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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Jennifer Tejada: Another example we’ve seen plenty of in our customer world is this expedition of cloud migration. So, we’re now seeing customers that are reinventing, reinvigorating the customer journey, leveraging the cloud as an automation platform for that. I think this is one of the great case studies, right?

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

SaaStr

#4: Upfront Ventures Partner Mark Suster on The One Thing That Kills Sales. 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. Episode No. Episode No. Episode No.

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Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine’s Founder CEO (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’ve convinced more than a thousand great big companies to put their financial data into our private cloud. In fact, one of our decisions in 2007, we had to decide, are we going to sell SaaS or are we going to be an on?prem Venture capitals are playing a numbers game. Transcript: [background music].

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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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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. It’s amazing what the efficiencies and the low costs of the cloud can allow you to do as far as industry specialization. We might have stumbled onto something here.

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

Sales Hacker

He then founded Tellme Networks, sold that in 2007 for $900 million to Microsoft. Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital, but has over 20 years of operational experience. Angus Davis: Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm.

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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So it’s a good number, especially unique for cloud companies. So there’s a lot of kind of, I don’t know, dogma in venture capital. Split payment settlement directly to the artist, beautiful, but this was in 2007, the year Spotify just started. It’s very inspiring for me.