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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

Stream the full interview below or find it wherever you listen to podcasts. Full Interview: Audio-Only Full Interview: Video Transcript Nathan Collier Hey y’all. But I mean, if you go back to 2006 2007 2008 like that, yeah, that was just not a thing that people did. Thanks for joining me today. Alf Ruppert Yes.

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Venture capitalist Harry Stebbings on getting into venture

Intercom, Inc.

What the soon-to-be podcast host and venture capitalist calls to mind is a somewhat forgettable scene where Peter Thiel becomes Facebook’s first major investor. It was the first time Harry came across venture capital, and, he tells us, he was instantly hooked. There’s no right way to do venture. Delighted to have you.

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PODCAST 98: The Importance of Product-Led Growth and Focus For A Startup w/ Blake Bartlett

Sales Hacker

Blake is a partner at one of the most well known SaaS venture capital firms in the world, OpenView Venture Partners, based in Boston. He’s been a VC since 2007, and prior to OpenView was at Battery Ventures, where he invested in companies like Glassdoor, Wayfair and Optimizely. Sam’s Corner [40:37].

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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We started the business in 2007. We raised $0 of venture capital. ” Now, seven years later, SalesLoft has over 400 employees, has raised over $75 million of venture capital, and in the next two years, if not sooner, my prediction is that they will be a unicorn that you’ll be able to read about on Tech Crunch.

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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. About Angus Davis & Foundation Capital [1:45]. It was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for about 900 million.

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

SaaStr

And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. Ryan Smith: So the first media interview or press release we did, we said, “Hey, we’re raising a series A round, and Julie Bort from Business Insider got on the phone and was like, “How old are you? Jason Lemkin: Oh, I see.