Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

This supply/demand shift that provides founders more leverage in conversations has catalyzed some innovation in venture. 2018 and 2019 exceeded the heady days of 2000 in terms of dollars deployed. The competitive dynamics in the market where access to invest is more valuable than capital. First, venture capital has become much bigger.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

SaaStr Enterprise will take everything we’ve learned from our first two digital events into a one-day event that is structured to provide high-impact and measurable value by connecting top CEOs of B2B companies from $20M – $2B in ARR with the top CIOs, CDOs, CTOs, and CXOs driving innovation in the Cloud. Apply to Attend.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

Who doesn’t want to be innovative? But what is product innovation in the first place? The Wikipedia contributors define product innovation as “the creation and subsequent introduction of a good or service that is either new, or an improved version of previous goods or services.”. And how does it play out in real life?

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2022

HubSpot has often focused on the “M” in SMB, with 1000-2000-employee companies—and that size tends to involve many more executives, who sometimes also serve on the board. Use free products to drive conversion, motivate innovation, and entice your customers. If your free product has true value, then it inevitably drives conversion.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2022

Launched in 2013, it has over 2000 employees and more than 60M active users. Keep learning and constant innovation going. Canva hit $1B in ARR at the end of last year. After a couple of years in building out Canva’s people functions, he is now investing in growing the company as a CMO. Measure what works for you, and double down on it.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The CXO Summit is structured to provide high-impact and measurable value by connecting top CEOs of B2B companies from $20M – $2B in ARR with the top CIOs, CDOs, CTOs, and CXOs driving innovation in the Cloud. A senior executive in the office of the CIO, CDO, CMO, CFO, Innovation Office , etc. If you are a CTO or CIO, APPLY HERE.

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IT World

MARCH 28, 2023

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. But its comeback wasn’t based on beating competitors with new, innovative technologies.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

Monashees Capital is the largest Brazilian VC that makes investments in innovative solutions worldwide, but with a strong focus on Latin America. Currently, it manages the São Paulo Innovation Fund (FIP), focusing on funding agriculture, IT, health tech and FinTech companies in the state. Founded: 2000. Monashees Capital.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A Great company brings the most innovative products to the market and continuously evolves them to meet changing demand. So this raises the question: what now? What should founders aim for in 2024? This is the year for growth-stage companies to become Great. And the best way to become Great is to refocus on generating fast growth.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Ceyuan Ventures selects entrepreneurs who show promise in crafting leading technologies, backed by powerful teams and innovation. It finances innovative tech companies across the globe, supporting them also via the Group’s resources and knowhow. Founded: 2000. Vietnam Innovative Startup Accelerator. Founded: 2004.

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Aaron Beashel

MARCH 9, 2018

It’s free to send less than 2000 emails per month, with paid pricing plans going up from there. Zenefits is a great example of business model innovation. If you’re planning on taking the same approach they are, think about if there’s an opportunity to innovate and change your Go To Market model. Target Market.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 7, 2014

On the other hand, companies founded since 2000 account for 19% of the stock tickers but only 10% of the market cap. Let’s break these trends down by sector as a proxy for innovation rate. Below, I’ve plotted the year of founding of each of these 250 companies. 13% of the top 250 IT companies today were founded before 1950.

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FastSpring

MARCH 26, 2020

I help them innovate, strategize, and discuss best practices each year. I was a psychology major in college, and I’ve always liked helping people to innovate and to have those types of deep conversations. I actually lived in Australia for eight years, and I was able to meet Muhammed Ali at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 13, 2015

Over the past 20 years, that trend has been relatively constant, with the exception of the euphoria in 1999 and 2000. In the last ten years, a total of 20 companies have sold themselves for greater than $1B. The typical unicorn acquisition generates $1.9B in proceeds. These are big, bold bets.

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SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

And we have a product that G2 we call G2 Track, where with G2 Track, we’re tracking SaaS spend for almost 2000 companies now, and what’s been exciting over the last three years, we’ve really seen the number of applications they’re using grow. But again, I think this is very exciting for us SaaS entrepreneurs.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 12, 2016

The chart above shows the share of market cap commanded by companies which went public in three different decades: the Nineties, the Dotcom era (2000-2010), and the Cloud era (2010-2020). Which era of companies drive this growth? Fifteen years on, Dotcom companies have finally superseded Nineties companies in aggregate value.

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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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Frontegg

AUGUST 16, 2022

Authentication has come a long way in the past few years – new and innovative methods have been introduced as password-based authentication started becoming more vulnerable and virtually impossible to maintain.

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Baremetrics

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

For example, if you have 2000 users and 100 leave your site over the course of a month, then your customer churn is: (100/2000) × 100 = 5%. Integrating this innovative tool can make financial analysis seamless for your SaaS company, and you can start a free trial today. That’s where Method 2 can come in handy.

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User Pilot

JULY 19, 2024

Ongoing innovation. So if you have 2000 new users in July and 700 of them reached the activation point, the activation rate is 35%. And how well it drives your own business goals. Key components of Martech product success are: Product adoption and user engagement. Customer satisfaction. Product performance and reliability.

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SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

As a global technology provider powering thousands of SaaS companies, Google is at the forefront of driving exciting and innovative technologies to market. Megan Leuders: So a great example of that is when we’re selling to a large financial institution and we do sell to kind of the Global 2000. Large enterprise customers.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Companies must shift from a focus on competition to a focus on innovation. The core of the blue ocean strategy is value innovation. Continued innovation maintains the Blue Ocean advantage. Her firsthand experience offers important lessons for innovators. What Are the 4 Strategies of Blue Ocean Strategy?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Previous platform shifts show it can take decades of compounding innovations for a technological breakthrough to turn into a society-wide shift. This wave of generative AI has the sort of economics that drive market transformations For a technological innovation to spur a market transformation, the economics need to be compelling.

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Neil Patel

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Our growing team is dedicated to implementing innovative, adaptive, and data-driven digital marketing plans that help brands connect with their audience. A 2000 percent increase in organic traffic. Our employees are the best in the business. Our team got to work optimizing their content and improving user experience. The results?

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

But there’s another 10% of the 100 percent that is looking for innovation. That’s the piece where this innovation budget and/or folks looking for a 10 X solution to one real problem. Someone that can come in and mine your base, that can segment those 2000, go out and talk to them and figure out which ones can buy.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 24, 2022

With automation, your team can focus on thinking better and innovating more, instead of performing repetitive tasks. They offer a free plan limited to 2000 subscribers and 10,000 emails/mo with a daily sending limit of 2000. As a result, you have more time to focus on other things. Optimize the workflow and boost productivity.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

How the AI wave could impact the B2B software industry in the next decade Last year I explained in a video, embedded below, that I believed the B2B software industry was entering a new stage: the SaaS wave was now in its deployment phase, and at the same time, the next big innovation wave, driven by AI, was in its installation phase.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 19, 2018

For many years salespeople at companies like Box, Citrix, Paypal and more have relied on Zoominfo, founded in 2000, as their foundational database of millions of business profiles and contacts when prospecting and sourcing leads. This allows me to send a more thoughtful and timely message to my prospect.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Our nuclear rollout peaked in the 1970s during the oil crisis—President Nixon championed “ Project Independence ,” which aimed to build 1,000 nuclear reactors by 2000. startups are opting to build their first reactors outside of the United States , in countries with less regulation and a more dire need for energy innovation.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 22, 2019

Showpad’s all-in-one platform empowers sales and marketing teams to engage buyers through industry leading training and coaching software and innovative content and engagement solutions. You have to cast your mind back to 2000. From 2000 to 2009, the company grew 40% to 60% year over year.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Right now, it’s a little bit like 2000 and the internet is about to take over everything and everybody’s super excited. Cisco in 2000, I think was worth half a trillion dollars at its peak. So there’s going to be innovation there. There is 1 company called Cisco and they build these routers.

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CustomerSuccessBox

AUGUST 25, 2021

More than 2000 investors would be attending this event. This event brings together experts and innovators from the SaaS industry to discuss this fast-growing industry. This will be held in Helsinki, Finland. SubSummit is the world’s largest D2C subscriptions event.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

I think every one of us that had lived through 2001 and 2002 or 2000, 2001, and then again, lived through ’08, ’09, we immediately pulled out our playbooks and we’re like, “Here it is, this is the downturn we’ve been waiting for.” Sunil Dhaliwal: What have I seen? Right out of the gate, everybody stopped.

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User Pilot

OCTOBER 28, 2020

It also has an innovative “launcher” functions which you can use to deploy checklists and other widget elements. Entry level pricing is $279 per month for 2000 users, which makes it one of the more expensive options. Chameleon has a lot of good features and can definitely hold its own against rivals like Appcues. Cons of Chameleon.

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User Pilot

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

What’s more, product-led growth is also about maximizing customer loyalty and retention through constant innovation and product improvements so that customers have no reason to leave. For example, Slack views users who have used up the 2000 message allowance as qualified leads. It doesn’t stop there.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. I think it’s a really staggering stat. IBM was in a situation where they were really jammed.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

If you think about modern tech icons and tycoons, Amazon is really the only company that started the first bubble of the web in 2000. All innovation, all technology and everything they do as a company needs to aid that purpose. Steli: For me, it’s Jeff Bezos. Maybe it goes back to consistency.

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