Tom Tunguz

JULY 28, 2015

In 2014, total investment spiked to more than $3.5B, and through June 2015 Bitcoin startup have raised more than $4B. Early stage Bitcoin investment will likely have peaked in 2014, which saw more than 200 sub-$5M investment rounds and about 200 sub-$30M investment rounds. How much is going into Bitcoin companies.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Over that 20 year period, annual SaaS investment has increased 20x, peaking in 2014 at $7B. As the number of new startups ebbs, and major forces in the industry reshape it, I suspect we’re going to see a massive amount of innovation in SaaS, a reinvention after the perfection of a 20 year old playbook. Today, that figure is 5000.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The funding was led by Hi inov, an international VC fund focused on digital innovation and supported by the existing investors BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Senovo, UVC Partners and The SaaSgarage (Alexander Bruehl). Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5 Hi inov is very pleased about the latest addition to its portfolio.

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

Carlota Perez argues in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital that in the early days of a “golden age”, financial capital is necessary to fuel new technology innovation. . Digital Ocean took $40m in debt from Fortress in 2014 after doing a Series A with Andreesen Horowitz.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 14, 2014

In fact, the 2014 cohort of public SaaS companies spend more on sales & marketing and engineering than previous IPO cohorts. Looking at the Median Sales Costs, which shows gross sales dollars in $M, the 2014 cohort does show accelerated spending compared to older cohorts. There’s no clear difference, then, in sales spending.

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The SaaS Garage

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The capital is mainly being invested in Loyalty Prime’s rapid international expansion, especially in the USA , as well as within product innovation and development. Since 2014, the company has been continuously demonstrating that its products can successfully satisfy the strong demand for effective customer loyalty solutions.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Network effect products rely less on new product innovation unless it’s the only way to monetize. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes. Too much new product development that didn’t pan out and too much trying to regain what we had lost vs. leaning into new areas that were working.

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The Angel VC

AUGUST 26, 2015

Just six years later, the results were completely upside-down: In 2014, 87% of all buyers with a deployment preference preferred Cloud solutions. These and other innovations will allow SaaS applications to get even wider adoption and to provide even more value to its customers.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The funding was led by Hi inov, an international VC fund focused on digital innovation and supported by the existing investors BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Senovo, UVC Partners and The SaaSgarage (Alexander Bruehl). Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5 Hi inov is very pleased about the latest addition to its portfolio.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Valuations there fell from their highs in 2014. There are Only 3 Pricing Strategies for Your Startup - Because pricing is so complex, ever-changing and unique to each company, the taxonomy in Monetizing Innovation is a relief. Time for some quantitative analysis of the content that readers liked the best this year.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 30, 2016

In the 13 years that followed, many startups have followed their path to build innovative software that has transformed their respective industries and sectors. By 2007 there were five IPOs and that number crested at nine in 2013 and 2014. The shift has been revolutionary both in software delivery as well as sales.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

It also foreshadows a wave of innovation of new and wonderful soon-to-be-released products. Importantly, investors have raised nearly twice as much capital in 2014 as in 2013 and their coffers are well stocked to finance new and fast-growing companies. 2015 will be an exciting year for Startupland.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Inspired by Andreessen’s maxim, in 2014 Benedict Evans coined the phrase “ Mobile is eating the world ,” which in retrospect feels like it downplayed just how much our daily lives have become consumed by our smartphones. It is very possible that no other company has done as much to shape our decade as Jeff Bezos’s behemoth. Rise of mobile.

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Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 20, 2018

We created our first sales function in 2014 and in the busyness of building out the team, we had little time to reflect on how our experiences on the frontline of sales could add value to our product roadmap. To fix it, we had to change how we worked with our product team.

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The Angel VC

JULY 17, 2015

This (plus a few other things) was the anatomy of almost every SaaS landing page in 2014. Join me as I go back in time and take a look at how SaaS landing pages looked like some years ago. The SaaS Stone Age Fast-backward about 16 years.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Enterprises pursue technology innovations and adopt them at earlier phases of product development, to gain a competitive advantage. In addition, open source software is a big driver of infrastructure innovation. Open source provides transparency and prevents lock-in to proprietary standards for large companies.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 24, 2019

Something like the Term Plans where you pay a certain amount each month for say two years was introduced in 2014, and I was the person involved in delivering that project for AT&T. There’s so much competition and new innovation it’s a challenge to stay ahead. How did you find FastSpring? What is a typical day at work like for you?

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User Pilot

JANUARY 30, 2023

They include innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. The product adoption curve is a concept created by Everett Rogers back in 1962 and further developed by Geoffrey Moore in 2014. They include: Innovators. Innovators (2.5%

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Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

This innovative software tool is a proven and tested customer engagement booster. With the unique self-service solutions on offer, your customers can get the best features in blazing fast times, with your devs focusing on innovation and quality. So pick accordingly. #1 1 Intercom. Best For: User Journey Planning and Optimization.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 15, 2015

In 2014, venture capitalists invested in 37 separate open-source financings. Companies of all kinds are starting to use software as competitive strategic advantage, and the pace of innovation in infrastructure and software continues to increase. Some open source companies have raised huge sums of money, well over $100 million.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 24, 2021

They’re truly committed to building innovative products that sell themselves. Veeva sees similar dynamics among its Vault customers, with 2013/2014 cohorts growing subscription revenue by 26.8x Atlassian has an R&D:S&M ratio of 2.9:1. They might even be under-spending on GTM…). products each, up from 1.90

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Podium started in 2014 in Lehi, Utah, which 10 years ago was nothing but farmland. And we raised a little bit of seed money in 2014. Luckily in 2014, we got email from a very prestigious Bay area firm, and if I told you their name, you’d all recognize it. So let’s start out with a story. They’re awesome.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Outreach is the only engagement and intelligence platform built by revenue innovators for revenue innovators. One of the things that was very useful — Ambition went through Y Combinator in 2014, we raised a seed round coming out of that. Today, a lot of people have not.com domains, but in 2014, that was shocking advice.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Founded : 2014. It offers innovative software, relationship and management support. The platform is based on Lean Construction methodologies and provides a collaborative ecosystem for engineers and construction specialists. CEO : Franco Giaquinto. Based in: Santiago, Chile. Funding to Date : $1.1M and Portugal.

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SaaStr

MARCH 26, 2019

We work with hundreds of thousands of companies around the world on accepting payments, expanding globally, and increasingly on innovating their business models for the internet and for mobile. When I joined Stripe, we only had … So that was in 2014, at the end of 2014, we only had one marketers, and three people in sales.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 15, 2022

Finally, Outreach — the only engagement and intelligence platform built by revenue innovators for revenue innovators. Asad joined in 2014 as an account executive. Revenue leaders trust Mindtickle to drive winning sales rep behaviors so you can beat quota every quarter. Go to try.mindtickle.com/sales-hacker to learn more.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2019

From Twitter, I ended up going to Slack in 2014, about six months after it launched. Kaitlin: Turning our attention to your time at Slack, you joined in 2014, as mentioned. Kaitlin: I’m sure it’s changed over the years, certainly since 2014. This was 2008, and by the time I left, I think there were 3,000 employees.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 1, 2021

A few examples: Digital Ocean (65% of revenue), Twilio (50% of product usage), HubSpot (44% of revenue, up from 22% in 2014), and Salesforce (34% of revenue, i.e. more than $7 billion). But the benefits of hiring for cultural and linguistic diversity go beyond generalized increases in perspective and innovation.

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Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

With innovative products, services, and brands being added to global commerce every day, it’s becoming an increasingly crowded market to operate in. Founded in 2014, Decorist is a B2C niche marketplace specifically for interior designers to sell their design services. Access to a Targeted Audience.

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Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 7, 2018

It is not an exaggeration to say that they are one of the most important innovations in human history. A UN development report in 2014 noted that there were 28 megacities with over 10 million people whereas in 1990 there were only 10. Cities are really transformative for the way they enable one thing: connections between people.

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Hull

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Founded in 2014, the company developed an innovative technology designed to maximize value and deliver unforgettable event experiences. Identifying a Need for Better Data Connection & Segmentation Capabilities. Privateaser organizes tens of thousands of events each year for all types of occasions and clients.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 1, 2019

Back in 2014, Brian Balfour described Growth as the “blending of marketing, product and engineering into one tight knit team.” Despite the rise of this buzzword, there is not much clarity regarding what Growth actually means and what this team should be responsible for. What does Growth actually mean? Hiring for Growth.

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The SaaS Garage

APRIL 27, 2017

Cobrainer hat eine erstklassige und innovative Software zum strategischen Human Capital Management entwickelt“, sagt Roman Huber von Bayern Kapital. Loyalty Prime ging 2014 an den Start.

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CustomerSuccessBox

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

A report found that “between 2014 and 2018, the average office worker received around 90 emails per day and sent around 40.” The question here is how do you bring more executives together and be more of a thought leader and innovator within your space. And if you’re wondering why, let us look at some key points. Stacked up emails.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. The innovation and ability to push a startup idea into production mean the team has skills and knowledge that is invaluable to an established company. Your exit strategy timeline is A LOT shorter.

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

In fact, companies that successfully foster a culture of customer-centricity are 60% more profitable than companies that don’t ( Deloitte , 2014). Q: How much time and budget should a revenue organization dedicate to innovation and transformation? That’s a tricky question. The short answer is, it depends.

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OpenView Labs

APRIL 22, 2020

There has never been a better time to test innovative pricing and monetization models to outmaneuver slow or legacy competitors. This post will guide you through 10 innovative pricing plays you should consider along with high-profile examples of companies who are testing them. Recap: 10 innovative pricing plays you should consider.

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