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

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According to Crunchbase data, 95,000+ companies have received funding (globally) from 2015-present, totaling $1.3+ In order to execute on this mission, founders can bootstrap their company, raise outside money ( venture capital is the most popular), or use a combination of both to help build their business.

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

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Years later, he’s got a thriving business that is not venture capital backed. Years later, he’s got a thriving business but one that is not venture capital backed. I mean, we ran our business as a services business for 10 years, obviously with an eye toward the P&L as you should, in some cases.

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

SaaStr

To date Bob has raised over $15m with Crossbeam from friends of the show including Andy @ Uncork, Matt @ Firstmark, Bill @ First Round and Matt @ Salesforce Ventures, to name a few. Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018. Bob Moore: Yeah.

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The Things Nobody Tells You About An $8B Acquisition with Ryan Smith from Qualtrics (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We wanted to automate research that was being outsourced and then we wanted to take it to the world. So we added the slide last minute, literally backstage before he came on, but Ryan and I did an event traction with Lloyed Lobo in like 2015, and it was probably in the upper right. Jason Lemkin: That was 2015. Ryan Smith: Yes.

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A Look Back: Everything Breaks When You Go Into Hypergrowth Mode, with UiPath’s CMO (Europa Video + Transcript)

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At our inaugural Saastr Europa in Paris in 2018, Sequoia (then Accel) Partner Luciana Lixandru and UiPath CMO Bobby Patrick discussed what breaks when your business goes into hypergrowth mode (hint: pretty much everything). 2005: Started as a tech outsourcing company. 2015: $1m rev. UIPath History. 2014: $500k rev. seed round.