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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

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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. And how do you hack it? This episode is sponsored by Outgrow. Jason Lemkin: Crazy.

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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

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Jared started, this is in 2002, he’s got the Antonio Banderas look going on there. Jason Lemkin: But looking back, you started in 2002, and it was a terrible time to start, but also good because there weren’t 10,000 companies each year out of Y Combinator and EF and others. We had it, we knew we could innovate.

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

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Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company. Felix : We thought that you can’t innovate on too many dimensions. Want to see more content like this?

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The Birth of Freemium

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From 1992 until 2002, the number of AOL subscribers grew 125X, from 200,000 to 25,000,000. When it launched as the first cloud-based notes app during the recession in 2008, its founders didn't raise much venture capital. you had to start paying at about $14/month for continued access. But it worked. Freemium, done right, works.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matrix Partners and EZPR — February 21, 2020

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Prior to its July 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100M, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world. The Wall Street Journal is getting very hard, because they love taking their venture capital.

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