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Product-Market Fit in Different Capital Environments

Tom Tunguz

When I asked him what he meant, he replied because capital was so plentiful and accessible today, he hired more expensive people, spent more time developing a product, and invested with a longer time horizon before demonstrating evidence of success. In 2008, tightfistedness dominated the market.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

Before getting into the investment world, she started and sold two successful companies in edutainment, and made a prominent name in the tech field around the world. At the beginning of 2019, she became an ambassador of Moxie Future, an initiative for women investors that facilitates investment in a responsible and sustainable future.

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PPC or SEO? Which Is the Best Bet for a SaaS Company? ?[Infographic]

Kraftblick

SEO, in turn, will provide your business with better potential return on investment as it is essentially free. How Can Kraftblick Help Your Software Company? Selina is a perfect solution for you to start with zero investments. Is SEO a good investment? Well, we don’t live in 2008 anymore. More about that here.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week: May 24, 2019

SaaStr

235: Andrew Filev is the Founder & CEO @ Wrike, the cloud based collaboration and project management software that scales across teams in any business. In Dec 2008, Vista Equity Partners acquired a majority stake in Wrike for a deal reportedly valuing the company at $800m. What are the benefits of starting in SMB?

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Mental Models to Help You Grow

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

The lesson here is to view your products in terms of S Curves and ensure you’re investing in your next greatest hit. Horizons Framework Another innovation model is the Horizons Framework developed by McKinsey. Agile Agile software development has been such a success that people now apply the “agile” moniker to a broad range of areas.

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

SaaStr

Stewart : If we had started in 2008, your question before, we would not have taken off like this, for a number of other reasons. Stewart, totally disabuse me if I get it wrong, but notwithstanding all the blue chip logos you have, you’ve got a very core software development, project management core. It was just harder.

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Twilio: The First $100m+ ARR with Jeff Lawson, CEO/Co Founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Twilio is a cloud communications platform that allows software developers to embed communications into the apps that they’re building. Jeff : It’s interesting because I’ve made a blind faith, I had for many years made a blind faith investment in sales. Jeff : Yeah, I saw one. Jason : You saw one?

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