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What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024

SaaStr

If you have an Enterprise or sales-led motion with humans onboarding and handholding, that fails in self-serve. I’ve written this at least 80 times since 2012, but I’ll say it again because it’s true. Many folks who are bootstrapped misunderstand how venture capital works. You have to learn it yourself.

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Understanding viral growth in SaaS

Point Nine Land

From online surveys at Typeform in Barcelona in 2012, client-facing documents at Qwilr in Australia in 2016, and collaboration videos at Loom in the US in 2017 to more recent communication videos with Playplay in Paris, we’re big fans of these products (and companies).

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Webflow’s Maggie Hott on building a scaleable sales team from the ground up

Intercom, Inc.

On the side, I do some stuff in the venture capital community, some scouting for a wonderful VC firm, Cowboy Ventures. I’m helping them think through their sales and go-to-market strategy, scouting for Cowboy Ventures, which is one of the best venture capital firms out there with an amazing, amazing team behind it.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

Brian is the Founder and Managing Partner of Bigfoot Capital and Brian has launched three companies of his own over the past eight years, two of which have been venture backed up to series A stage and prior to that, Brian was an investment banker, facilitating growth stage acquisitions totaling more than a half a billion dollars in enterprise value.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

Brian is the Founder and Managing Partner of Bigfoot Capital and Brian has launched three companies of his own over the past eight years, two of which have been venture backed up to series A stage and prior to that, Brian was an investment banker, facilitating growth stage acquisitions totaling more than a half a billion dollars in enterprise value.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

Brian is the Founder and Managing Partner of Bigfoot Capital and Brian has launched three companies of his own over the past eight years, two of which have been venture backed up to series A stage and prior to that, Brian was an investment banker, facilitating growth stage acquisitions totaling more than a half a billion dollars in enterprise value.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

I think there’s this dichotomy that people swing between bootstrapping versus venture capital. We came out of private beta on January 27th, 2012, where we announced that we’d raised a million dollars. Onboarding them in a good, strong way?” We incorporated in San Francisco on August 15th, 2011, I think.