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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. And no, this gatherng was not triggered by the current crisis but, needless to mention, we did spend some time mingling about the “bad old tmes” of the post Sept.

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The growing dissonance between two business models (SaaS and VC)

The Angel VC

In our weekly investment team call earlier this week we decided to pass on two early-stage SaaS startups that were both on track to grow from zero to $100k in MRR in their first 12 months of going live. As Clément said, this is not about good or bad. Not yet convinced that you shouldn’t raise venture capital? :) Let us know !

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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. And no, this gatherng was not triggered by the current crisis but, needless to mention, we did spend some time mingling about the “bad old tmes” of the post Sept.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. In 2010, he founded Influitive, which helps B2B companies employ brand advocates for faster growth and development. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport.

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Lessons From Downturns & Turnarounds with Chris O’Neill (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. And what’s the best case?

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How to Retain Employees For 10+ Years with Alf Ruppert

FastSpring

Our former Director of Content and Community spoke to Alf about managing a happy team, how he’s grown his company without external funding, the history of developing in the Mac ecosystem, and running a consulting and software business. Like the iPhone is 2008. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development.

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

SaaStr

Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP. That happens in venture capital, and that’s happening right now. Every venture capitalist is stress testing his or her own portfolio. They don’t want to p**s off management teams that face dilution from down rounds.