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Kellblog Predictions for 2022

Kellblog

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms? Web3 hype peaks.

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Everything You Need to Know About Freemium Pricing

OpenView Labs

Freemium Model for SaaS – The Good, The Bad, and The In-between. It should get you started on thinking about freemium mechanics in your own software. 7 Tips for Successfully Introducing Freemium Business Software. Some of the top software companies in business today use freemium models to engage customers.

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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Brian, if you don’t know who Brian is, conceived of HubSpot in 2005. They’re good at blocking email out with spam protection and they’ve got caller ID and they’ve got ad blocker software. So HubSpot became a software platform that companies would use to transform the way they market from outbound to inbound.

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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Brian, if you don’t know who Brian is, conceived of HubSpot in 2005. They’re good at blocking email out with spam protection and they’ve got caller ID and they’ve got ad blocker software. So HubSpot became a software platform that companies would use to transform the way they market from outbound to inbound.

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Norman Crowley on uncovering the business opportunities in tackling climate change

Intercom, Inc.

We were fairly poor. So I started to develop a hankering for making money at an early age. I realized after three or four weeks that retirement was boring and then set up a gaming software company called Inspire Gaming Group” And I always wanted to work in technology. I always loved software and developing software.

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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 2017, he co-founded B2B Stack, a software review marketplace that boosts the buying process of B2B tech in Brazil. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport.

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Dropbox, the ultimate Mouse Hunter

The Angel VC

In contrast to Zendesk (and I think, Yammer), which eventually moved upmarket and now generates an ever-increasing percentage of revenues from larger customers , Dropbox is still getting most of its revenues from individual users and small teams. Instead, I think that the right team has to hit the right opportunity at the right time.