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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

Before getting into the investment world, she started and sold two successful companies in edutainment, and made a prominent name in the tech field around the world. At the beginning of 2019, she became an ambassador of Moxie Future, an initiative for women investors that facilitates investment in a responsible and sustainable future.

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Beyond the Downturn: Recession Strategies to Take the Lead

OPEXEngine

This potential change in the interest rate environment will be a new regime for most management teams, and should prompt them to take a multiyear view of their capital structure and the timing of investments. Other lagging companies strayed outside their core business, investing in the latest hot sectors and tools, praying for a winner.

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How Marketing Leaders Are Preparing for the Post-COVID Consumer

OpenView Labs

Moody’s Analytics predicts that the impact from coronavirus to the travel industry could be greater than the fallout from 9/11, or the 2003 SARS outbreak, due to the global nature of the crisis. Creating innovation teams. “We’re playing for 2021,” says a marketing VP from a luxury cruise line. How organizations are getting started.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

SaaStock

According to Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, the one thing necessary for any company to succeed in China – or in any of the Asian countries – is to get local investment. It has more than 100 investments since its founding in 2001. SAIF is also one of the biggest funds, investing in Hong Kong, China and India.

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Disrupting the Desk Phone: How and Why We Made a $50M Acquisition with Dialpad (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We are an enterprise-focused VC fund in New York, and we invest in enterprise startups throughout the country and it’s both a privilege and a blast to be here with one of our WorkBench portfolio companies, DialPad with Craig Walker, founder and CEO, and Dan O’Connell, chief strategy officer and former CEO of Talk IQ.

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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Salesforce AppExchange: Celebrating 10 Years of Innovation and Growth from Salesforce. Salesforce figured out in 2003 that just having the list of partners on our site that integrated with customers wasn’t enough; we needed to facilitate the discovery, the ranking and the promotion of community advocacy around these solutions.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

From PLG innovator at $30m ARR t o a top SLG+PLG leader at $1B in ARR. In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003. When you meet with Bill and you talk about marketing, in a not a sales driven, but you invest into marketing, what are the KPIs?

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