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Disrupting the Desk Phone: How and Why We Made a $50M Acquisition with Dialpad (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

With one startup acquired by Yahoo in 2005, another acquired by Google in 2007 and a background as an M&A lawyer, Craig’s perspective on M&A is insightful for any startup founder looking to acquire another company. You then started another voice company, which was acquired by Google in 2007. Jessica Lin : Awesome.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

It was early 2007 the iPhone was announced. There’s a vendor review approval process, and a security policy analyst, and their in house counsel wants to mark up the TOS. The first week that I was there, we started building a product management team. That led to product marketing and other functions along the way.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 17, 2019

SaaStr

But two other software engineers, building [inaudible 00:04:24] that was kind of a time and expense software system. And that’s how we were able to then survive from 2002 til about 2007, when the cloud market finally took off. And so that was my first. Godard Abel: No. And so I really don’t like that philosophy.

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Moving From Mid-Market to Enterprise {Part 1} – Product and Market Readiness

Sales Hacker

We recommend you work cross-functionally with the executive team to cover the three most crucial product readiness elements described below. 1) Product Market Fit Assumptions – The problem you solve may not be relevant in the Enterprise market. Embedding your system into a workflow. 3) Market Readiness.

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

SaaSOptics

Hear tips on how to find and target the right investors and what to expect from negotiations and due diligence. Ari is an alum of Techstars’ first class in 2007 with Filtrbox, which was acquired by Jive Software in 2010. We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. Tim, thank you for being here.

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

SaaSOptics

Hear tips on how to find and target the right investors and what to expect from negotiations and due diligence. Ari is an alum of Techstars’ first class in 2007 with Filtrbox, which was acquired by Jive Software in 2010. We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. Tim, thank you for being here.

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

SaaSOptics

Hear tips on how to find and target the right investors and what to expect from negotiations and due diligence. Ari is an alum of Techstars’ first class in 2007 with Filtrbox, which was acquired by Jive Software in 2010. We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. Tim, thank you for being here.

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