SaaStr

MAY 5, 2019

Join our Quora group to get all of The Week in Cloud updates throughout the week. “The sham began in February, when an unknown user with a Chinese IP address and fake phone number side-stepped Zillow’s security measures and toyed with the sale prices displayed on the mansion’s listing.”. “While the Bay Area didn’t win Amazon’s official “HQ2,” it already has the second largest concentration of technical employees outside the company’s Seattle headquarters.”.

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Divestopedia

MAY 5, 2019

When selling a business, time is not your friend. Time is the enemy of all deals. In fact, 'time wounds all deals' is an expression that can be associated with a number of different industries, but is especially relevant to business acquisitions.

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SaaStr

MAY 5, 2019

Today we’re lucky to hear from Iwona Gruszka, the Customer Success Manager for Archdesk , about how Archdesk’s team uses SaaStr Pro : Why did you decide to sign up for SaaStr Pro originally? What stood out to you, and what problem were you trying to solve? Our CEO has been following Jason Lemkin for quite some time and would recommend great blog posts for the rest of the team to read.

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IT World

MAY 5, 2019

The IT team at Perkins+Will used to support a sprawling SAN environment for its complex commercial-building renderings. When the Chicago-based architecture firm – which has 2,500 employees in 30 locations around the world – outgrew its SAN environment, Perkins+Will chose to migrate away from on-premises data centers and edge devices to a cloud-based storage system.

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SaaStr

MAY 5, 2019

Look, a lot of rounds of financing — all the way to a Series H —at almost any valuation do add up to significant dilution: Beyond that, Slack took additional dilution from its pivot from a gaming company to the Slack we know today, a communications company. They sold 25% to Accel (and more to other investors) before the tilt … so in a way, they took 30%+ dilution before Slack became Slack.

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