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Instacart

Andreessen Horowitz

We pulled from my prior marketplaces experience and dove into their business quickly to develop a point-of-view on the opportunity. The more I got exposed to the details behind the Instacart business, the more it reminded me of OpenTable (where I had been CEO from 2007-2011). It was April 2014, and the company was raising its Series B.

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Miro’s Andrey Khusid on the art of distributed teamwork

Intercom, Inc.

Here are five quick takeaways: In 2011, Forbes Magazine called RealtimeBoard (Miro’s previous iteration) “a virtual whiteboard on steroids” We chatted to Andrey about this description to see if the shoe still fits today. Andrey explains why embracing the professional services sector in a unique way has paid dividends.

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Best Business Process Management Software

Neil Patel

Leadership can leverage your BPM platform to track tons of useful data for measuring productivity, forecasting costs, and further refining processes. Other helpful features include: Reporting dashboards Native integration with Slack and GitHub API access Self-service portals and forms SLA and deadline tracking.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

He dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business and then co-founded LeaseExchange, an online marketplace for equipment leasing. In 2016, André joined Superlógica Tecnologias, a management system designed to service small businesses with a recurring revenue model. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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How Ecosystem-Led Growth Unlocks the Next Generation of GTM

Andreessen Horowitz

A great way to look at this is through the lens of buyer psychology and the way that products and services get procured in the modern market. People are not buying technology products and services in isolation anymore. But the wins that actually happen, they happen due to the work of sales leadership and sales people.

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“From Hackathon to Unicorn” Talkdesk Co-Founder Tiago Paiva and SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

In 2011, Tiago Paiva won a Twilio hackathon by embracing the overlooked call center industry. You were founded in 2011. But I had forgotten it was in July 2011. Tell folks what Talkdesk is today, and why Contact Center’s a big space, and is that the same as 2011? Everything needs to be done right now.

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SaaStr Podcast #398 with Salsify Co-Founder & CMO Rob Gonzalez

SaaStr

Both of us and our third co-founder, Jason Purcell, were at a company called Endeca, which was a search engine for e-commerce, exited to Oracle for over a billion dollars in 2011. And there’s a lot of benefit to running a software as a service, in general. You might sell it through Facebook marketplace.