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A $30B Software Company from a $15m Investment

Tom Tunguz

Constellation Software is a $30b+ publicly-traded software holding company employing more than 25,000. A former venture capitalist, Mark Leonard started Constellation in 1995 with $15m of outside investment & a goal of buying vertical software companies with a moat & good unit economics. Growth Source. Acquisition.

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Holiday Specials: 2023 Cyber Weekend SaaS and Software Deals

FastSpring

In case you missed it, our recent 2023 SaaS and Software Holiday Spend Report highlights how, whether your business focuses on B2C, B2B, or both , SaaS and software Q4 sales bumps are significant around the globe. Writers: World Anvil is a writing software, novel planner & worldbuilding app! But how do you learn to code?

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Three Mega IPOs That Took A Long, Long Time To Get Big: Squarespace, Procore and UiPath

SaaStr

Squarespace is a personal favorite (and one we run many SaaStr sites on) because it took a category of software that was a commodity and often a free give-away and made it magical. But took a full decade for mobile to get mature enough to make construction software really work, because it had to work in the field. More on that here.

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10 Rules to Being a VP of Sales in a Startup

SaaStr

If you come from a large software company, don’t implement their methodology. I started my career as a tech recruiter, working exclusively with venture backed startups from 2000-2003. … 10 Rules to Being a VP of Sales in a Startup. It isn’t going to work in a startup. Literally 100% failure rate. Let go of what you know.

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The Future of AI Is Amazing

Andreessen Horowitz

in 2003, Sebastian Thrun had just won the DARPA Grand Challenge, right? ” Like, autonomous vehicle is a solved problem back in 2003. These are pieces of software that you put in text or you put in an image and out comes something. The use cases are primarily software. So, when I joined Stanford to do my Ph.D.

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How Healthy is the SaaS IPO Market?

Tom Tunguz

Salesforce’s initial public offering in 2003 demarcated the beginning of a new era, the era of Software as a Service. In the 13 years that followed, many startups have followed their path to build innovative software that has transformed their respective industries and sectors. In 2003, Salesforce kicked things off.

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Microsoft, its partners, and the ‘last-mile problem’

IT World

For many years, there has been a bit of a demilitarized relationship between it and the software providers and the consultants that sell and implement software for Microsoft. Then, around 2003, Microsoft developed a product that bundled many of the items a small business might need.