Tom Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2015

The chart above shows an estimate of the acquihires in US technology companies over the past four years. To calculate the data, I filtered all the startups who had been acquired for undisclosed amounts and raised less than $6.5M (the sum of the average seed round in 2014 and the median series A ). Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Back then, in 2011, Lyft was a small Series-A startup called Zimride with under 50 employees. Lyft is one of many companies that began as a small startup but quickly rose to a multibillion-dollar company. The total addressable market continues to grow and is ripe for selling to, but very few startups reach unicorn status.

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Outsourcing Services Scale Startup Outsourced Development 78

SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Before opening your business, your team will also want to utilize technical writing to prepare user manuals, legal disclaimers, and website help centers. In the software business, technical writing is the best way to break down complex processes and concepts so that they can be understood by the layperson. The result?

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How To Buy Saas

MAY 22, 2024

Uses advanced marketing technologies 3. Kalungi – A SaaS Marketing Agency for Early-Stage Software Startups Kalungi provides SaaS marketing solutions tailored to accelerate pipeline expansion for B2B SaaS firms. Refine Labs refinelabs.com 1. Innovative demand generation strategies 2. Roketto helloroketto.com 1.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 30, 2021

That said, I’m back on the proverbial horse, so let’s dig in with a review of our 2021 predictions. 2020 Predictions Review. Here a review of my 2020 predictions along with a self-graded and for this year, pretty charitable, hit/miss score. .” There’s sometimes a tendency in tech to confuse technologies with categories.

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Technical Review Payment Services Payments AI Search 143

SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

It sounds minor or technical, but if you want to due diligence on a human being, I get to do it a few 100 times a year. Aileen Lee: And so, they’re just way easier due diligence, I think. The last speaker I was talking to was Aileen and she was like, “I’m coming. I’m here.”

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 155

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

How Clio grew from a lifestyle business into a legal tech juggernaut From bootstrapping growth to securing a $250 million funding round, Clio is a lesson in how to scale a company without abandoning its roots. Both Jack and Rian had tech backgrounds and at the time were providing consulting services to the legal industry.

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SaaSOptics

JULY 7, 2022

In short, it takes tremendous effort to raise capital and scale pan-European tech companies. To move towards a pan-European venture capital market, the EU adopted the EUVeCa in 2013. European startups attracted more than $110 billion (€103B ) throughout 2021, and the continent continues to make waves in the global venture scene.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Part of this delta may be due to companies in 2015 delaying their fundraising announcement for strategic reasons. 2013 103 8.3. Private market multiples are twice those in the public markets, yet startup IPO and M&A activity in 2015 has halved from 2014. Or it may be an early harbinger of a slowing market. 2010 55 5.3.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). This begs the question: how much room is left for emerging startups? The median growth rate of startups with $1-2.5M Let’s unpack this phenomenon.

Scale 70

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 70

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 9, 2020

Kevin Indig leads SEO & Content Marketing as VP at G2 and mentors startups in Marketing at GermanAccelerator. I’m also mentoring startups in terms of marketing SEO go-to market at the German Accelerator, which is the official startup program in the Silicon Valley of Germany.

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Technical Review Scale Underperforming Technical Team Software Review 199

SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. What benchmarks should startups bake into the agreements? * When is the right time to sell a startup?

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VP of Engineering CTO Hire Technical Review Sales Hiring 128

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 8, 2020

At 15, he began going to school part-time in Northern England in Manchester, so that he could run a technology consulting business that he had started. I can tell you from personal experience, 6sense is a really, really cool and powerful suite of technology tools and also just a great company. Luke has a really interesting life story.

Scale 99

Scale Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Technical Review 99

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). This begs the question: how much room is left for emerging startups? The median growth rate of startups with $1-2.5M Let’s unpack this phenomenon.

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Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 51

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

Unbounce

AUGUST 29, 2019

The space is so saturated with competition (there are over 7,040 marketing technology companies alone), that most companies are eager to stand out from the competition. 28 June 2013, [link]. 15 February 2013, [link]. Because in the world of SaaS, branding is particularly valuable. Zythophile.com. Digital image. Smithsonian.com.

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Trends Software Review Development Team Review Technical Review 111

SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

We are post-term sheet moving along diligence. Jason Lemkin: So you have like a great profile irrespective of what your startup’s doing. And so combine all that, the stress, markdowns… Blackbird today announced they’re marking down Canva, which is one of the most iconic startups out there.

Scale 187

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling SaaS 187

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2020

I think you come in with some perceptions, like in San Francisco at that time, it was 2013 when we moved, Dropbox was a household name. But when you land in Austin, Texas, it’s a very different tech ecosystem. It’s a Harvard Business Review article that’s pretty outdated at this point, but still rings true for me.

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Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Technical Advisors 186

OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

That’s certainly true in developer tooling (AWS), sales and support (Salesforce), MarTech (Adobe), commerce (Square), HR tech (Workday) and even vertical markets (Veeva). This begs the question: how much room is left for emerging startups? The median growth rate of startups with $1-2.5M Let’s unpack this phenomenon.

Scale 40

Scale Startup Technical Review Software Review 40

SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2022

Back in 2013, it was quite rare to hear terms like billion-dollar valuation, unicorn valuation, or unicorn startup. Today, as the startup ecosystem gains traction, these terms are often heard. Startups, especially SaaS startups, aim at achieving unicorn status. The Startup DNA What is a Unicorn Startup?

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B2B Startup Technical Review SaaS 11

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 22, 2019

The customer defines the problem, but it’s on you to do root-cause analysis and solve the problem with your technology. I started in technology at Salesforce – I was their first female engineer and learned early on how valuable it can be to build a company from the perspective of your customer. Paige: Deepa, welcome to the show.

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Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Scale Technical Review 199

SaaStr

MARCH 14, 2019

Andy Tryba, Founder & CEO at Think3, talks about his thoughts on exits and why you should sell your startup. He suggests that the more times you sell (or exit in general), that you’ll be able to start another startup and make it more successful than the first one. It was about a 65 billion or so in 2013.

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Development Team Review Startup Technical Review Banking 124

OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In this article, we will review the operational and financial characteristics of Horizontal and Vertical SaaS companies and demonstrate how vertical SaaS businesses achieve “riches in niches.”. When SaaS business models originated, the most successful venture-backed startups used a horizontal model. Horizontal SaaS Companies.

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Business Model Business SaaS Scale 52

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Using her 20+ years of trench experience in B2B tech sales and support, Anita teaches sales professionals around the globe how to leverage key principles of human psychology to help buyers make a decision in the seller’s favor. I had never quit a job before unless it was due to a promotion or a better opportunity. Anita Nielsen.

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Scale Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 130

ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

Paul: What’s the most disruptive technology of all time? It’s an amazing technology and so simple. Paul: If you could use technology to solve one world problem what would it be, and why? This was back in 2013. Even the reactive stuff tends to be higher order, more strategic reactions versus technical reactions.

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Customer Success Sales Hiring B2B Technical Review 52

ChurnZero

JUNE 3, 2022

Paul: What’s the most disruptive technology of all time? It’s an amazing technology and so simple. Paul: If you could use technology to solve one world problem what would it be, and why? This was back in 2013. Even the reactive stuff tends to be higher order, more strategic reactions versus technical reactions.

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Customer Success Sales Hiring B2B Technical Review 52

Sales Hacker

JUNE 22, 2021

If you missed episode 165 check it out here: How to Transition into Tech Sales from a Non-SAAS Background with Lee Berkman. So this is like I guess 2013, 2014, you were there, Adam Lehmann was there, Kayti Sullivan from Yelp was there, Brian Makowski was there. The technology are our values. powered by Sounder. We’re on iTunes.

Software Review 59

Software Review Technical Review Finance Scale 59

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups. But then after joining them, and we sold that startup to another startup NICU, I went home to Pittsburgh in 1999 which led to the inspiration for starting our first business. Want to see more content like this session?

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 162

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 19, 2019

It’s technical, and I wasn’t technical. And the truth is, I think in each generation, in cycle of technology, you only get a couple major ones that have a significant, lasting impact on the industry. But it’s a technical sweater, so that took awhile. You get to deal with an API. It’s like, “Yes!

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Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Sales Hiring 217

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Plus, from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership, and strategic alliance activities. When does Karen think is the right time for startups to think about partnerships? Plus from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership and strategic alliance activities.

Scale 167

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Investment Sales Hiring 167

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We’re excited to have on the show today, a luminary and one of the most dynamic tech startup CEOs out there, and the CEO and co-founder of a company called QuotaPath. So this is his second startup. I actually began my startup career in Austin. Sam Jacobs: Hey everybody, it’s Sam Jacobs. I have a huge network.

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VP of Engineering Scale Development Team Review Technical Review 75

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

So many SaaS startups have cropped up in the market in the past few years, and seeing their growth traction, it is tough to choose one over the other. It develops computer vision technology that combines a social photo platform with a stock photo platform in a mobile application. Orora Tech. Headquarter: München, Germany.

Technical Review 10

Technical Review SaaS Point of Sale Banking 10

SmartKarrot

MARCH 8, 2022

An alumnus of The University of Texas at Austin, Disha Gosalia is a technical executive with various specialties such as customer advocacy , team building and mentoring, customer service management, escalations management, customer adoption, metrics analysis, training, staff development, and much more. Like what you are reading? Julie Hogan.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale SaaS Payments 21

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 5, 2022

She’s been on the Top 100 Customer Success Strategists list since 2013, which is a testament to her contributions and dedication to the CS space. In her former role as COO at Gainsight, she helped it scale from a startup to the market-leading company it is today. Irit is also the Chief Customer Officer & CEO at CSM Practice.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale Technical Review 23

SmartKarrot

MAY 11, 2021

Izosimov in 2008 for an article in Harvard Business Review, hypergrowth means ‘the steep part of the S-curve that young industries experience that sets them from losers.’. For example: Uber till 2013 had a cumbersome process for registering drivers online. Hyper growth in startups happens due to a single thread connecting them all.

Systems Review 10

Systems Review Technical Review Customer Lifetime Value Innovation 10

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 5, 2021

Today, his love for technological innovation, science, and creativity has established him as one of the most respectable business outcomes and Customer Success experts globally. Simultaneously, he has been a consultant, coach, and trainer for technology professionals across 30 countries. Jay Nathan. Jeff Breunsbach. Kristi Faltorusso.

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VP of Engineering Customer Success Scale Technical Review 21

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 25, 2022

The company, set up in 2013, has garnered global recognition. With a vision to speed up capacity, culture, and innovation, the innovation platform assists businesses in all stages (startups as well as scale-ups). Linius Technology. Linius Technology helps businesses create hyper-personalized video experiences for their audience.

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SaaS Payments Payment Services Payment Methods Marketplace as a Service 10