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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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.

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Kellblog Predictions for 2022

Kellblog

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.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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?

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10 Years In Tech

Outseta

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.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

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
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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

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
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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

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