SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003.

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SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2019

But when you need a CFO, let’s say, or you need an outstanding VP of engineering or maybe a VP of sales, which is even more different to find for an engineer, you don’t know who these people are. Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley.

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Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 218

SaaStr

JUNE 23, 2019

But when you need a CFO, let’s say, or you need an outstanding VP of engineering or maybe a VP of sales, which is even more different to find for an engineer, you don’t know who these people are. Keith : So from 2003 to 2013 before I joined Khosla Ventures, I was a pretty active angel investor in Silicon Valley.

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Merchant Services Part-Time VPE Sales Hiring Scale 191

SaaStr

AUGUST 16, 2019

Ep 257: Justin Welsh is the former SVP Sales @ PatientPop, the startup that offers the first all-in-one practice growth platform that’s HIPAA-compliant and is proven to grow your practice. During his 5 years at PatientPop, Justin grew sales from $0 to $56m alongside the full build-out of the sales team. Justin Welsh: Yeah.

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SaaStr

APRIL 24, 2020

It started back in 2003, when I joined Omniture, which was an analytics company founded here in Utah. It was back when you used different words for it, things like managed software or application service provider. John Mellor: And that year, when I joined in 2003, Omniture did $8 million in revenue.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

Last month, housing sales in the US are actually ahead of last year, like literally ahead. I think it’s more overall more like 2000 to 2003 in Silicon Valley, but there’ll be some industries and celebrated goals that either aren’t effected as much or snap back very quickly. Somehow this defies logic but is true.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In early 2016 the company raised a $12mm Series A led by PeakSpan Capital to accelerate growth, largely on the back on fantastic customer success oriented metrics. But simply having a customer success plan is not enough - you'll also learn how to hold your customers accountable to the agreed upon plan.

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