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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. All right, so the answer is there are actually 61 a cloud unicorns, and we’ll flash them up. How long can this last?

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7 Lessons Helping Start Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We raised $0 of venture capital. ” Now, seven years later, SalesLoft has over 400 employees, has raised over $75 million of venture capital, and in the next two years, if not sooner, my prediction is that they will be a unicorn that you’ll be able to read about on Tech Crunch. We started the business in 2007.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. Maybe they’re bootstrapping and have no interest in venture capital. That capital is returned to us with some return.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. Maybe they’re bootstrapping and have no interest in venture capital. That capital is returned to us with some return.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. Maybe they’re bootstrapping and have no interest in venture capital. That capital is returned to us with some return.

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Customer Success: The Definitive Guide to Customer-centric Growth 2020

Sixteen Ventures

In fact, it was in 2016 I started referring to it not as Customer Success, but as Customer Success-driven Growth, to bring to the forefront the fact that Customer Success is a growth driver; a growth engine. Customer Success is not just about retaining customers. Customer Success is not just a Department.