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Introducing Talent x Opportunity Spring ‘24 Cohort

Andreessen Horowitz

Like the startups in our portfolio, TxO is constantly evolving to ensure we’re meeting the needs of our founders. The trio eventually joined forces to found Outing , a social marketplace where users can discover, book, and plan group outings. His career began in advertising, but the 2008 recession prompted him to shift to radiology.

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The Metric that Matters for Startups in 2016

Tom Tunguz

2015 is the end of an era, the era of startup growth at any cost. ” This change in investor mentality is catalyzed by the increasing cost of startup capital. Starting in 2014, and perhaps even a bit before, startups have been able to raise capital at better terms than at any time since 2000. Crunchbase tallies $10.1B

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

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He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. In 2016, André joined Superlógica Tecnologias, a management system designed to service small businesses with a recurring revenue model. Aaron Ross is a name many would be familiar with.

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Top 8 SaaS Development Companies in 2024

How To Buy Saas

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is one of the transformative services in the modern digital landscape. If you think about catching up with one of the biggest tech trends in recent years, this list will provide you with IT service providers working in different industries, with different tech stacks, and from different countries.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Tidelift and Cloudflare

SaaStr

Did a lot of consulting for high tech startups, I really love the startup space. So, our products and services are around how can we help companies utilize open source more effectively, more securely, more responsibly, as well as contribute. Then, I went into sales school, Xerox sales school. Keep it, keep, keep, keep it.

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5 Key Steps to Evolving Your Offering Into a Platform with Eventbrite and Stripe (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

A lot of startups out there tend to define themselves as startups who aspire to become a platform, and it’s quite nebulous to define. Like, how can we provide economic infrastructure for developers to build applications and services and in a weird way, future proof? Right, Renaud? Let’s start with our five key steps.

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How Clio grew from a lifestyle business to a legal tech juggernaut

Point Nine Land

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.