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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

And then there was this big ERP dying, which was shot after the first ecommerce new academy scene was going down for 2000 2001. And even at that, at that time, I had a company trying to establish a ecommerce solution based on the Apple database. You’re much more focused on building a company that’s, that’s profitable.

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Aaron : Well, also, as someone who went through this, especially like the 2000, 2001 times. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful. ” I’m like, that sounds awful. And every vendor was just staring at each other like the world’s dead. I mean, literally.

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The Top 5 Questions Every CEO Wrestles With – Lessons From Host Analytics (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Those that had raised a large amount of money at a ridiculous valuation prior to April 2001 or dead. Always remember the famous quote from Don Valentine, the founder of Sequoia, “All companies go out of business for the same reason, they run out of money.” When you’re building your company culture, in my opinion?