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10 Tips to Fundraising in The Tumultuous Times of 2023

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You can see here multiples are touching the lows of early 2016 and are even lower than 2015 and those early days of SaaS. Another month of progress, another set of new customers, etc. Share up front why your first CTO left. Let me just share 10 Simple Suggestions on How to Make Fundraising a Smidge More Successful in 2023: #1.

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SaaStr is Turning 10! How a Blog Turned into A Global SaaS Community for 250,000+

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This led to our first meet-ups in 2013 and 2014, the first SaaStr Annual in 2015 , the industry’s leading podcast in 2016, the first SaaS founder coworking space in 2017, and SaaStr Pro , the first learning management system for SaaS founders in 2018. 2015 The First SaaStr Annual: Escape Velocity. Here’s to the Next 10!

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I Asked 13 Buffer Leaders for Advice on Succeeding in My New Role

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Given that their guidance is so universal — both for people just stepping into new roles and those at fast-paced companies like Buffer — I thought I’d share their wisdom here. I've always been one to jump on the new thing as soon as I discover it. Social Media is always changing, and platforms come and go.

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JFrog IPO: Lessons For Entrepreneurs

SaaStr

Our journey with JFrog started back in November 2015 when I first met CEO and co-founder Shlomi Ben Haim and the JFrog team,” said Jai Das, who is the president and managing director at Sapphire Ventures , which participated in the $50 million Series C investment. There was also a highly efficient inbound sales model.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. 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. Jessie Lam. Kathleen Ting. Morgan, and Deutsche Bank. Kandy Yeung.

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Top 22 Full Stack Developers to Follow in 2022

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In his personal blog Overreacted, he shares his experience, new trends and features, and explains complicated programming tasks. A co-founder of Mozilla and Firefox, in 2015, Brendan Eich built his own company Brave Software, a blockchain-based digital advertising platform. #7 ReactJS frontend developer at Facebook 311.9K

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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. For instance, my first rep from Marketo, he was the first rep at Marketo in New York. The peak of your day starts around 3:00PM because that’s when New York wakes up. Gaetan Gache t: The fact that you’re new is actually becomes a negative. Gaetan Gachet : Yep.

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