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5 Interesting Learnings from Expensify at $140,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Expensify: Founded in 2008 … 13 years ago. It was just amazing that when iPhone launched, you could now take a picture of receipts and have them somewhat automatically “expensed” A jaw dropping, amazing use of the first generation on mobile apps. A long, tenacious path to $100m ARR, and then … Boom!! *

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

SaaStock

The VC Fresco Capital is based in three key locations: Palo Alto, Hong Kong and Tokyo. It provides funding internationally to remarkable companies with strong human capital. Fresco Capital focuses on businesses developing new solutions in the enterprise, education, infrastructure, healthcare, consumer goods and entertainment.

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Memories of the bad old days

The SaaS Garage

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. 11 and Neuer Markt aera. Approach your customers.

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SaaStr Podcast #343 with Point Nine Capital Managing Partner Christoph Janz

SaaStr

Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011. In 2008 he became an angel investor and discovered Zendesk, Clio, FreeAgent – and his love for SaaS.

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Memories of the bad old days

The SaaS Garage

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. 11 and Neuer Markt aera. Approach your customers.

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Funding in the Time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Mark Suster | Managing Partner @ Upfront Ventures. We woke up February 2020 with a shock to the system and no idea what it would mean for our business. So we had a shock to the system with no idea what it actually meant. Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M TWO ESTABLISHED COMPANIES CHANGE COURSE. in debt to buy out their investors.