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

Alf Ruppert Yes, it started because I know the very first piece of software we did for Daylite was to connection for phone systems, so that you can push a button and then call out or if somebody’s calling in, you can see which customers calling in. And the problem was, I have no clue in software development.

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Outseta

AUGUST 23, 2017

Let’s start with probably the most familiar scenario - I was working at a tech company, with top tier venture capital investors. The tech companies that I cited in my examples above all practiced agile software development, for example. We don’t have any agreed upon budgets, or any sales reps with quotas.

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