SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2021

We want to be in the Cloud 100 and on TechCrunch every week. The same is true in venture capital, when you go to raise money. We want to be on stage at the SaaStr Annual. Brands do matter. They are a proxy, albeit an imperfect one, for quality.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. One of the most popular sessions from SaaStr Annual, this presentation will provides an in-depth look at the cloud computing industry across Europe and globally. Alex Ferrara | Partner @ Bessemer Venture Partners.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

” Towards that end, revenue multiple is a better bubble indicator than share price, so let’s take a look at the latest from Jamin Ball at Clouded Judgement. Management changes , as leadership teams drift from a spirit of value creation for customers to value extraction from them. Change to cloud-native.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

From Silicon Valley to Rio – The Globalization of Venture Capital Mathias Schilling , Co-founder & Managing Partner (Headline); Romero Rodrigues, Managing Partner (Headline); Artur Búrigo, Reporter (Folha de S. Effective leadership communication is essential to ensure fairness and equality across global workforces.

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The SaaS Garage

APRIL 26, 2017

Positioned for Continued Growth and Market Leadership: riskmethods Receives an Additional 13.5 Million Euro Growth Capital. Previous investors, EQT Ventures, Senovo and Bayern Kapital all co-funded the round. Senovo is an independent venture capital company based in Munich. million euros. www.eqtventures.com.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 21, 2020

Our neighbors over at Toast , the leaders in cloud-based restaurant management software, launched a Rally for Restaurants initiative—a way to unite top brands across the tech and foodservice sectors in support of the dining community during the COVID-19 crisis. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Top B2B SaaS news. A Toast to better days.

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SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. This episode is an excerpt from Keith and Jason’s session at SaaStr Summit: The New New in Venture. Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? March was rough.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 2, 2020

Our neighbors over at Toast , the leaders in cloud-based restaurant management software, launched a Rally for Restaurants initiative this week—a way to unite top brands across the tech and foodservice sectors in support of the dining community during the COVID-19 crisis. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Top B2B SaaS news.

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SaaStr

MAY 1, 2020

As for Navin, under his leadership Mayfield has raised over $2.2Bn in new funds and he has backed some of the best of the last decade including Poshmark, Lyft, Hashicorp, CloudGenix and more. Harry Stebbings: As for Navin, under his leadership Mayfield has raised over $2.2

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Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

In venture capital (VC) land, you should view investors as long-term partners in value creation. In my other direct experience, the markets for Ingres (RDBMS), Salesforce.com, and Host Analytics (cloud EPM) were obvious. You might well be doing so. Strong investors. Their investments give them contractual rights (e.g.,

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Where appropriate, seek out philanthropic donations, social impact investing, and venture capital. Team leadership, resource allocation, spending limits, procedures, and accountabilities. All client operations functions are operationally managed in order to satisfy clients and carry out the client plan for the business.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Where appropriate, seek out philanthropic donations, social impact investing, and venture capital. Team leadership, resource allocation, spending limits, procedures, and accountabilities. All client operations functions are operationally managed in order to satisfy clients and carry out the client plan for the business.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes. Corporations have a huge responsibility in providing workforce development opportunities for their employees.

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Kellblog

MARCH 4, 2021

To me, Nuxeo is a tale of technology leadership combined with market focus, teamwork, and leadership. .” Eric remains one of the few people who — when he interrupts me saying “got it” — that I’m quite sure that he does. All to produce a great result.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. We’re a cloud content management platform. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In order to execute on this mission, founders can bootstrap their company, raise outside money ( venture capital is the most popular), or use a combination of both to help build their business. Additional growth signals to look out for: Recent leadership hires. Website traffic increases. Intent surges. Office expansion.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 27, 2022

relational database, business intelligence, cloud EPM, customer success management, data intelligence) and ones that didn’t (e.g., It strikes me as much ado about little (you need to build a company and a product to create and lead a category) and, skeptically, a seeming pretense for introducing the fashionable word, “design.”

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

I think one thing about RJ Metrics that maybe goes on that list of mistakes is that even though we founded the company in 2008, the next thing that happened the day after we founded the company was the Lehman Brothers collapsed and the venture capital market was non-existent. The business ran for four years completely bootstrapped.

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Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 133

Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

The tokenization of traditional financial instruments such as stock, bonds, loans, private equity and venture capital investments will become increasingly common. 2018 already paved the way for a number of tokenized fund launches such as Blockchain Capital and SPiCE VC.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Earlier this year, we redoubled our focus on our enterprise segment where we have a strong leadership position. Jennifer Tejada: Another example we’ve seen plenty of in our customer world is this expedition of cloud migration. And all of you are very fortunate, many of you are cloud native companies.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Leveraging the power of cloud technology, SaaS has re-engineered the way we look at modern technology and software. Byron Deeter is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and is an investor in SaaS and Cloud. He co-authored Bessemer’s iconic cloud computing and state of cloud report. Casey Winters. David Skok.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

If you didn’t catch it the other day … and you can read about it on SaaStr …Microsoft and Google Cloud both had extremely strong quarters, Microsoft Azure grew 40% last quarter , and a record number of nine-figure and billion-dollar deals. Having multiple billion-dollar deals in one quarter is pretty impressive.

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SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2021

The vast majority of startups struggle to raise even a tiny bit of angel funding, let alone a single round of venture funding. But once you do take off, venture capital will likely at least be an option. The Cloud is far bigger than ever. And it can be the greatest gift to accelerating your business there is.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The founder and CEO, Scott McCorkle, who was president of ExactTarget and through the acquisition by Salesforce, CEO of the Salesforce Marketing Cloud. While I was there we grew from a hundred and change employees to 450, we raised another $150 million in venture capital. So there’s a group of people in Indy.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

However, as soon as a founder/CEO raises venture capital (VC) they have decided to take investing partners along on the journey. In most venture-backed firms, a hired CEO will find a board consisting of several different venture capital partners, each with their own opinion. Nothing can take that away.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. It’s in the cloud. We built a CPQ in the cloud, can we partner?” Dell was selling configural PCs online. Took many years.

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Sales Recruiting VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Payments 171

SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

With 3 full days of sessions, featuring over 300 speakers from the best SaaS companies around the world, SaaStr Annual will be filled with actionable thought leadership to help grow your business. We’ve convinced more than a thousand great big companies to put their financial data into our private cloud. background music].

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2019

For the first five or six years, we were convincing customers to move to the cloud. This is where customers are going to go into the cloud. We’ve been in business for a little over a decade, and what we help our customers do is manage their content i.e., files and move them to the cloud. The pace is just unbelievable.

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ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2020

Previously Jay founded Customer Imperative, a consultancy focused on B2B SaaS, which eventually developed the Gain Grow Retain customer success leadership community. Over the years h e has developed a methodology for building, scaling and operating customer-centered organizations through various functional leadership roles.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It’s amazing what the efficiencies and the low costs of the cloud can allow you to do as far as industry specialization. Venture capital always finds you, even when you’re in Phoenix. The second thing as Heidi mentioned briefly before that she started a thought leadership conference five years ago called Ascend.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

I mean, it’s what you see on the BBP cloud on the left. Aileen Lee: But I think, yeah, for … I mean, the cloud index is not even post-revenue. When you look at Main Street versus the cloud index, what are you excited about today? The ones that have accelerated since March. They’re on fire. Jason Lemkin: Yes.

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Investment Technical Review Part-Time VPE Development Team Review 159

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

To date, Amit has raised $68m in funding for Gong from the likes of Norwest, Battery Ventures, Cisco Investments, and Wing Venture Capital, just to name a few. Finally, before that, Amit was the Founder & CEO @ SparkThis, an outsourced marketing and sales service for cloud companies.

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Outsourced Development Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Scale 130

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Salesforce was less than a decade old and cloud computing was still considered an emerging technology. Rian and I were astute enough to know that the cloud was going to be this transformative technology wave that was going to impact all sorts of industries,” said Jack. “We Again, this was 2007.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

This morning, a pretty slow growing player, Ping Identity, slow to move to SaaS, slow to move to the cloud, struggled in some ways to compete with Okta and others, was acquired for 2.3 And I think it shows that the top PE firms are pretty optimistic that things are going to remain good and get even better in SaaS and cloud.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Perhaps best of all, the advent of cloud computing has made the barrier to entry in this field lower than ever before. Your leadership team, collectively, should be on the hook for company performance far more than any individual should be assessed against a given metric.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

So it’s a good number, especially unique for cloud companies. So there’s a lot of kind of, I don’t know, dogma in venture capital. It’s very inspiring for me. I also want to break a lot of the stigma.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

It’s going to change how everyone thinks about cloud and SaaS for ever. I was on a board with John Doerr a while ago, you know, the legend of venture capital, he modeled 6% dilution a year. I’m more excited about the future than I have been about the past. We’re just getting started.

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