SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

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. We saw this opportunity to grow faster, but we needed capital. We might have stumbled onto something here.

Scale 167

Scale SMB VP of Engineering Leadership 167

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve been in venture capital for about 20 years, made my first SaaS investment about 18 years ago and have really been focused on this space for a long time. I work at a firm called Shasta Ventures. And so we funded it in 2006 that full product didn’t come out until 2008. My name’s Doug Pepper.

SaaS 140

SaaS Sales Hiring Scale Innovation 140

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

To date, Amit has raised $68m in funding for Gong from the likes of Norwest, Battery Ventures, Cisco Investments, and Wing Venture Capital, just to name a few. To date, Amit has raised $68 million in funding for Gong from the likes of Norwest, Battery Ventures, Cisco Investments, and Wing Venture Capital, just to name a few.

Outsourced Development 130

Outsourced Development Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Scale 130

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Leadership Principles from the Pizza Industry [36:37]. Ilir Sela: It was around 2008, 2009, I started getting a lot of these family and friends that were asking for some help in terms of websites and online ordering. Leadership Principles from the Pizza Industry. The Magnitude of an American Staple [11:28]. Sam’s Corner [43:54].

Scale 63

Scale Scaling Venture Capital Interviewing 63

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In 2008 when [practice management] products came out, many in the legal profession had never even heard of the cloud and, among those who had, the general consensus was that using the cloud was certainly dangerous, perhaps irresponsible, and maybe even heretical,” explained legal journalist Robert Ambrogi in a recent article.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Scale Sales Hiring Business 40

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

A discussion about venture capital and the effects Covid-19 has had on in the industry. Join Nicole Quinn, General Partner at Lightspeed Ventures, Ann Miura-Ko, Founding Partner at Floodgate, and Alex Konrad, Senior Editor at Forbes as they talk about what they have seen in the industry lately and how they are moving forward.

Venture Capital 213

Venture Capital Investment Travel Marketplace as a Service 213

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I was on a board with John Doerr a while ago, you know, the legend of venture capital, he modeled 6% dilution a year. And for all intents and purposes, the founders alone maintained almost the majority of the company, put together the rest of the employee board, the team owned the majority of this company, right?

Acquisition 125

Acquisition Sales Recruiting Scale Sales Hiring 125

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Michelle : During the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. And at the end of the day, that’s a leadership decision from founders of saying, “What kind of place do we want this to be for people to work?” You need to hire a leadership team that’s better than you in everything you do.

Sales Hiring 163

Sales Hiring Outsourcing Services Scale Sales Recruiting 163

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

Portag3 Ventures Partner Chris O’Neill discusses leadership and teamwork lessons he’s picked up in his career through a hobby and a metaphor of sailing. Chris O’Neill | Partner @ Portag3 Ventures. So over the course of those 20 or so odd years in technology leadership roles.

Scale 236

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Leadership 236

SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

And this goes back to ten years ago, which was 2008 and we released the ten laws of cloud computing at a CEO conference that we had that was meaningfully smaller than this. Last year was a record in terms of total combined capital by a large multiple. In fact, 2015 was the prior record, 2018 was over twice that.

Cloud 164

Cloud Scale Finance Retention 164