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How SaaStr Built the World’s Largest Community for Business Software with Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

When put front and center, a community can be a great acquisition channel, product feedback mechanism, brand differentiator, retention lever, and growth moat. and Canadian governments provide more than $20 billion in R&D tax credits and innovation incentives to fund businesses. Grab your copy at [link] Each year the U.S.

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

User Pilot

“Localmind” experienced steady growth until Airbnb made an acquisition offer in 2012, which Lenny accepted. Following the acquisition, he transitioned from engineering to the product team , marking a pivotal moment in his career.

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Finding the Next Wave of Growth: S-Curves and Product Sequencing

Casey Accidental

Most companies have a primary acquisition loop that drives this scalable growth, and unfortunately, there aren’t that many acquisition loops that really scale. And you start being able to acquire more of them in a scalable way i.e. an acquisition loop. In fact, they complain more, because they like the product enough to care.

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On Platform Shifts and AI

Casey Accidental

So, today, that means the traditional distribution methods need to carry the distribution of AI innovation. It was when Facebook launched mobile ads four years later in 2012 that apps exploded into multi-billion dollar companies. So nothing can stand the test of time in that space. This is similar to the internet.

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Disrupting the Desk Phone: How and Why We Made a $50M Acquisition with Dialpad (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Thanks so much everyone for joining us for our fireside chat today, disrupting the desk phone: how and why we made a $50 million acquisition. Jessica Lin : So we’ll chat more about analogy, really milk that, and again, you’ll hear, especially throughout this session why this is not really a story about just one acquisition.

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What Does ZoomInfo’s Acquisition of Datanyze Signal to the Sales Industry?

Sales Hacker

In more recent years though, innovative teams have used Datanyze, founded in 2012, as an intelligence layer on top of basic contact information. To many who have used both products, this was a no-brainer and a welcomed acquisition. The post What Does ZoomInfo’s Acquisition of Datanyze Signal to the Sales Industry?

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18 investors fueling Latin America’s SaaS superstars

SaaStock

Another was 2011/2012 where not only were another 5 VC firms started but it’s also when international ones set their eyes on this vast market. Founded: 2012. Monashees Capital is the largest Brazilian VC that makes investments in innovative solutions worldwide, but with a strong focus on Latin America. Size of fund: $130M.