Biz2Credit Review
The Daily Egg
SEPTEMBER 19, 2022
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SaaStr
DECEMBER 3, 2024
More Detailed Bio Here: In 2007, Gassner founded Veeva Systems, identifying a crucial opportunity in the life sciences industry. Following PeopleSoft, he joined salesforce.com as Senior Vice President of Technology, where he gained valuable insights into cloud computing and the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model.
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Dear SaaStr: What Successful Startups Were Launched While The Founders Worked 9 to 5?
SaaStr
MARCH 12, 2024
Mailchimp is perhaps the most interesting one to me because they took their time until 2007 to go all-in. Hootsuite was also a web-agency spin-off. Slack was an internal tool built when the company was a gaming company. It took off. But once they did, growth accelerated. Dramatically. When this model works, it takes longer.
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Best Data Analysis Software
The Daily Egg
DECEMBER 30, 2020
He’s a hedge fund manager who had foreseen the shocking 2007-2008 housing collapse. Have you heard of Michael Burry? Having betted against subprime-mortgage bonds ahead of the meltdown, he made about $750 million in profits for his investors and $100 million personally. But how was he able to predict something like that?
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Who is Eric Yuan | CEO of Zoom
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 26, 2024
In 2007, Cisco acquired WebEx for $3.2 At WebEx, he quickly proved his technical abilities and rose through the ranks. He was instrumental in developing the WebEx videoconferencing technology and eventually became Vice President of Engineering. billion, and Yuan continued with the company as their Corporate Vice President of Engineering.
Hostinger Review
The Daily Egg
MAY 17, 2021
Hostinger started out in 2007 as a free web hosting service called 000webhost.com. Looking for a budget web hosting service? Hostinger may be the one for you. While there are quite a few inexpensive options out there, Hostinger takes the prize for the most affordable. Imagine that–free hosting.
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What Could the Venture Market Look Like in the Coronavirus Era
Tom Tunguz
MARCH 11, 2020
That grew to about $5B per quarter in 2007 and early 2008. So this was a bit of a trip down memory lane. Let’s look at the data. In 2006, VCs invested about $3.5B per quarter in seed, A, B, and C rounds. Then the investing velocity fell by half to $2.9B, $2.7B, and $2.3B in the quarters following the crash.
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The Power of Going Long in SaaS
SaaStr
DECEMBER 8, 2020
in first angel round in 2007. First product doesn’t work, no revenue for 3 years. 2013: first investment. 200m from Silver Lake. 2016: IPO at $1.15B market cap. 2020: Worth $7B today. Zendesk : Founded 2006. Raised $500,000 (!) IPO in 2014 at $1B. Worth $2B by 2017. Crossed $1B in ARR in 2020. Today worth $16B.
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5 Interesting Learnings from Zscaler at $1B in ARR
SaaStr
APRIL 26, 2022
Zscaler was founded in 2007, and took a decade to cross $100m in revenues — as it does for most of us, even the best of us. And pulling away from the rest. #5. 10 Years to $100m in Revenues. Then Just 5 More To $1B in ARR. Ok this is an epic example of the compounding nature of SaaS. But then boom! That acceleration kicked in.
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How VCs Value Rainbow Foals in 2022
Tom Tunguz
JUNE 20, 2022
From 2007 to 2016, $1.5b I remember thinking a $1b M&A or IPO was so rare an investor might hope to achieve it once or twice in a career. Fewer than 15 SaaS companies traded on public exchanges then. With at least 20 firms and several partners per firm chasing unicorns, upstarts faced stiff odds. 2015 Return Multiple by Round.
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What successful startups were launched while the founders worked 9 to 5 jobs on the side?
SaaStr
MAY 12, 2019
Mailchimp is perhaps the most interesting one to me because they took their time until 2007 to go all-in. Hootsuite was also a web-agency spin-off. Slack was an internal tool built when the company was a gaming company. It took off. But once they did, growth accelerated. Dramatically. View original question on quora.
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The Most Popular Startup Domain Suffixes -.com,co,gg - Which is Best for Your Business?
Tom Tunguz
FEBRUARY 21, 2021
Down from 89% in 2007, the.com designation adorns the addresses of 64% of startups founded in 2020. In fact, it has changed significantly as the chart above shows. Click to enlarge the image. Dotcoms dwarf other domain choices in demand but their dominance has diminished as the days pass.
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Thanks to Cumul.io, Hook, Jiminny, Leaseweb,and Zendesk for Sponsoring SaaStr Europa 2023!
SaaStr
MARCH 2, 2023
Zendesk started the customer experience revolution in 2007 by enabling any business around the world to take their customer service online. We have a global footprint of 20+ data centers across Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America, all of which are backed by a superior global network with a total capacity of more than 10 Tbps.
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How To Keep Your Customers For a Decade. Or Longer.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 29, 2019
it wasn’t until later on in 2007 that we had enough revenue to create a large enough group of customers to go on a 10 Year Journey with. We launched on January 1, 2006 on TechCrunch , and while we closed some good names that first year (Dell, BT, Qualcomm, GE, Comcast, etc.),
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How AI Infrastructure Will Power the Future with Oracle and Bain Capital Ventures
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
Additionally, if you look at the mobile shift, the iPhone was released in 2007 but we didn’t get our first mobile apps like Uber and Snapchat until 2009 and 2010. It wasn’t until years later that Workday and Salesforce and a whole generation of SaaS companies came along to build on top of that infrastructure.
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5 Interesting Learnings from UserTesting at $160,000,000 in ARR
SaaStr
JANUARY 26, 2022
While hardly the only vendor doing automated product insights, UserTesting has been doing it for quite a while (founded way back in 2007) and doing it well, with over 2,100 customers including many tech leaders. Stuck with per-seat pricing from 2007-2020, but added flex pricing in Q4′ 2020 — and quickly went to 20% of revenue.
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Dropbox S-1 Analysis - The King of Freemium
Tom Tunguz
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
Founded in 2007, Dropbox epitomizes the freemium go-to-market. Dropbox has grown from 0 to 500 million users over that time period. 2% of those users convert to paid and pay an average of $9.33 90% of revenue originates through self serve channels - an astounding figure for company that generated more than $1B in revenue last year.
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The 10x Feature is Real. At Least, for a While. What’s Yours?
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 25, 2021
2007: Salesforce integration. We won a lot of those deals. For almost 3 years we were alone with this 10x feature. It was surprisingly hard to do well, given all the exceptions and corner cases involved. We launched in the first AppExchange class in late 2006 with the first true, deep Salesforce integration.
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Customer Acquisition Spending: Lessons from Workday
Practical Advice on SaaS marketing
SEPTEMBER 5, 2012
times more on customer acquisition than annual revenues, and in 2007 it spent nearly 18 times more than annual revenues. With only $455,000 in revenues in 2007, Workday funded a direct sales force and a professional marketing effort costing more than $8 million. In 2008, it spent 2.5
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Around the World in 21 Days
Tom Tunguz
AUGUST 24, 2023
credit: Wired There at the top of the post is a photo of the 2007 APM class, coincidentally my class (I’m there on the right), departing San Francisco for a trip that would take us to Tokyo, Beijing, Bangkok, Bangalore & Tel Aviv. Aakash Gupta published Product Requirements Documents (PRDs): A Modern Guide.
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Why Marketers, Creators, and Brands Should Start Using Mastodon ASAP
Sparktoro
DECEMBER 16, 2022
I joined Twitter in June, 2007. It turned out to be a very smart move; over the next decade, that network had a massive impact on my professional success. Some of that is because I did interesting or valuable things, but a lot of it was a combination of timing and serendipity. There are plenty of articles about why you…
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The evolution of Apple's iPhone
IT World
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
The iPhone, then and now Image by IDG / Apple The iPhone has come a long way since its arrival in 2007. First iPhone Image by IDG / Apple To read this article in full, please click here
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How to Build a Product Customers Love and Drive Nearly $1B in Revenue Along the Way with Klaviyo CEO Andrew Bialecki
SaaStr
OCTOBER 4, 2024
When Klaviyo started during the post-2007-2008 recession hangover, it was a great time to build. What matters is that you have a durable, sustainable business with positive free cash flow, and if you don’t, you need a path to achieve that. If you meet that criteria, you’re probably in good shape.
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The 10x Feature is Real. At Least, for a While. What’s Yours?
SaaStr
AUGUST 24, 2019
2007: Salesforce integration. We won a lot of those deals. For almost 3 years we were alone with this 10x feature. It was surprisingly hard to do well, given all the exceptions and corner cases involved. We launched in the first AppExchange class in late 2006 with the first true, deep Salesforce integration.
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Dropbox, the ultimate Mouse Hunter
The Angel VC
MAY 4, 2018
The mighty king of Freemium Like Zendesk, Yammer, and a few other SaaS companies that were all founded around 2007-2008, Dropbox was one of the early champions of the "consumerization of the enterprise" movement. I’ll be sharing a few specific observations from the S1 review, but let’s start with some more general thoughts about the company.
How Fast Does a SaaS Startup Have to Grow to Survive?
Tom Tunguz
JULY 26, 2016
To cite one critical counterexample, Concur’s rapid revenue growth in 2006 and 2007 occurred after nearly a decade of tepid expansion. Though there is some truth to the assertion, the Humpty Dumpty characterization is overly broad. Second winds aren’t uncommon.
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SaaStr’s Most Respected Leaders Awards 2019: The Top Ten
SaaStr
MAY 22, 2019
from 2007-2011 which eventually became Twitch. YC has funded over 1,900 startups since 2005 including Airbnb, coinbase, Dropbox, Stripe, Flexport, instacart and reddit. Michael Seibel was co-founder and CEO of Justin.tv He then moved on to co-found Socialcam in 2012, participated in Y Combinator and eventually sold to Autodesk for $60M.
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Microsoft sets Nov. 1 deadline for shutting off old Outlook clients from 365 services
IT World
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Affected editions of Office included Office 2007, which was already out of all support; Office 2010, which was to exit support on that same Oct. Last year, Microsoft dropped support for older versions of Office connecting to its online services, such as Exchange Online, as of Oct.
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SaaStr
MAY 15, 2019
Mikkel later founded Zendesk in 2007 while living in Copenhagen, Denmark. Caput A/S, a communications framework company was Mikkel Svane’s first tenure as a founder in 1996. He served as CEO for the company until 2002 before moving on to Materna. He moved the company to San Francisco in 2009.
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My Favorite Books of 2024
Tom Tunguz
DECEMBER 16, 2024
Here are my favorites : Every Hand Revealed by Gus Hansen : A hand-by-hand narrative of Professional poker player Gus Hansen winning the 2007 Aussie Millions tournament. Hansen had a unique style at the time, aggressively defending his blinds.
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OneNote vs. Evernote: A personal take on two great note-taking apps
IT World
MAY 24, 2023
Launched in 2003, OneNote was added to the Microsoft Office suite (most versions of which are now called Microsoft 365) in 2007. There are two leading contenders for the crown: Microsoft’s OneNote and the independent Evernote. OneNote is now also bundled with Windows 10 and 11 and offered for free as a standalone product.
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State of the Cloud 2024: The Cloud AI Era with Bessemer Venture Partners
SaaStr
OCTOBER 11, 2024
But when we got started in Cloud in 2007, most businesses that were starting with cloud picked one cloud. Sameer summarizes: “As the guy that’s lived through these waves before, I think many in the audience will agree with me that it’s very different than the last revolution that we saw.
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Reflections on the early days at Zendesk (part 2)
The Angel VC
DECEMBER 1, 2014
Our timing was horrible – it was almost at the height of the global financial crisis which had started in 2007. If a couple of them pass for whatever reason, you’ve quickly exhausted your available options. We had failed to convince investors that we were going after a large market and that we could build a defensible position.
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Q&A: JLL exec sees no return to pre-COVID work routines, but a 4-day work week
IT World
DECEMBER 8, 2021
That's 34% more empty offices than the nation saw during the Great Recession of 2007-2010, according to Cushman & Wakefield, a global commercial real estate broker. Since COVID-19 was officially classified a global pandemic in March 2020, the US has shed 138.4 million square feet (MSF) of office space.
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CRO Confidential: Moving Beyond Traditional Sales, Clay CEO & Co-Founder Kareem Amin on the Future of AI-Driven Growth
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 8, 2024
Back in 2007 / 2008, when Sam joined a company as an SDR, he used Salesforce and over time, they bolted on different systems, depending on the needs of the business and what existed in the marketplace. It blends AI and SaaS and can speed up the outbound Go-To-Market process.
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The 3-Step Startup Marketing Framework We Created to Grow KISSmetrics
Hitenism
JANUARY 6, 2017
The first Twitter hashtag was used by Chris Messina in 2007. — Chris Messina (@chrismessina) August 23, 2007. Hashtags were less than a year old by the time we started using Twitter. Here’s what he wrote: how do you feel about using # (pound) for groups. As in #barcamp [msg]? Kind of bland, right? Hashtags blew up after that.
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Brutal Intellectual Honesty
Tom Tunguz
DECEMBER 1, 2014
I’ve been reading a book called Legacy Of Ashes, which is an exhaustive history of the CIA since its founding more than 50 years ago through to 2007. Reading spy stories is always enthralling, but surprisingly, the book is a fascinating case study in management.
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Product-User Fit Comes Before Product-Market Fit
Andreessen Horowitz
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
Product-market fit is “ the only thing that matters ” early on in the startup journey, wrote Marc Andreessen in June 2007. Conventionally, product-market fit comes down to early signals that the market has voted your product as the best …
18 investors fueling Latin America’s SaaS superstars
SaaStock
JANUARY 30, 2019
It was launched in 2007 to operate the Criatec I Fund’s investments in São Paulo. Founded: 2007. Stage: Early Stage Venture. SaaS Investments: Rock Content, Contabilizei, and others. SP Ventures. SP Ventures is one of the pioneers in venture capital investment in Brazil. Size of fund: $66M. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed.
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The decade software ate the world
Intercom, Inc.
DECEMBER 31, 2019
Steve Jobs’s claim that “ People want to own their music ” rather than rent it might have been right when he said it around the time of the iPhone launch in 2007, but the very fabric of our culture has shifted entirely since then. From movies and TV to music, we now live in a cloud-enabled, subscription-based streaming wonderland.
Who are some examples of people in the tech industry who started a side gig that eventually made enough for them to quit their jobs?
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 23, 2019
Then in 2007, when it hit 10,000 users, the two decided to commit full-time”: The New Atlanta Billionaires Behind An Unlikely Tech Unicorn. This story is a good reminder that bootstrapping has its rewards.
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How to Find Old Tweets
Neil Patel
APRIL 9, 2021
In my case, we can see I joined Twitter pretty early on in March 2007. Finding my first tweet is as simple as going back to the advanced search feature and apply the following filters: My account (@neilpatel) The date range (March 1, 2007 – March 31, 2007). You can also use it to find your first tweet ever.
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The Path to Exponential Growth
Tom Tunguz
AUGUST 13, 2012
From 2004 to 2007, the company grew at a fairly linear rate. For years, a product can grow linearly before suddenly seeing compounding growth. Facebook is a great example. And then, the magic happened! The network effects kicked in and exponential growth ensued. Linear growth always precedes exponential growth.
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Don’t forget the service in SaaS: how your sales team can provide world-class service
Intercom, Inc.
JUNE 28, 2018
When I moved to Silicon Valley in 2007, self-serve software was all the rage. When software and service aren’t equal priorities, it’s impossible to build a successful company. The people you hire provide just as much value as your product. Everyone wanted to create products that sold themselves.
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