SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

Carlota Perez argues in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital that in the early days of a “golden age”, financial capital is necessary to fuel new technology innovation. . 2004-2010 marked the early days of SaaS where the model was still risky, and cloud providers were competing hard with their on-prem predecessors. .

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Meet Our Speakers… Patrick Arippol, Managing Director of Early Stage Investments, DGF Investimentos. In 2010, he joined DGF Investimentos, one of the top VC firms in Brazil. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova. Its focus is on businesses in Big Data, mobile, and SaaS.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve been in venture capital for about 20 years, made my first SaaS investment about 18 years ago and have really been focused on this space for a long time. We make early stage Series A investments in both consumer and enterprise companies. I was lucky enough to invest when it was three founders and a PowerPoint deck.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

If you spend much time in the startup and tech ecosystem, you’ve probably heard the term “disruptive innovation” more times than you can count. But not all companies that are commonly known as disrupters actually fit the traditional definition of disruptive innovation. Innovations are mischaracterized as disruptive. 3D Printing.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

It kept investing in making its overall growth model stronger. Modeling your loops helps you start investing in building out those new growth loops or products well in advance of when you need them to sustain your growth, because of course developing them takes much more time than improving a current loop. Why did they do this?

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FastSpring

JANUARY 26, 2024

And at a company like Sideways 6 — whose product is an idea management software to help organizations engage people and foster innovation — that emphasis on collaboration gets even louder. But the the, I suppose the proper answer would be that this was probably back in 2010. Listen to the episode to hear more details.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. As I outlined in the beginning, handling payments wasn’t easy in 2010, even for developers. Stripe also invests heavily in two areas that are often overlooked by tech companies — its API and documentation.

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The Angel VC

DECEMBER 26, 2010

Continuing my little 2010 portfolio review ( here's part 1 ), the next stop after San Francisco ( Zendesk ), Vancouver ( Clio ) and Berlin ( Momox ) is Edinburgh, home of FreeAgent Central. myGengo is a pretty recent investment of mine which I've done about half a year ago together with Dave McClure and other angel investors.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 30, 2024

ABOUT IN THE VAULT “In the Vault” is a new audio podcast series by the a16z Fintech team, where we sit down with the most influential figures in financial services to explore key trends impacting the industry and the pressing innovations that will shape our future. Follow this show on our podcast feed so you don't miss an episode.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In this era of ever-increasing digital disruption and innovation, category design can be the ultimate business strategy for brands wishing to stand out from the crowd. It’s called Play Bigger, How Rebels and Innovators Create New Categories and Dominate Markets. What kind of investment are you going to raise?

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 15, 2014

The startup founded in 2010 that takes 7 years to reach the $1B mark hasn’t yet been granted enough time to achieve it. Enterprises pursue technology innovations and adopt them at earlier phases of product development, to gain a competitive advantage. In addition, open source software is a big driver of infrastructure innovation.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As a testimony to the quality of their service, Forter was recently again included in Forbes 50 “Most Innovative Fintech Companies In 2019” list. Recently, Recorded Future were honored with the 2018 CRN Tech Innovator Award. signed a multi-year equity investment deal with TELUS Ventures. Founded: 2010. Founded: 2013.

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 4, 2020

When Stripe was launched in 2010, dealing with payments online wasn’t a straightforward matter. As I outlined in the beginning, handling payments wasn’t easy in 2010, even for developers. Stripe also invests heavily in two areas that are often overlooked by tech companies — its API and documentation.

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Payment Methods Payment Services Payments Payment Solutions 52

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2022

. There were quite a few memorable scenes from The Social Network, the 2010 movie that chronicles the inception of Facebook – and the lawsuits that followed. Not long after starting the podcast, Harry got into investing himself, and in 2020, he leveraged the success of his show to launch his own venture capital fund, 20VC fund.

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Making the bottom-up shift: You are shifting from the top-down to a bottom-up mindset, which means more money and time to invest in R&D efforts. This innovative software tool is a proven and tested customer engagement booster. Before getting started with PLG, you need to make sure that. Also, there is less pressure on Sales.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Although the total value of venture investments in tech declined 13% from 2018 through 2020 amid an overall venture funding pullback—the first decline since 2012—tech venture investments came roaring back during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. Although the total value of venture investments in tech declined 13% from 2018 through 2020 amid an overall venture funding pullback—the first decline since 2012—tech venture investments came roaring back during the Covid-19 pandemic.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 18, 2023

That opens up the possibility for a faster pace of technological innovation. At Outschool, we have invested a lot in making sure our platform is extremely safe for kids and families, but that’s not universally true in all the sites accessed by kids. This was all the way back in 2010.

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Neil Patel

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Generation Alpha covers those born between 2010 and 2024. We can be reasonably sure that they’ll be largely invested in the experience economy , including live entertainment, amusement parks, spectator sports, and tours. They’re entering a genuinely advanced world where automation and innovation rule.

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SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2019

Sameer joined the company in 2010, when Citrix acquired VMLogix, where he served as CEO and doubled revenues during each year of his tenure. Sameer joined the company in 2010 when Citrix acquired VM Logix, where he served as CEO and doubled revenues during each year of his tenure.

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Hitenism

JANUARY 16, 2017

In March 2016, it ultimately became clear that we were over-invested in some parts of the business and as a result let go of 10% of our employees.”. In 2016, venture capital investment in SaaS is up to $7B, from $1.5B Innovate on the Business Model. To put it bluntly, we’ve had it easy in SaaS. Have we hit peak SaaS?

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OPEXEngine

MAY 19, 2020

This potential change in the interest rate environment will be a new regime for most management teams, and should prompt them to take a multiyear view of their capital structure and the timing of investments. Other lagging companies strayed outside their core business, investing in the latest hot sectors and tools, praying for a winner.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 13, 2022

Ellen joined Forescout in 2010 and has been instrumental in driving cross-functional efforts between sales, product, and engineering to deliver on customers’ technical needs. He is a social media influencer and thought leader on customer success, innovation, and value-based technology trends.

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

From PLG innovator at $30m ARR t o a top SLG+PLG leader at $1B in ARR. Android followed after, and that really, late 2009, early 2010, that suddenly changed. When you meet with Bill and you talk about marketing, in a not a sales driven, but you invest into marketing, what are the KPIs? We invested a lot in that.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

Since 2010, he’s helped the company grow to more than 40,000 customers and helped scale the support team to more than 500 employees to assist those users. You should spread those kinds of cuts more evenly and try to then invest in your customers, so you can come out of that downturn a little bit better. Source: HubSpot Research.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a global technology focused investment firm. Just as an example, at Battery we invested in a company called Bright Tree, which is outside of Atlanta, which makes software for the home health care market. I think this leads us to lesson number four, which is continuously innovate through proactive listening.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

You got to be really frugal and you’re going out to innovate your way out of problems. You really innovate your way out of problems or engineer your way out of problems. Let’s innovate our way out of the problem.” And I remember back in 2009, we were the only tech investment that Venrock did that year.

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BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Though we are still in the early phases of innovation, there are proven methods for achieving a higher degree of maturity for managing sprawling applications in the cloud. Companies need to invest in a new security architecture. A proactive cyber defense posture is a must.

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SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As a testimony to the quality of their service, Forter was recently again included in Forbes 50 “Most Innovative Fintech Companies In 2019” list. Recently, Recorded Future were honored with the 2018 CRN Tech Innovator Award. signed a multi-year equity investment deal with TELUS Ventures. Founded: 2010. Founded: 2013.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Why is innovation in pricing actually detrimental to sales in most cases? * The other day, a founder of an angel investment of mine said, “Harry, you know, you have all these awesome shows, but if I want to learn about SaaS pricing, well honestly the content is pretty segregated and in a ton of different episodes.”

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Join PagerDuty’s CEO, Jennifer Tejada, as she discusses the need for agility and innovation and how automation is aiding adaptability and allowing enterprises to surge ahead. So looking forward, we also need to innovate and automate policies around flexible working, childcare and lead to address some of these challenges.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 19, 2022

While this framework is a practical guide, innovation and creativity is the key to growing a product-led business and keeping users engaged. Imagine what you’d search for in 2010 to find Slack. As with anything, frameworks aren’t universal. How could they have scaled keyword advertising? That’s why it’s so important to hire UX early.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

Showpad’s all-in-one platform empowers sales and marketing teams to engage buyers through industry leading training and coaching software and innovative content and engagement solutions. He spent eight and a half years at IntraLinks and helped them IPO in 2010. We had an IPO in 2010. We invested in international expansion.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. We are a $50 million fund based in Lisbon, and we invest mainly in seed stage. Name, role, and also the stage in which you are investing.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Exactly 10 years ago today—May 10, 2010—I slinked through office doors that opened to my first day of work at a “real job.” Invest millions of dollars into growth while running your business at a loss. Musing after a decade spent building SaaS start-ups By Geoff Roberts 20 min read. My whole career, quite literally, lay in front of me.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 17, 2024

And once I have done that, I’ve been doing that since 2010. David Ulevitch: Your comment on the communities, just as a quick aside, when I first made the very first investment, I actually called my sister, who has dedicated much more of her life to social justice causes. So it’s a really exciting piece for me.

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The SaaS Garage

MAY 10, 2017

The Master of Business Economics, with a focus on Innovations- and Technology Management, explains to me, that he has been an entrepreneur and founder himself. In 2010, when we started Deutsche Handelsbank, at that time SOFORT Bank, we saw ourselves as enabler for Internet businesses. A look at Daniel’s background explains why.

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