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A Tale of Two Go To Market Strategies

Tom Tunguz

Based in Massachussetts, the company generated $320M in revenue in 2016. and 14% in net income margin in 2015 and 2016. Geotab addresses the same market as Fleetmatics. Geotab is a bootstrapped Canadian company that employs 300 employees and generated $110M in 2016 revenue. They haven’t raised venture capital.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. All right, so the answer is there are actually 61 a cloud unicorns, and we’ll flash them up. How long can this last?

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

Focus on a market segment until you dominate it When I arrived at Buildium, we were selling our product only to residential property managers located in the United States. Venture capital is a tool and a commitment, not an outcome. Without further adieu, let’s dig in.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. Maybe they’re bootstrapping and have no interest in venture capital. That capital is returned to us with some return.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. Maybe they’re bootstrapping and have no interest in venture capital. That capital is returned to us with some return.

SaaS 40
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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. Maybe they’re bootstrapping and have no interest in venture capital. That capital is returned to us with some return.

SaaS 40
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Customer Success: The Definitive Guide to Customer-centric Growth 2020

Sixteen Ventures

In fact, it was in 2016 I started referring to it not as Customer Success, but as Customer Success-driven Growth, to bring to the forefront the fact that Customer Success is a growth driver; a growth engine. In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world.