Clouded Judgement

JULY 26, 2024

The rate of innovation in the AI markets is staggering, and a reminder that it’s really hard for anyone (big companies especially) to “fully commit” to an AI strategy or vendor. I asked ChatGPT how many price changes AWS has made to S3 since it’s inception in 2006, and the answer it gave me was 65. Staggering!

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Cloud Technical Review Artificial Intelligence Software Review 144

SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2025

Founded in 2006, Bill.com has grown to: $1.4 Balance tech debt with innovation: Even after 18 years, Bill continues to invest in modernizing its platform while developing new capabilities. This network effect concept was baked into the company’s database design and workflow from day one. From Zero to $1.4

SMB 130

SMB Payments Payment Services SaaS Payments 130

Kellblog

JULY 4, 2020

That’s how you get known as an innovator. 1] This post is a fresh take on a post I did in 2006 entitled On Branded Features , which actually uses the same example. [2] We’ll save money by not having to register all those marks in 47 countries around the world. 2] This is a fictitious conversation about a real example.

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Branding Leadership Innovation Startup 97

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 11, 2019

We coined the term way back in 2006 when we founded the company, and a lot of our story, historically speaking, has been around marketing. Michael: I’m really excited about the pace of innovation in terms of automation: our ability to bring self-service to customers. The pace of innovation is way up and to the right, currently.

Scale 188

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 188

Chargify

MARCH 28, 2018

Innovative SaaS companies are recognizing a shift in customer demand and offering their products and features “à la carte,” and are tailoring specific offers to target sets of customers rather than offering all customers the same generic packages. The software was hard to use and implement, and offered little in the way of user experience.

Pricing 47

Pricing Innovation Scale SaaS 47

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

The WebPT store starts in 2006. I think this leads us to lesson number four, which is continuously innovate through proactive listening. We started building in 2006. I think sometimes when you can’t actually find a solution for something, it does take a little bit of initiative to just go out and build it yourself.

Scale 187

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 187

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

HubSpot: The Inbound Marketing Innovator HubSpot entered the scene later, founded in 2006 by Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah at MIT. Founded 2006; Inventor of inbound marketing methodology. Continuous innovation in inbound marketing features. Market share leader (21.7% Rapid SMB adoption with 200K+ customers.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Technical Review Software Review 52

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

APRIL 10, 2018

First up, while HubSpot’s Dublin office opened in 2013, we have been selling into EMEA since the company was founded back in 2006. This means in many markets there are few innovators left - instead we’re selling to early adopters and the early majority, who in many cases are more conservative and require greater persuasion.

Scale 112

Scale Sales Sales Enablement Software Review 112

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 25, 2021

Proactive experience, reliability, and innovation. Jeanne: The first Chief Customer Officer book came out in 2006. It’s not about tackling problems as they pile up or chasing survey scores, it’s about building the foundation for customer-driven growth. The five competencies: Customers as assets. Align around customer experience.

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VP of Engineering Scale Business Leadership 181

Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Network effect products rely less on new product innovation unless it’s the only way to monetize. billion exit, Grubhub made a lot of mistakes. Too much new product development that didn’t pan out and too much trying to regain what we had lost vs. leaning into new areas that were working.

Payments 63

Payments Scale Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 63

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 5, 2018

I joined the ranks of Prime Point Media in 2006 selling national accounts, and by 2008 I had built the entire Midwest territory. If you’re looking to become a VP of Sales at a young age, you have to find innovative ways to stand out and be noticed. My answer to all of the above was ‘yes.’ Get creative in your communications.

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Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Sales 91

User Pilot

JULY 23, 2024

Examples are: Marketo Founded in 2006, Marketo is arguably the most popular marketing automation software. Marketo is known for its innovative automation technologies, including: Lead nurturing : Marketo offers advanced lead nurturing and segmentation capabilities based on behavioral triggers.

Technical Review 105

Technical Review Social Media AI Search Software Review 105

Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

And that went on to become a monster, I floated it on the London Stock Exchange in 2006, exited it in 2008 for about a half a billion bucks and that brings us up to the latest bunch of companies. I realized after three or four weeks that retirement was boring and then set up a gaming software company called Inspire Gaming Group.

Transportation 183

Transportation Business Travel Underperforming Technical Team 183

How To Buy Saas

APRIL 25, 2024

Despite bringing innovations, the industry of that time faced tremendous upfront costs and restricted accessibility. Moreover, there were slower innovation cycles compared to the cloud-based SaaS model that we know now, thanks to the advent of smart neural networks. That established the foundation for the SaaS model in technology.

Artificial Intelligence 52

Artificial Intelligence Trends AI Machine Learning 52

Audacix

JANUARY 1, 2019

Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: “You build it, you run it. Doing this will help you transition your team from building and relying on someone else to monitor and manage what they've built (in case you haven't already heard, a central team to run DevOps "ops" is bad form!).

DevOps as a Service 75

DevOps as a Service Cybersecurity Scale New CTO 75

Crafty CTO

JUNE 10, 2023

Audi has likewise innovated on its internal combustion engine: starting in 2006, Audi made an unprecedented switch to diesel power. It’s shaping up to be a great race, perhaps as exciting as the classic Audi - Peugeot duels of 2006-2011.

Engineering 52

Engineering Travel Technology Interviewing 52

How To Buy Saas

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

More and more companies adopt SaaS, which enhances user experience, drives operational efficiency, and fosters innovation. Aalpha Information Systems was featured on Bloomberg and Business Insider, also receiving the Fintech Innovator Award and Software Suggest Award for best user experience.

DevOps as a Service 40

DevOps as a Service Development Technical Review Blockchain 40

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Brendan Schwartz and Chris Savage founded the company in 2006 and got their first client, a medical devices company, that year. Shopify has been amply rewarded for its innovations in ecommerce. In 2019, the picture is pretty rosy for Wistia. UiPath is a platform for robotic process automation.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

How To Buy Saas

OCTOBER 10, 2024

They emphasize simplicity, innovation, and dependability, and help with an easy and seamless integration of WhatsApp with different corporate processes. From content creation and scheduling to receiving regular insights and analytics, Hubspot helps you with all of it. This is why it is one of the leading small business marketing tools.

Social Media 52

Social Media Marketing Business AI Search 52

Audacix

JULY 18, 2022

Amazon's tech innovation czar (and CTO) put it best as early as 2006, when he said: You build it, you run it. Doing this will help you transition your team from building and relying on someone else to monitor and manage what they've built (in case you haven't already heard, a central team to run DevOps "ops" is bad form!).

DevOps as a Service 52

DevOps as a Service Technical Review CTO Coach Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

If you serve those customers well, and remain innovative — you most likely will build to and have a Mini-Brand. Remain innovative on the product side. Launch on January 1, 2006. And that won’t grow fast enough, at least not from a founder’s perspective. The model may not work in your head. But trust me.

Branding 354

Branding Scale Innovation Enterprise 354

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

To me, companies will always be trying to innovate around how do they serve their customers better and their employees better in order to build their businesses and drive more revenue. The company was founded all the way back in 2006, amazingly. The first is just literally funding the company in 2006. Just a bit of history.

SaaS 187

SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Innovation 187

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 28, 2022

The SaaS platform offers several innovative features, including continuous threat monitoring, network segmentation, continuous vulnerability detection, and security posture assessment. Founded in: 2006. Founded in: 2006. Workiz is an innovative Field Service Management solution. Founder/CEO: Yoav Izhar-Prato. monday.com.

SaaS Payments 10

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payment Services 10

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 28, 2025

But yeah, my first, my first company started back in 2006 and it was a crazy journey. So your company Keyed In was acquired by Salesforce in, I believe it was 2006. And in like this period of time, this like continuum of innovation in enterprise software, there was like, at first there was kind of the SaaS movement, as you mentioned.

Sales Hiring 103

Sales Hiring AI Scale Cloud 103

SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Chandra Mohan Grover in 2006, IBSFintech is a SaaS company that offers financial solutions for managing corporate trade finance and Forex treasury. 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.

SaaS Payments 11

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Methods Payments 11

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As a testimony to the quality of their service, Forter was recently again included in Forbes 50 “Most Innovative Fintech Companies In 2019” list. Founded: 2006. Recently, Recorded Future were honored with the 2018 CRN Tech Innovator Award. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers.

SaaS Payments 271

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 271

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

And then also constantly to be thinking about r&d constantly be thinking about innovation. And then they went out for their actual IPO in 2005, 2006 timeframe. And so it really is important to like lean in and make sure to be pushing the team around like learning’s when you do have like a flat period and growth.

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Venture Capital Travel Investment Marketplace as a Service 285

SaaStr

MAY 9, 2019

It’s a great way to essentially build a brand as being an innovative tech company that you can then use to sell to larger customers later. Twitch started as an online reality TV show, and if you look at the story, it started in 2006, and by 2012 it was worth $24. If you take the case of Justin.tv By 2014 it was worth a billion.

Sales Hiring 186

Sales Hiring Scale Payment Solutions Banking 186

SaaStock

MARCH 20, 2019

As a testimony to the quality of their service, Forter was recently again included in Forbes 50 “Most Innovative Fintech Companies In 2019” list. Founded: 2006. Recently, Recorded Future were honored with the 2018 CRN Tech Innovator Award. Thanks to them, merchants can make more successful sales and win happy customers.

SaaS Payments 100

SaaS Payments Merchant Services Payment Solutions Payments 100

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We started the company back in 2006, so we’re obsessed like grandparents these days. That’s the big winners in the market today for people who really innovate on that side. We need to have an innovative go to market model. .: I think it’s always interesting for people to hear the founder’s story.

Scale 55

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 55

OPEXEngine

MAY 19, 2020

Still others tolerated poor results during the downturn, waiting to see what would happen, and then finally took action—too late because they bought the wrong asset or fell behind in product innovation. How winning companies behave differently.

Scale 59

Scale Strategy Technical Review Automotive 59

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

I had the good fortune, my first SaaS experience was at the Mothership Salesforce in 2006, prior to even the word cloud being thrown around. Travis Bryant: Of course, well the genesis of it was a conversation with Tom about the innovations that are happening in Venture around platform. And that was really the fork in the road for me.

Underperforming Technical Team 206

Underperforming Technical Team SaaS Payments Payment Services Technical Advisors 206

ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

Boom and bust: 2006-2017. What was an RSS aggregator in 2006 is now an internal messaging app for your company in 2017, called Sitrion. Flickr's pricing now looks the same as 2006, but their pricing structure has changed time and again over the last decade to find a happy medium between revenue growth and user growth.

Pricing 41

Pricing Business Model Cloud Venture Capital 41

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

I feel like I’ve been in and around sales since I was a kid, but my first real ”sales” job was while I was in college, back in 2006. A win — it can be a deal, an innovative idea, it could be big or small, or even just be doing the laundry, but I need a win every day. #GirlsClub Mentor. How long have you been in sales?

Sales Recruiting 99

Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring VP of Engineering 99

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We started the company back in 2006, so we’re obsessed like grandparents these days. That’s the big winners in the market today for people who really innovate on that side. We need to have an innovative go to market model. .: I think it’s always interesting for people to hear the founder’s story.

Scale 114

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 114

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Founded in: 2006. Founded in: 2006. Founded in: 2006. Service Now focuses on workplace innovation. Squibler is an innovative software application that allows writers to create content and edit them to match their tastes. AWS offers cloud services to businesses. CEO: Adam Selipsky. Founded in: 1999. Service Now.

Marketplace as a Service 10

Marketplace as a Service SaaS AWS Cybersecurity 10

How To Buy Saas

JANUARY 21, 2025

Year Founded 2006 Founder Jack Dorsey Noah Glass Biz Stone Evan Williams Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States Company Size 1001-5000 employees 6. The community is built of both professionals and beginners, so it becomes a dynamic place to exchange seasoned expertise and new innovative ideas.

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Social Media Business Marketplace as a Service Advertising 52