Sales Hacker
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
Typically this occurs through a funding round that helps foot the bill for things like payroll, research and development, and endless La Croixs (we’ll discuss the various stages of a funding round shortly). Venture capitalists invest in startups because they believe in the founder(s) and their vision. What Happens Once They Raise Funding?
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
At Twilio, I think my entire job there my first two years was throwing t-shirts at people, because everyone had a Twilio t-shirt I think in the developer community in 2010, and that was our marketing strategy. Your sales team becomes more efficient, your customer success team becomes efficient, your customers like you more.
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SaaStr
APRIL 16, 2023
And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! We started development in early 2004. Android followed after, and that really, late 2009, early 2010, that suddenly changed.
Sales Hacker
APRIL 22, 2019
The importance of due diligence in company selection. Showpad’s all-in-one platform empowers sales and marketing teams to engage buyers through industry leading training and coaching software and innovative content and engagement solutions. He spent eight and a half years at IntraLinks and helped them IPO in 2010.
Andreessen Horowitz
JANUARY 17, 2024
They know there’s 5 individuals with semi-automatic weapons in the car, SWAT team responds, and those people are now in jail. And once I have done that, I’ve been doing that since 2010. And within under an hour, that car gets off the highway, and Palo Alto—who’s also a Flock customer—they get an alert.
Teamgate
JANUARY 14, 2019
I was planning to become a war correspondent, as was my role model and inspiration Anna Politkovskaya , but when the time came and I was invited to join a group of journalists from a very reputable broadcasting team to go to Palestine in 2010, when I was still at university, unfortunately, I had to reconsider my life choices.
SaaSOptics
AUGUST 16, 2018
Hear tips on how to find and target the right investors and what to expect from negotiations and due diligence. Ari is a partner of Techstars on the ventures team and has been a VC for about five years and has more than a decade of experience as an entrepreneur. We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ.
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