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What Brands Look for When Considering Acquiring Software Companies

FastSpring

As the Director of Corporate Development & Strategic Partnerships at WP Engine , Carl has worked on many acquisitions and partnerships, including brands like Flywheel, Perfect Dashboard, Block Lab, and recently, Delicious Brains. But I also handle our integrations with things like CloudFlare, New Relic, and all the major cloud providers.

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CEOs of Zapier, Walkme and Dialpad: How to Build Your First Management Team (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So let’s take a look back to a deep dive with the CEOs on what they learned building their first senior teams: ———-. As a founder/CEO, building your first management team is something that you often lose sleep over. What makes you feel that you need to level up your management, set up your first management team?

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

SaaStr

David’s successful exits as an investor at Matrix include HubSpot, JBoss, AppIQ, Tabblo, Netezza, Diligent Technologies, CloudSwitch, TribeHR, GrabCAD, OpenSpan, and Enservio. They have funding from some of the best in the business including the likes of Benchmark, Sequoia, Redpoint and Marc Benioff, just to name a few. Episode No.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Kustomer, Google Cloud, and Zenoss — August 8, 2019

SaaStr

Eyal and Megan host a fireside chat between Google Cloud and Zenoss, a leader in software-defined IT operations. Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. I thought CRM, in the cloud, et cetera, was never going to be anything. Missed the session? The emergence of new A.I. So what do I know right?

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Web Summit Rio 2023: Summary of days 2, 3, 4.

SaaSHolic

There is a shift towards less capital-intensive startups with recurring revenues, and due diligence is crucial before taking on investors or advisors. The key to success is developing the product and having strong economics and a clear vision, especially during tough times. Web Summit Rio, day 3.

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SaaStr Classic: Jyoti Bansal of Harness.io and AppDynamics; Dev Ittycheria of MongoDB (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

You can have the great product and a great team, but the market of small or very niche. The second one is the team, obviously depending on how earlier the team has a huge factor because you may be so early in your journey that there’s nothing else to point to, but the track record of the team.

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

It sounds minor or technical, but if you want to due diligence on a human being, I get to do it a few 100 times a year. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. I mean, it’s what you see on the BBP cloud on the left. Aileen Lee: And so, they’re just way easier due diligence, I think.