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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

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Your core models for sales, for marketing spend, for hiring and engineering and product. And I get a call on my phone from our bank, Citibank, Greg, my banker, for years through 2008, like, “Greg, how you doing? Where am I going to wire out half of my 8 million a venture capital? More likely than not, but barely.

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

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How does Bob think about when is the right time to hire a Head of Partnerships? Where do most startups go wrong both in hiring for partnerships and in the engagements themselves? 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.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

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Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M