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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

To date Bob has raised over $15m with Crossbeam from friends of the show including Andy @ Uncork, Matt @ Firstmark, Bill @ First Round and Matt @ Salesforce Ventures, to name a few. Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018.

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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

Our former Director of Content and Community spoke to Alf about managing a happy team, how he’s grown his company without external funding, the history of developing in the Mac ecosystem, and running a consulting and software business. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. So I just had this idea.

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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. How long can this last?

Cloud 101
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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. and paid it out to the Founders and early team members. After the Series A, Buffer fell into a similar trap to Wistia - they hired too quickly, specifically to accelerate product development.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. In 2010, he founded Influitive, which helps B2B companies employ brand advocates for faster growth and development. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport. Business Consultancy.

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38 Bright Asian SaaS Stars

SaaStock

was created by a team with 25+ years of experience in location-based tech, spanning various services and real-time asset tracking systems. Founded : 2004. Launched in 2005 in New York and Guangzhou, Gizwits has become the largest IoT development platform in China, as well as its first PaaS and SaaS platform. Founded : 2014.