SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2023

In 2017, he was named by LinkedIn as one of the top 5 CMOs in the world to follow for thought-leadership in the digital marketing domain. Chandar also spent years at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) as a strategic advisor to Fortune 500 companies. He is a Strategic Advisor to the CEO of Freshworks.

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AI Search Consulting Leadership AI 239

InsightSquared

DECEMBER 18, 2017

We analyzed the data and curated a list of the top 12 most popular leaderboard songs of 2017. #1 We have our staff favorites at InsightSquared but we were curious, what are the most popular leaderboard songs among our customers? 1 All I Do is Win by DJ Khaled. #2 2 Money by Pink Floyd. #3 3 Gangnam Style by PSY. #4

Sales 87

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Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Here's a summary of what we shipped, published and achieved in 2017, in case you missed something! We kicked off 2017 by announcing our integration with GoCardless. This allowed GoCardless customers to import their billing data to ChartMogul and start analyzing customers and revenue.

Payments 58

Payments SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Scale 58

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

60%+ of our speakers have been less represented speakers since 2017 and all our IRL events since 2017 have had a majority of women speakers.W. Presentations with data are the best. Submit for any of our events here. Please also review our detailed guidelines here. In a nutshell: We prioritize diversity. No repeats.

Technical Review 228

Technical Review Travel Scaling SaaS 228

ReSci

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The post 2017 Holiday Season: 4 Data-Backed Tips for Retail Marketers appeared first on ReSci. Black Friday was close behind at $3.34 billion with a year-over-year growth rate of 21.6%. Black Friday was the first day ever to generate over a billion dollars in.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Today, the public markets value companies like it’s 2017. 1] Thank you to the Pitchbook team for running the headcount analysis data. [2] At 28 employees, a $16m Series A fueled the company for 35 months. That’s a lot of buffer to achieve Series B metrics [1]. But we’re no longer in 2021.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Starting in 2017 when the data is richer, the PLG companies increased R&D spend from 27.5% There’s no doubt from this data PLG companies spend more on R&D to grow. I categorized these companies by their primary motion: sales or product-led. Sales-led companies have oscillated around the 25% mark.

Software 227

Software Trends Revenue Startup 227

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 17, 2021

Here are 2015 , 2017 , This year, I was certain the categories would have been influenced by COVID19. I analyzed Crunchbase data and looked for the startup categories that grew fastest in terms of funding rounds year-over-year, provided there were at least 10 rounds in that category.

Startup 349

Startup Software Engineering Finance Engineering 349

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Let’s excise this group of 50% growers from the rest and add Redpoint internal data for forward ARR multiples for later-stage companies, which are all growing above 50%. In 2017 and 2018, the median high-growth private company raised at a higher forward ARR multiple than in the public markets.

Software Review 363

Software Review Finance Enterprise Acquisition 363

yoursales

JANUARY 9, 2017

SALES STACK 2017: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2017: THE TOOLS SALES STACK 2017: THE TOOLS. The 2017 edition will be a live document as you’re used to from last year. Here we go: Contents for Sales Stack 2017: The Tools. 2017 Sales Stack Tools All of the Funnel: CRM. Repsly – Mobile Data Collection.

Scale 44

Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring 44

SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2021

We’ve had a majority of women speakers since 2017, and aim for 66% less represented speakers. And one thing we got from 7+ major digital events, each with 50,000+ viewers and 5,000-20,000 registrants is a lot of data. We’re not close to perfect and keep learning. Since Covid hit though, we did a lot of digital events.

Data 271

Data Marketing 271

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 4, 2019

But the average MRR has increased substantially from the last time I analyzed the data. I didn’t calculate this figure in 2017. The usual caveats to this data analysis apply. note I’m switching from median to average here). In 4 years, we’ve seen a 4x increase in the median MRR of a Series A SaaS company.

Benchmarks 237

Benchmarks Startup SaaS Data Analysis 237

Sales Hacker

MARCH 5, 2021

Investing in buyer intent data is one of the best ways to differentiate yourself — now, more than ever. As we move into 2021, buyer intent data will help you gain ground on competitors and connect with prospects. How to Use Buyer Intent Data for Differentiation. Companies that were unable to make the switch have suffered.

Data 98

Data Software Review Sales Social Media 98

ReSci

JUNE 24, 2017

We’ve seen a lot of flux in the industry and technology, and have a lot of data from our clients and various publications that we believe will really help you plan. The post 7 Interesting E-Commerce Trends for 2017 appeared first on ReSci. It’s always helpful to be able to see how E-Commerce trends change over time.

Trends 40

Trends Technology Data Branding 40

SaaStr

JULY 7, 2021

5000 “ It was a fun one, analyzing the only public source of data on just how much ARR a lot of SaaS companies had. Where it Went: $45m revenue in 2017 and reported $100m+ in 2021, but acquired for modest sum in 2021. Where it Went: Acquired for $850m+ by Sage in 2017. No one had IPO’d, no one really knew.

SaaS 265

SaaS Technical Review Scaling Software Review 265

BetterCloud

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Last month we hosted Altitude 2017, our annual customer summit, at Brazos Hall in Austin, Texas. The roadmap and enhancements covered at Altitude will enable IT to take action on more data types, enforce granular policies and workflows, and build custom roles that meet the needs of every kind of IT team.

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Venture Capital Cloud Cloud Engineering Finance 40

Neil Patel

MARCH 30, 2021

None-the-less we were able to gather some interesting stats as we have data going back to 2017. Here’s what the question searches looked like in 2017. What do you notice when looking at the data? In 2017 it was 13.41% and it went up to 14.52% in 2020. In 2017 it was 13.41% and it went up to 14.52% in 2020.

Mobile 145

Mobile Trends Data Strategy 145

Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In this article, we breakdown why improving your Employee Experience should be a strategic priority for your organization and 6 data-driven ways you can provide a winning employee experience that accelerates business success. times more likely to feel empowered to perform their best work ( Salesforce , 2017). Development Programs.

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SaaStr

APRIL 13, 2023

Back when CEO Dustin Moskovitz came to SaaStr Annual 2017 , they’d just crossed 20,000 customers). So the long tail is material to Asana, and small customers regularly grow into larger ones. And interestingly, it’s both getting bigger by customer count, but smaller as a percent of total revenue.

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InsightSquared

JANUARY 2, 2020

You’ve collected massive amounts of data. But the question is—how is that data improving decision-making across the company? . Sure there are data visualization dashboards that help people see and understand data. That means despite all the data and reports, more than half of business decisions are being made on a whim.

Data 54

Data Underperforming Technical Team Forecasting Strategy 54

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

from 2015 to 2017, a compound annual growth rate of 35%. This decrease is driven by user policy changes that affect users who have been inactive for a year or more, and a shift to operating their own data centers instead of using cloud providers. MC/2017 Rev Multiple. Dropbox’s revenue grew from $604M to $1.1B Market Cap.

Scale 205

Scale Acquisition Cloud Revenue 205

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

More than 30% of the initial coin offerings (ICO) in 2017 target developers and businesspeople with their products. B2B crypto companies raised about $400M of ICO dollars in 2017. The data reflects this. Some startups enable data sharing across enterprises, permitting a partner to analyze data homomorphically.

Blockchain 175

Blockchain Marketplace as a Service SaaS Payment Features 175

The Angel VC

MAY 12, 2018

4 – More than half a million $ per head As of December 31, 2017, Dropbox had 1,858 employees. Revenue for 2017 was $1.107B. 6 – A unicorn’s worth of office rent “In October 2017, we entered into a new lease agreement to rent office space in San Francisco, California, to serve as our new corporate headquarters. Mind blown.

AWS 187

AWS Scale Subscription Payment Features 187

SaaStr

MAY 25, 2020

This one from 2017 Annual is really one of my favorite deep-dives with one of the top SaaS CEOs of all time. 5: “The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd” Godard shares from data what scales and what doesn’t in SaaS. #6. A SaaS classic on how to build a unicorn. #5:

Venture Capital 248

Venture Capital Scale Cloud Scaling 248

SaaStr

DECEMBER 21, 2023

By comparison, the median growth rate for these businesses from 2015-2017 was 27%. So o n the one hand, we can look at this data and say the average median multiple is 22% lower than the long-term average, but the median growth rate is down nearly 50%. Let’s look at more data. today, so the ten-year is up almost double.

SaaS 232

SaaS Software Metrics Revenue 232

SaaStr

APRIL 28, 2019

With Slack’s IPO data and financials finally public, what is left to know about the app we all use and have been reading about for years? That’s way, way up from just 22% of revenue from $100k+ deals in 2017. He was granted an additional 3m shares in 2017 and 1.3m The big deals also take time, even for Slack.

Scale 273

Scale Venture Capital SMB Enterprise 273

Tom Tunguz

JULY 15, 2017

If we plot San Francisco startup fundraising activity through the first six months of the year, rounds A through D, beginning in 2010, we see the surge during the 2014-2015 heyday and then a reversion to an elevated mean in 2016 and 2017. The startups raising hundreds of millions or billions might bias the data, I thought.

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Investment Startup Venture Capital Trends 187

SaaStock

MARCH 26, 2019

Founded : 2017. Founded : 2017. Founded : 2017. Founded : 2017. They use big data and machine learning to understand what each visitor wants and automatically change the banners, product recommendations and even on-site notifications. Founders : Patrick Rocha. Based in: São Paulo. Funding to Date : $500K.

Startup 210

Startup Artificial Intelligence SaaS Construction 210

IT World

JULY 5, 2022

With its October 2017 feature update, the company added a feature called Controlled Folder Access to Windows 10. As defined by Microsoft, “Controlled folder access helps protect your valuable data from malicious apps and threats, such as ransomware.

Data 90

Data Management Business 90

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2018

After all the hype and ICO-mania in 2017, the flurry of startups attempting to solve every startup with a distributed ledger and the collapse of currencies in 2018, one startup emerges in 2019 with the next killer use case; Bitcoin being the first. Data engineering is the new Customer Success. 2018 Predictions. To an extent.

Blockchain 155

Blockchain Technical Review Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 155

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Here are the highlights that stick out for me when looking back on 2023, the best year* yet for ChartMogul. *Of course…we do say that every year, as you can see in our 2022 , 2021 , 2020 , 2019 , 2018 , 2017 , and 2016 posts. Launching ChartMogul CRM On April 4th, after months of stealth work, we launched ChartMogul CRM into the world.

Scale 52

Scale Subscription Payment Features Benchmarks 52

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2018

In December 2017, the amount raised in ICOs nearly equaled the amount raised by Series A investments globally. They financed the development and deployment of switches, routers, modems and the installation of copper lines to connect new data centers. The ICO market today bears many similarities to the dotcom era.

Innovation 151

Innovation Blockchain Finance Marketing 151

SaaStr

APRIL 10, 2020

(Note: I wrote a version of this in 2017 when times were good. Analyze that data more. It’s just as relevant today, more so really, but thought it could use some updates. So here’s the 2020+ version). __. Hopefully, you are one of the 15% or so of SaaS companies getting a boost from these crazy times. At least a bit.

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Sales Hiring Startup Investment Revenue 303

How To Buy Saas

APRIL 22, 2024

Since it centralizes critical data, there are concerns about its safety and vulnerability. For password managers, encryption acts as the primary method for securing data from unauthorized access. First, most reputable ones offer end-to-end encryption, meaning that the data is encrypted on your device before it ever reaches the server.

Software Review 52

Software Review Management Technical Review Cybersecurity 52

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Data on this trend has been difficult to find. In addition to imposing controls on consumer data, this regulation from the European Union will limit the frequency of outbound email communication to prospective customers dramatically. One of the major trends facing SaaS companies today is the rising cost of customer acquisition.

Scale 181

Scale SaaS Acquisition Banking 181

Totango

AUGUST 23, 2017

Thomas used that data vault to inform the frameworks he shared in his presentation about Building Customer Centric Organizations, and we’ve summarized those frameworks below. One general TSIA philosophy is that growing ARR is a data-driven process, not a heroic act. To that end, one of the keynotes from #CSSummit17 was Thomas E.

Customer Success 64

Customer Success Marketplace as a Service Scale Benchmarks 64

SaaStr

MAY 12, 2019

The data in everything in venture is … mixed. Sequoia put ~$100m into Zoom’s last round in 2017 at $1b valuation. Yes, the crazy outperformers in venture are smaller funds, from Lowercase Capital to Benchmark, etc. The IRR can be very attractive in late-stage investing, done well. That $100m investment is up 15x in just 2 years!

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Benchmarks Investment Data Marketing 150