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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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

An existing SaaS customer spends more, on average, than a new customer, and are more than seven times more likely to churn (leave your business) to go to a competitor because of poor customer service than they are for a better product. Chorus is a leading conversation intelligence platform for sales teams. Consistent updates.

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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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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

There is more capital available to startups than ever before. This is due to several factors, including low-interest rates, the rise of venture capital , and the increasing popularity of angel investing. This is because: There are more venture capital firms. Venture capitalists are investing more money.

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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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Sales Hacker

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Being read by Paul Mander , General Manager of Optery for Business: Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matter – by Richard Rumelt. Superhuman – announced the launch of some big exciting updates to Superhuman AI. Why startup founders need to develop their voice.

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 10, 2025

What AI agents are doing behind the scenes at Whispered to match execs to roles. How to Work with VC Talent Teams ” → A tactical guide on how to engage with venture capital talent teams effectively (e.g., I always advise people like, if you have two bad swings in a row, you’re gonna struggle.

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Kellblog

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

First, from a career development perspective, how one should manage the presence of such badges on your resume. That team survived that devastating shock and later sold the company for $900M. In this post, I want to explore two different aspects of the red badge of courage. Those folks are my heroes. ”). [5] ”

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

How does David think about scaling sales teams? Number two, you have a team of people that you’ve worked with before and some of whom will come along with you. Do you need business development reps? How should founders think about budget and resource allocation in this search for PMF? Do you need field salespeople?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

I’ve been in software since the ’90s and for over 20 years, nearly that entire time, we’ve been talking about digital transformation, developing strategies, architecting new technologies, and moving beyond digitization to rethinking our businesses, our products, and our services in a way that’s optimized for a digital world.

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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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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners, a $1B AUM early-stage venture capital firm in New York that has backed category-defining companies such as Chief, Alma, K Health, Latch, Alloy, Dandy and Vestwell.

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SaaStr

APRIL 25, 2025

Multi-Stage Funds Crushing Seed : Traditional seed firms are being outcompeted by multi-stage funds like Green Oaks, who can lead seed rounds, follow-on at A rounds, and leverage lower capital costs to dominate early-stage investing. The panel was divided on whether these represent compelling venture opportunities.

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FastSpring

JUNE 2, 2025

A brief history of FastSpring, with some fantastically nostalgic photos of the team throughout the years. A Brief History of FastSpring (With Photos) FastSpring was founded in 2005 with only $30,000, by a distributed team of four tech founders who only all got connected through the transitive property, Dan explains. Jump to podcast.

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