Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

McKinsey is producing some strong content on the future of work as is my friend Dan Turchin on his AI and the Future of Work podcast. My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Flood of venture capital (VC).

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Blockchain Technical Review Venture Capital Sales Hiring 143

Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

Especially in the age of the cloud and AI copilots, you’re only ever a few clicks, prompts, and copy-pastes away from a functional skeleton of a product. I can already hear Christoph and the rest of our software-loving P9 team telling me that they would have preferred to invest in SaaS if it had existed, and he’s probably right.

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Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development AI 59

SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. How long can this last?

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Cloud Scale AWS Artificial Intelligence 100

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Join PagerDuty’s CEO, Jennifer Tejada, as she discusses the need for agility and innovation and how automation is aiding adaptability and allowing enterprises to surge ahead. Jennifer Tejada: So it’s not all terrible bad news because Winston Churchill told us, “Never waste a good crisis.” Sound easy? Not so much.

Scale 158

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Branding 158

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. In 2012, Patrick co-founded ProfitWell (previously known as Price Intelligently), it offers an innovative price setting tool that helps businesses price their products and services according to their true value.

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Technical Review Scale Entrepreneurship Sales Hiring 207

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

That happens in venture capital, and that’s happening right now. Every venture capitalist is stress testing his or her own portfolio. They don’t want to p**s off management teams that face dilution from down rounds. When uncertainty passes, VC funds have plenty of dry capital to put to work.

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Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 192

Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2018

The reasons for this growth – high-velocity economics of software innovation, the migration of money from old media to new media, etc. Stacks can be developed at the project, team, or functional level and are regularly used to improve internal collaboration, measure the impact of marketing activities and reach customers in new ways.

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Technical Review Technology Scale Marketing 223