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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

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How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company.

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Funding in the Time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (Video + Transcript)

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Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP. The challenges of global supply chains and the global competition for resources, particularly the US, China, but this is really a trend happening everywhere. That happens in venture capital, and that’s happening right now.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

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In terms of replacement, what does Bob believe will be the emerging trends in SaaS Go To Market that will replace it? * And that led me to co-founding a company called RJ Metrics in 2008 with my co-founder Jake Stein, who was also at Insight. We didn’t take our first dollar of outside capital until 2012 for that business.

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8 Tough Lessons from Closing 12,000 Customers at WebPT (Video + Transcript)

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From that point on, we built a product and we launched it in February of 2008 out of a back of a coffee shop with one employee. So we launched the company in February of 2008. We launched the company in 2008. Some compliance factors had added fuel to our fire in terms of more people wanting to adopt.

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