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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. What what do you think the danger is of being too focused on those types of venture capital type ideas. Unfortunately, I called them and it was 2001 and they say oh, the money all the money is gone.

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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. There’s a bunch of people across the street who’ve raised 75 million dollars or 150 million of venture capital and they are trying to kill me. Well in 2002, I know it was a long time ago. ” Right? ” Right?

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. The first is: It’s the best proxy for AWS growth in the private markets.