SaaStr

JULY 11, 2019

What you need to know about this story is that I founded the company back in 2008. In 2008, I founded TaskRabbit. I invest across consumer, B2B SaaS companies, and then also dev tools and infrastructure companies as well. The marketplace was doing well. All right, a good amount of you. We looked at the numbers.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

And he also has the, I don’t know, benefit or dubious distinction, but lived through this before in 2008 and 2009. Matt Garratt: So for those that aren’t familiar with Salesforce Ventures, we are the strategic investment arm for Salesforce. So a lot of lessons that can be taken from there as well. Good to be here.

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Andreessen Horowitz

APRIL 9, 2024

The data revolution in partnerships Sarah Wang: That’s incredibly exciting and definitely part of our investment thesis in investing in Crossbeam. A great way to look at this is through the lens of buyer psychology and the way that products and services get procured in the modern market. And this is my third SaaS company.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 6, 2019

We looked at the world in 2008, 2009, and we said, “How come it’s almost impossible to connect two companies to do business, especially if they have complex business processes, but we can all connect as consumers on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, every single day we want to do business? We can do the private marketplaces.

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User Pilot

JULY 28, 2023

Pros: An explainer video mvp is an engaging way of showing off your product Once you invest the time in making one video, it can be shared many times Cons: Some users prefer hands-on experience to demo videos Survey monkey’s demo video. #6 Dropbox Dropbox began life back in 2008 as a simple four-minute demo video MVP.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

In Today’s Episode We Discuss: * How Karen made her way into the world of SaaS as one of the first employees at Box and then how that led to her transition to the world of investing with B Capital. How does Karen think her mindset will shift when making the move from angel to now institutionally investing with B Capital?

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Both Jack and Rian had tech backgrounds and at the time were providing consulting services to the legal industry. Law practice management software existed, but it required on-premise service and tens of thousands of dollars in annual upkeep, which meant only the big law firms had access to it. Again, this was 2007.

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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

To keep growing at the same growth rate requires a significant investment in the acquisition efforts as depicted in figure 2. Previously they may have only spent $1,000 when buying a SaaS service online. Now the services have matured where buyers are spending 20x in online services is relatively comfortable.

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SaaStr

JULY 26, 2019

She likes to invest across consumer, B2B saas, and technology infrastructure companies at the earliest stages. In 2008 Leah founded TaskRabbit, the leading on-demand service marketplace in the world. Really invest in values and what you stand for. Harry Stebbings: I couldn’t agree more. That’s fine too.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The best products, services, and ideas are nothing without a way to turn them into currency, and sellers are a big part of making commerce happen. Invest in your development internally and externally. Invest in your cross-functional partners. Anne is a principal analyst in the Sales Operations Research Service at Forrester.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 10, 2019

WePay is a payments company for platform businesses like marketplaces, crowdfunding sites & small business software. Chase Merchant Services that we’re now a part of processes $1.2 We had built this amazing team that I wanted to make sure that we continued to sort of grow and invest in and kind of keep the band together.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

We got started in 2008 when we first spotted this sort of new place in investing, which we called seed. At the time, there may be four or five other firms doing this same strategy of investing somewhere between $500,000 and $2 million into companies that were just getting started we would call it pre product market fit.

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OpenView Labs

JUNE 4, 2019

Our culture is fascinated with underdogs and overnight successes— companies, products, or services that seem to rise out of nowhere and completely change their respective industries. But these established companies drive what’s called “sustaining innovations,” which are modifications and improvements on existing services.

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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

We are the world’s most complete and comprehensive instrumentation platform on the marketplace today, that is cloud-based, that is SaaS-based. The company started back in 2007, 2008. And I think it’s especially true of SaaS companies, when you start to think about the fact that everything is a service.

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