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 132

Outsourced Development Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Scale 132

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

To date Gainsight have raised over $156m from some of the world’s best VCs in the form of Lightspeed, Bessemer, Insight Venture Partners, Battery Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. I eventually ran another Saas company which I ran and then sold. We actually almost went public.

Sales Hiring 114

Sales Hiring Customer Success Scale Sales Recruiting 114

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

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. Sam Jacobs: So let’s focus on how you pitch, do they have to pay a subscription? The Magnitude of an American Staple. Why Slice Won’t Push New Technology.

Scale 63

Scale Scaling Venture Capital Interviewing 63

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

David Skok: You asked a great question there and it’s sort of a problem that I helped create because I was one of the very first people back in 2008 that wrote about unit economics and got everybody excited about the importance of them and why they should be thinking about them. Jason Lemkin: [crosstalk 00:16:03] behind the paywall.

Scale 189

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 189

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 216

Venture Capital Investment Travel Marketplace as a Service 216

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

A few days ago I had lunch with some friends, all of them softare and Venture Capital veterans, who I all know from the early days of the 21st century. Listen to those who have gone through the mega crises of 2001 and 2008 as entrepreneurs or investors. Better a paused subscription than a churned subscription.

Underperforming Technical Team 94

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 94

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 12, 2020

A few days ago I had lunch with some friends, all of them softare and Venture Capital veterans, who I all know from the early days of the 21st century. Listen to those who have gone through the mega crises of 2001 and 2008 as entrepreneurs or investors. Better a paused subscription than a churned subscription.

Underperforming Technical Team 52

Underperforming Technical Team Payment Solutions Payment Methods Venture Capital 52

ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

Bundled service providers like AOL have phased out and cloud-based subscription services are enjoying their time in the sun. We’ve got words like subscription, ad supported, license, and ASP, that are well understood. Fast forward to the mid-aughts. Dyson's projections prove accurate, and the web is saturated with free content.

Pricing 41

Pricing Business Model Cloud Venture Capital 41

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

I have seen my fair share of storms and or crises from the early days of the dot-com boom and bust to 2008, 2009 crisis and then having a front-row seat at some of these turnarounds that iconic brands like Evernote, and more recently on the board at Gap which is undergoing its own transformation.

Scale 244

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Leadership 244