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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. You then started another voice company, which was acquired by Google in 2007. I joined actually as a COO.,

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Founder Interview: Gaurav Bhattacharya. Co-founder and CEO, InvolveSoft

Mucker Capital

The first, launched in India in 2007 while they were teenagers, created radiology software that helped fight female foeticide. Salesforce has the cloud platform, and there are enterprise marketing platforms, but there’s no bracket you can put this in.’ She got really mad.”. But he managed to smooth things over.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with B Capital Group and Bessemer Venture Partners — February 7, 2020

SaaStr

Plus, from 2007 until 2013, Karen ran all of Box’s business development, partnership, and strategic alliance activities. Ep 306: Join Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara as he takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Karen.

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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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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

We’ve got an interview with Angus Davis. He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. Now, without further ado, let’s listen to this interview with Angus Davis. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for about 900 million. Outreach has your back.

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

SaaStr

It’s going to change how everyone thinks about cloud and SaaS for ever. And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. For the first 10 years when we didn’t do one media interview and we got to 50 million in sales. Not one media interview, not one press release.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 17, 2019

SaaStr

Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Godard Abel. And that’s how we were able to then survive from 2002 til about 2007, when the cloud market finally took off. If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin.

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