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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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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. One of the largest point of sale services in the world, platforms in the world. We took a million dollars in at that point and turned that million dollars into 17 in two years.

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

SaaStr

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. I also want to break a lot of the stigma. Way too early, it all failed.