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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. How you should think about building a sellable business. Jump to highlights.

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

SaaStr

What ratio of revenue is healthy for professional services to account for? Here’s what Eyal and Megan talk about: How to develop software faster. Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Vikas Bhambri. I do want to break the interview today up into a couple of different parts really. Eyal Manor.

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Managing Your Facility and Tools to Automate the Process

Andreessen Horowitz

Given that lender-negotiated key terms impact origination parameters and limit certain business operations, what tools and which best practices should you leverage to ensure you stay compliant while managing your business efficiently against those covenants? With the combination of diligence solutions (e.g.,

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Fmr. CEO of Host Analytics and CEO of Namely — Jun 14, 2019

SaaStr

Before that Dave was SVP/GM of Service Cloud @ Salesforce where he led the $500m line of business for customer service applications. Finally pre-Salesforce, Dave was CEO @ MarkLogic where he grew the team from 40 to 240 and revenues from $0 to an $80m revenue run rate. Why does Dave believe 99% of companies die? *

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

SaaStr

I will tell you how many COs I’ve talked to that say, “I’ll come to SaaStr, but I don’t want my series B or series C VC interviewing me,” which is sort of interesting. 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.

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Successfully Switching From One-Time Fees to Subscriptions

FastSpring

In this episode of Growth Stage, we interview Fred Linfjärd of Planday about his experiences switching from a one-time billing model to subscriptions. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Podcast Full Interview: Audio Listen online or find it on more podcast services. Jump to video.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with InCountry and Y Combinator — July 19, 2019

SaaStr

Having built numerous successful remote teams, what have been Peter’s biggest learnings in what it takes to successfully build remote teams? Below, we’ve shared the full transcript of Harry’s interview with Peter Yared. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time? What have been some of the challenges?