SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

Sameer Dhokalia: It turns out if you do ask those two basic questions of 100 people in your business, you will learn an awful lot about what needs to be focused on. This year we’ll probably do as much in revenue this year in 2019 with that second product as all of SendGrid was doing at the time that I joined.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Software M&A in 2019 reached about $170B up from $136B in 2018, up 25%. In it, 65% of founders believe the fundraising market in 2020 will present more challenges than 2019. Here are my 2019 predictions and my analysis of them. Most startups at IPO have plenty of cash and don't need to raise more in the public markets.

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SmartKarrot

JANUARY 18, 2022

Found by Manoj Dawane in 2016, VTION is an Indian-origin media technology innovation company that aims at measuring media audiences by analyzing consumer trends and behaviors. The company had introduced its Disney BYJU app in 2019. The platform focuses on simplifying mathematics and science concepts. KlentySoft Inc.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

This podcast is an excerpt from Karl’s session at SaaStr Europa 2019. I think the key thing that I had realized after several years in Her Majesty’s United Kingdom, it really centers on the fact that a lot of the technology that I was seeing was really, a lot of the innovation was happening in the Bay area. Harry Stebbings.

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SaaStr

MAY 14, 2019

We guided towards $800,000,000 for 2019. Mikkel : Well again, the public cloud, AWS, was the dominant leader. We are seeing platform shifts from how they traditionally run their infrastructure and services and business to seeing them run that stuff on AWS. We ended just shy of $600 million dollar in revenue for the year.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. It’s just a superpower in 2019. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. But in these big Fortune 500 companies, their incentive in innovation to bring in, but it’s like one or two a year, but they might buy more. I mean, literally.

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SaaStr

MAY 3, 2019

CEOs everywhere are seeking to innovate, but 81% say their teams are not equipped to meet the challenges needed to compete in today’s marketplace. Innovation is about empathy with your customers. This podcast is an excerpt of Sandy’s session at SaaStr Annual 2019. It’s all about customer obsession!

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

For a long time, until this boom, until the 2019-2021 boom, crossover funds would be very careful. I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. Shall we innovate more in marketing or in products, kind of unique features? I think Azure’s like 7,000, Google. They were cute.

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Casey Accidental

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In a previous post , I talked about how product work post-product/market fit shifts from zero to one innovation to features, growth, and scaling work. But a question founders and teams often ask is when do we start layering in innovation work again that creates new value props. You can read parts 1 and 2 here and here.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Julian Lemoine, Co-Founder, and CTO of Algolia will share his lessons learned on how to stay focused and innovative as you scale while also avoiding the innovation for innovation’s sake pitfalls. Next comes the decisions to build or buy your infrastructure, DNS, monitoring, and analytics tools. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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SaaStr

MAY 15, 2020

You know, the last time we did this, it was, I think, February 2019, so just a little over a year ago. You got to be really frugal and you got to innovate your way out of problems. And when you only have a little bit of money, you really innovate your way out of problems or engineer your way out of problems.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

I exited to pursue other interests after Upland Software acquired the company in 2019. Process driven innovator focused on scalable growth. I was stretched to think about innovation and encouraged to take risks. In 2005 I co-founded Altify, a Dublin-based global SaaS business focusing on sales and sales best practices.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 4, 2019

Outreach is also running Unleash 2019. One of the things that’s great about the company is, or one of the things that attracted me to Datadog is the ability to execute on innovation. Just like nonstop innovation, and we’re pushed to do that by our customers. You can just see by AWS’ amazing performance.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 3, 2020

If you’re short on time, here are some quick takeaways: From Superhuman to bedside lamps, we look at the products and technology that defined 2019. Des: This is our 2019 look back where we’re going to talk mostly about things that happened this year, and indeed this decade. The products that defined 2019.

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

Co-founder Scott Farquhar mentioned as much during the company’s July 2019 earnings call, saying that, “What we’re talking about here is moving many of our products from a free trial to a freemium approach.” In their freemium plan, AWS offers a year’s worth of micro instance for free – a time-bound freemium model. Learn how here.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

You got to be really frugal and you’re going out to innovate your way out of problems. You really innovate your way out of problems or engineer your way out of problems. Let’s innovate our way out of the problem.” And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly. It’s still really hard.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2019

100% the traditional enterprise you should totally buy one of those platforms, but have you noticed where all the new ones are and all the fast growing innovative ones are? The CIOs tend to… The innovative ones are all in. How often can she win when you don’t have a CIO that’s about innovation?

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SaaStr

MAY 22, 2020

In 2019, CMX was acquired by Bevy, where David now serves as the VP of Community. What innovative strategies has David seen work when it comes to bringing a virtual event to life? In 2019, CMX was acquired by Bevy, where David now serves as the VP of Community. Should you cull members who are inactive?

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

Join Bessemer Venture Partners’ Byron Deeter and Kristina Shen as they take a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. 78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020. Twice for retail.

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Intercom, Inc.

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

It was: you go to a vendor site, you fill out a form, some sales rep calls and qualifies you, and then you go through this awful process. I think there’s a lot of ways we can innovate on the tool, but yeah. And three, you need to build and innovate on our brand.” Everyone knows that process, right?

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