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Things That Are Different As A More Experienced Entrepreneur

SaaStr

I’ve also invested in 24+ next-generation SaaS companies, mostly successes, and had a chance to watch and learn from them as well, with a new lens. And paying a little more for a lot more experience can be one of the top investments you’ll ever make. Investing in the Future is Easier. They thought I was crazy.

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7 Secrets to a Successful SMB Go-To-Market Strategy with PayFit Co-Founder and CEO Firmin Zocchetto and Accel Partner Philippe Botteri (Pod 576 + Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2015, PayFit is a software company that empowers entrepreneurs and SMBs to digitize payroll and HR processes. Boterri’s company Accel invested in PayFit in 2017 and again in 2021. As of 2022, Payfit has reached unicorn status –– after raising $289 million in Series E, the company is now valued at $2.1

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Blind co-founder Kyum Kim on the hidden power of anonymity

Intercom, Inc.

The company was originally founded in South Korea and made the move to Silicon Valley in 2015 – it quickly became adopted as a place for employees from the likes of Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and more to discuss the internal culture of their companies. When popular culture breeds company culture.

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How I Built a Successful International Sales Team From the Ground Up

Sales Hacker

When I landed in Dublin in 2015, I was a bright-eyed, bushy-tailed 26-year-old who had severely under-estimated and oversimplified the work in front of me. I was the new Vice President of International Sales & Managing Director for a work management software company called Wrike. A mercenary is driven by the sale.

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Building a sales team that can go from $0-$50M (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So Algolia started out mostly as a inbound long tail company. I looked back at our investment memo, it was a 2K ACV when Jason invested after Y-C. So my first sales hire was beginning of 2015. Series A, early 2015 $18 million and Series B, early 2017. So me, 2014 to end of 2015, I had I think five people.

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PODCAST 121: Lessons From Survival Mode: How to Kickstart Your Business with Matt Rizzetta

Sales Hacker

Under Rizzetta’s leadership, N6A has been ranked as one of the 50 most powerful agencies in the United States by the Observer, PRWeek’s Best Places to Work and the Top Company Cultures in America by Entrepreneur magazine. It’s not 2015. It’s not 2019. Sam Jacobs: Tell us what you mean by compressed time.

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I remember talking to Belgium investors at the time and everybody said, look, enterprise software is dead, there’s no opportunity through investment. Felix : It was a lot easier to invest to convince customers and investors and so we actually, I mean more of a European way of scaling a company.