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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. And I remember they were born in 2004 our business was kind of at the bottom but they were also wound up being born nine weeks premature. We’re starting to having lay people off.” ” We had to do that three times.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. That money brought us two phenomenal teammates, a really helpful mentor who's still on our board, and lots of connections and help from investors. My Co-founder, Dimitris , also Co-founded Buildium , where we met.