SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2023

and Canadian governments provide more than $20 billion in R&D tax credits and innovation incentives to fund businesses. Since 2012, Launch has worked with more than 6,000 entrepreneurs from over 100 countries, of which 300 have grown their startups to seed and Series A stage and raised over $2 billion in funding.

Software 245

Software Business Social Media Government 245

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

WebEx took note and managed to innovate their way into a competitive single-seat product that hit $20 million within eighteen months. 2012’s Lesson from New Relic. It was a needed reminder we should never rest on our laurels. Enter your email below for the latest SaaStr updates.

Sales Hiring 287

Sales Hiring Scale Enterprise Mobile 287

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 11, 2018

The pace of innovation within software. Consequently, I expect substantially more acquisitions of the scale and at these multiples through 2018. The corporate tax holiday. The growing sizes of the software market. The desire for continuing growth. The increasing competition amongst incumbents. EV/NTM revenues. Oracle/Eloqua. SAP/Callidus.

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Software Marketing Scale Acquisition 173

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

When it started out, Algolia was a lightweight mobile SDK that was anticipated to work inherently on mobile in 2012 when phones were much less powerful today. I often find that quirky, innovative, super smart people who may have been in a different industry do great in these positions,” says Jason.

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Scale Sales Hiring Technical Advisors Scaling 314

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Abhinav Asthana , founder and CEO of Postman , knows that journey very well, having started Postman as a mere side project in 2012, only to launch it as an enterprise platform almost a decade later. Without this continual training and education, your company may find itself a victim to the enemy of innovation: inertia.

Underperforming Technical Team 287

Underperforming Technical Team Company Culture Customer Success Product Marketing 287

SaaStr

AUGUST 29, 2022

Join Atlassian’s Chief Revenue Officer, Cameron Deatsch , to learn how to invest in an ecosystem, how to optimize your platform for innovation, and why long-term thinking is crucial to becoming a $10 billion company. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? What does best-in-class growth look like at each stage, and how do you orchestrate it at scale?

Scale 287

Scale Sales Hiring Marketplace as a Service B2B 287

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Ceyuan Ventures selects entrepreneurs who show promise in crafting leading technologies, backed by powerful teams and innovation. Founded: 2012. It finances innovative tech companies across the globe, supporting them also via the Group’s resources and knowhow. Founded: 2012. Founded: 2012. Founded: 2004.

SaaS Payments 190

SaaS Payments Venture Capital Payment Services Telecommunications 190

Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 16, 2023

There are lots of challenges in being public while trying to innovate, and limits to being a private company as well; but it’s rare to see a company go public then private then back to public again.

Innovation 83

Innovation Cloud AI Trends 83

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

In 2012 ChiefMartec landscape counted 350 vendors selling to sales and marketing. As the number of new startups ebbs, and major forces in the industry reshape it, I suspect we’re going to see a massive amount of innovation in SaaS, a reinvention after the perfection of a 20 year old playbook. Today, that figure is 5000.

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Venture Capital SaaS Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning 189

SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The great part about having a couple of thousand startups using your product every day is there is so much innovation. That wasn’t obvious in 2012. As founders, we want to make categories and innovate, but it’s usually better to do it in a bucket. At the time, there wasn’t a huge successful ATS business.

Sales Hiring 284

Sales Hiring AI SMB Scale 284

SaaStr

JANUARY 26, 2022

So UserTesting is a case study on how great SaaS can be (innovating and creating a market leader, and driving it to $160m+ ARR) … and also hard SaaS can be. Didn’t add an enterprise sales force until 2016 (9 years after founding), didn’t add “enterprise platform” until 2012.

Scale 189

Scale SMB Enterprise Pricing 189

The Angel VC

JULY 17, 2015

Join me as I go back in time and take a look at how SaaS landing pages looked like some years ago. The SaaS Stone Age Fast-backward about 16 years. Today you can buy a SaaS landing page template for $18.

SaaS 188

SaaS Software Review B2B Trends 188

Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 8, 2023

And it’s a milestone barely a decade in the making: the original publications describing CRISPR’s potential date back to 2012. Base and prime editing, along with recent innovations like PASTE programmable gene insertion, are pushing the boundaries, offering more precise and versatile tools for eliminating genetic disorders.

Compensation 142

Compensation Innovation Engineering Technology 142

SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

Another was 2011/2012 where not only were another 5 VC firms started but it’s also when international ones set their eyes on this vast market. Founded: 2012. Monashees Capital is the largest Brazilian VC that makes investments in innovative solutions worldwide, but with a strong focus on Latin America. Founded: 2012.

Venture Capital 155

Venture Capital SaaS Healthcare Finance 155

SaaStr

JUNE 3, 2020

And I was very inspired when we were starting G2 back in 2012, by this quote from Mark Andreessen, most of you know him, but he was the founder, originally, of Netscape, Mozilla, and really started the whole internet revolution with the browser. There is, you know, tons of innovation, tons of new categories being created every year.

Software Review 257

Software Review Scale Technical Review SaaS 257

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

In 2012, he underwent a shift in his professional path and studied Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford. 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.

Technical Review 207

Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 1, 2013

I’m going to use CBInsights’ 2012 Private Technology Company M&A Data data to demonstrate why VCs adopt these three strategies. Each of the four outcome buckets below generated the same amount of return to investors[5], about $11B in 2012. Avg 2012 Exit[4]. Exit Distribution. Let’s look at those portfolios: Fund.

Strategy 113

Strategy Construction Acquisition Investment 113

Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 29, 2014

But there’s a tremendous amount of innovation occurring in SQL databases. Amazon’s Redshift, an elastic data-warehousing solution launched in late 2012 is the most salient example. Given all the momentum of the NoSQL movement, it would be easy to write off SQL-based technologies as forgotten, or simply standing still.

Technology 100

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 30, 2016

In the 13 years that followed, many startups have followed their path to build innovative software that has transformed their respective industries and sectors. billion in 2012, the highest mark ever. Salesforce’s initial public offering in 2003 demarcated the beginning of a new era, the era of Software as a Service.

Marketing 113

Marketing SaaS Software Delivery Scale 113

Neil Patel

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As such, e-commerce store owners need to find innovative ways to stand out from the crowd. Launched in 2012 by Deena Varshavskaya and headquartered in San Francisco, Wanelo was the silver bullet online sellers were looking for. ZALORA is an online selling platform founded in 2012 that specializes in apparel and lifestyle products.

Merchant Services 145

Merchant Services Marketplace as a Service Social Media Systems Review 145

Frontegg

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Swimm, a cutting-edge continuous documentation solution provider, is helping engineering teams work in harmony and focus on innovation. He is now doing it with Swimm’s innovative continuous documentation solution. How does Swimm innovate? Swimm and innovation go hand in hand. Series A funding round. Let’s get started.

Development 124

Development Innovation Interviewing Cybersecurity 124

Tom Tunguz

JULY 13, 2015

Where are founders finding unique opportunities to innovate? Each year, starting in mid-2012 through mid-2015, these sectors have grown their investment dollars by more than 145%, according to Mattermark data. The rest of the list controverts the notion that startups and investors pursue only incremental innovations.

Investment 100

Investment Startup Transportation Venture Capital 100

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2021

It’s in our nature to look forward, to focus on shipping , to keep innovating and providing value. We have achieved a great deal in the past decade – we have built a lot of great product , hired hundreds of wonderful people , and helped thousands of amazing companies form lasting relationships with their own customers.

Scale 220

Scale Sales Hiring Branding Engagement 220

Tom Tunguz

MARCH 12, 2016

In 2012, global technology companies combined in value to $6.7T, an annual growth rate of about 12.5%. It’s taken more than a decade for public technology companies to replicate/recreate the market cap observed in the dot-com era, even when adjusting for inflation. The preponderance of that increase has occurred in the last four years.

Marketing 100

Marketing Cloud Technology Innovation 100

Neil Patel

JANUARY 5, 2021

Even the most inspired innovation can fail if the market just doesn’t get into it. Google Hangouts on Air launched in 2012, with Google adding live-streaming and community elements to their already existing Hangouts platform. As far as innovation goes, Facebook Live doesn’t offer much that YouTube Live and Twitch don’t.

Social Media 145

Social Media Innovation Engagement Branding 145

Buffer Resources

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Madrigal in a 2012 article for The Atlantic , refers to the social sharing of content that occurs outside of what can be measured by web analytics.  And since 2012, the skew of traffic that isn’t accurately measured has only increased as Internet users have become more privacy-conscious and moved to closed apps.

Social Media 118

Social Media Branding Engagement Strategy 118

SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

We’re back in 2012. ” This was back in, yeah, it was probably about 2012. The other big lesson I learned is when you’re engaging and inspiring a team and creating these big, hairy, audacious goals, you also want to be able to tap into that entrepreneurial spirit, particularly when you’re innovating.

Scale 156

Scale Marketplace as a Service Sales Recruiting Scaling 156

Clouded Judgement

JULY 17, 2024

Subscribe now Innovation follows exponential curves. AlexNet came out in 2012. The First Industrial Revolution started in ~1760 and mechanized production - we moved from creating goods by hand to creating goods with machines. And the time from the third to fourth industrial revolution was only ~55 years.

Artificial Intelligence 196

Artificial Intelligence Systems Review Technical Review AI 196

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.

Generative AI 90

Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

User Pilot

MAY 1, 2024

“Localmind” experienced steady growth until Airbnb made an acquisition offer in 2012, which Lenny accepted. How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs) – Lenny interviews Sam on the journey toward building Google Docs.

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Underperforming Technical Team New CTO Interviewing CTO 102

Chargify

MARCH 28, 2018

From 2007 to 2012, combo meal sales at fast food restaurants declined by 12% , according to a NPD Group study. In 2012, Zendesk shifted to a per-agent pricing model over the previous tiered inclusions plus overage add-ons. In 2007, combo meal sales began to drop. Jeff Matson, Community Evangelist, Gravity Forms.

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Pricing Innovation Scale SaaS 47

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

This interview was part of Splash’s Boom , a video series about the innovation explosion in events and the tech stack. SaaStr was started in 2012 as a blog. This episode is sponsored by Outgrow. This episode is sponsored by Secureframe. The guy has a unique and sharp perspective on everything tech and everything events.

Technical Review 137

Technical Review Software Review compliance Cloud 137

SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

Sam : We funded all three of these companies in our Winter 2012 batch. It’s a chance for folks to try ideas, iterate, perhaps fail, and that’s a lot of good innovation. Copy that playbook, and keep your creativity to where you’re innovating. Thank you all for having me here. Sam: You don’t have to.

VP of Engineering 296

VP of Engineering Sales Hiring Sales Recruiting Underperforming Technical Team 296

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Liam Geraghty: From the very start, Intercom’s mission has always been to make internet business personal, so it’s not surprising that we’ve been podcasting for a long time; since 2012, in fact. There is definitely an innovation in that space. Des Traynor: Hi, this is Des from Intercom.

Outsourcing Services 215

Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring CTO Hire Acquisition 215

Teamgate

DECEMBER 20, 2019

In addition, towards the end of 2012, Forbes discovered that there were about 110 CRM applications in the Apple store while the Android App Store contains about 47 apps. Also, in 2013, Microsoft’s major overhaul of dynamics CRM involved distributing smartphone applications for iOS, Windows, and Android. Your business deserves to grow.

Mobile 95

Mobile Strategy Technical Review Artificial Intelligence 95

Frontegg

MAY 27, 2021

This innovative software tool is a proven and tested customer engagement booster. With the unique self-service solutions on offer, your customers can get the best features in blazing fast times, with your devs focusing on innovation and quality. So pick accordingly. #1 1 Intercom. Best For: User Journey Planning and Optimization.

Payment Solutions 98

Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments Scale 98

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Bob: The interesting part to me is that to me, all innovations have to revolve around a struggling moment, and that a struggling moment actually exists irrelevant of supply. It would’ve been great to have a picture of that, but the fact is paying attention to where those struggling moments are, they’re the seed for all innovation.

Sales Hiring 265

Sales Hiring Sales VP of Engineering Underperforming Technical Team 265