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Figma: “We’d Been Talking to Adobe Since 2012”

SaaStr

A decade: Adobe first reaches out after launch in 2012. I certainly didn’t sell my 2 startups for $20B but in both cases (and one was to Adobe), it was a 5-year process. A related post here : The post Figma: “We’d Been Talking to Adobe Since 2012” appeared first on SaaStr.

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Power Laws: A Look Back To Where 20 SaaS Break-Out Companies from 2012 Are Today

SaaStr

The second SaaStr post ever, way back in late 2012, was “ Everybody Lies: SaaS Revenues in the Inc. Very fast-growing companies had great exits, but the “fairly fast ones” had even bigger exits than the very fastest-growing in the class of 2012! No one had IPO’d, no one really knew. generation.

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Just How Troubled is the Bay Area Startup Scene?

Tom Tunguz

There’s a prevailing narrative that the health of the Bay Area startup ecosystem faces challenges. San Francisco’s share of startup rounds by count has fallen from its perch ten years ago. In 2021, San Francisco Bay Area startups raised $126b. In 2019, US startups raised $126.4b.

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Which Categories of Seed Startups are Thriving? Which Aren't?

Tom Tunguz

Which sectors see more startup company formation than others? Eight years ago, there were nearly zero AI startups seeded. Blockchain - another exponential curve that shows growth from 0 to 200 startups in eight years. Consumer preferences are evolving and startups are rising to meet the demand. Let’s take a look.

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A Decade of Deep Learning: How the AI Startup Experience Has Evolved

Andreessen Horowitz

The artificial intelligence field has evolved dramatically since the deep learning revolution kicked off in 2012, and Richard Socher has been around for all of it. He earned his PhD from Stanford working on NLP (natural language processing) before co-founding an AI startup called MetaMind in 2013.

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How to Figure Out How Fast Your Competitor is Growth in About 60 Seconds

SaaStr

One of the very earliest SaaStr posts, from way back in 2012, was on how to guess a competitor’s revenues from how many employees they have on LinkedIn. It still mostly works, and you can roughly tell how much revenue a “normal” startup has from its employee count. It’s still a decent hack though.

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At Scale, Customer Success On Average is Paid 5.3% of ARR Managed, Per Gainsight

SaaStr

So we’ve been talking about customer success at SaaStr longer than almost anyone else, going back to our very first posts in 2012, including on Second Order Revenue. CLTV Isn’t The Whole Story. Don’t Shortchange Second-Order Revenue. Especially in this new age of efficient growth.