SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

As we first looked at bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia and considered what help we could offer, we thought about localization and know-how about legal and cultural differences as some of the critical success factors. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed. Founded: 2012. Click Ventures.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 6, 2019

A few tips to unlock virality and maintain low CACs at scale At Point Nine, we’ve been fortunate enough to invest in about half a dozen companies building products that are intrinsically viral (or have a built-in growth mechanism in their product). grow exponentially) while not spending more on acquiring customers. How do they do that?

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When it comes to launching sales teams in hyper-growth startups, few people have walked the walk as much as Maggie Hott. She “stumbled” into it, as she told us, first as one of the earliest sales hires of Eventbrite, where she stayed for four years, and then into Slack in early 2015 as the first sales rep in the Bay Area.

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Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

In 2012, they launched an inbound marketing conference that was fittingly named Inbound. Over the years, HubSpot continued pouring money into inbound marketing, and as a result, they now have an incredible lead generation system. Image source). It is now recognized as one of the most important online marketing events in the world.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

We’ve gathered LatAm’s leading SaaS founders, executives, and investors – as well as a few international faces – for an unbeatable few days of knowledge and networking. He is leading DGF Investimentos’ specialized early-stage investment group – DGF Inova. Talk: Scaling & Exiting: Dreams, Designs & Dramas.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

Sam : We funded all three of these companies in our Winter 2012 batch. Then trying to maintain that as we scale is always the challenge. You’re in the valley, you raise venture capital. Josh : I made probably the first 50, 60 offers in the company personally, and that does not scale. How do you hire?”

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Neil Patel

MARCH 1, 2021

In the past, if you wanted to raise funds through members of the public, then you would need to find a venture capitalist or angel investor (people with a net worth of at least $1 million, or with an annual income of at least $200k). JOBS Act 2012. This was nothing compared to the $20 million they would raise just two years later.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We sold the business in 2012. We raised $0 of venture capital. SalesLoft, why was that Pardot, I tried to recruit this guy, Kyle Porter, to come run sales at Pardot. Let’s be 50/50 co-founders and let’s start a company in the sales space.” From a product point of view, our timing was impeccable.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2020

Anna Talerico, Arthur Ventures Anna ( @annatalerico ) is an Operating Partner at Arthur Ventures , an early growth capital firm that leads investments in B2B software companies located outside Silicon Valley. Godard Abel, G2 Godard ( @godardabel )is CEO of G2 , a business software review website he co-founded in 2012.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

When Aileen founded Cowboy Ventures in 2012… Aileen Lee: 12, yep. Jason Lemkin: 2012. On either a scale of 1 to 10 or a percentage basis, where is seed investment? But folks that come out of the traditional folks where we poach… I mean, once you scale, you want to hire someone to set up [inaudible 00:31:06].

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Why press isn’t something he stressed when scaling and neither should you. Ryan Smith: The backstory here is we turned down an acquisition offer for $500 million in 2012. And we were about a $50 million sales run rate, but I’d never done a media interview. Ryan Smith: 500 million in sales. Think about that.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. And how do you hack it? This episode is sponsored by Outgrow. Jason Lemkin: Crazy.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve been in venture capital for about 20 years, made my first SaaS investment about 18 years ago and have really been focused on this space for a long time. I work at a firm called Shasta Ventures. .” And Marketo very, very early on had to make a very significant team change in our first VP of sales.

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SaaStr

MARCH 11, 2019

Here’s what Jason and Ryan talk about: Why did Qualtrics turn down a $500M acquisition offer in 2012? Capital efficiency (and dilution). We had to go through and stand this up in an efficient way that worked in scale. Ryan Smith: 500 million in sales. Jason Lemkin: Oh, since 2012. Missed the session?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

We focus on Series A, and we only make a small number of investments, probably four or five a year, precisely because like to work very closely with the companies that we invest into to really help you scale out of Europe. I work with Dawn Capital. You can really deploy and grow and hypergrowth and start really scaling up the company.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder. Brian, why don’t you give a quick little overview of Bigfoot Capital? They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder. Brian, why don’t you give a quick little overview of Bigfoot Capital? They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. Brian’s also an alum of Techstars’ 2012 program with Brandfolder. Brian, why don’t you give a quick little overview of Bigfoot Capital? They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Des: It would sound like you’ve gone from a scale where software companies can’t really get much bigger, and you’ve obviously come all the way down. Karen: So, we’ve talked a little bit about my background and leading up to me joining as COO. And that’s been really fun during the pandemic.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

When we announced a few weeks ago that we would be bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia, and running it in Hong Kong, many locals thanked us for choosing the city. Founded : 2012. Funding to Date : $14M from Rakuten, Enspire Capital, and others. Founded : 2012. from Aura Venture Fund, TNB Aura Fund, and others.

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