SaaStr

JULY 16, 2019

Join Rene Yang Stewart, Co-Head and Principal, Vista Equity Partners, and Monica Enand, Founder and CEO, Zapproved, as they discuss growing a company from product market fit to scale. Hear perspectives from both the investor and founder as the company scaled. But, the fundraising in 2008, 2009 was pretty difficult.

Scale 149

Scale Product Marketing Scaling Marketing 149

SaaStr

JANUARY 21, 2020

Justin Welsh, former SVP of Sales at PatientPop explains how he started in SaaS in 2009 as the second sales hire at Zocdoc. I broke into SaaS in 2009 I was the second sales hire and the 10th overall hire at a New York City based SaaS business called Zocdoc. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

Sales Recruiting 332

Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Scale Sales 332

SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2024

While working at LinkedIn back in 2009, she was offered the role of building out the first SDR and BDR organization. The decision to leave a fairly scaled role leading 200+ AEs at LinkedIn to join a smaller-stage startup. For Laurabeth Harvey, President of Field Operations at Lattice, there were two pivotal moments.

Scale 300

Scale Underperforming Technical Team SMB Finance 300

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

But for a while, as you are scaling, you can beat the competition in at least specific deals in specific segments with a 10x Feature. 2009: Fully localized platform. But it means many of the core features at least are enough built out in the core competitor group that there aren’t as many obvious 10x features.

Scale 246

Scale Mobile Branding Engineering 246

Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

It’s becoming more and more expensive to scale a startup in San Francisco. In fact, it’s twice as costly to operate a startup in 2014 as it was in 2009. According to data from Jones Lang LaSalle, office prices in San Francisco have nearly doubled in five years from $36 per square foot per year to $63.

Startup 100

Startup Scaling Cloud Technology 100

SaaStr

JULY 2, 2024

In 2009, that spiked to 35%. While more traditional firms have been more patient in scaling than non-traditional investors, dollars into the industry only increased at a 9% CAGR over those same ten years and an outflow at 10% CAGR since 2021. They saw a 35% CAGR decrease from 2021 to 2023.

Venture Capital 300

Venture Capital Management Scale AI 300

SaaStr

AUGUST 24, 2019

But for a while, as you are scaling, you can beat the competition in at least specific deals in specific segments with a 10x Feature. 2009: Fully localized platform. But it means many of the core features at least are enough built out in the core competitor group that there aren’t as many obvious 10x features.

Scale 220

Scale Mobile Branding Engineering 220

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 14, 2018

In most cases, the “founded” date corresponds with the year in which the company was founded, but there are a few exceptions, like Slack, which started in 2009 with a completely different product and didn’t launch Slack as we know it today until 2013. If the fiscal year ends on October 31, I allocated it to the same calendar year.

SaaS 174

SaaS Revenue Subscription Payment Features 174

FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Schedule a demo to learn how we can help you scale across borders to go farther faster. Pricing positioning based on regional purchasing power (2 minutes): Note: Check out our Recession-Proof Pricing Report for a collection of data from the 2009 recession and the global inflation surge in 2021 to look for trends. About FastSpring.

Pricing 146

Pricing Payment Solutions Payment Services Scale 146

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 18, 2014

Each morning’s news seems to bring another fund-raising announcement of ever larger scale. In addition to looking at gross numbers, let’s compare the growth rates from 2009 to 2013 of each of these buckets. more common in 2013 as 2009 and $75-100M rounds have doubled during this time frame.

Finance 100

Finance Investment Scaling Data 100

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Over the weekend, I watched Page One, a documentary which chronicles the turmoil occurring within the New York Times in 2009 and 2010 when newspapers were going out of business all over the country. The scale of these shifts was enormous: advertising revenue had crashed to 1950 levels, eliminating five decades of growth in just a few years.

Advertising 100

Advertising Payment Features Subscription Innovation 100

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

In May 2019 we are landing in Hong Kong to help the local ecosystem (as well as those looking to expand into it) get a fast track to growth and scale. DST Global is a global investor in growth internet businesses, founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner. Founded: 2009. Size of fund: $1.7B. Stage: Late Stage.

SaaS Payments 190

SaaS Payments Venture Capital Payment Services Telecommunications 190

Tom Tunguz

JULY 29, 2015

Most companies, as they scale, tend to move in the other direction. Netsuite’s revenue per customer averaged $19k in 2008, and $23k in 2009, the last years for which the company provided customer counts. In 2006, according to the company’s S-1, the business shifted from longer term contracts to one year contracts.

Benchmarks 113

Benchmarks Outsourced Development Metrics Scale 113

The Angel VC

JANUARY 15, 2015

The point that I made was that most of the tactics which smart SaaS entrepreneurs developed around 2007-2009 – inbound marketing, conversion optimization, lifecycle marketing, etc. – mostly SaaS-related questions on Quora , drawing from his experience in founding EchoSign and scaling it to $100M in ARR.

Growth Hacking 113

Growth Hacking Scale SaaS Content Marketing 113

Hitenism

DECEMBER 26, 2016

That’s because the people who are working in the SaaS industry or investing in these businesses are sharing much more of the details about all aspects of growing and scaling a SaaS business. To scale your SaaS business , you need to think of new ways of getting and keeping your customers’ attention.

Scale 152

Scale SaaS Marketplace as a Service SMB 152

Totango

APRIL 7, 2021

In 2009, Apple debuted its “There’s an app for that” commercials – and started a worldwide phenomenon. Automating your CS teams’ work makes it easier to scale your customer success, provide more value to your customers and free up time for your CS team to focus on high-impact projects. Workflow Automation and Customer Success.

Social Media 118

Social Media Technology Customer Success Trends 118

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Mobingi integrates server deployment, scaling and application lifecycle automation through its cloud solution. It allows scaling and integration of radiology operations, increasing productivity and reducing costs for radiologists. Founded : 2009. Founders : Shoji Miyata. Founded : 2013. Based in: Tokyo, Japan. FDA approval.

SaaS Payments 225

SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Merchant Services Payment Methods 225

Chargify

APRIL 23, 2019

It came up because people regularly refer to Chargify as a startup, but our company has been around since 2009. According to a study by the Startup Genome Project of more than 3,200 startups, they found that “70% [of startups] fail because of premature scaling.” Hopefully the information below will help you avoid premature scaling.

Scale 74

Scale SaaS Payments Scaling Payment Services 74

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Second, the tech industry’s structure lends itself to economies of scale require small companies to operate at a significant disadvantage. The fraction of small IPOs with negative EBITDA has doubled to nearly 90% in about 30 years. Small IPOs. . Large IPOs. . Number. % < 0. Number. % < 0. Once public, profits don’t improve.

Marketing 100

Marketing Scale Venture Capital Finance 100

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Slice is a team of over 400 folks spread across New York, Macedonia, and Ireland and Ilir walks us through how he thinks about growing and scaling a company that is fundamentally about helping small business owners survive and thrive in the digital age. The important values that help you grow and scale a company as a CEO.

Scale 73

Scale Scaling Venture Capital Interviewing 73

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 23, 2013

In 2009, Pinterest and Houzz started providing tools for users to collect, organize, present and share things. This explicit intent-to-purchase data has never before been captured at scale. As users traverse the internet, they leave Hansel and Gretel breadcrumbs that reveal intent when aggregated.

Scale 100

Scale Advertising Business Model Innovation 100

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Seed companies must still raise Series As to scale. If our assumption about the data quality is correct, then it’s reasonable to conclude that the volume of seed investment has either remained constant or slowed since 2009. Incubators have arisen to provide education and a fundraising launching pad for these young founders.

Data 100

Data Entrepreneurship Investment Trends 100

Intercom, Inc.

MARCH 22, 2018

million round of venture funding from First Round Capital and others, scaled the team, got somewhat of product/market fit, but ended up selling early to TaskRabbit. When Eventbrite then raised a big round of capital, it was really about creating the processing systems to scale. If it works out, scale it up. We raised a $1.5-million

Marketplace as a Service 189

Marketplace as a Service Scale Payment Solutions Payment Services 189

OpenView Labs

JULY 21, 2021

Behind The Cloud by Marc Benioff (Published 2009). The chances are high that SaaS companies that have reached Salesforce’s scale follow the same pattern (regardless of whether they’re following Benioff’s advice). If you want to learn how to scale your SaaS company, start here. It matters little how you start.

Business 101

Business Artificial Intelligence Blockchain Software Engineering 101

Neil Patel

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

You have to make consistent sales if you want to scale your business fast. Founded in 2009, they’ve been constantly expanding their team and services. You are bound to face roadblocks while scaling your business. SEO is the main source of traffic for your website but without a high-converting funnel, you might as well retire.

Sales Hiring 144

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Social Media Underperforming Technical Team 144

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 30, 2018

Both are design partners at GV (launched as Google Ventures in 2009 as the venture capital arm of Alphabet, Inc.), I hosted Kate and Vanessa on the podcast, where we talked about everything from scaling design teams to how to earn a seat at the decision-making table. Scaling design. We spend a lot of time on that.

Scale 149

Scale Leadership Scaling Venture Capital 149

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Learn what it takes to create your own category, achieve scale in a niche SaaS vertical and how it requires more than just discovering an unmet need. We were profitable by 2009. What we were looking for at that point in time was SaaS experience, but also expertise and had a scale. Want to see more content like this?

Scale 186

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 186

A Smart Bear

JANUARY 4, 2018

The Silicon Valley-oriented technology press outlets don’t cover us because we’re not in San Francisco, even though we’re more successful than most of the startups they cover. We just announced a few more things. Late last year we passed $100M in annual recurring revenue.

Engineering 70

Engineering Investment Revenue Technical Review 70

Neil Patel

JULY 30, 2021

Google’s own URL shortening tool, Goo.gl, launched back in 2009. Are you a small business owner looking to launch marketing campaigns but don’t need a large-scale solution? If you need help figuring out which links to shorten and which ones to leave alone, check out my consulting services. How Did Goo.gl

Social Media 134

Social Media Scale Mobile Branding 134

SaaStr

AUGUST 7, 2020

These companies can scale really efficiently. We were actually built out of a bank called Live Oak Bank and Live Oak Bank was founded in 2009 and they had a need for a completely digital bank. There’s heavy services, at least 30 to 45% versus best-in-class that want to be less than 10%.” Matt Garratt: Thank you.

Payment Solutions 215

Payment Solutions Pricing Payments Payment Services 215

FastSpring

JANUARY 21, 2019

In 2009, Alibaba and its founder, Jack Ma, decided to turn the anti-Valentine’s Day into an ecommerce dream. Want to see how partnering with a unified ecommerce platform can help you grow your revenue and scale your business? Singles’ Day (November 11th). Click here to request a free demo.

Business 79

Business Scale Mobile Trends 79

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

Product-Led Growth (PLG) is a consumer-centric scaling, conversion, and retention philosophy that uses the product itself as the primary growth driver. Founded: 2009 Known customers: Amazon, Slack, Zoom, Lyft, Google, Shopify, Salesforce Price starts at: 2.9% + 30 Cents. #6 6 ChargeBee. Best For: Subscription Management, Billing.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

Intercom, Inc.

JUNE 21, 2018

But I couldn’t raise the money for the startup; this was 2009, right after the recession. They’ve made their first few sales hires, and they’re starting to scale their team. You want them to be able to get their passion across to the person on the other side, but you can’t scale that.

Sales Hiring 183

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Technical Advisors 183

Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

When we were first getting started as a student club in 2009, I remember initially struggling to get my peers to join. We used Eventbrite to sell tickets for our events on a sliding scale basis (and still do!), which helped us cover event costs while making sure that they are accessible to those who want to attend.

Branding 110

Branding Social Media Marketing Interviewing 110

Chargify

JANUARY 25, 2018

I recently spoke with Gravity Forms Community Evangelist Jeff Matson to understand how the company harnessed the power of their community, solved for internal tools that didn’t scale, and used Chargify to scale growth more efficiently. Gravity Forms went live for customers in 2009. Born from a personal need.

Scale 40

Scale Scaling Payments Payment Solutions 40

Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Meghan has been at Mongo almost 9 years and was the first non-technical hire at the company, helping them scale past an IPO in 2017 and transitioning from an early career in Marketing into Sales Operations. . How did you end up at Mongo back in 2009? Meghan Gill: When I joined MongoDB at the end of 2009, I was the eighth employee.

Scale 81

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting 81

Neil Patel

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The League of Moveable Type has been operating since 2009. Each font shows a rating on a 10-point scale based on user reviews. Visit The League of Moveable Type to find fonts like these for free: Based on these few samples, you can see that their website has great fonts for your company’s website or logo.

Branding 144

Branding Scale Mobile Systems Review 144