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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

What we have seen though, Jesse, and I think it’s super interesting, is the rise of sort Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe entrepreneurial environment, entrepreneurship hubs. And we haven’t got the means to develop that feature set that will help us with our churn and retention. Jesse Paliotto (29:39) Mm-hmm.

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Uncharted Podcast #100, Lessons Learned From a Lifetime in Entrepreneurship With SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

They developed the Open Source predecessor to their company. The post Uncharted Podcast #100, Lessons Learned From a Lifetime in Entrepreneurship With SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin appeared first on SaaStr. There are founders who strategically figure out what they’re going to build from Day 1. That’s very strategic.

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Why Founders Should Prioritize Personal Development with Shopify (Podcast 502 and Video)

SaaStr

Entrepreneurship takes grit and determination, and leading a successful company can feel like a Herculean effort. Founders’ Personal Development & Relationships With Investors. Personal development for founders should be important to investors just as much as company success. Company Culture of Personal Development.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

She is also an active tech investor in Asia, complementing the financing with business development insights. All the while, she was also building up her path in entrepreneurship. In 2012, she became Assistant VP at JJL Overseas Education in Beijing, soon enough becoming its VP of Global Development. Jessica Liu. Anita Varshney.

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How to Scale a Platform and Ecosystem to $10B with Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch (Pod 611 + Video)

SaaStr

The platform hosts an app development infrastructure where partners and customers can build their own apps and deploy them within Atlassian’s infrastructure. In 2012, the website was transformed into the Atlassian marketplace, giving plugin developers the opportunity to make money off of their plugins. Making a robust ecosystem.

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Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie (Video)

SaaStr

As your business grows in complexity, these drags on your infrastructure can impact your product development. In the long run, these services are helping to democratize entrepreneurship. Even at Lightwell, where we were our own customers, we still talked to our “canonical app developers” on a daily basis. “Y-Combinator

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

Delving even deeper into the entrepreneurial seas, Patrick was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Alpine Investors in San Francisco, as well as Program Officer at the Center for Entrepreneurship at Stanford. In 2012, he underwent a shift in his professional path and studied Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford. Business Consultancy.