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Kellblog Predictions for 2022

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from the Bay Area to cheaper parts of the state). from the Bay Area to cheaper parts of the state). Well it’s time for my annual predictions post, a series now in its eighth year. ” Kellblog 2021 Predictions Review. COVID-19 goes to brushfire mode. Hit, until recently. We start to value resilience, not just efficiency.

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10 Things That Aren’t Obvious About Partnering With Big Companies – Workday Ventures (Video + Transcript)

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” We had been talking, up until that point, we’d been talking somewhat informally about potentially creating a proper ventures fund at Workday. ” So then when I came back to work with all these questions, we spent a lot of time just talking with other VCs, other CVCs, now in their current form. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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The Toughest Roadblocks When Breaking Through to $15M ARR

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We invest all over the country and very much in Europe as well including Paris. Matt Turck talks with three hyper-growth stage Co-Founders and CEOs on three roadblocks when scaling past $15M ARR: hiring, culture, and sales. Each provides their perspective, lessons learned and pro tips along the way. Ticket prices go up March 1st!

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

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We woke up February 2020 with a shock to the system and no idea what it would mean for our business. I just plotted a graph of the Dow Jones industrial average. If you look on the left hand side of the slide, by December 12th, we started to seek cases in Wuhan China. In January 13th, the first cases were detected outside of China.

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SaaStr’s Podcast “Best Of Guide” Our Top 10 Podcasts of All Time

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About the episode: David Skok is a serial entrepreneur turned VC at Matrix Partners. He founded four companies: Skok Systems, Corporate Software Europe, Watermark Software, and SilverStream Software and did one turnaround with Xionics. What was it about Matrix that made him want to make the transition from operations to VC?

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The Rules You Can Break, The Ones You Can’t With Tradeshift (Video + Transcript)

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Tradeshift now… I’ll let Christian introduce himself but Tradeshift now is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, B2B SaaS company out of Europe, valuation well above a billion dollars. Notion Capital was really the first fund to have the guts to invest in Tradeshift. Work smarter, not harder. My name is Jos White.

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The Midas List Live (Video + Transcript)

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But yeah, I’d love if and Nicole… I’m sure a lot of our audience are familiar with your firms but you mind just kind of grounding us a little bit into terms of the size of the funds that you’re working with and the stage of companies that you’re typically partnering with. Welcome to the Midas List live.