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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Emilie Maret | Fellowship Team @ The Family. Want to see more content like this?

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Taking a $4B Company from Consumer to B2B with Pluralsight (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

What sets apart some of the most successful, high-growth companies we see today—Slack, Dropbox, Atlassian—has been their ability to tap into and master a new GTM strategy: B2C2B. And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today. Then something really interesting happened.

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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

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Before starting his own venture, Lenny worked in the product and engineering teams of companies like Airbnb and Neustar. Renowned for his tenure on Airbnb’s product team, Lenny’s professional journey truly began in 2010 when he served as the CEO of a budding startup named “Localmind.”

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2021 in conversation: Learnings from the podcast

Intercom, Inc.

With that in mind, before we welcome the new year and all the good things to come, we’ve gathered our favorite insights and nuggets of wisdom from 2021 in a special wrap-up episode. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective.

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

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Frida Ahrenby : “I started out in sales in the TelCo industry, I started from working in one of the biggest TelCo providers in the Nordics, moving on to product management, then business development, and then a role in marketing and sales again. My official title was the ‘COO’ but on Fridays, I made pancakes for the developers.

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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. Don't fret, we just bought out our investors and took on some debt.

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. Sameer joined the company in 2010, when Citrix acquired VMLogix, where he served as CEO and doubled revenues during each year of his tenure. How do they distinguish between culture and values?