Unbounce

AUGUST 29, 2019

For example, Jimmy Daly, Marketing Director at Animalz , recently called out this design trend on Twitter. Although we’re not alone—custom photography seems to be another growing design trend for SaaS brands.). As marketers trying to stand out in an increasingly competitive industry—is it bad for us to follow design trends?

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 19, 2014

I’ve analyzed the 2013 data and there are three important trends I observed. If the trend continues, in 2014 the average material startup acquisition will reach $178M and the average startup IPO will raise $146M. All in all, the startup exit market is quite healthy. Let me explain the phrase material startup acquisition.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Resources Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell Spider-Man: Across the Spider-verse “‘It’s a canon event’ TikTok trend, explained” Chris Dixon’s blog at cdixon.org “ Come for the tool, stay for the network “ “ The next big thing starts out looking like a toy (..)

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SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2022

Launched in 2013, it has over 2000 employees and more than 60M active users. Take time to step back from the day-to-day and look towards broader shifts and trends, such as remote work and digital transformation. Canva started building collaborative design in 2013 and shipped it in 2020.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

As is the case with Dell Technologies, one of the largest tech companies — which went private 2012-2013 and then also pulled off one of the most epic mergers of all time with Dell + EMC + VMWare 2015-2016 (and which we wrote about here at the time). Is there a method to the madness?

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Time for Sales Hacker’s annual Top 10 Sales Trends and Predictions for the Future of Sales in 2020. So, without further ado, here are my top 10 sales trends and predictions for the future of sales in 2020. 10 Trends and The Rise of Sales Tech. I wrote my first posts back in 2013 and I was just 2 years into the workforce.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 17, 2014

Looking through Shai’s terrific data, I observed three trends. First, as the chart above shows, the amount of capital LPs are investing into institutional seed investors has grown by more than 3x in 4 years to about $3B in 2013. Six-months through 2014, another $3B has been invested.

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FastSpring

JUNE 19, 2019

So it’s time for us all to put our ears to the ground and hear what the Mary Meeker report has to say about key trends that are currently shaping the digital world. At FastSpring, there were 9 key trends in the report that caught our eye. More and more companies are starting to realize the trend, too. Take note of the trends.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Today we’re finally putting all your questions to rest by covering Europe’s ecommerce trends so you can get a holistic view of the European ecommerce market. As a whole, ecommerce growth in Europe continues to trend upwards at a steady pace. The big picture. 24-54 year-olds purchased most frequently online.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2015

Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014. 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 ). Acquihires 59 64 67 68 61. Over the past four years, on average 15 companies are acquihired each quarter.

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User Pilot

APRIL 24, 2024

companies use AI in their operations and the number of jobs requiring AI has increased by 450% since 2013. AI tools can visualize trends and anomalies in real-time. Analyze customer data in real-time AI can provide product teams with dashboard visualizations of real-time data, highlighting trends, anomalies, and patterns.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 15, 2017

I was curious about the drivers of these trends, so I ran my own analysis. Note, the levels still exceed 2010-2013. But removing Uber, AirBnB and their ilk doesn’t change these trends materially. San Francisco may have reached a higher peak, but that trend is transient. But the 50% decline is real.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 22, 2018

Long-term trends in the start of fundraising market have been consistent over the last 10 years. And in 2013, the Series B median surpassed the 2009 Series C median. The blocks haven’t changed positions, though they do rotate. It’s a moving optical illusion. Seed rounds have not surpassed 2009 Series A levels.

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Explore the evolving digital world through insightful discussions on trends, impacts, and the next big things in social media directly from industry leaders. Listen to it here Ahead of the Curve with Coco Mocoe For trend-seekers, Ahead of the Curve is the podcast of choice.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 23, 2018

In 2013, there was one Series A for every five seed investments. This is resulting in several different and important trends. This means that the odds of a seed stage company raising a Series A have improved markedly in the last year. In the second quarter of 2018, there were three Series As for every five seeds.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 8, 2014

VC’s entry has resulted five different important trends in the past five years: The total dollars entering the seed market has increased by 132%. Mega-seeds, those seed investments over $2M, have reached historic highs exceeding 80 instances in 2013. Let’s compare this with the trends of seed rounds with VCs.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 28, 2020

This hugely influential 2013 post by SVP of Product Paul Adams articulated a lot of the core design thinking at Intercom – from the importance of clear company mission and vision to the four layers of product design, and much else besides. The Dribbblisation of design. Intercom on Product: The dawn of a new decade.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

The median 2013 VC-backed tech IPO burned $33M and the average company burned $76M. The chart above shows the net income/burn rate of 2013 tech IPO by years since founding. How much runway did the 2013 IPOs possess along the way? The chart above shows the smoothed trend across the 2013 IPO vintage.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 7, 2014

Each plot also shows a linear trend line for round sizes in gray. Before 2013, there were very few hardware seed rounds exceeding $1M, but in 2013, 56% of seed stage hardware companies that raised rounds, raised more than $1M. Each investment is a red circle. The bar chart above shows the investment pace by year by Series.

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The Angel VC

JULY 17, 2015

It took a few years – which shows how much ahead of its time 37signals was – but eventually other SaaS companies redesigned their websites or rebuilt them from the ground up: Campaign Monitor in 2008 (click for a larger version) The trend was clear: Less and less text, bigger font sizes, larger images, videos.

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Buffer Resources

MAY 30, 2023

This is backed up by attributed to having the highest ROI of top marketing trends This article explores the rise in popularity of the format and some tips for making the most of short-form videos for your social media. Instead, if you notice something trending online, think about how it does (or doesn’t) fit your brand.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 18, 2014

Fenwick’s report on the state of the venture market and I came across these three data points that summarise one facet of the market in Silicon Valley succinctly: 11 venture backed companies raised funds at a valuation of over $1 billion in Q114, more than did so in all of 2013.

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IT World

APRIL 19, 2019

While containers as a concept have been around for some time, Docker, an open source project launched in 2013, helped popularize the technology, and has helped drive the trend towards containerization and microservices in software development that has come to be known as cloud-native development.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 23, 2014

In other words, do seed investors see trends before VCs do? The chart above shows the trends in the seed investment market. This data is Crunchbase data filtered for the largest 20 or so sectors from 2010-2013. The Android startups which raised seeds in 2011 and 2012 raised As in 2013.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

In 2011-2013, about 1450 software companies were founded each year on average. However, Pitchbook analysis corroborates this trend. If it is a long term trend, it means less competition for new founders. The rate of new software company formation seems to have declined materially in the past few years.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 19, 2017

This trend started in 2014 and has continued through the first quarter of 2017. The big trend is the increasing prevalence of second seed rounds. Since 2013, median second seed size has increased by 18% annually. In 2016, the number of seeds has fallen by a 27.6% reduction in the number of seed rounds.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 30, 2016

By 2007 there were five IPOs and that number crested at nine in 2013 and 2014. Like any other sector, SaaS IPOs are affected by broader macro trends, and we’re likely seeing some of that in the number of offerings declining over the past 24 – 36 months. The chart above plots the number of SaaS IPOs.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 1, 2015

In addition, VCs have been participating in the seed stage market as well, making 2013 a banner year for seed investment. 2013 1531 1255 820. If true (I wish I had the data to prove it), this trend alters seed investment math quite a bit, because companies which don’t work out won’t return capital to investors.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2016

The 35% attained in 2013 share for early investment ties the 1996 record. Both an increase in the number of investments and the average amount raised by early stage companies has contributed to this trend. Perhaps the strong IPO year in 2013 enticed investors. That figure is up from 18% in 2005.

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Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The agency was founded in 2013 to “create pathways into advertising and entertainment for Gen Z BIPOC and LGBTQ+ directors, photographers, and creatives.”  However, it’s a great way to learn about new Instagram features and trends sent straight to your Instagram inbox. 

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

” We certainly never would have predicted that answering a few questions on Quora and a few blog posts in 2012 and 2013 would eventually lead to a global community with 50,000+ attending our global events, 150,000,000+ views of our content, 2,000,000+ downloads of our podcasts, etc. That’s been done a million times.

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BitPay

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

For some context, let’s look at previous halving years: 2012 Bitcoin halving, new all-time high in 2013 2016 Bitcoin halving, new all-time high in 2017 2020 Bitcoin halving, new all-time high in 2021 Why should your organization care about any of this? When the price of Bitcoin rises, spending habits change.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 5, 2014

In 2013, Apple became the largest publicly traded company, the first time a technology company held that distinction. Today, that share has fallen to 26% and the ratio continues to fall, a very positive trend. I expect that trend to continue. today, as the chart above shows. The big are getting bigger.

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Neil Patel

MAY 14, 2019

Let’s look at Google’s layout changes over the past few years… lucky for us, Orbit Media performed random Google searches in 2013, 2014, and 2015 and compared them to Google’s current layout for us. The big differences from 2013 versus 2019 are: The first organic listing is drastically pushed down. That’s a huge difference!

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Neil Patel

MARCH 15, 2021

percent of the population , and this trend is set to continue well into the 2050s. Take Your Cue From Millennial Trends. The boozy brunch, avocado toast, and emojis are just some of the reported millennial trends in recent years. This is a great example of brands capitalizing on millennial trends in a positive way.

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Stax

DECEMBER 20, 2023

One of the most famous data breaches happened to Target in 2013. The data gathered by a credit card processor is particularly handy in identifying trends and patterns – and therefore forecasting what business will likely look like during a certain time period. A large part of that was simply lost customer revenue.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 2, 2014

Cooley, a top tier startup law firm, reported this trend in their valuation quarterly report , which tracks these figures where they are counsel to either investors or founders. It may be that the first wave of big-seed-round-startups, who raised in 2012 and 2013 are maturing 12 to 18 months later. As for the question, why now?

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