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. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. How long can this last?

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

What what do you think the danger is of being too focused on those types of venture capital type ideas. And since that I promised, I will not take any money from from Venture people that are telling me what to do. I even told the the bank, we never needed the bank. And, and then we had to close the company.

Consulting 78

Consulting Underperforming Technical Team Interviewing Software 78

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

Which means we’ve sort of blanketed the ecosystem of early stage accelerators, early stage venture capital firms, and been able to – from that entire startup life cycle perspective, across all different types of marketing – stay in front of the customer. We’ve been really, really good at ground game.

Strategy 36

Strategy Payment Methods Payment Services Startup 36

SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’m a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, which is a venture capital firm, which was very lucky to be a part of SendGrid’s journey. Sameer Dhokalia: It turns out if you do ask those two basic questions of 100 people in your business, you will learn an awful lot about what needs to be focused on.

Scale 132

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. Carbon Black, DocuSign, SurveyMonkey, Tenable, Smartsheet, Dropbox; fantastic names that in aggregate, when you put together the three ways to buy stocks, public, IPOs, private venture capital dollars and then outright acquisitions.

Cloud 167

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