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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

From Facebook to Microsoft, there is a massive trend to seek out tiny teams of five or less, buy them, and use the technology and talent to gain a competitive edge. Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. The solution?

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’ve been doing these SaaStr events since 2015, the SaaStr Annual. It sounds minor or technical, but if you want to due diligence on a human being, I get to do it a few 100 times a year. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. Sorry, I’ll come back to this. This is just a funny story.

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Flow’s Daniel Scrivner on the brave new world of asynchronous productivity tools

Intercom, Inc.

As the CEO of Flow , a flexible project management app for teams, Daniel is working to create a productivity tool that defies conventional metrics, meaning that it simply allows you to get your most important work done without monopolizing the time you spend in the software itself. billion in 2015.

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Selling into Startups 101: What You Need to Know to Find a Unicorn

Sales Hacker

According to Crunchbase data, 95,000+ companies have received funding (globally) from 2015-present, totaling $1.3+ Typically this occurs through a funding round that helps foot the bill for things like payroll, research and development, and endless La Croixs (we’ll discuss the various stages of a funding round shortly).

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Want to Increase Productivity? Go Remote.

OpenView Labs

million in 2015). As the company’s first marketing hire, it was my responsibility to build out the marketing strategy and team from scratch. Perhaps just as important as being the first marketing hire, I was also the first remote member of Trello’s executive team. Today, my team is distributed all across the U.S.,

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Back at the first SaaStr Annual, in February 2015, we kicked off the day with Aaron Levie from Box — who had just IPO’d a week or so before. We started development in early 2004. Can you get to $100 million without a sales team, do you think? Stewart : No, and I… Jason : I’ll say you have no sales team.

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170+ Women in Sales Share Their Career-Defining Aha Moment

Sales Hacker

I had never quit a job before unless it was due to a promotion or a better opportunity. Founded Why Sales Network, a global sales training company to provide valuable content to develop the next generation of leaders. Invest in your development internally and externally. Your career is what you make of it. Joyce Johnson.

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