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HubSpot Files for IPO: Solid Financials for a Young Company

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HubSpot filed its much-anticipated S-1 for a public stock offering yesterday. In fact, Marketo today looks a lot like the HubSpot S-1.) - sales and marketing costs at 64% of revenue, well above Eloqua (which was growing much more slowly) and similar to Marketo (which was growing slightly faster). million for all of 2013 and by $0.9

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Acquisitions Reshape the Marketing Automation Industry: Growth at the Bottom, Room in the Middle, Fog at the Top

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Sadly, the wave of acquisitions that swept the industry in the past year has made this harder: many major vendors are now part of a public company, which severely restricts the information they can share. Silverpop and HubSpot might also benefit but neither is fully focused on standard B2B marketing automation.

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Traits of Startup Unicorns in 2024 [Data + Expert Insights]

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Since the term‘s inception in 2013, they’ve attracted immense attention and praise; there's even a reality television show called Unicorn Hunters that capitalizes on this public fascination. HubSpot is unicorn catnip. A rousing 22% of unicorn startups are HubSpot customers. A unicorn company isn't necessarily profitable.

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8 Insightful Marketing Predictions for 2013 and Beyond

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2013 is on the horizon, so whip out your crystal balls, marketers -- it's time to make some predictions about what's in store for next year. We saw the rise of Pinterest, several IPOs and acquisitions, an aggressive political ad war, Facebook’s 1 billionth user, and watched one Korean artist turn into a global phenomenon thanks to YouTube.

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How Much Money Has Been Invested In Content Marketing Technology

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In 2014, CBinsights noted that $292M had been invested in content marketing platforms (including ours) from Q2 2013 to Q1 2014, noting that there was a 125% increase in investment money as well as a 47% bump in deal activity from the prior year. There will be more acquisitions. https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hubspot.

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3 thoughts on Adobe acquiring Marketo for $4.75 billion and what it means for martech

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As TechCrunch noted in their coverage of the news, “[This acquisition] was a pretty nice return for Vista Equity partners, which purchased Marketo in May 2016 for $1.8 It was a fun evening of discussion!). billion in cash. They held onto it for two years and hauled in a hefty $2.95 billion in profit.”

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Rumor Has It: Facebook Is Testing Disappearing Content (and More)

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This is a new slick user interface," says Connor Cirillo, HubSpot's conversational marketing manager. This potential addition to Messenger doesn't exactly come as surprise, given Facebook's penchant for emulating various Snapchat features since its 2013 (failed) acquisition attempt. Source: WABetaInfo. Disappearing Content.