SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

Look at this, the BVP Cloud Index we plummeted in March and then as we were talking about before, if you just put all your money just into Square on March 20th, you would have doubled your money, right? Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? Does venture capital even need to bother? I think by segment.

Investment 149

Investment Scale Travel Venture Capital 149

SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. Tim Handorf you can see there, joined me at BigMachines in 2000. We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. It’s in the cloud. We built a CPQ in the cloud, can we partner?”

Sales Recruiting 167

Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 167

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

394: Where is Venture Capital today? I wanted to have another fun, informal conversation with, one of, I think, the most insightful and smartest cloud investors, Sunil Dhaliwal. Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. And how do you hack it?

Sales Recruiting 162

Sales Recruiting Development Team Review Technical Review Sales Hiring 162

SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Aaron Levie Founder and CEO of Box , Aaron is a well-known entrepreneur in the SaaS and cloud space. Byron Deeter Byron is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners , one of the leading venture capital firms in the SaaS industry. Scott Maxwell Scott has been a Venture Capitalist since 2000.

Venture Capital 52

Venture Capital SaaS Social Media Entrepreneurship 52

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

To date, Amit has raised $68m in funding for Gong from the likes of Norwest, Battery Ventures, Cisco Investments, and Wing Venture Capital, just to name a few. Finally, before that, Amit was the Founder & CEO @ SparkThis, an outsourced marketing and sales service for cloud companies.

Outsourced Development 127

Outsourced Development Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Scale 127

SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Aaron Levie Founder and CEO of Box , Aaron is a well-known entrepreneur in the SaaS and cloud space. Byron Deeter Byron is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners , one of the leading venture capital firms in the SaaS industry. Scott Maxwell Scott has been a Venture Capitalist since 2000.

Venture Capital 52

Venture Capital SaaS Social Media Entrepreneurship 52

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Perhaps best of all, the advent of cloud computing has made the barrier to entry in this field lower than ever before. It’s a common sentiment that one year of start-up experience is equivalent to two years of experience at a larger company, which I wholeheartedly agree with.

Part-Time VPE 102

Part-Time VPE Fractional VPE Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 102

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

To date Gainsight have raised over $156m from some of the world’s best VCs in the form of Lightspeed, Bessemer, Insight Venture Partners, Battery Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. Nick Mehta: I remember in 2000, the internet market had fallen apart. We actually almost went public.

Sales Hiring 116

Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale Sales Recruiting 116

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Enough venture capital can certainly bridge that gap. But I think what I do know one thing for sure, if you’re building something no-code and you’re good is that, whatever happens in the B2C markets, whatever’s happening over there, the CIO dollars going to cloud deployment and digital transformation is so powerful.

Scale 227

Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Enterprise 227

ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

Freemium in its infancy: 1982-2000. Bundled service providers like AOL have phased out and cloud-based subscription services are enjoying their time in the sun. Evernote was another product that spread like wildfire in the mid-2000s. They had recently saved on server costs by switching to the cloud.

Pricing 41

Pricing Business Model Cloud Venture Capital 41

SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

I am a partner at Accel, the Global Venture Capital Fund, and I’m very happy to be here with one of these mythical creatures that people were talking about earlier. Today, every single global 2000 company has somebody thinking about RPA and next year every division within a global 2000 company will think about RPA.

Sales Hiring 258

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 258

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And so when you think back to what was happening, when we start back in 2010, when we were working on this idea in 2009, we just saw there’s this huge shift going on, where we were going from a world from hardware and software that you owned to services in the cloud that you rented. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly.

Sales Hiring 174

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 174

Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

In my article “SaaS” is not to be understood as an industry, but rather as an innovation wave (product and business model innovation) which impacted the B2B software industry in the 2000s and came after the “on-premise” wave. Comparing the installation phase for the SaaS and AI waves 1.1

AI Search 70

AI Search AI B2B Software 70