SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We started the business in 2007. We raised $0 of venture capital. Let’s be 50/50 co-founders and let’s start a company in the sales space.” The third company I want to talk about is Calendly. So too often entrepreneurs come to me and they say, “David, we want to go raise venture capital.”

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Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

2007: 48 customers. 2007: 15 employees. 2007:$255,000. Of course, it’s important to note that HubSpot raised a significant amount of capital in their first five years. Venture capital allowed HubSpot to prioritize expansion over profitability, helping them achieve explosive growth. . 2008: 317 customers.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

Nathan Collier I remember when that was happening because I was I was working at a company right around, you know, or 2010 around that time when that whole like making calls out of your computer tied to a CRM that was pretty new during I mean even I mean, that was after it had already been on the market. Like the way that we do it.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

And one of the things I love about this story is this is a Dutch company, I don’t know if anybody wakes up saying you can build a great enterprise company outside of Silicon Valley, that’s outside of the US. So there’s a lot of kind of, I don’t know, dogma in venture capital.

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