Panintelligence

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

It’s our hope that this series not only informs Fintech SaaS founders, but inspires the tidal wave of innovation that's on the horizon. While Fintechs and Fintech SaaS companies look for ways to keep cash and avoid raising new funds at lower valuations, simplification has sown the seeds for a new trend: consolidation.

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Chargify

MARCH 28, 2018

Interestingly, we’re seeing a similar trend in SaaS. Innovative SaaS companies are recognizing a shift in customer demand and offering their products and features “à la carte,” and are tailoring specific offers to target sets of customers rather than offering all customers the same generic packages.

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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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Baremetrics

JULY 23, 2020

And by talking to people from this audience and researching their biggest problems, I noticed two major trends in marketing: Companies want more data sovereignty. This trend is being accelerated in regions like the EU and California by new legislation such as GDPR and PECR. They are a pioneer in corporate transparency.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 23, 2018

2014: Full Time on Sales Hacker. In March of 2014, I went full-time on Sales Hacker. In March of 2014, I started the SalesHacker.com blog. We ran NYC in April of 2014, and SF in the Fall. Here’s Aaron Ross speaking at our first ever NYC event in 2014. External Trends I’m Excited About.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

From Facebook to Microsoft, there is a massive trend to seek out tiny teams of five or less, buy them, and use the technology and talent to gain a competitive edge. Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. Micro Startup Acquisition Trends.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 15, 2014

B2C companies grow much faster than B2B companies and the data proves the trend. 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. 10 years for Docusign.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

If you use augmented intelligence to create an extra cool or innovative product, your marketing will basically be halfway done for you. You can use these tools to help clean data sets , forecast future trends with predictive modeling , or even keep an eye on competitors , social trends, and customer feedback.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

Join Bessemer Venture Partners’ Byron Deeter and Kristina Shen as they take a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. Byron : And so, what used to be this eCommerce trend or this consumer trend where the cool kids were very much the consumer-only businesses, in some way that’s changing.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This means that the top marketers in the business are using this innovative technology to save time. Heavy adoption of marketing automation started in 2014, and the growth since then has been trending upwards. I use it every day to find the latest trending content!

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 9, 2024

or loves American football, Super Bowl Sunday is another annual event to keep an eye on for social media trends.  “It is a celebration of resilience — not a marketing moment, carefully crafted social media post, or latest African American-targeted innovation drop.”

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 18, 2023

Today on the show, we’re taking a lesson in edtech with some of Intercom’s customers who have been at the forefront of this change to find out the challenges and successes they’ve experienced, not to mention the trends they’re seeing. That opens up the possibility for a faster pace of technological innovation.

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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. We can see evidence of this in the recent attempts at creating massive planned cities to cope with the growing trend of urbanisation. And cities follow this same trend.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 11, 2021

And since 2014, Estonia has opened the privilege of joining its tech utopia to the rest of the world. It’s good for Estonia too—opening its borders has allowed the country to secure its spot as a thriving international hub for technological innovation. It’s a story that began decades ago, with the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Natalia Luneva

APRIL 30, 2021

The Open Source project around our code started in 2014 and has been growing ever since. Sometimes it’s a place for people with similar interests to ask questions and discuss trends. . #7 Where will new trends be discussed and how will bugs be fixed if not with the help of your community? #8 We have received over 2.6k

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Hitenism

JANUARY 16, 2017

In 2014, Mixpanel’s Series B pitch deck spelled out the company’s expansion plans over the next two years: 3x sales headcount and rapidly race towards distribution. Part of this has to do with reducing costs and tightening budgets, but it also reflects a much larger trend across SaaS. Innovate on the Business Model.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. They had fallen behind this latest wave of cloud innovation, and they had to acquire Red Hat in order to execute against their hybrid cloud vision, a similar story with SAP buying Qualtrics, Microsoft buying GitHub.

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Buffer Resources

JANUARY 9, 2024

or loves American football, Super Bowl Sunday is another annual event to keep an eye on for social media trends.  “It is a celebration of resilience — not a marketing moment, carefully crafted social media post, or latest African American-targeted innovation drop.”

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

From PLG innovator at $30m ARR t o a top SLG+PLG leader at $1B in ARR. It’s hard to know whether that’s some sort of broad based trend or whether it’s very specific to the mechanics of that product. Obviously, 2014 was a great year. It got you back in the game this hyper growth.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 25, 2023

With a background in computer science and a knack for building products, Mickey co-founded Insightera in 2014, a real-time targeting and personalization platform that was later acquired by Marketo, where he led the global engineering team as a GVP for almost three years. Liam: That’s great. Mickey: Pretty good. Great weather as well.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

The only thing I think makes sense for everyone to do today as a minor trend, is… There is still uncertainty today, now is a good time to go a little more enterprise. That’s my minor…no megatrend, that’s my minor trend. Those are the tactical trends to take advantage of. Those budgets are not as impacted.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Byron Deeter and Elliott Robinson, partners at Bessemer Venture Partners, offer macro trends in the public and private cloud markets, strategic advice to cloud founders, and insights into why entrepreneurs should feel auspicious about the future. If you go back to before 2014, what you see is the power of the cloud.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 27, 2020

Full disclosure: OpenView led Datadog’s $15M Series B in 2014. GreyNoise’s trends page immediately demonstrated to me how much work the tool is doing behind-the-scenes in order to show malicious web anomalies across the world. Some examples: Datadog. Often, these types of tools have a hard time showing their value.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

I think this leads us to lesson number four, which is continuously innovate through proactive listening. Nancy, you weren’t at the company in 2014 when we first partnered together. We did start a process in 2014 and ultimately Battery did win the deal. We did an institutional round with Battery Ventures in 2014.

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The Marketing & Growth Hacking Publication

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

The line between art and commerce is blurring as brands find innovative ways to create meaningful connections with potential customers. As consumer focus shifts from experience to meaning, retailers with physical store space to share are now using these to host various forms of communities and support potential customers in innovative ways.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

As the pace of releasing new features has accelerated, it takes less and less time for competitors to copy your latest product innovation. HubSpot, for example, launched a 100% free CRM product in 2014. You’ve heard this trend called a number of things, both positive (“consumerization of IT”) and negative (“shadow IT”).

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SaaStr

JULY 10, 2020

Of course, we’re seeing many of the trends that have been in existence being accelerated by 5, 10 plus years whether it’s telemedicine, ecommerce, mental health, food delivery, we’re very well aware of these COVID fuel tailwinds which are changing industries literally in weeks as opposed to decades. Seven billion today.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

As the pace of releasing new features has accelerated, it takes less and less time for competitors to copy your latest product innovation. HubSpot, for example, launched a 100% free CRM product in 2014. You’ve heard this trend called a number of things, both positive (“consumerization of IT”) and negative (“shadow IT”).

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 14, 2020

We’ve assembled this guide to provide a single center of truth for the most informative and innovative PLG resources. The email enrichment service founded in 2014 is a prime role model for PLG companies looking to make virality the centerpiece of their growth strategy and reduce CAC to all-time lows.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

As the pace of releasing new features has accelerated, it takes less and less time for competitors to copy your latest product innovation. HubSpot, for example, launched a 100% free CRM product in 2014. You’ve heard this trend called a number of things, both positive (“consumerization of IT”) and negative (“shadow IT”).

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SmartKarrot

JULY 27, 2020

The 10 Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences – Penned by Matt Watkinson, this book bagged the CMI Management Book of 2014 award as well as the Innovative & Entrepreneurship Category at CMI Awards 2014. This trending place is apt for you to find useful links and resources online. Customer Success Leaders.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

Trisha Price: So, how do you get people who are innovative, who can think outside the box? We’ve been looking at retail for three, four quarters and it’s been trending down. When we’ve seen a lot of very interesting data I could share with you around the downward trend. That trend you can see it in Q4.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix : We thought that you can’t innovate on too many dimensions. Teddie : Timing, everything, but you saw movement in the market that the trends are like going in the right direction and that gave you confidence that you’re kind of working on the right things. And I think any. Felix : Exactly.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Manoj Dawane in 2016, VTION is an Indian-origin media technology innovation company that aims at measuring media audiences by analyzing consumer trends and behaviors. Found in 2014 by Mathew Joseph Elenjickal, Fourkites is among the fastest-growing logistics companies across the world.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

Ever since its inception in the 1960s, SaaS has evolved from a mere time-sharing system to innovative and efficient applications that can be accessed on multiple computers. Providing the combination of software innovation and service, WP Engine is the leading WordPress digital experience platform. Source: Byteant , December 2019.

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ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

In 2014, they surpassed that 100 million mark. As more companies learn how to work out the kinks in their free models, we'll have more ways to think about pricing innovation, which, as a business intelligence company, is obviously very exciting to us. At least, at first. Freemium, done right, works.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

So, Aaron and I wrote a book together in 2014 or something. So, the noise is going to be the uber trend for the future, more of it. But in these big Fortune 500 companies, their incentive in innovation to bring in, but it’s like one or two a year, but they might buy more. So, we’ve got three of them here.

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