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10 Tips to Fundraising in The Tumultuous Times of 2023

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You can see here multiples are touching the lows of early 2016 and are even lower than 2015 and those early days of SaaS. Don’t use “quarterly MRR”or other weird metrics. Another month of progress, another set of new customers, etc. Share up front why your first CTO left. Generic cold outreach will fail. #4.

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JFrog IPO: Lessons For Entrepreneurs

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“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 But even more appealing was the product vision the founders outlined.

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SaaStr Podcast #403 with Loom VP of Sales Sam Taylor

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Are marketing becoming the new sales team with their content being used more and more in the sales funnel? She kicked my butt in every metric you could possibly imagine. Bret was formerly the CTO at Facebook. This was in early 2015. How do you get a distributed workforce unified on the mission, the message, the metrics?

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

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Before that Bob co-founded RJ Metrics, where he built a global base of online retailers leading to their acquisition by Magento Commerce in 2016. What were the core mistakes that he made with RJ Metrics? And that led me to co-founding a company called RJ Metrics in 2008 with my co-founder Jake Stein, who was also at Insight.