SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Founded : 2011. Founded : 2011. Founded : 2011. Founded : 2011. Its focus is on helping companies handle financial routine and streamlining processes related to accounting, banks, stock, and electronic invoicing, among others. ContaAzul was acquired by the collaborative software platform Wabbi Software S.A. RD Station.

SaaS Payments 257

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 257

SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Bill Magnuson, Co-founder and CEO of Braze, remembers his company’s founding in 2011 in an office with bare concrete floors—an austerity that he opines as “probably an ingredient for category creation.” This remarkable growth took four years to come true after Braze’s start in 2011. Stick to your convictions. Impressive, right?

Mobile 223

Mobile Technology Investment Innovation 223

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Big Bet #2: Find Tomorrow’s Great Anglers — Hire Talent With A Learning Mindset In 2010 and 2011, San Francisco was the place for SaaS talent. Freshdesk was launched in 2011 as its first product, and its second product was released in 2014, with faster growth than the first. It helped them get funding in the first round. The lesson?

Sales Hiring 220

Sales Hiring Scale SMB AI 220

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2018

If we compare this acquisition on other dimensions, we see that Mulesoft is the second fastest growing at the time of acquisition, next to SuccessFactors in 2011. Enterprise Value. EV/TTM Rev. Salesforce/Mulesoft. SAP/Concur. SAP/SuccessFactors. Salesforce/Demandware. Oracle/Eloqua. SAP/Callidus. IBM/Kenexa.

Acquisition 182

Acquisition Marketing Enterprise Revenue 182

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

2011: Collaboration. In 2011, we built something about 5+ years ahead of the market: full on-line and off-line redlining and contract negotiation. That was crazy early in 2011. We’re your vendor! We closed 4 of the 6 leading insurances companies because of this.

Scale 187

Scale Mobile Branding Engineering 187

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Only Founded in 2011. Most Enterprises Buy More Than 60 Endpoint Security Products So there is room for many winners here. #8. 64% of Large Customers Sourced From Partners They are AWS’s largest cybersecurity partner. What’s your channel / partner strategy? #9. Even in a time of odd uncertainty in Cloud and SaaS.

Cybersecurity 244

Cybersecurity AWS Benchmarks Cloud 244

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 6, 2023

In the first two quarters of 2011, Cornerstone OnDemand waded into the IPO market in 2011, followed by LinkedIn at $4.2b, Homeaway at $2.1b, Fusion.io In Q4 2009, Amazon acquired Zappos for $1b. Then GreenDot’s IPO in Q2 2010 at $1.4b suggested the IPO market wasn’t icy.

Venture Capital 174

Venture Capital Acquisition Investment Marketing 174

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Since leads still came in, and the internet still grew, and SaaS still had true ROI, everyone was sort of unprepared for when the economy got even a little better in 2011. Folks still continued to search for us in increasing volume, even in the darkest days: No one had enough sales reps once the market came back even a little.

SaaS Payments 269

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Scale SMB 269

SaaStr

DECEMBER 23, 2023

We aren’t the knowledge workers we were from 2011-2019, either. I hope perhaps we get back there. But it doesn’t seem like it. The function isn’t just changed — we all are. On to the Next Era of Customer Success. I’m a bit worried, but I’m facing east.

Customer Success 235

Customer Success AI Pricing Enterprise 235

SaaStr

JUNE 30, 2023

Braze was founded in 2011 when the most exciting mobile apps were a compass, a flashlight, and a game where you could feed fish. Blaze was founded in 2011. From 2011 to 2015, the only part of the mobile market that was making money was mobile gaming, but tricking children into buying fish food wasn’t a sustainable business.

Scale 178

Scale Mobile Venture Capital Scaling 178

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In 2011, at the age of 41, Yuan left his secure position at Cisco to found Zoom. He proposed a new smartphone-friendly video conferencing system to Cisco’s management, but his idea wasn’t accepted. This rejection, combined with his vision for better technology, led him to make a life-changing decision.

VP of Engineering 205

VP of Engineering Software Engineering Company Culture Engineering 205

SaaStr

AUGUST 24, 2019

2011: Collaboration. In 2011, we build something about 5+ years ahead of the market: full on-line and off-line redlining and contract negotiation. That was crazy early in 2011. We’re your vendor! We closed 4 of the 6 leading insurances companies because of this.

Scale 176

Scale Mobile Branding Engineering 176

SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2022

Miro was founded in 2011 and has iterated on its product and expanded its audience widely over the years. Currently, Miro is one of the fastest-growing companies at scale, but it didn’t take off immediately at the same velocity in 2011. User Experience and Building a Durable Business. So why did it take so long to grow so explosively?

Sales Hiring 187

Sales Hiring Scale Company Culture B2C 187

SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

Things started changing in 2011. In 2011, Hootsuite raised $3m in venture debt before raising another $50m in debt from CIBC in 2018. . Cheaper capital was simply not available because SaaS was still in the early adopters phase of Geoffrey Moore’s chasm model. . As SaaS Metrics Become Standardized, Banks Want In On The Action.

Venture Capital 221

Venture Capital Technical Review Scale Banking 221

SaaStr

MARCH 10, 2023

Then, well, right after we sold EchoSign to Adobe way back in 2011, things picked up, with a slow with material and steady increase in public multiples from 2012 to 2015. Public multiples often were around 4x-5x in 2008, and then the global meltdown came, and public multiples fell to as less than 2x revenue for a while.

SaaS 218

SaaS Trends Enterprise Revenue 218

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Founded : 2011. Founded : 2011. Founded : 2011. Founded : 2011. It is based on blockchain and allows businesses to take care of their finances on a number of platforms and in multiple currencies. Tienpay enables merchant payments, person-to-person transfers, and vouchers, among other functionalities. . Southern China.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

SaaStr

AUGUST 9, 2024

Building Braze from $2M to $20M ARR It was 2011 in NYC, and Spencer became the second employee at Braze. 2011 focused on the mobile ecosystem, as the iPhone had been released four years prior and the app store two years after that. Let’s fast forward and look at the history of Braze.

Scale 211

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling Startup 211

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2021

Sensing an opportunity, they switched their focus and Intercom was born – the app was released in private beta in July and the company was founded in August, 2011. It’s hard to recall now, but before Intercom released the world’s first in-app messenger in 2011, the chat bubble was not a ubiquitous feature of apps or websites.

Scale 220

Scale Sales Hiring Branding Scaling 220

SaaStr

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Launched in 2011, today, OnBoard serves as the board intelligence platform for more than 2,000 organizations and their 12,000 boards and committees in 32 countries worldwide. At OnBoard , we believe board meetings should be informed, effective, and uncomplicated.

Merchant Services 196

Merchant Services Payment Solutions Onboarding Payments 196

SaaStr

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Launched in 2011, today, OnBoard serves as the board intelligence platform for more than 2,000 organizations and their 12,000 boards and committees in 32 countries worldwide. At OnBoard , we believe board meetings should be informed, effective, and uncomplicated.

Scale 42

Scale Onboarding Government compliance 42

SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Bill Magnuson, Co-founder and CEO of Braze, remembers his company’s founding in 2011 in an office with bare concrete floors—an austerity that he opines as “probably an ingredient for category creation.” This remarkable growth took four years to come true after Braze’s start in 2011. Stick to your convictions. Impressive, right?

Mobile 186

Mobile Technology Investment Innovation 186

SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When it launched in 2011, Treasure Data’s positioning was a Hadoop-based big data warehouse in the cloud. Kazuki Ohta, CEO & Founder at Treasure Data, shares his company’s story of how pivoting at the right time saved their business and accelerated their growth to $100 million ARR. The Platform: $0 – $5 Million ARR.

Sales Hiring 253

Sales Hiring Data AWS Leadership 253

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 1, 2018

In the very early days of Intercom the marketing hat fell on my head, but I’d be doing marketing a disservice (and 2011 Des a disservice) if I said that’s what I thought I was doing. If you read an Intercom blog post or met me at a conference around 2011-12, you probably received an email from me at some point. Pitching your product.

Startup 201

Startup Strategy Marketing Social Media 201

SaaStr

JULY 10, 2024

It was founded in 2008 but took a while to get going, hitting $1m in revenue in 2011 selling to Utah schools — and then scaled from there. Instructure is one of the leading learning management systems for education with its Canvas product. Your kids may well use it. You may have in college, too. And then hit $600m ARR in 2024.

Scale 211

Scale SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments 211

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Twilio’s 2011 customers are worth 10x more today a decade later. One recent acquisitiion (ZipWhip) has brought them down a bit, but gross margins remain above 50%. Still, 60% is the ideal target for being considered a “software” company. #9. Probably more. A hero company in Cloud and SaaS for us all to look up!

Scale 196

Scale Cloud Scaling Acquisition 196

Andreessen Horowitz

MAY 15, 2020

The first peaked in 2011, the second in … The post The Crypto Price-Innovation Cycle appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. People who’ve been in crypto for a long time view the space as evolving in cycles, alternating between periods of high activity and “crypto winters.” There have been three cycles so far.

Innovation 145

Innovation Pricing Blockchain 145

The Angel VC

MAY 3, 2012

So, for example, I5 is the number of users who signed up in January 2011 and were active in February 2011, and I6 is the number of users who signed up in February 2011 and were active in February 2011. Here's where it gets really interesting.

Startup 120

Startup Metrics Retention Mobile 120

SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Previously, he was the CEO and co-founder of EchoSign, which was acquired by Adobe in 2011. Jason Lemkin is the CEO of SaaStr, the world’s largest community of SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs.

Scale 228

Scale Cloud Scaling Interviewing 228

Clouded Judgement

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Microsoft launched Azure in 2010, and Google launched GCP to the public in 2011 (they launched a preview of Google App Engine in 2008, but made it publicly available in 2011).

Cloud 173

Cloud GCP(Google Cloud Platform) AWS Azure 173

Hitenism

OCTOBER 17, 2016

Hiten Shah (@hnshah) August 5, 2011. But that was back in 2011. Even I used to follow this template when evaluating pitch decks: Simple #startup pitch: 1. Solution 3. Traction 4. Future – thats it. /cc cc @joshelman @davemcclure #500strong. A lot has changed since then.

Venture Capital 168

Venture Capital Software Review Forecasting Startup 168

SaaStock

JANUARY 29, 2019

A creative writing major, Meghan joined HubSpot in 2011 when the growth graph of the blog looked like any content marketers dream – a hockey stick. That lasted for a few years until in 2017 it hit a plateau.

Strategy 161

Strategy Content Marketing SaaS Marketing 161

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 23, 2019

Here’s the pricing way back in 2011: And today: Free trials have shrunk from 30 days to 14 days, which often happens when you bring in a sales team. 2011) many new a la carte, paid features including analytics, intelligence, etc. What about PagerDuty? than when it started. There are also now on in 2019 (vs.

Pricing 130

Pricing Enterprise Branding Startup 130

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 23, 2018

In 2011, the median startup raised a $0.5M In other words, investors are concentrating capital in fewer startups. Consequently, this smaller number of startups has substantially longer runway, fueling a longer gestation period to series A. seed and a $3M Series A 9 months later. Today, the median startup raises a $1.5M

Artificial Intelligence 179

Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning Startup Investment 179

SaaStr

OCTOBER 12, 2020

May 5, 2011 to Oct 12, 2020 — 9 years, 5 months to build a $3.2B But if you want to start a SaaS company — you have to be willing to do the time. 24 months often to really get to a minimum sellable product and $1m in ARR. Often 5 years just to get to Initial Scale, and say $10m in ARR. And 7-10 years to get to something Big.

SaaS 173

SaaS Scaling Revenue Leadership 173

IT World

JANUARY 23, 2023

The Geekbench tests Here are some Geekbench performance figures for entry-level Mac mini configurations dating back to 2011. The M2 system data was generated by a test machine made available by Apple: To read this article in full, please click here

Systems Review 132

Systems Review Data 132

SaaStr

MARCH 4, 2019

When I joined a F500 company in 2011, we weren’t allowed to use Dropbox. And it worked. They learned to sell to IT, back when that was hard in SaaS. When IT didn’t trust the Cloud yet. That turned out to be magical for them. But Box was deemed safe and OK.

Mobile 29

Mobile Content Marketing Cloud Technology 29

Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 16, 2024

My partner Marc saw the new world coming and wrote about it in 2011 in a piece called, “Software is Eating the World.” Andreessen Horowitz began in exactly this way with a $300M fund and 2 General Partners. Shortly after we started the firm, all that began to change. What he predicted then came true.

Venture Capital 144

Venture Capital AI Innovation Enterprise 144