SaaStr

APRIL 4, 2019

Eyal Manor: Yes, so one trend I’ve been observing in the past two years is first of all is the rise of containers and the rise of Kubernetes. So one trend is just containers, Kubernetes and how that auto scales in a very seamless way wherever you are. At Zenoss, again, our target market is Global 2000.

Cloud 173

Cloud Scale Trends Machine Learning 173

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 26, 2020

KKR started the leveraged buyout trend in the 1970s. 2018 and 2019 exceeded the heady days of 2000 in terms of dollars deployed. I’d love to hear them. What can we learn from an adjacent space? The evolution of the venture industry parallels the private equity industry. First, venture capital has become much bigger.

Venture Capital 230

Venture Capital Merchant Services Innovation Finance 230

SaaStr

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Amanda Malko is CMO at G2, a software marketplace and review site that reaches over 60 million buyers annually across 2000 software categories. In this session, she shares insights and trends from research conducted this year that can help software buyers and sellers make smarter decisions about software and the market. .

Software Review 245

Software Review Software Azure Cloud 245

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 19, 2015

In addition to the pitches themselves, the types of companies presenting forbear trends in the startup world more broadly. To get a better sense of those trends, I’ve categorized more than 250 startups in 3 recent classes and plotted the evolution of the classes.

Trends 100

Trends Startup Social Media Finance 100

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

This news item underscores an important trend that is reshaping the industry. In the late 1990s and early 2000, public market investors were able to buy shares at IPO at the ground floor of the business. The SEC announced last week that it wants to find ways to let Main Street investors access stage private venture companies.

Venture Capital 223

Venture Capital Startup Investment Trends 223

SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

150 CXOs exploring emerging trends and cloud innovation. Leaders in G2000 enterprises and leading SaaS and cloud vendors will share strategies, learnings, and issues; and venture capital and private equity investors will discuss the trends they are investing in and why you should care. Curated, invite-only networking . Apply to Attend.

Enterprise 178

Enterprise B2B Venture Capital Cloud 178

SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2022

Launched in 2013, it has over 2000 employees and more than 60M active users. Take time to step back from the day-to-day and look towards broader shifts and trends, such as remote work and digital transformation. Canva hit $1B in ARR at the end of last year. Planting the seeds and picking the fruit produces growth. .

Scaling 261

Scaling Social Media Innovation Branding 261

Clouded Judgement

JULY 12, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. The Third Industrial revolution lasted from 1960 - early 2000’s. Follow along to stay up to date! I believe this sums up a lot of the debates around “too much capex too little revenue.” These are all 40+ year revolutions.

Cloud 288

Cloud AI Investment User Experience 288

User Pilot

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Zapscale – from $500/month to $2000/month and customizable enterprise packages. Reports & analytics : Provide tailored analytics, dashboards, and reporting capabilities to track customer engagement, identify trends , and enable data-driven decision-making for improved customer success. G2 rating : 4.8

Customer Success 105

Customer Success Enterprise Software Review Startup 105

SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

Today, every single global 2000 company has somebody thinking about RPA and next year every division within a global 2000 company will think about RPA. Bobby: Well, at the end of the year, almost 2000 people. We’re in a category that a year ago nobody really heard of called RPA or Robotic Process Automation. Bobby: Yeah.

Sales Hiring 274

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 274

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Since 2000, private market assets have grown over 10 times, representing over $6 trillion globally. This trend has been driven by a variety of factors, including low interest rates, companies staying private longer, the need. Over the past 20 years, there has been a dramatic shift in capital flow from the public to private markets.

Marketing 143

Marketing Trends 143

FastSpring

APRIL 8, 2021

But 2000 was a big year for PayPal. In March of 2000, they hit 1 million users. The popularity of digital wallets is a new trend we need to adapt to for long-term success. Remember when PayPal first came on the scene? Well, you might not because you were probably in high school … or maybe even elementary school.

Payment Methods 148

Payment Methods Payment Services Payment Solutions PayPal 148

SaaStr

MARCH 20, 2024

In 2020, 2021 and 2022, the trend in SaaS was to expand hires in sales, marketing, and other resources ahead of actually having the demand to feed them. Jason did a survey on LinkedIn with 2000+ people who said they were working more than one job. When those outcomes are achieved, the hire gets their headcount.

Sales Hiring 300

Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Scale Headcount 300

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

My background as a SaaS entrepreneur, and then share the big trends we’re seeing in the world of SaaS, both what we’re seeing over the next few years and then also zeroing in on what has changed in the last few weeks in the middle of this COVID crisis. This was a 30 year mega trend into the future.

Software Review 240

Software Review Scale Technical Review SaaS 240

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2016

Both an increase in the number of investments and the average amount raised by early stage companies has contributed to this trend. On average, 25% more early stage startups raise capital in the last five years compared to 1995-2000. Today, we’re quite near the 2000 highs of $11.9M, at $10.4M.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Startup Marketing B2C 100

Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Below, we analyzed data from 77 US-based or -centric companies founded after 2000 that have a $5B+ market cap and highlighted what it takes to be Great by the numbers—and why growth is especially important on that journey. The important thing here is the trend: is your operating leverage moving in the right direction quarter over quarter?

Technical Review 109

Technical Review Innovation Cloud Trends 109

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. Though there is quite a bit of variance in the trend, because the numbers of companies are relatively small, we cannot say that the typical large acquisition is increasing in size. in proceeds.

Acquisition 100

Acquisition Innovation Trends Sales 100

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 8, 2013

I’ve assembled about 2400 M&A events of venture-backed technology companies since 2000 to compare the fraction of the total consideration which is stock and cash. There are two trends in the data: how the cash/stock split changes over time and how the split changes with the size of the outcome.

Acquisition 100

Acquisition Startup Government Benchmarks 100

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2015

The chart above shows the federal funds rate starting in 2000 through 2015, compared to the dollars in billions of venture capital investment. From 2000 through 2009, the federal funds rate and venture investment paralleled each other. It would be hard to draw any kind of relationship between these two trends.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Startup Investment Trends 100

Tom Tunguz

MAY 26, 2015

In 2000, the majority of tech acquisitions were primarily stock. But since then, there’s been a secular trend to cash deals. One company would buy another using its own shares, instead of paying for the target business in cash.

Startup 100

Startup Acquisition Pricing Trends 100

Tom Tunguz

JULY 22, 2014

I’ve used this data to draw the long term investment trends across the US venture capital industry. The chart above depicts the VC sector investment trends within this data and compares the share of VC dollars raised by entrepreneurs in particular sectors each quarter.

Venture Capital 100

Venture Capital Startup Banking Trends 100

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 10, 2014

Despite the decrease in time to IPO, the average dollars raised at IPO has tripled from the early nineties and grown by 50% since 2000. I analyzed the 41 publicly traded SaaS companies comparing to understand the trends in SaaS IPO. Here are four charts depicting the trends. The data set is here.

Startup 100

Startup SaaS Finance Trends 100

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.

Technology 100

Technology B2B Innovation Software 100

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 22, 2015

Given the $50B raised by VCs, this year, half of the dollars raised in 2000 and the second highest amount in those 14 years, there’s plenty of cash to chase exceptional early stage software companies and pay premiums to invest. I doubt these trends will alter early stage investing dynamics much at all.

SaaS 100

SaaS Forecasting Investment Trends 100

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 7, 2015

In 2014, Gartner predicted Chief Marketing Officers would control more budget than Chief Information Officers by 2017 , and the initial data shows the trend to be accurate. The most recent landscape for marketing products totaled more than 2000 alternatives. I expect to see many more startups chasing CMO dollars.

Sales Recruiting 100

Sales Recruiting Marketing SaaS Startup 100

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). This trend is inexorable. Which era of companies drive this growth? Decade Count Average MC, $B Total, $T Share.

Marketing 100

Marketing Cloud Technology Innovation 100

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 20, 2014

Google had grown from $220k in revenue in 19aw99, to $19M in 2000, to $86M in 2001, to $347M in 2002, to $961M in 2003, and would record $3.2B So much excitement and ambition. But that feeling was more than just a product of the rocket ship growth of the ads business. in 2004, the year of their IPO.

Education 100

Education Trends Startup Technology 100

Frontegg

JULY 24, 2022

Analyzing the Industry Groups that those companies are associated with, we can see a clear trend toward Data and Healthcare related companies: Data and Analytics 329 23.20% Healthcare 283 19.96% AI 232 16.36% Fintech 199 14.03% Cyber Security 84 5.92% Developer tools/platforms 45 3.17% Education 31 2.19% Non of the above 589 41.54%.

B2C 45

B2C Healthcare Enterprise readiness B2B 45

User Pilot

MAY 30, 2024

For Google, this is finding an answer to a challenging question, for Facebook – connecting with 7 friends in 10 days, and for Slack – sending 2000 messages. Event trends tracking in Userpilot. However, to fully appreciate the impact of Slack collaboration, efficiency, and productivity , users need to send 2000 messages.

AI Search 105

AI Search Onboarding User Experience B2C 105

Clouded Judgement

JULY 19, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. While the Nasdaq was up 71% from the start of 2023, the IWM index (Russell 2000) was up only 27%. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Big Tech Rotation For the last 18 months Big Tech has been on a tear. They were a safe haven.

Cloud 144

Cloud Healthcare AI Revenue 144

Scytale

MAY 13, 2024

The post Trends in B2B Compliance [Key Insights From Our 2023 Survey Report] appeared first on Scytale. For B2B SaaS companies specifically, 92% of B2B SaaS companies say they have either deployed or are in the process of adopting an automation tool. Speak with one of our experts here to learn more.

compliance 52

compliance B2B Trends Healthcare 52

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Perhaps these investors are encouraging companies to continue to finance growth with negative profits, a trend that continues through the public offering but ultimately, isn’t the best decision for shareholders. The fraction of small IPOs with negative EBITDA has doubled to nearly 90% in about 30 years. Small IPOs. . Large IPOs. .

Marketing 100

Marketing Scale Venture Capital Finance 100

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 31, 2015

Of course, acquisitions will also become more common ( 2014 proved that trend ). Said another way, we would need to 2x the number of IPOs in 2000 for all of these growth stage companies to become public. It’s a very heady time for startups and investors. 231 companies raised $40M+ growth rounds in 2014.

Finance 100

Finance Startup Pricing Acquisition 100

User Pilot

JULY 21, 2024

The Starter plan is limited to only 2000 MAUs and 10 segments. The Starter plan only gets trend reports and access to analytics dashboards. Monitor user actions with tracked events and visualize them with product trend reports. Track more than just trends, but gain access to funnel, path, and retention reports.

Technical Review 104

Technical Review Pricing Software Review Enterprise 104

Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 15, 2014

B2C companies grow much faster than B2B companies and the data proves the trend. 2014 will likely be the third largest year for VC fund raising since 2000, meaning investors have more capital to invest than in quite a while. B2B companies have taken longer to reach this valuation milestones. 10 years for Docusign. 5 for Pure Storage.

Startup 100

Startup B2C Scale B2B 100

FastSpring

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

I’m responsible for our company’s strategic human resource (HR) planning and directing all people functions in accordance with policies, practices, and trends within the tech industry. In 2000, I helped co-found Pacific Design Technologies, an aerospace company in Goleta, CA. A: I’m the VP of People & Culture at FastSpring.

VP of Engineering 113

VP of Engineering Company Culture Headcount Scale 113

How To Buy Saas

MAY 23, 2021

If you’re looking for a fair and competitive intelligence tool that would reveal all you need to know before joining a new market, thinking of a market expansion, or when you require to stay on top of emerging trends and opposition, you will probably end up deciding between Semrush and Similarweb.

Social Media 124

Social Media Content Marketing Advertising Scale 124