The Angel VC

AUGUST 26, 2015

According to a survey by technology evaluation business Software Advice , 88% of buyers with a deployment preference preferred on-premise solutions in 2008. These and other innovations will allow SaaS applications to get even wider adoption and to provide even more value to its customers. Here are some of them.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

One of those was 2008/2009 when 5 funds were started. Monashees Capital is the largest Brazilian VC that makes investments in innovative solutions worldwide, but with a strong focus on Latin America. Founded: 2008. Founded: 2008. To date, it has supported 1,544 innovative companies in 57 countries. Founded: 1991.

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Payrix

JANUARY 28, 2025

This shift presents opportunities for innovative companies to leverage changes for growth. Those that fail to adapt risk losing market share to more innovative players. This episode reinforces the importance of innovation, adaptability, and long-term vision in the ever-evolving payments industry.

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The Angel VC

JULY 17, 2015

It took a few years – which shows how much ahead of its time 37signals was – but eventually other SaaS companies redesigned their websites or rebuilt them from the ground up: Campaign Monitor in 2008 (click for a larger version) The trend was clear: Less and less text, bigger font sizes, larger images, videos.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In 2012, Patrick co-founded ProfitWell (previously known as Price Intelligently), it offers an innovative price setting tool that helps businesses price their products and services according to their true value. However, her path changed in 2008 when she took on a new challenge: an MBA in Business and Management. Business Consultancy.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In May 2008, I graduated college — with 1.56 million of my peers — directly into the 2008 recession. Basically: Today’s economic climate looks very different from 2008. Signs of recession we’re seeing now vs. 2008. VP of Global Innovation at Outreach. The job market vanished overnight. Meet the experts.

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Sales Hacker

JULY 28, 2022

Learn what these leaders did in 2008 when the recession hit and what they wish they had done differently. Guests: Mary Shea , Global Innovation Evangelist at Outreach. You’ll learn: What these leaders did right in the 2008 recession — and what they wouldn’t do again. So we’re calling in the big guns.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 9, 2023

In this live replay, learn what these leaders did in 2008 when the recession hit and what they wish they had done differently.

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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: 2008. Vietnam Innovative Startup Accelerator. Founded: 2004.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 26, 2013

In the last two years, financial services startups have been innovating impressively quickly and challenging some of the fundamental ways in which capital and credit are distributed. Consumer Credit - After the crash of 2008, bank lending collapsed. But these days I often respond “financial services.”.

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Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

MARCH 23, 2020

The list below shows the different categories of mental model in this post: Planning Prioritisation Problem-Solving Innovation Getting Work Done Growth Economics Psychology Learning Planning 1. Innovation 14. Horizons Framework Another innovation model is the Horizons Framework developed by McKinsey.

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FastSpring

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Cisco Systems estimated that IoT was “born” between 2008 and 2009, but it’s just in the last couple years we’ve seen an explosion of IoT solutions for both commercial and domestic use. FastSpring’s Hackathon Encourages Collaboration & Innovation. As technology progresses, we are seeing even more pragmatic applications.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Salesforce AppExchange: Celebrating 10 Years of Innovation and Growth from Salesforce. We had already achieved the mission, so after 2008 we backed off the pedal, so to speak. Maintaining an innovative edge. Mike: I think it was built on the premise that we were, like any startup, born to rapid innovation. The role of AI.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The funding was led by Hi inov, an international VC fund focused on digital innovation and supported by the existing investors BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Senovo, UVC Partners and The SaaSgarage (Alexander Bruehl). Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5 Hi inov is very pleased about the latest addition to its portfolio.

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Seventy-six percent of Colombians use fintech services, according to an Ernst & Young report, the highest fintech adoption rate in Latin America, and from 2008 to 2022, the percentage of Colombian adults who hold a banking product rose from 55% to over 90%. See a16z.com/global-payments for more.

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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 company launched in private beta but by 2008 had a product live for paying customers.

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User Pilot

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Starbucks launched the “My Idea” platform for continuous innovation and growth. HubSpot gives a platform to its customers at Inbound conference. Userpilot created a digital community to encourage peer-to-peer support. Spotify encourages customer-led growth through its “Spotify Wrapped” campaign.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

From that point on, we built a product and we launched it in February of 2008 out of a back of a coffee shop with one employee. So we launched the company in February of 2008. I think this leads us to lesson number four, which is continuously innovate through proactive listening. We launched the company in 2008.

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OpenView Labs

JULY 26, 2021

Today, she brings her corporate governance experience to bear on public and private boards, advising companies on a wide range of critical topics such as enterprise risks, technology trends, innovation, strategy, cybersecurity, and digital transformation. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”.

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Teamgate

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In 2008, research carried out by Forrester revealed that more than 40% of SMBs and 50% of enterprises have begun utilizing and rolling out smartphone applications to automate salesforce. Rate of Adoption of mobile CRM. Just like the world is evolving daily, the same way technology is evolving and advancing at a meteoric rate.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 27, 2023

ChatGPT’s main innovation is the user interface. That might seem strange since (a) there’s nothing innovative about an instant messaging UI per se, and (b) chatbots don’t have a particularly good rep. Great design and UX have been a huge part of the SaaS investment thesis I started building in 2008.

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SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

What you need to know about this story is that I founded the company back in 2008. In 2008, I founded TaskRabbit. How many of you are familiar with TaskRabbit, have you used TaskRabbit? All right, a good amount of you. In 2014, we threw away the entire code base and started from scratch. This was a terrifying thing to take on.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 1, 2024

Since its launch, the Talent x Opportunity Initiative (TxO) has been more than a funding vehicle; it’s been a launchpad for culturally inspired innovation and a community of support for under-networked founders. His career began in advertising, but the 2008 recession prompted him to shift to radiology.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

From 2008 to ’11, she acted as the co-general manager of the core business managing over 2,800 employees across the world and delivering profit on a $300 million P&L. Sam Jacobs: Paula is the Chief Evangelist at Lilt. That’s the dream scenario that any entrepreneur or founder would love to find themselves in.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 15, 2021

These platforms rely on marketing revenues though, so they’re constantly innovating and finding new ways for advertisers to engage their users. Airbnb was founded in 2008 and was valued at over $100 billion when it went public in 2020. Airbnb: Belong Anywhere.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

So the time that I was at Google was 2007, so pre the 2008 recession. It’s all different kinds of tribes and the ones that thrive have a lot in common. But it’s really the two Gs, Gusto and Google that probably are most relevant. We had 5,000 employees and $14 billion in revenue.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 17, 2019

And when we met Mary, we were just lucky that it was a great mix of having those deep finance roots and then thinking about it in a truly innovative and kind of a forward-leaning way. So 2008 was 10 years ago. Zach : And so it’s been wonderful to work with her so far and we are excited for the years to come.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 8, 2019

This was 2008, and by the time I left, I think there were 3,000 employees. They oversee all of our tools, including things like Zendesk, but they’re also thinking about how can we make our tooling better and how we can innovate in that space to ultimately start to make our agents’ working lives better.

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OpenView Labs

OCTOBER 6, 2021

After being founded in 2008, the company attracted a substantial amount of funding before going public in December 2014 – a rapid clip from startup to IPO. Pushed to the brink, the company was forced to innovate. . Up until this point, New Relic had been on a relentlessly positive trajectory.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The funding was led by Hi inov, an international VC fund focused on digital innovation and supported by the existing investors BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft, Senovo, UVC Partners and The SaaSgarage (Alexander Bruehl). Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5 Hi inov is very pleased about the latest addition to its portfolio.

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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.

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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. Get creative in your communications.

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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.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Ciara : And Shanee is the head of marketing and growth at Crunchbase, leading innovative companies to connect with the people behind them and pursue new opportunities. Ciara : So you guys are all innovators in very unique ways in this area. This super complex tool that I have at work that I could never use in my personal life.

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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. This is why Semrush is one of the most popular small business marketing tools, especially when it comes to SEO. This is why Brafton is one of the best small business marketing tools.

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OpenView Labs

MAY 4, 2020

Companies must continue to innovate, tackle customer challenges, and deliver value – ignoring the wild swings of the markets. Banks are far more liquid than they were in 2008 and the risk of failure is low – data and anecdotes support this. Risk aversion is just another strategy in the market. Financial resources.

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BetterCloud

AUGUST 25, 2020

When the economy collapsed in 2008, I was unemployed for about 11 months, which was pretty brutal, but I took the time to start learning IT from some friends. We all want to collaborate and innovate together because we build software and hardware. KeepTruckin is a pretty innovative company. It was always a hobby of mine.

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