Brian Halligan
CEO at HubSpot
HubSpot Exec Sees Late-Stage Investments Moving to Crossover Investment Funds
That’s a trend that Brian Halligan, HubSpot’s chief executive and one of its founders, expects to continue to gain strength. Venture investors typically sell their stakes following an IPO, but “what’s nice about public investors is, hopefully, they’ll buy more,” Halligan said. For ... Read more »
HubSpot revenue hit $29M in 2011, company reports
Last fall, CEO Brian Halligan told the BBJ that HubSpot expected to double its 2010 sales number, in 2011. The numbers were reported about an hour ago on Forbes.com, in an article that includes an interview with Halligan, in which he talked about the B2B marketing company's plans ... Read more »
The Highs (and Lows) of Letting Your CEO Manage Twitter for a Day
If you were following @HubSpot on Twitter yesterday, you would've noticed that our CEO and Co-Founder Brian Halligan had commandeered the account. And while all you social media and community managers out there are probably cringing as I say this, I bet the CEOs and Twitter users of the ... Read more »
Why I Made Our CEO Pay $600 to Monitor Social Media For a Day
Before I knew it, our CEO and co-founder, Brian Halligan, had purchased the rights to use HubSpot’s Twitter account at the low, low rate of $600, which was donated to the Animal Rescue League of Boston. (Turns out it's kind of hard to outbid your CEO. ) His face lit up and I noticed a ... Read more »
HubSpot Continues Rapid Trajectory with 82% Revenue Growth
CEO Brian Halligan announced today that HubSpot posted 82% annual revenue growth, with revenue from HubSpot’s inbound marketing software and services reaching $52.5 million. The catalysts behind the growth included the release of HubSpot 3, the company’s powerful integrated marketing ... Read more »
HubSpot CEO: We would've struggled on the West Coast
But launching in the Boston area can offer advantages in terms of helping startups get attention in a more conventional way — through the press, HubSpot CEO and co-founder Brian Halligan said Friday at the TiECON East conference in Cambridge. In Silicon Valley, you're a small fish in a ... Read more »
HubSpot revenue rises 82% in 2012, to $52.5M
In an interview Friday, CEO and co-founder Brian Halligan said the new software was central to HubSpot's growth last year. "What we noticed is our customers are using the product more aggressively, and renewing at higher rates, and buying more products," Halligan said. HubSpot's ... Read more »
Modern Marketing: Turn Your Company Into a Magnet
Brian Halligan, founder of marketing software company HubSpot, says you should toss out the rules of traditional marketing, and embrace a new philosophy. Brian Halligan, founder of HubSpot, talks about the challenges within the changing landscape of marketing. Brian ... Read more »
HubSpot Raises Another $35M For More Acquisitions on Road to IPO
With more than $8 million left in the bank, HubSpot’s CEO Brian Halligan told me the impetus for raising another round was “to go faster,” which means, mostly, more acquisitions. “We really want to do more M&A,” he told me. (More on that in a bit. ) HubSpot’s ‘mezzanine round’ brings its ... Read more »
HubSpot plots new acquisitions, says Performable cost $20M
Boston Business Journal by Kyle Alspach, VC Editor HubSpot CEO and co-founder Brian Halligan sits in front of a wall of profiles of HubSpot employees at the company's Cambridge headquarters. The fast-growing marketing software firm is mulling acquisitions, new venture money and an IPO... Read more »
The Future According to HubSpot: Why They Win Even When You Delete Their Emails
Founded in 2006 by Shah and CEO Brian Halligan while at MIT, the company has raised $65 million, including a $32 million round in March of 2011. Its core product has combined a content management system for blogging and website management with web analytics and lead capture and ... Read more »
How Start-Ups Can Maintain Company Culture While Growing
According to CEO and Co-Founder Brian Halligan, that was when "the wheels started to come off. " Our largest cultural speed bump to date wasn't due to any external forces. Rather, it was because of internal adjustments that weren't quite right. We've taken two approaches to addressing ... Read more »
HubSpot looks to follow in Akamai's footsteps
Boston Business Journal by Kyle Alspach, VC Editor Date: Thursday, February 9, 2012, 10:59am EST - Last Modified: Thursday, February 9, 2012, 11:20am EST HubSpot CEO and co-founder Brian Halligan has made no secre t of the fact that his marketing software company wants to grow big, go ... Read more »
Akamai CFO heads to HubSpot
The move was first reported by TechCrunch, which quoted HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan pointing to Sherman's large, public company experience. "We are on the same fast growth path of all the successful SaaS companies," Halligan told TechCrunch, "and need to start preparing for an IPO. ... Read more »
Public Market Investment Firms Invest $35 Million in HubSpot Mezzanine Round
“We're generating revenue at an annualized run rate of $60 million, up more than 80% over last year, and we still see a huge market opportunity ahead of us,” said HubSpot CEO and co-founder Brian Halligan.” "HubSpot empowers our customers to do inbound marketing right, by attracting ... Read more »
HubSpot a Silicon Valley company? Hahahahahahahaha
"The public guys are giving better terms," said Brian Halligan, chief executive of Silicon Valley marketing software startup HubSpot Inc., which in November raised $35 million from hedge fund Altimeter Capital and the venture arm of mutual fund Wasatch Advisors, among others. The reason ... Read more »
HubSpot Releases HubSpot 3 Along with iPhone App
I just got back from this morning’s Inbound 2012 keynote by co-founders Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shah, during which they unveiled an entirely new version of their product: HubSpot 3. Oh, and they announced a HubSpot iPhone app, too. Halligan opened the keynote with a review of ... Read more »
Eyeing An IPO, HubSpot Adds Akamai’s CFO And Former IBM Exec JD Sherman As COO
HubSpot CEO and co-founder Brian Halligan explained: “We always thought HubSpot could be a large, publicly traded company anchoring the software industry in Boston. Hiring a COO with public company experience is the next step on that path…We are on the same fast growth path of all the ... Read more »
Gary Vaynerchuk joins HubSpot's Advisory Board
"I was glued to my chair watching Gary speak at the Inc. 500 awards ceremony," said Brian Halligan, CEO and co-founder of HubSpot. "He tells the inbound marketing story better than I do! It is thrilling to come across people who independently have come to the same conclusions about ... Read more »
HubSpot Expands to Europe: HubSpot to Open Office in Dublin
“This is a fast-growing company and its location here is in keeping with one of the key targets in IDA’s strategy ‘Horizon 2020’ — to attract investment from the employment intensive software and services sector.” Brian Halligan, HubSpot co-founder and CEO, admitted in the release that ... Read more »
