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10 Tips to Fundraising in The Tumultuous Times of 2023

SaaStr

You can see here multiples are touching the lows of early 2016 and are even lower than 2015 and those early days of SaaS. Reference other great investments they’ve made, and why they are similar. Another month of progress, another set of new customers, etc. Share up front why your first CTO left. Share lots of details.

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JFrog IPO: Lessons For Entrepreneurs

SaaStr

Our journey with JFrog started back in November 2015 when I first met CEO and co-founder Shlomi Ben Haim and the JFrog team,” said Jai Das, who is the president and managing director at Sapphire Ventures , which participated in the $50 million Series C investment. “One In fact, there is currently no field sales organization!

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

Before getting into the investment world, she started and sold two successful companies in edutainment, and made a prominent name in the tech field around the world. After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. in 2015, she made a move to the other side and left banking.

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

SaaStr

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. For instance, my first rep from Marketo, he was the first rep at Marketo in New York. The peak of your day starts around 3:00PM because that’s when New York wakes up.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

SaaStr

Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. This was in early 2015. And so, when someone’s walking in the door at a new company, so let’s use Loom as an example, they need to learn how to be a Loommate.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. We need to hire this new head of sales, who’s going to come in and change the way that we’re going to market. Yep, we did that.

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The Future of Work: Announcing a New Strategic Partnership with Dropbox

BetterCloud

As part of this partnership, Dropbox has made a $5 million investment in BetterCloud. Later this year, Dropbox will offer their customers a new solution called BetterCloud for Dropbox, allowing businesses to enforce custom security policies, scan content for sensitive data, and automate critical processes. SaaS adoption is taking off.

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