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Solving Hard(ware) Problems

Point Nine Land

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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Kellblog Predictions for 2022

Kellblog

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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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. 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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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Jennifer Tejada, Ben Chestnut, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

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.

Scale 169
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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

The SaaStock team will be landing in São Paulo to run the region’s first Pan-Latin American SaaS conference, SaaStock LatAm. In 2010, he founded Influitive, which helps B2B companies employ brand advocates for faster growth and development. She’ll be talking about her approach to sales as a team sport.

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Funding in the Time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matrix Partners and EZPR — February 21, 2020

SaaStr

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?

Scale 202