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Figma: “We’d Been Talking to Adobe Since 2012”

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A decade: Adobe first reaches out after launch in 2012. A related post here : The post Figma: “We’d Been Talking to Adobe Since 2012” appeared first on SaaStr. How you really need a lot of both CEO and President/SVP level support to get a big “Bet The Farm” deal like this done, and more.

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Power Laws: A Look Back To Where 20 SaaS Break-Out Companies from 2012 Are Today

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The second SaaStr post ever, way back in late 2012, was “ Everybody Lies: SaaS Revenues in the Inc. Very fast-growing companies had great exits, but the “fairly fast ones” had even bigger exits than the very fastest-growing in the class of 2012! No one had IPO’d, no one really knew. generation.

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This Message Will Self-Destruct in 33 Seconds

Tom Tunguz

The average American attention span has fallen from 150 seconds in 2004 to 75 seconds in 2012 to 47 seconds in 2023 - a 5-6% annual rate of decline. Year Avg American Attention Span (sec) CAGR 2004 150 - 2012 75 -6% 2023 47 -5% How does this compare to these blog posts? In 2013, the average reader dwelled on this site for 47 seconds.

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The Series A Crunch or the Seedpocalypse of 2024

Tom Tunguz

2012 was the year of the Seedpocalypse. Just as in 2012, a surge in seed investments met a relatively stable Series A market. Also called the Series A Crunch, a fear gripped Startupland : raising a Series A. Whenever there are “too many” of fundraises of one type, the next round becomes the hardest to raise.

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5 Things a Data Scientist Can Do to Stay Current

With the number of available data science roles increasing by a staggering 650% since 2012, organizations are clearly looking for professionals who have the right combination of computer science, modeling, mathematics, and business skills. Demand for data scientists is surging.

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SEO is SaaStr’s #1 Source of Viewers. For 10 Straight Years.

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#1 source of traffic to [link] : 2022: SEO 2021: SEO 2020: SEO 2019: SEO 2018: SEO 2017: SEO 2016: SEO 2015: SEO 2014: SEO 2013: SEO 2012: SEO. So, so much has changed since our first post on August 13, 2012. Every single year I look at SaaStr.com data, Organic Search is #1 : Interestingly, even in 2012. jasonlk) March 15, 2022.

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Don’t Sell SaaS Like It’s 2012 with Reprise Co-Founder Evan Powell and Glasswing Ventures Founder & Managing Partner Rudina Seseri (Video)

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The post Don’t Sell SaaS Like It’s 2012 with Reprise Co-Founder Evan Powell and Glasswing Ventures Founder & Managing Partner Rudina Seseri (Video) appeared first on SaaStr. Customers today are high-information buyers, and we need to interact with them accordingly.