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

SaaStr

Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011. Guru lets your team capture information instantly, wherever it surfaces, Slack, Gmail, Salesforce, Microsoft Outlook and Teams, and more, without ever leaving their workflow. Up today, Christoph Janz, managing partner at Point Nine Capital.

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Selling into Startups 101: What You Need to Know to Find a Unicorn

Sales Hacker

Imagine having the opportunity to sell into a company like Lyft in 2011. Back then, in 2011, Lyft was a small Series-A startup called Zimride with under 50 employees. Seed: This is the initial stage of funding, and is generally used to employ the founding team and begin market research and product development.

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The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 581)

SaaStr

We are post-term sheet moving along diligence. It’s not the investor’s problem if you have an expensive team. I believe you, it’s true, but venture capital is a weird niche thing that… Frankly, venture capital at any stage only wants to invest in folks that are already off to the races.

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