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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

“This is everyday for me, so I love talking about it,” says Carl Hargreaves about mergers and acquisitions. As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Mapistry and Slack — November 29, 2019

SaaStr

286: Allie Janoch is the Founder & CEO @ Mapistry, the startup that makes environmental compliance simple. Post acquisition, Allie integrated the technology built at IQ Engines into Flickr search. How does Allie advise other founders on scaling sales teams? Below, we’ve shared the transcript of Harry’s interview with Allie.

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SaaStr Podcast #413 with SafeGraph CEO Auren Hoffman: “How to Build a Unicorn in 8 Simple Steps”

SaaStr

Let’s say you’re 22 years old and you don’t have a lot of money, well, you’re likely going to see very few opportunities to invest, and most of those opportunities are going to be bad. They advise us to surround yourself with people that have different strengths and different weaknesses.

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3 Unusual Drivers of Early-Stage Growth

OpenView Labs

Throughout all of my experience at early-stage growth companies, there’s been an overarching theme: From inception, it’s the people you attract, hire, train, promote, and “communify” who enable and accelerate your time to market and your customer acquisition and satisfaction. The question becomes: “Who do I want on my team—and why?”.

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The Future of Product Led Growth Might Be Hiding Where You Least Expect It

OpenView Labs

Product led growth (PLG) is an end user focused model that relies on the product itself as the primary driver of customer acquisition, conversion and expansion. This phenomenon is commonly seen in a few markets: productivity tools (think Calendly , Notion , Zapier or Airtable ) and developer tools (think Datadog , Twilio or Atlassian).

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Sales–Product Tension: The Secret to Segment’s Success

Andreessen Horowitz

In this conversation recorded at ELC 2023, Segment’s former CRO Joe Morrissey and former chief product development officer Tido Carriero discuss how they turned sales-product tension into a successful $3.2B acquisition. Joe: The first time I met you was in the interview process. The problem is the sales team.

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When should you hire a CFO?

Point Nine Land

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. Contract reviews with big clients, compliance matters, any type of changes of law, tax audits, dealing with advisors, etc. Let’s take a closer look at how the “finance department” of a typical SaaS company might develop over time.