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

SaaStr

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 We decided at that point to bite the bullet and say everything we’re going to do, whether it’s how we architect the software, how we go to market, how we actually contract everything is SaaS from here on out.

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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

In enterprise software, it’s all about contracts, long term contracts. 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. That’s important.

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

SaaStr

We wanted to automate research that was being outsourced and then we wanted to take it to the world. And I was like, “Wait, all of you are selling our products that we’re developing?” Our developers want to develop products that everyone’s going to use. ” And that was really why we did this.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. Maybe they’re bootstrapping and have no interest in venture capital. You’ll have the transactions to develop all of those those metrics.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. Maybe they’re bootstrapping and have no interest in venture capital. You’ll have the transactions to develop all of those those metrics.

SaaS 40