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Plenty of Decacorns Were Late Bloomers

SaaStr

Procore is a $16B+ leader in construction software, but took a full decade to take off. 2002-2012 were slow. Just a few examples: UiPath took 10 years to get to its first $1m in ARR in 2015. Then, it accelerated like a rocket. It took Squarespace 3 years just to get to $1M in ARR and 7+ years to get to the first $10M ARR.

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Three Mega IPOs That Took A Long, Long Time To Get Big: Squarespace, Procore and UiPath

SaaStr

Procore was founded way back in 2002 to automate construction project management. But took a full decade for mobile to get mature enough to make construction software really work, because it had to work in the field.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Procore at $500,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

You may not have heard of Procore if you aren’t in construction, but it’s a quiet SaaS leader we can all learn from if we think about it as a break-out Vertical SaaS leader. But they hit their stride in 2012 as mobile took off, enable construction project management software to finally really work in the field.

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29 Latin American SaaS Superstars

SaaStock

Founded : 2012. Neoway is targeted to serve a diverse range of industries, including transportation, consumer goods, construction, oil and gas, health and pharmaceuticals, technology, telecoms, banks, and insurance companies and brokers, among others. Founded : 2012. Founded : 2012. Founded : 2012. Tienda Nube.

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VC State of the Market with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder & MP Aileen Lee (Pod 597 + Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2012, Figma was valued at $10 billion in its last funding round in 2021. Another factor adding to this lack of constructive criticism is the experience of investors themselves. Despite the negativity, there are reasons to be optimistic about the market—particularly after Adobe’s Figma acquisition.

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CFO’s pricing metric helped SaaS company get through COVID-19

OPEXEngine

” Golden focuses intently on the quality of the analytical constructs he and his finance team use, a focus shared by the partners who’ve invested in the company, KKR and Insight Venture Partners, two of the largest private equity firms in the world. Insight put in $25 million in 2012 and KKR, $50 million in 2017.

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Product Life Cycle: What it is, the 5 Stages, & Examples

Neil Patel

It may offer a great variety of construction services, such as installing floors and tiles, painting, plastering, providing electric and hydraulic works, masonry, and more. Depending on the activity the company performs, this is perfectly possible. Let’s think about a home renovation company, for example.

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