Tom Tunguz

APRIL 26, 2015

The Information reported last week that in 2014, only 11% of tech IPOs in 2014 were profitable when they became publicly traded companies, an all time low stretching back to 1980, when the figure was 88%. Some like LinkedIn do this in spectacular fashion, charting more than $569M in 2014 cash from operations.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 22, 2021

Not only does this make you look out-of-touch with current SEO trends, but it violates eBay’s rules and could get you shut down. eBay eliminated that in 2014. Subscriptions vary in prices ($4.85/month per month for Enterprise subscriptions) and perks. Write your descriptions for people first.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 16, 2020

Plus, knitters master their craft with subscription. Your top subscription news. And how will trends of later stage D2C brands trickle down to early stage brands raising VC rounds? The subscription club continues to heat up, with a lesser-known member: knitters. And that’s a wrap for your January 16 subscription news.

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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Learn how to identify trends in behavior across the entire customer lifetime with cohorts Before we get started, let’s address the elephant in the room: Cohort analyses aren’t exactly a SaaS metric. That “Signed up June 2018” cohort will always remain, and you’ll track their journey as a user of your product.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 20, 2021

Mattias Putman and Ewout Meyns launched PieSync in 2014 with a goal in mind: keep customers satisfied. If you’re using a subscription billing platform , this can be used to track your customer usage and purchase patterns on a granular level — important data that can help you better target your business to your customers.

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User Pilot

JULY 12, 2021

Companies accomplish this using statistical techniques that look at past activity trends and predict future customer retention rates among their various user segments. A 2014 McKinsey report revealed a 126% profit improvement for companies that make extensive use of customer data analytics compared with competitors that don’t.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Cohort Analysis – Learn how you can understand customer behavior across their lifetime and identify trends. With SaaS Metrics Refresher, we’re changing that and giving you and your colleagues the opportunity to go through a structured, accessible course suitable for anyone who plays a part in helping their subscription business grow.

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OpenView Labs

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Back in 2014, we led Datadog’s Series B for a few big reasons: they solved a pain point nearly universal among developers, delivered value to customers without any friction, and tended to grow rapidly inside an account after the initial adoption. At that time, there wasn’t yet a term for what’s now known as Product-Led Growth (PLG).

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix : And then kind of as we raised our series B round where we said, okay, let’s try to build a really good and successful company, that’s when we shifted to a hundred percent subscription. It can order subscription. But again, at the time SaaS wasn’t, subscription wasn’t the norm at all.

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User Pilot

JANUARY 12, 2024

In this example, the bar chart compares the number of standard, free, and enterprise invoices created over the last 7 days. A horizontal bar chart comparing invoice creations on Userpilot. Some common use cases for this chart type include: Analyzing trends with different units. Comparing overall trends in the industry, etc.

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Intercom, Inc.

APRIL 22, 2019

With the advent of the subscription economy, support is increasingly responsible for fostering that relationship over time (which can lead to more long-term revenue). If you go back to 2014, when we were building that part of our product, it was kind of the Wild West back then as far as browser extensions go. Short on time?

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 17, 2021

To help answer this question we will turn to Google Trends data to visualize how often “Customer Success” has been searched across the internet. As you can see popularity around Customer Success started to grow more steadily in 2014, and since has really taken off, and continues to go up to this day. Customer Success Around the Web.

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SmartKarrot

APRIL 13, 2020

SaaS businesses are organizations that provide subscription-based software applications that are centrally hosted on their servers over the internet. Instead of buying and installing the infrastructure, customers can simply bear the subscription costs of the functionalities they use. It was acquired by eBay in 2002 but split in 2014.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 16, 2018

One particularly worrying trend that helps bad actors is the ease of discovering maiden names due to the use of hyphenated last names on Facebook and similar social media platforms. Which is pretty amazing since he died in 2014 at the age of 90 and was named J. I’ve even had a “founder at SAIC” try and reach out to me on LinkedIn.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2017

In 2010, classic SaaS was booming, the benefits of a subscription model were finally becoming clear to the public markets and the mass-market. Advertising technology has seen a resurgence in 2016, reversing a three year trend of declines. Over the last seven years, software startup investing has changed quite a bit.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 17, 2021

To help answer this question we will turn to Google Trends data to visualize how often “Customer Success” has been searched across the internet. As you can see popularity around Customer Success started to grow more steadily in 2014, and since has really taken off, and continues to go up to this day. Customer Success Around the Web.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

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. We did things like we said, “Look, give us a year annual subscription.

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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. It took us 23 customers to get there. What's next?

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ProfitWell

APRIL 30, 2020

Today, we’re proud to officially launch the ProfitWell Subscription Index —a dataset to keep you up to date on subscription market trends and the status of the B2B SaaS vertical as it stands today. Listen wherever you get podcasts: How is B2B SaaS growth trending over time? ??7 About the ProfitWell Subscription Index.

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 17, 2020

Nowadays, it seems like you can buy just about anything on a recurring monthly plan: razors, clothing, knick-knacks, candles, etc. Over the past decade, ecommerce subscription companies have doubled down on the subscription model to monetize their relationships with customers. What are ecommerce subscription companies?

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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. Double headcount every 6-9 months.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2020

Twitter can be a goldmine for discovering the latest Customer Success trends and strategies. Godard was named to the Tech 50 list by Crain’s Business Chicago in September 2014 and to the Chicago Entrepreneur Hall of Fame in 2011. But do you know where to look for them? .

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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. Freshworks.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

HubSpot, for example, launched a 100% free CRM product in 2014. For example, Concur aims to “simplify travel, expense and invoice management for total visibility and greater control,” directly speaking to the finance exec and not the individual who’s actually booking travel and submitting expense reports.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

HubSpot, for example, launched a 100% free CRM product in 2014. For example, Concur aims to “simplify travel, expense and invoice management for total visibility and greater control,” directly speaking to the finance exec and not the individual who’s actually booking travel and submitting expense reports.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 20, 2019

HubSpot, for example, launched a 100% free CRM product in 2014. For example, Concur aims to “simplify travel, expense and invoice management for total visibility and greater control,” directly speaking to the finance exec and not the individual who’s actually booking travel and submitting expense reports.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Cassie spent the first pre-SaaS chapter of her tech career in growth roles in subscription and marketplace businesses (TheLadders.com, GLG). Sellers who strive to stay on top of market trends, understand their customers’ business and serve as true subject matter experts are of incredible value today. Kristina McMillan.

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ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

Bundled service providers like AOL have phased out and cloud-based subscription services are enjoying their time in the sun. We’ve got words like subscription, ad supported, license, and ASP, that are well understood. In 2014, they surpassed that 100 million mark. Fast forward to the mid-aughts. Enter software-as-a-service.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

2014: $500k rev. If you’re handling multiple invoices from different customers that come in different formats, you can keep hiring more finance people or you can have robots augment your finance people. We will do four and a half times what we did last year and be able to be a half a billion dollar AI company in about 18 months.

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