SmartKarrot

MARCH 2, 2023

The Venture Capital sector has seen substantial expansion in recent times and some VCs have started to podcast and share valuable resources for entrepreneurs, other investors, and those interested in learning more about the industry. Hoffman hosts a podcast named Masters of Scale where he interviews a new founder every episode.

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Our second sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best. Go to vidyard.com/saleshacker for more information.

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2019

So that’s the one scale is saying, “Big distraction, we can’t do this every year. There’s a bunch of people across the street who’ve raised 75 million dollars or 150 million of venture capital and they are trying to kill me. Say three to six months? Of course I should worry about them.”

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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. We do budgets on a small scale at Semco. We don’t have any agreed upon budgets, or any sales reps with quotas. Where do we want to end up come year’s end? This isn’t an academic exercise for us.”

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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.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. Venture capital is a tool and a commitment, not an outcome. How the hell does that happen?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve been in venture capital for about 20 years, made my first SaaS investment about 18 years ago and have really been focused on this space for a long time. I work at a firm called Shasta Ventures. I’m really excited to give this talk about a great company and some really great lessons learned from the journey.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. The first is: It’s the best proxy for AWS growth in the private markets.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 24, 2022

So this was a Truly Terrible, Very Bad, Just Plain Awful year for SaaS IPOs — and IPOs in general. The downstream effects on venture capital and more are still to come. The IPO window is closed. Shut, mostly. In fact, IPOs had their biggest slump since 2008: IPO listing volume is down a stunning 93%(!) since 2021.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

In this session, Anna and Sameer will highlight SendGrid’s journey from growth stage through acquisition and why focusing on people and culture is mission critical to success as a company goes through the scaling process. Announcer: Please welcome SendGrid CEO Sameer Dholakia and Bessemer Venture Partners Vice President Anna Khan.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

So huge scale, we stop about 15 billion cyberattacks daily on behalf of those 26 million internet properties. Ben : In terms of when you were ideating on Cloudflare, how did you get to a conviction on the scale of what you were solving and the size of the market? And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

If building the infrastructure of a SaaS product seems easy nowadays (with AWS and the myriad of developer APIs available), it was not the case fifteen years ago. From web hosting (AWS) to email (Sendgrid) or search (Algolia), there’s no shortage of infrastructure tools available to build a SaaS. Infrastructure. Integration.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

78 times in the AWS … ADABAS was referenced in the Amazon press release and earnings announcement. And you get folks like Tobi at Shopify and also this room, I’d like to think, are now part of this club that’s driving tech innovation and tech value creation and job creation on a massive massive scale.

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