SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2019

With one startup acquired by Yahoo in 2005, another acquired by Google in 2007 and a background as an M&A lawyer, Craig’s perspective on M&A is insightful for any startup founder looking to acquire another company. And when I was at Google, we did a couple acquisitions. Want to see more content like this session?

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Kellblog

JUNE 7, 2020

I was talking to an old friend the other day who’s marketing chief at a successful infrastructure startup. “Congratulations,” I said, “I know it was a long slog, but after about a decade of groundwork it looks like things have really kicked in. They won’t result in lasting marriages.

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 24, 2019

Mike has been in and around startups for the better part of three decades: as a consultant, as a co-founder and now as the Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, which propels new startups into the marketplace. He joined me for a chat that ranged from the role of AI to how they choose startups to incubate. Short on time?

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SaaStr

MAY 8, 2019

Dug Song founded Duo Security in 2019 and grew the company as CEO until it’s acquisition in October of 2018. Over the years, Dug has been an advisor to many startups from Mu Dynamics, Olark and Tech Brewery to Trace and Stratos Card. The Ann Arbor, Michigan based company was acquired for $2.35B in cash.

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CTO Coach New CTO CTO Web Development 27

Outseta

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Soren Ryherd: We build profitable customer acquisition programs using paid digital advertising. In 2003 we realized that CMOs were really struggling with the auction-based nature of media buying in Search and we knew that was a math problem we could solve in a way that would tie directly to their business success.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups. But then after joining them, and we sold that startup to another startup NICU, I went home to Pittsburgh in 1999 which led to the inspiration for starting our first business. And by 2003 we were almost out of business.

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