenon. Zapier is an online automation tool that connects thousands of apps into workflows to automate repetitive tasks without having to code or rely on developers to build out integrations.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2014

According to a McKinsey survey of 1k+ people conducted in 2009, the top three ways to motivate people are praise from a manager, attention from leaders and opportunities to lead new projects. My understanding is that holacracy was developed in response to those problems.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 26, 2020

That’s a five-fold increase from 2009. The first step in developing a luxury marketing strategy is to understand your audience. If several different groups of people buy your products, you’ll need to develop a buyer persona for each of them. Develop Your Digital Luxury Marketing Strategy. Understand the Luxury Customer.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 4, 2019

We’ve been a multi-stage venture firm since our founding in 2009. And over the past nearly ten years, we’ve been lucky enough to invest in a variety of companies at different stages of development — from seed through later-stage venture …

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

The authors of the paper speculate economies of scale are to play - larger companies operate more efficient sales channels, close higher value customers and leverage distribution strength to develop near monopolies. The fraction of small IPOs with negative EBITDA has doubled to nearly 90% in about 30 years. Small IPOs. . Large IPOs. .

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 11, 2014

The steady increasing drumbeat of the Customer Success mantra is reflected in Google search traffic, whose volumes have tripled since 2009. Last, the as-a-Service delivery model empowers a SaaS company to initially develop a Minimum Viable Product, and iterate and improve the product over time. So, why now?

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Hitenism

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Solo developers and small teams are building “picks and shovels” for every major and minor tech need. Freckle Time Tracking launched in 2009 and 7 years later, it’s pulling in close to $800k in ARR. Many of these businesses are highly profitable and some of them have major growth potential.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

But around 2017, we began to develop an interest in India. The groundwork was Aadhaar (“foundation” in Hindi), a nationwide database established by the government in 2009 to enable digital identity verification. Initially, we were focused on Africa—mainly Kenya, Tanzania, and Nigeria.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Cisco Systems estimated that IoT was “born” between 2008 and 2009, but it’s just in the last couple years we’ve seen an explosion of IoT solutions for both commercial and domestic use. Not only do we need organically developed competencies and capabilities, but we also need partners to grow our service and software business.

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FastSpring

JUNE 12, 2019

You may recall the initial Payment Services Directive (PSD) established by the European Commission that was initially adopted in 2007, then updated in 2009 and again in 2012. Skip to the bottom of this piece to find out what you need to do about this regulation.

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Unbounce

MAY 15, 2020

It’s been a serious challenge for marketers since we first pioneered the landing page space with Unbounce all the way back in 2009. We can develop conversion intelligence. Too time-consuming. Too complex. The issue isn’t new. And even though we’ve facilitated one billion conversions (as of May 4th!)

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 14, 2015

Xero Income Statement 2007 2008 2009 2010 211 2012 2013 2014. Of late, the company has been spending about 40% of its revenue on research and development, more than 10 points above the median, to build out its product suite. Growth 109% 265% 206% 123% 107% 88%. Gross Profit -0.8 -2.0

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IT World

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Reading back through predictions made in 2009, no one had the foggiest clue that GitHub would change software development forever (and for everyone), or that Microsoft would go from open source pariah to the world’s largest contributor, or a host of other dramatic changes that became the new normal during a decade that was anything but normal.

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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. in 2009 to about 52.2% What is Mobile CRM? . The percentage of global internet traffic transmitted from internet-enabled mobile devices or smartphones has risen from 0.7%

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Founded in 2009, they’ve been constantly expanding their team and services. At this stage, they’re well known for providing top-notch Pay Per Click, Social Media Management, Conversion Rate Optimization, SEO, UH/UI Design, Web Development services. Their minimum projects start from $10,000.

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Neil Patel

OCTOBER 6, 2020

It was amended in 2009 to expand the definition of disabilities and specify which businesses must adhere to ADA requirements. However, if you’re unable to update your website’s code yourself or are unsure of what needs to be changed, it might be time to hire a web agency or developer. What Does ADA Website Compliance Mean?

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Neil Patel

JULY 30, 2021

Google’s own URL shortening tool, Goo.gl, launched back in 2009. Since Firebase Dynamic Links (FDL) replaced Goo.gl, it’s a good tool to start with if you’re focusing on app creation and development. If you need help figuring out which links to shorten and which ones to leave alone, check out my consulting services. How Did Goo.gl

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