Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Flood of venture capital (VC). SaaS provided provided both a market disruption opportunity and a total available market (TAM) expansion in each market segment. Venture capital continues to flow. Upstarts can stand yet again on the shoulders of giants.

Blockchain 143

Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 143

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. How long can this last?

Cloud 101

Cloud Scale AWS Machine Learning 101

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

So Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly, you’re thinking, “How is this random guy from Atlanta 2000 miles away at the starting floor, at the ground floor of three pretty interesting SaaS companies?” We raised $0 of venture capital. And who here has heard of Calendly? All right, 110% of the audience. We sold Pardot.

Sales Recruiting 159

Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 159

Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

New waves of technology come and go in the blink of an eye, each with its own wave of new founders trying to flip their start-up in a newly hot market segment. 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

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. Maybe they’re bootstrapping and have no interest in venture capital. That capital is returned to us with some return.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. Maybe they’re bootstrapping and have no interest in venture capital. That capital is returned to us with some return.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. Maybe they’re bootstrapping and have no interest in venture capital. That capital is returned to us with some return.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40