SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company. Product-market fit has been really important. It was initially compliance focus.

Sales Hiring 183

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Government 183

SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products. Then we can use the security and compliance and control that IT would actually buy into to control those accounts. Ceci Stallsmith : So, we want to … Oh, here’s who we are. That’s how we got started in building our ecosystem.

Payments 124

Payments Scale Scaling Revenue 124

SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

And so much time, quarters and quarters spent on recruiting, spent on fundraising, spent on kind of kicking the can down the road on major issues around things as fundamental as what does it really look like to have product market fit in this market? Really it’s more like product market fit solves all problems.

Sales Hiring 131

Sales Hiring Scale Outsourcing Services CTO Hire 131

Baremetrics

APRIL 16, 2021

For top-tier programs ( YC , Techstars , 500 Startups ), you need to be a top 10% company, fitting a near-term venture capital profile across your team, your product/market and your traction. These programs generally push companies onto the venture capital path. Venture Capital. Company Stage.

Venture Capital 66

Venture Capital Technical Review Underperforming Technical Team SaaS 66

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? But a go to market advantage, business model advantage, that is much more sustainable. They want to discount.

Scale 109

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 109

SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? But a go to market advantage, business model advantage, that is much more sustainable. They want to discount.

Scale 47

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 47