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Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)

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I’ve been in venture capital for about 20 years, made my first SaaS investment about 18 years ago and have really been focused on this space for a long time. I work at a firm called Shasta Ventures. They pioneered things like content marketing, thought leadership. I’ll just do a quick introduction.

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

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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. We might have stumbled onto something here. So we launched the company in February of 2008.

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