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Disrupting the Desk Phone: How and Why We Made a $50M Acquisition with Dialpad (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

With one startup acquired by Yahoo in 2005, another acquired by Google in 2007 and a background as an M&A lawyer, Craig’s perspective on M&A is insightful for any startup founder looking to acquire another company. And when I was at Google, we did a couple acquisitions. Want to see more content like this session?

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The 57% Drop in SaaS Valuations

Tom Tunguz

The go-to-market advantages of SaaS including faster sales cycles, beneficial cash cycles, online/mobile acquisition and bottoms up adoption are real, enduring , transformative changes. An example of a relatively extreme case, from 2001 to 2007, Concur grew between 0% and 35% each year. A different strategy is required.

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18 investors fueling Latin America’s SaaS superstars

SaaStock

To help out founders on the way, Astella Investimentos’ mentors provide guidance in the most crucial areas, such as customer acquisition, product development, and company training, as well as creating a roadmap for scalability and all stages of business development. Founded: 2007. Founded: 2008. Size of fund: R$65M. SP Ventures.

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Beyond the Downturn: Recession Strategies to Take the Lead

OPEXEngine

In the automotive industry, shared mobility services and the shift to autonomous and electric vehicles could gut the economic returns of many manufacturing plants and assets in six to eight years—just one product cycle. Downturns upend the playing field. And 89% more US companies lost profitability in the last downturn vs. stable periods.

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23 Low Budget Online Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses

Neil Patel

Mobile is a big part of that and so are social media and video. Mobile ad spend is predicted to continue increasing due to a growth in mobile usage. Another easy way to find keywords is to check for searches that show up in your Google Analytics Acquisition reports. billion which is a 25.5 percent increase from last year.

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Becoming Indistractable

ProfitWell

Operationally speaking, this could range from offering a new service for mobile readers, creating new pricing models, or offering new payment methods.". Succeeding in subscription also means having business flexibility—try new things and iterate quickly on offerings, as ultimately, needs change. The Prophet for Habit-Forming Technology.

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Be the Up in a Downturn: Advice From SurveyMonkey’s Tom Hale

OpenView Labs

Tom: I was at Macromedia at the time, and we were right in the middle of the largest acquisition we’d ever done. We went through with the acquisition, and that gave us the ability to pursue a radically different strategy, but we were set up for the go-go years of dotcom 1.0. Can you walk me through what that was like?