SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Ceyuan Ventures selects entrepreneurs who show promise in crafting leading technologies, backed by powerful teams and innovation. DST Global is a global investor in growth internet businesses, founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner. Founded: 2009. Foxconn Technology Group. Founded: 2004. Size of fund: $282.2M. DST Global.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

One of those was 2008/2009 when 5 funds were started. and Brazil technology markets. The company boasts high-level investors and advisors who assist portfolio businesses with their extensive know-how in sales, technology, business development, entrepreneurship, as well as with networking connections. Founded: 2009.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 13, 2015

Ariba attained profitability in 2009 for the first time. Ariba acquired a company called Tradex technologies for $1.6B Ariba acquired a company called Tradex technologies for $1.6B Similar to net income, Ariba sustained cash flow breakeven for the first time in 2009, but flirted with the mark since about 2004.

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

He went on to serve as CEO of Avatar Technologies and Pacific Data before joining Rational Software as President and COO until its acquisition by IBM. From 2004-2009 he was a partner at Greylock. Tom Bogan is the EVP of Workday’s Planning Business Unit but has a long history in both tech and finance.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Its goal is to help e-commerce, m-commerce and online advertising through its advanced computer vision technology. mHealth Technologies. mHealth Technologies operates the Vietnamese telemedicine platform Wellcare.vn. Founded : 2009. It provides visual search and image recognition solutions based on AI. Founded : 2012.

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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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Totango

APRIL 7, 2021

In this blog series, we discuss different Totango integrations that help to harness the powers of all of your technology platforms into one dynamic system. In 2009, Apple debuted its “There’s an app for that” commercials – and started a worldwide phenomenon. What is Workflow Automation?

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In fact, it’s twice as costly to operate a startup in 2014 as it was in 2009. In parallel, startups and incumbents vying for talent in the increasingly competitive job market have bid up the median wage of a San Francisco technology worker 15% each year, from about $90k to well over to $180k in 2014. and from $7.9M respectively.

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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. As technology progresses, we are seeing even more pragmatic applications. A Shift Towards More Entrepreneurial Thinking.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In 2009, Pinterest and Houzz started providing tools for users to collect, organize, present and share things. Those same technologies that drive answers to daily questions will be applied to uncovering intent and proactively prompting users to drive commerce. These breadcrumbs are most useful when fresh but become stale quickly.

Scale 100

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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. It should also be easily used by adaptive technologies, like touchscreens or screen readers. As technology changes, your site needs to change as well. What Does ADA Website Compliance Mean?

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2015

From 2000 through 2009, the federal funds rate and venture investment paralleled each other. When the technology bubble crashed, the Fed pursued a strategy of reducing interest rates in order to spur growth. At the height of the bubble, interest rates were relatively high.

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

One of the lessons I, along with many other founders and investors, have learned in my roughly 15-year journey in SaaS investing is that most businesses adopt new technologies at a painfully slow pace.

AI 119

AI SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Artificial Intelligence 119

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

We were actually built out of a bank called Live Oak Bank and Live Oak Bank was founded in 2009 and they had a need for a completely digital bank. But I would argue that fragility is really in the area of information technology, information access rather than in physical access because the goods and services exist. It’s complex.”

Payment Solutions 207

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 207

Unbounce

MAY 15, 2020

We know growing businesses are far more likely to be optimizing (using advanced technologies for things like automation and personalization) than their stagnating peers. It’s been a serious challenge for marketers since we first pioneered the landing page space with Unbounce all the way back in 2009. This is a big problem.

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Artificial Intelligence Marketing Machine Learning Benchmarks 144

Teamgate

DECEMBER 20, 2019

Customer Relationship Marketing comprises all the strategies, technologies, and activities implemented by companies to achieve high-quality interaction-based management with their prospective and current customers. in 2009 to about 52.2% Are you looking for a website with excellent and high-quality content on email marketing?

Mobile 95

Mobile Strategy Technical Review Artificial Intelligence 95

SaaStr

JULY 16, 2019

I serve my local community in Portland, Oregon by being the Chair of the Board of the Technology Association of Oregon. But, the fundraising in 2008, 2009 was pretty difficult. In 2009, we raised a million dollars in 2009 and used that to get some early traction with customers. We were able to raise Angel Funds.

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A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. This week we closed $250M in financing from Silver Lake , the premier technology private equity firm. Every day, 5% of the entire online world (roughly 3.5

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Engineering Investment Revenue Technical Review 70

OpenView Labs

JULY 21, 2021

Is Blockchain the technology unique? Behind The Cloud by Marc Benioff (Published 2009). The idea that the latest is also correct holds in technical genres like software engineering, artificial intelligence, and the likes. Think the Bitcoin economic phenomenon is new?

Business 101

Business Artificial Intelligence Blockchain Software Engineering 101

Trujay

MARCH 31, 2021

Transgender Day of Visibility in Tech, From the Perspective of Jay Hendricks (He/Him) Today is the International Transgender Day of Visibility (#TDoV), celebrated annually since 2009 to recognize the accomplishments of transgender, non-binary, and gender diverse people and to bring attention to the continued struggles they face across the globe.

Technology 67

Technology 67

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

But I couldn’t raise the money for the startup; this was 2009, right after the recession. We were one of the first companies to leverage all the new sales technologies that are out there now. How do you feel like those old-school skills translate to a lot of the new technology?

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Neil Patel

MARCH 31, 2021

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) began an investigation into the practice in 2009. This mitigates the risk of those consumers becoming frustrated with the number of targeted adverts they receive and resorting to ad-blocking technology. AdChoices Helps Marketers Run More Effective Campaigns.

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Advertising Technical Review Government Software Review 103

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

They also crawled the web and used technology, but they actually built a 300-person team in the Philippines to help structure a lot of data and invite these service providers to join their network. They didn’t have to invest as much time in the technology and it was effective in the long run. now Homeadvisor).

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Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

Stax

APRIL 18, 2024

shoppers as customers become more comfortable with the technology.” As stated by countless resources, mobile is the direction the payment technology space is heading. It pays to know exactly how mobile technologies will be impacting your business, or potentially already are.

Payment Services 88

Payment Services Payment Methods Merchant Services Payment Solutions 88

InsightSquared

MAY 22, 2019

In 2009, I promoted the top mid-market rep in my region to the enterprise team, making the common mistake that traits of success in mid-market equal success in the enterprise. It is worth expanding on the profile needed to run an enterprise deal also. Big mistake. The standard sales rep merely sells them software to reduce costs by 10%.

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The SaaS Garage

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

About Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners UVC Partners is an early-stage venture capitalist that invests specifically in technology-based start-ups based in German-speaking regions. UVC Partners focuses on companies in the fields of industrial technologies, enterprise software and mobility.

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Venture Capital Automotive SaaS Finance 66

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2018

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? Meghan Gill: When I joined MongoDB at the end of 2009, I was the eighth employee. Sam Jacobs: Congratulations. Where are you from?

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Underperforming Technical Team Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 81

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

I’m pretty jaded when it comes to the financial numbers that get thrown around in start-up land—I don’t care what TechCrunch says, I don’t care what your market cap is—I think it’s clear that the world of technology start-ups is pretty screwed up when it comes to financial valuations.

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SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

ProfitWell

MARCH 23, 2020

Our friends over at Zuora , the pros in cloud-based technology for subscription businesses, have teamed up with Kia Motors America to create connected car subscriptions. With the growing demand for in-car technology and features, Kia will hyper-target its ACE (autonomous, connected and eco/electric) strategy.

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Customer Lifetime Value Payment Features Subscription Acquisition 56

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Why Slice Won’t Push New Technology [16:59]. So what we do is we empower these local small business pizzerias with all the technology, marketing, and data really required for them to digitize their businesses. Why Slice Won’t Push New Technology. We don’t push any technology on them from day one. And on Stitcher.

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Scale Scaling Venture Capital Interviewing 73

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a global technology focused investment firm. I wanted to find technology that could replace that. We were profitable by 2009. Of course, technology, adoption, et cetera that no one else has. My name is Becky Buckman. I run marketing and communications for Battery Ventures. She had a medical issue today.

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Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 182

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2018

For example, in the reference above, Apple doesn’t technically discount their technology on Cyber Monday. On the other hand, Chad Dyar , Director of Sales Enablement of OnDeck , recommends saving on new technology so you can splurge on upgrading your current tech stack. “ It happened in 2009.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

Disrupt : New technology, model, or brand for a market dominated by old, large incumbents. They focus on deep integrations with Google products and technology companies looking for a CRM that works well with the G-Suite products they already know and love. Copper is the CRM for G-Suite. It’s even recommended by Google themselves.

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Panintelligence

JULY 22, 2024

Key takeaways Understanding what financial technology (Fintech) is and its role in transforming financial services. Fintech , short for financial technology, uses technology to provide financial services like mobile banking, online payments, blockchain, and cryptocurrency. What is Fintech? What is Fintech?

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

Jeff: Global Payments really exists at the intersection of two of my favorite things, technology and financial services. And the thing I thought most about was what we could do with the platform to modernize the technology, to grow the distribution footprint. Think about the ascendancy of the cloud in terms of technology environments.

Payment Solutions 81

Payment Solutions Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 81

Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

We sold that at the end of 2007 and I stayed on with MoneyGram International who acquired the company until the end of 2009. And I think when you’re as an entrepreneur, like you want to go solve a problem and it’s a lot of fun using technology to go and do that. Some went to other technology providers.

Merchant Services 81

Merchant Services Payment Methods Payments Payment Solutions 81

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

And then I convinced him to come back in 2009, and the rest is history. I mean, I’ll just tell you from 2009, ’10 and ’11, every year we waited, our valuation went up $100 million back then. And you don’t matter, and we operate. We’ve been working together ever since. We’re working together now.

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