Outseta

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Pile on the growth expectations that come with the amount of venture capital that’s been poured into this space (Intercom and Drift alone have raised a collective $347M to date), and next thing you know live chat tools are being presented as something new. LiveChat Software has 21,000 customers and was founded back in 2002.

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Kellblog

MAY 8, 2019

Every so often I post highlights from the quarterly Fenwick & West Venture Capital Survey , as much to share knowledge about the existence of the survey [1] as to share its current-quarter data. As an example, there were two kinds of startups in 2002: those that raised large amounts of money at crazy valuations in 2001 and dead.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. I think in 2002 we only signed up two customers and this was after the dot-com bubble burst, 9/11 happened. And so by the end of that first year I started to realize, “Oh, wow we’re starting to have problems.

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2019

Well in 2002, I know it was a long time ago. But in 2002 there were only two types of startups in existence. There was no other type of startup in 2002 when the internet bubble burst. .” And the reason that’s only kind of glib is, let’s look point by point. So these decisions can have a big impact.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Felix Van de Maele | Co-Founder and CEO @ Collibra.

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ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

From 1992 until 2002, the number of AOL subscribers grew 125X, from 200,000 to 25,000,000. When it launched as the first cloud-based notes app during the recession in 2008, its founders didn't raise much venture capital. you had to start paying at about $14/month for continued access. But it worked.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Prior to its July 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100M, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world. The Wall Street Journal is getting very hard, because they love taking their venture capital.

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