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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

SaaStr

These are all full-time jobs by $1m ARR. Fixing it yourself becomes the biggest time sink and excuse for not hiring there is. You end up spending all your time backfilling roles you should have hired. And even worse, you often sort of give up trying to make the hire. Less and you under-invest.

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Top 30 SaaS Influencers to Follow in 2022

SmartKarrot

Known for his innovative writing style, Alex is credited for making Groove a successful company. She is an active speaker on startups, venture capital, inbound marketing, remote work, and spacetech. David Skok is a serial entrepreneur who founded four companies and is a venture partner at Matrix Partners. Alex Turnbull.

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Busting the Myths About Startup Success with BlackLine’s Founder CEO (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We’re continuing to innovate. I retired from SunGard Treasury Systems as their CTO. Bootstrapped because nobody in their right mind would have actually invested in us back then and took it up until 2014 as a bootstrapped company. Venture capitals are playing a numbers game. background music].

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Pietro Bezza | Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures. We are a $50 million fund based in Lisbon, and we invest mainly in seed stage.

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. You’ve spent almost your entire career in venture, back when an $800 million exit might be exciting, before any of this stuff was hot. And how do you hack it?