OpenView Labs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

In some cases it can create the tipping point that not only helps a startup overcome big marketing challenges, but can even steal action away from big-name incumbents. I think there was a month in 2011 or 2012 where we did more events than there were days in the month,” Francesca recalled. It was our super power.”. “I

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SaaStr

JANUARY 28, 2020

And then I’ve watched, since she made this comment to me about 13 months ago, then I’ve watched with some startups I’ve worked with, where the first marketing hire comes in, and I asked them what their top five priorities are, and then I asked the CEO. And I remember being at that Dreamforce in 2009, which was awful.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 17, 2019

We founded the company 2012 in Paris. Today, there is way more variety of hardware on cloud provider when it was a case in 2012. And we were using a solution from Amazon AWS… We had one big issue first, which was a number of regions they were supporting were not the same vendors. So today we are a distributed team.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2022

A few can, Andreessen and maybe Sequoia, but 99% of the VCs you meet, legally, they can only invest in startups, whether they’re late stage or early stage. Don’t wish that you ran a hotter startup. I’m going to get the numbers wrong, I think Amazon has 10,000 open positions out in AWS. Don’t move on.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

And those of us and those of you who are involved in these companies, even the successful ones look an awful lot more like this. Responses was acquired by Oracle, Neolane was acquired by Adobe all in 2012 and 2013. Challenges, mistakes, problems, surprises, every step of the way. And it’s the reaction to those problems.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

We’re excited to have on the show today, a luminary and one of the most dynamic tech startup CEOs out there, and the CEO and co-founder of a company called QuotaPath. So this is his second startup. I actually began my startup career in Austin. We went through an accelerator and almost got our startup MBA.

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