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Going Big in Venture Capital

SaaStr

years ago in the first few months of SaaStr.com, in November 2012. Back then, folks all over Twitter were making fun of Sequoia for investing $20m+ in an iOS app that never launched and failed. Now, to a small fund, or a new VC, I’d think a $14m loss would just be awful. So the original post below I wrote a full 10 (!)

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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

Buffer Resources

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Looking ahead at our future investments When we look ahead to future years, we anticipate that employee expenses will continue to make up the majority of our Operating Costs. We also plan to continue to invest in paid marketing.

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And we’re also pleased, now to have almost a hundred thousand different SaaS products listed there, and being backed by a hundred million dollars from LinkedIn and some great investors that do allow us to keep investing in this marketplace. And companies in general, are also right now, investing more in software and digital.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

Making the bottom-up shift: You are shifting from the top-down to a bottom-up mindset, which means more money and time to invest in R&D efforts. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Before getting started with PLG, you need to make sure that.

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MongoDB’s Playbook for Breaking Into and Dominating a Market

OpenView Labs

I think there was a month in 2011 or 2012 where we did more events than there were days in the month,” Francesca recalled. She points to full investment from the founders as a critical part of the company’s DevRel success. We determined early on that social proof was the most effective tool we had. It was our super power.”. “I

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Q&A with Maria Pergolino, Anthony Kennada, Aaron Ross and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And at some point between year 2012 and 20 of the bull run, there may not be as good as it is today. Maria : Yeah, I think, coming from a marketing side and thinking about that as a marketer, marketing is all about investments. And notice that I said investments, not cost or spend. Any thoughts? I mean, literally.

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Founder’s Guide to Scaling Applications: When to Build, When to Buy and What Breaks by Algolia Co-founder (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We founded the company 2012 in Paris. People were investing a lot of time to have good performance, but they were not reaching a good enough results. Even if we decided to use bare-metal infrastructure, even if we decided to do everything ourself, we did try to lower our investment as much as possible. One thing solved.

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