Tom Tunguz

MARCH 25, 2020

In 2015, we partnered with two young founders to build Dremio. At Redpoint, we’re passionate about innovations in data. Tomer Shiran and Jacques Nadeau had just left MapR, and they came to work from our offices in Menlo Park. We shared a vision for a new way of working with data. O’Reilly calls this Next Architecture.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Founded in 2015, Klue addresses a part of the corporate world that has seen little innovation. Craft Ventures led the round and there was participation from HWVP, OMERS Ventures, Rhino Ventures, and BDC Ventures. The round also saw investments from angels like Frederic Kerrest, who is the co-founder of Okta. .

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SaaStock

JANUARY 25, 2019

Since its launch in 2015, it has attracted more than 4,500 retailers who use it as their central marketplace. Founded : 2015. Founded : 2015. Founded : 2015. Founded : 2015. Founded : 2015. Funding to Date : $26.2M from Redpoint eventures, TPG Growth, DGF Investimentos and others. CEO : Tiago Dalvi.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 20, 2023

How Did We Get Here — OpenAI OpenAI started as a research lab in 2015. It was exciting then, even though it’s old hat now — an extraordinary leap forward in innovation when released. They were stuck in experimental groups and innovation labs and weren’t sure where to go beyond generative copy apps. It started with chatbots.

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SaaStr

JUNE 13, 2024

Back in 2015, Google AI beat the world chess champion easily. If there is no innovation and you’ve maxed out your existing TAM, you’ll start slowing down. Now, two conflicting things are happening: consolidation and innovation, and it’s important to keep an eye on both. AI was starting to diagnose diseases better than doctors.

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Scale AI Sales Underperforming Technical Team 306

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.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

It also foreshadows a wave of innovation of new and wonderful soon-to-be-released products. 2015 will be an exciting year for Startupland. Importantly, investors have raised nearly twice as much capital in 2014 as in 2013 and their coffers are well stocked to finance new and fast-growing companies.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Shopify took the company to IPO in 2015 and today has a market cap of about $40 billion. . Tip #3: Scale with customer-centric innovation. . Use the opportunity to continue making your customer the hero and focus on customer-centric innovation. Winning with customer-centric innovation.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2022

How To Innovate Faster with Community: Insights From GitLab CEO Sid Sijbrandij. A real classic from the first SaaStr Annual in 2015! #24. How Leveraging Partnerships Can 2x Your Growth with Gorgias CEO Romain Lapeyre. A niche session, but a strong one. Half of Gorgias’ almost 10,000 SMB customers come from partners.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Jessie moved to Hong Kong in 2015, where she joined Credit Suisse as Vice President. in 2015, she made a move to the other side and left banking. In 2016, she moved to Hong Kong to head Innovation at HSBC. It’s SAP’s innovation university and community, united around the company’s commitment to sustainable development.

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Baremetrics

AUGUST 20, 2019

Who doesn’t want to be innovative? But what is product innovation in the first place? The Wikipedia contributors define product innovation as “the creation and subsequent introduction of a good or service that is either new, or an improved version of previous goods or services.”. And how does it play out in real life?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2022

From 2015 to 2017, Braze grew eightfold. The innovators who find your product early and are willing to overlook its issues can’t, or won’t, pay. Along with the technological change that enabled the formation of a new category called customer engagement, new ways of working and skill sets were introduced to the landscape. .

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

The topic was far more elusive in September 2015 than it is now. That meetup in September 2015 was my first attempt at that. Peter Loving is obsessed with product design and innovation. Especially for someone like me who was just getting a handle on SaaS. Barcelona, Spain – Peter Loving and Javier Darriba.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 21, 2022

From 2015 to 2017, Braze grew eightfold. The innovators who find your product early and are willing to overlook its issues can’t, or won’t, pay. Along with the technological change that enabled the formation of a new category called customer engagement, new ways of working and skill sets were introduced to the landscape. .

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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. Founded: 2015. Founded: 2015. It finances innovative tech companies across the globe, supporting them also via the Group’s resources and knowhow. Founded: 2015. Founded: 2004.

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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.

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Intercom, Inc.

MAY 20, 2021

She may even be our first guest who has been honored with their own day, with the Borough of Manhattan celebrating “Kathryn Finney Appreciation Day” back in 2015. Intercom on Product: The siren call of innovation. Over the course of a 30-year career her work has won her acclaim from across the business world and beyond.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Could something like the Greenhouse of 2015 even make it to market today? The great part about having a couple of thousand startups using your product every day is there is so much innovation. As founders, we want to make categories and innovate, but it’s usually better to do it in a bucket.

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The Angel VC

AUGUST 26, 2015

2) Billions of dollars of on-premise revenues are still up for grabs In spite of this tectonic shift of deployment preferences, IDC estimates that in 2015 the market share of on-premise deployments in the enterprise applications market is still almost 80%.

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Intercom, Inc.

JULY 15, 2021

Here are some tactics innovative companies are using to generate more leads and close bigger deals, faster with Intercom: 1. Optimize your Intercom Business Messenger to turn website visitors into quality leads.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 22, 2018

I designed my first chatbot in 2015. It’s not the next big thing that I was dreaming of in 2015. Lots of small innovations compounded over decades have resulted in what we call a computer revolution. It’s definitely not how I thought the chatbot revolution would happen in 2015. In the past, chatbots were the future.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2021

It’s in our nature to look forward, to focus on shipping , to keep innovating and providing value. Beginning in 2015, we expanded beyond regular blog posts to publish books containing our insights and opinions. For a certain audience, Intercom was arguably more famous for its content than its product.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 10, 2023

He’ll walk you through the three stages of growth: 0-$1M — From nothing to something $1M-$10M — Building, innovation, and customers $10M-$100M+ — Scaling and thriving And what sustainable growth strategies you can implement (and pitfalls to avoid) wherever you’re at in your SaaS journey. Next 40 employees? An additional 5%.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 28, 2015

In response last week’s post on The Fastest Growing Areas of Startup Investment in 2015 , in which Bitcoin topped the list, I received many questions about the underlying dynamics of this startup segment. In 2014, total investment spiked to more than $3.5B, and through June 2015 Bitcoin startup have raised more than $4B.

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Investment Blockchain Innovation Startup 100

Intercom, Inc.

MAY 5, 2020

This 2015 post by former senior product manager Hugh Durkin highlights how early we were thinking about the practicalities of building a developer ecosystem , pointing out how the first developer APIs and first developer hub had already generated the first shoots of a budding ecosystem. Building a developer economy around Intercom.

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Marketplace as a Service Transportation Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 171

Trint

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The company will use this new investment to drive product innovation and accelerate hiring in its London and Toronto offices. Trint will focus its 2021 strategy on rapid product innovation as it continues to build out a new market category it calls StoryTech. The company also landed a top 10 spot in Startups.co.uk

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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. The IPO market in the second half of 2015 was more challenging but still seven companies went public. It’s not an understatement to say everything has changed.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 5, 2017

With global IT spending flat to down in 2015 and 2016 , software businesses are fighting for share of wallet. A 2015 CEB study confirmed this: Over and over we found that customers, generally speaking, see significantly less difference between us and the competition than we do ourselves.

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OnStartups

JUNE 7, 2021

Momentum in terms of innovation of the platform itself. That was back in 2015. I don’t know, but it’s the best implementation I know of a blockchain powered, crypto-based social network. As evidence, one need only look at the momentum. Momentum in terms of the community on the platform.

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ReSci

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Shop.org Digital Summit is one of the best places for digital and multichannel retailers to discover innovative ideas, trends, and insights on best practices in the industry. The post Our Top Picks for Shop.org Digital Summit 2015 appeared first on ReSci.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

Unfortunately, not many bets paid off as the economy crashed in 2015 and stayed in turmoil for another 2 years. Monashees Capital is the largest Brazilian VC that makes investments in innovative solutions worldwide, but with a strong focus on Latin America. To date, it has supported 1,544 innovative companies in 57 countries.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 24, 2019

In 2015 I was looking for something new outside of working in telecommunication that would be a new challenge for me, and I found out that ecommerce is one of the domains that would help me improve my current skills. There’s so much competition and new innovation it’s a challenge to stay ahead. How did you find FastSpring?

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Engineering Telecommunications Software Travel 130

ReSci

AUGUST 4, 2015

Multi-channel retail and innovation in eCommerce are major themes, and there's a lot of emphasis on what's new in mobile as well. The post Sessions You Won’t Want to Miss at Etail East 2015 appeared first on ReSci. Etail East is kicking off in less than a week. To kick-off the start of….

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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. They hosted their first conference in 2015, and now they claim the world’s largest community of SaaS executives, founders, and entrepreneurs. I’ve been doing SaaStr Annual since 2015.

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Valuize Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

As the popular saying goes ‘‘If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it,’’(Bolsinger 2015). Example: When considering entering a new market segment or launching an innovative product feature, calculating the NPV and IRR helps determine the potential long-term returns. 355-398, DOI: [link].

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

When my co-founders and I launched Branch in 2015, our mission was to deliver world class financial services to the mobile generation. India today: Regulation enables innovation At present, the revolution is in full swing. Going forward, RBI has shown an intent to support fintech innovation within well-defined guardrails.

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Payment Services Payment Solutions Payments Payment Methods 115

Intercom, Inc.

JULY 21, 2022

Rachel Hepworth: In 2014 and 2015, Slack had this incredible growth, but it was growth off a small base, based on very early adopters. In 2015, Andrew joined Uber to lead their rider growth product teams. There is definitely an innovation in that space. Here’s Rachel. So we knew we just had to have him on.

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