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18 investors fueling Latin America’s SaaS superstars

SaaStock

It is a venture capital firm based in Brazil and Silicon Valley. Its partners boast diverse venture experience and have previously invested in more than 70 companies. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed. Kaszek Ventures. Kaszek Ventures is among the biggest venture capital firms in Latin America.

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SaaStr Podcast 215: Ryan Smith, Qualtrics Co-Founder & CEO On The Things Nobody Tells You About an $8 Billion Acquisition

SaaStr

Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO Ryan Smith sits down with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. Here’s what Jason and Ryan talk about: Why did Qualtrics turn down a $500M acquisition offer in 2012? Missed the session? Ryan Smith: Probably 11 or 12.

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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join Qualtrics Co-Founder and CEO alongside SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin as Ryan reflects on the survey software maker’s acquisition by SAP this year. Ryan Smith: The backstory here is we turned down an acquisition offer for $500 million in 2012. So an $8 billion acquisition is equivalent to how big of an IPO?

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SaaStr’s Podcast “Best Of Guide” Our Top 10 Podcasts of All Time

SaaStr

About the episode: Mark Suster is Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures which he joined in 2007, having previously worked with Upfront for nearly 8 years as a two-time entrepreneur. Before joining Upfront Mark was Vice President, Product Management at Salesforce.com following its acquisition of Koral, where Mark was Founder and CEO.

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8 Tough Lessons from Closing 12,000 Customers at WebPT (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

When we actually did our market research, we found that 80% of physical therapists were still using and documenting on pen and paper back in 2007. Venture capital always finds you, even when you’re in Phoenix. Light bulb goes off and we understood that the problem I was having was actually ubiquitous within the industry.

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How Clio grew from a lifestyle business to a legal tech juggernaut

Point Nine Land

For Jack Newton and Rian Gauvreau, the lightbulb moment that led to the creation of Clio came out of a casual conversation they had in 2007 with the director of practice standards at the Law Society of British Columbia, an organization that can be compared in function to the National Bar Association in the U.S. Again, this was 2007.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Brian, why don’t you give a quick little overview of Bigfoot Capital? The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 .

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