I heard someone call HubSpot the "Web 2.0 Version of [a marketing software company]" this week. It annoyed me. Less because they were comparing HubSpot to a sort of boring company with complicated, expensive products that don't really work, but more because they described HubSpot as "web 2.0".
Top 10 Reasons Why HubSpot is NOT a Web 2.0 Company
- Our company name is easy to spell.
- We have more people over 25 in the company than under 25.
- Our company name does not sound like it ends in "-er" but actually just ends in "r".
- We are not based in a loft in San Francisco.
- Our logo does not have a reflection in it.
- Our product does not say "Beta" over 2 years after launch.
- We do not have Guitar Hero in our office.
- Both of our co-founders have gray hair.
- We have paying customers... lots of them.
- Revenue. Did I mention revenue?