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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

Our former Director of Content and Community spoke to Alf about managing a happy team, how he’s grown his company without external funding, the history of developing in the Mac ecosystem, and running a consulting and software business. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development. So I just had this idea.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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

SaaStr

My marketing team wanted me to do the world’s most boring video. 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 Frankly, we got some bad advice from VCs in the early days. Venture capitals are playing a numbers game. prem software company?

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

SaaStr

I grew up in the Netherlands, people in Germany, people are being taught when they’re young to stay away from credit, it’s a bad thing, you want to avoid it. So there’s a lot of kind of, I don’t know, dogma in venture capital. It’s very inspiring for me. I also want to break a lot of the stigma.

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

SaaSOptics

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet.

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

SaaSOptics

He’s seen acquisition of JouleX, when it was bought by Cisco in 2013 for 107 million and he was a member of the founding management team and Vice President of Marketing for Internet Security Systems, where he grew the company from 5 million to over 400 million. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet.

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