Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

These acquisitions, which focus more on scope than scale, accounted for 90% of tech deals in 2019 , which is a 40% increase from 2015. For example, when Instagram bought Luma (its first acquisition), the tiny three-person team was part of the deal. It’s a clear indicator that businesses want to expand their offerings and capabilities.

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Casey Accidental

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Most companies have a primary acquisition loop that drives this scalable growth, and unfortunately, there aren’t that many acquisition loops that really scale. Even when they scale, they eventually asymptote, and companies need to find new ways to grow. This can be new growth loops for the same product, or entirely new products.

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Hitenism

JANUARY 9, 2017

You have limited cash, which means that you only have a finite amount of time and resources to scale your business. Google Analytics didn’t keep track of users over time which meant it was virtually impossible to track multiple visits, purchases, and subscription payments. Talk To Your Customers. How do we engage them?

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Andreessen Horowitz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The UK is home to some of the largest payments companies and most successful neobanks in the world, Wise, Starling, and Monzo among them. The UK is the goldilocks of financial services: big enough to be meaningful on a global scale, but small enough to make decisions much faster than the U.S. or the rest of Europe.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. Recurring payments. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware. Growth stage.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

I was the 15th employee for LinkedIn and their first head of sales, joining the company back in late 2005 when everybody thought it was a spam company. Obviously, at the top of the list is somebody that’s been in a startup, been successful, scaled, maybe had one exit, maybe had more than one. A little bit about me.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 24, 2021

We’re excited to continue the Month of Scale here for Redpoint Office Hours. That was the start of the Month of Scale. We thought we were going to be talking about scale today, but we’re actually going to talk about having small dogs and raising dachshunds, based on what we were catching up on backstage with Claire.

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