SaaStr

MAY 4, 2021

In 2014, when I invested in then up-and-comer Talkdesk , it had long since IPO’d and was struggling at a $200m market cap. Five9’s revenues were 60% enterprise at IPO in 2014, but now are 83% enterprise. And Five9 has grown from just 3 $1m ACV customers in 2014 to 91 today: #2. Five9 is particularly interesting.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 18, 2014

If the fundraising trends in Q1 continue for the year, VCs will raise twice as much capital in 2014 as 2013 ($36B vs $17B). Q2 will be an important bellwether to gauge the bullishness of the venture industry for 2014. It’s still unclear to me how this growth investment market correction will impact earlier stage investments.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Previously, he served as Weber Shandwick’s Western Region president from 2014-2019, managing a staff of 200 people. Most recently, Penati was the founder and chief advisor at Penati and Partners, a marketing and communications consultancy that worked with startups and nonprofit organizations.

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Practical Advice on SaaS marketing

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I know you’re up to your eyeballs already with your 2014 planning, but I’m going to add another chore to your “to do” list. I'll start by apologizing.

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SaaStr

MAY 1, 2023

UIPath History 2005: Started as a tech outsourcing company 2014: $500k rev. UiPath has had an incredible history, taking 10 years to get to that first $1m in ARR … and then turning into one of the fastest growing software companies to $1 Billion in ARR ever ! seed round 2015: $1m rev. 2016: $3.5m rev 2017: $30m rev. 2018: $155m rev.

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The Daily Egg

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The company initially launched back in 2012 but didn’t officially acquire its first customers until two years later, in 2014. Monday.com has become one of the most popular project management solutions available. Today, 115,000+ organizations worldwide rely on Monday.com.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2022

2014’s correction stalled and then reversed Series D round sizes for 2 years through the second correction in 2016. Three corrections in the last ten years have contracted multiples by 40% or more. These are marked in peachpuff orange rectangles above. The Series D mean round size is plotted in red.

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CloseSaaS

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Jot down September 12, 2014 in your calendar if you're in San Francisco, because that's when SalesConf will be taking place. Nick O'Neill put together an spectacular startup sales speaker lineup, which includes, among others, Aaron Ross, Jason Lemkin, Hiten Shah, Lincoln Murphy. and myself :)

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 14, 2022

During the dotcom crash in 2001, the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, and the SaaS corrections in 2014, 2016, and 2018, Lee was either COO/CFO or CFO at Twilio, SAY Media, and Ofoto. Lee Kirkpatrick is no stranger to downturns.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 27, 2021

In 2014, it had 6 employees. Folks want to start startups because they have a chance to look like this: The true definition of a tech startup is probably one that if it truly achieves product-market fit, can scale almost infinitely. The above example is of my third venture investment, Talkdesk. Today, it has 2,000 employees and is worth $10B.

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CloseSaaS

DECEMBER 30, 2014

2014 was the year we focused on sharing the lessons we've learned from building and scaling sales for more than 200 venture-backed startups.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 7, 2019

The top left chart shows a $1M round had about 41% market share in 2010; that grew to about 54% in 2014; now it has fallen to 35%. Today, the first institutional round of capital is that $3-5M in 54% of cases, up from 39% in 2014. These numbers would be more extreme if benchmarked to 2014. But something changed.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 1, 2019

In 2014, I published a post called Do Startup Require Less Capital to Succeed than 10 Years Ago ? In 2014 we saw increasing efficiencies over time, which was very exciting because it reaffirmed the efficiency of SaaS go-to-market. It’s been five years and time to see how things have changed. The chart above updates that analysis.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

It was April 2014, and the company was raising its Series B. and in 2014, it had the lowest digital penetration of any category. Investing in Instacart was perhaps the hardest decision I had to make as a venture capitalist. And by the time we saw the pitch, they already had multiple term sheets.

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IT World

MARCH 28, 2023

When Satya Nadella took over as CEO from Ballmer in 2014, Microsoft began a slow, steady ascent, betting on the cloud rather than relying on Windows. Then after a federal anti-trust suit and CEO Steve Ballmer’s poor leadership, the company fell into a tailspin and lost its tech luster during a “lost decade” that began in 2000.

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CloseSaaS

MAY 29, 2014

Here are some of our takeaways from Pulse 2014. More and more SaaS companies are implementing customer success strategies and hiring dedicated customer success managers (CSMs). We recently attended Gainsight Pulse, the preeminent gathering for customer success professionals.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2021

VC in Algolia back in 2014, and it’s now a $2B+ search API giant. CEO of Algolia, Bernadette Nixon. First up was a walk-and-talk with one of my favorite CEOs, Bernadette Nixon of Aloglia. I was lucky enough to be the first U.S. Casey did a deep dive on the future of APIs and more here: 2. Jeff Yoshimura, CMO at Synk.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2022

2014 $4.1B. It’s not slowing down Salesforce, Snowflake, or almost any other SaaS or Cloud leader. Salesforce Growth: 2023 $31.8B (guidance) 2022 $26.5B 2021 $21.25B 2020 $17.1B Thank you Ohana! pic.twitter.com/CMhrBXgHSF. — Marc Benioff (@Benioff) May 31, 2022. We may be headed for a big downturn, we’ll see.

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SaaStr

MARCH 17, 2022

#1 source of traffic to [link] : 2022: SEO 2021: SEO 2020: SEO 2019: SEO 2018: SEO 2017: SEO 2016: SEO 2015: SEO 2014: SEO 2013: SEO 2012: SEO. Even Year 1 pic.twitter.com/5FtzBG2v1O. — Jason BeKind Lemkin #???????????? jasonlk) March 15, 2022. So we’re coming up on Year 10 for SaaStr!

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ReSci

MARCH 13, 2015

For 2014, it was the data scientist. The post Why the hottest job of 2014 is the marketer’s secret weapon appeared first on ReSci. 2013's hottest career was the social media marketer. Data mining and statistical analysis hit the top of the charts. We live in an increasingly data driven world,….

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Since 2014, the a16z Podcast. The new host will take ownership of one of the most successful tech podcasts of the last decade and lead the franchise into its next act, as the flagship show of the a16z podcast network. The post The Future of the a16z Podcast appeared first on Future.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2019

First, the science of building SaaS companies is better understood today than in 2014. To be fair, 22% of companies raised at $0 in ARR. But the average MRR has increased substantially from the last time I analyzed the data. note I’m switching from median to average here). That’s quite a growth rate.

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SaaStr

MARCH 30, 2023

Founded in 2014, PSG has since raised over $14 billion in capital and has a team of more than 150 investment professionals. RapidAPI is the world’s largest API Hub where millions of developers find and connect to tens of thousands of public APIs.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 19, 2019

HubSpot is a great one that IPO’d way back in 2014 ?? HubSpot has gone global with a fury since 2014, driving from 22% international revenue to 40%. 5 Interesting Learnings from Slack at $700m in ARR. 5 Interesting Learnings from Zoom. As it IPOs. 5 Interesting Learnings from Bill.com’s IPO. With a $10k ACV. RingCentral ).

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2020

When I invested in Talkdesk in 2014, Five9 had a $150m market cap. That’s accelerated more Cloud leaders than it has harmed. It’s not just Zoom and Slack. Many other functions have quickly moved to the Cloud, e.g. call center like RingCentral and Five9. Today, six years later, it is $7 billion. Let that sink in a bit ??.

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IT World

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Android 12 represents one of the most significant evolutions to the operating system in ages — arguably since all the way back with 2014's Android 5.0 Lollipop release. And much of that comes down to how the software operates on Google's own Pixel devices. To read this article in full, please click here

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Chargebee

JUNE 22, 2023

According to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Comscore and Serge Matta, who served as chief executive from March 2014 until August 2016, improperly recognized revenue from non-monetary transactions (NMTs) and other contracts, enabling Comscore to artificially exceed […]

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IT World

MAY 2, 2023

It's the first time the company — which has been owned by Lenovo since 2014 , when Google broke our hearts and pawned the brand off after a glorious 20 months of control — is bringing a classic Lenovo name into the Motorola and Android arena this prominently.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Seed in 2014, and then proud to double down: Super pro rata in Series A Invested big in Series B First check into Series C. But the compensation, both in fees and carry, diverges widely across partners, for many reasons. note: an updated SaaStr Classic answer. Top Dog image from here ). Today is @algolia ’s 10 year anniversary.

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IT World

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

US companies alone raised a record $435 billion in stock sales in 2020, with more than a quarter of that figure coming from IPOs — far outstripping 2014's mark of $279 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The vast majority of those new listings defined themselves as technology companies.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 23, 2021

2014: Alibaba. If we plot the annual growth rates for the 75th percentile Series A, we observe the expansion in valuations occurs in fits and starts. 3 of the 11 years recorded 40%+ growth. 3 of the years saw declining prices. Perhaps these prices are tied to blockbuster IPO markets. 2012: Facebook.

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SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2023

After the initial event exceeded our expectations, I decided to up my game for 2014. So at Pulse 2014, I became a “grown-up CEO.” Pulse 2014 was by far my worst keynote of all time. I hired a speaking coach (who was great in her own right, despite this story). Try writing out your speech and reading from a teleprompter.

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IT World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Google's latest and greatest Android effort is without a doubt the most outwardly significant Android update since 2014's Android 5.0 By and large, Android 12 is a true treat to use. Lollipop release — at least, if you're using a Pixel phone , where the software's most noticeable interface enhancements and feature additions are fully present.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 5, 2021

Over time, rates decline and then in the 2012-2014 era, they begin to surge upward culminating 6-8 years later at the top-left of the chart and $200b+ invested. The y-axis tracks enture capital investment by year and the year of the data point resides in the reddish circle. Do you remember this shape from high school math?

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IT World

JUNE 23, 2023

DISM hasn’t changed much since it emerged in 2014, and (mostly) works the same for both Windows 10 and 11. DISM, has been around since Windows Vista, when it was first introduced as a method for creating and managing Windows images based on the Windows image (.wim) wim) file format. esd) file format introduced in Windows 8.1.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2017

A year later, those trends have continued to converge, and SaaS valuations have resurged, reaching their highs of the 2014-2015 boom. If the first six months of 2017 are any indication, then 2017 should be roughly similar to 2016 and 2014 in terms of total dollars raised by SaaS startups in seed rounds through Series C.

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SaaStr

JUNE 1, 2022

So I’ve been waiting for this milestone for some time, ever since 2014, when we wrote in TechCrunch that Box would eventually get to $1B in ARR. It was just a matter of time. That Box would of course get to $1B in ARR given how much momentum it had at $200m in ARR — that’s the magic of recurring revenue.

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