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Fly the Aircraft First: The Potentially Paralyzing Effects of Fundraising

Kellblog

That means fly the airplane by using the flight controls and flight instruments to direct the airplane’s attitude, airspeed, and altitude … A famous example of a failure to aviate is the December 1972 crash of Flight 401, an Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-1011. Remember that if all that love is real, there’s an easy way for a VC to show it.

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The B2B Marketplace Funding Napkin 2021

Point Nine Land

Having invested in 9 B2B marketplaces and gathered data from 20+ different investors, here are our findings on what it takes to raise money in 2021 for B2B marketplaces. Before we dive into the details, it’s worth noting a couple of things: A majority of the data points (particularly at the seed stage), were from European VCs.

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PODCAST 93: The Journey from 2x Founder to VC with Angus Davis

Sales Hacker

In 1995, while a high school student Rhode Island he was an early employee at Intelecom Data Systems, one of America’s first commercial internet service providers and website developers. We were part of the office of the CTO. FinTech is also a big area of interest both for the firm and for me personally.

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PODCAST 123: How to Go From a Transactional Model to a Subscription Model with Brandon Meyers

Sales Hacker

We’ve got two sponsors, including a new one called Sapper Consulting. REGIE uses artificial intelligence to create entire outbound, inbound, and even followup sales campaigns faster using over one billion rows of performance data across 75 industries. It has been an incredible journey for him. So it’s a great show.

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SaaStr Podcast #218: Twilio Founder, Jeff Lawson & SendGrid CEO, Sameer Dholakia on Why Developer First Is A Maturation In The Supply Chain Of Software

SaaStr

Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the Founder & CTO @ Nine Star Inc and enjoyed a spell at Amazon as a Technical Product Manager. How did they formulate and approach creating a new set of values with the 2 companies coming together? Prior to founding Twilio, Jeff was the founder and CTO at Nine Star Inc. Just to name a few.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Justin Bedecarre, Jen Nguyen, Jason Lemkin, and Aaron Levie

SaaStr

And in major hubs like San Francisco and New York, what we’re doing is helping create the vision for a more experiential space, almost like a cafe where they can come and go as they want, they can bring clients, they can bring customers. We’re already in this like a new gen.” This is a new workflow, isn’t it?