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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

And this is why I struggle to say when I started my business, I think in 2004 or five, I started I had a lot of free time because I had just lost my job it is big ERP going word was going down in Germany. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. No, nobody had made one one euro revenue that.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history.

Cloud 100
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SaaS “Industry-Centric” Business Models

OPEXEngine

The targeted functions to be replicated in the software – examples include customer relationship database management and bookkeeping – were well defined. These factors resonated well with the investment theses of venture capital firms. Vertical SaaS companies develop software that is tailored to a specific industry.