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Entrepreneurship … It Changes You

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Q: Could you talk about your experience with the downside of entrepreneurship or startups? The “downside” of entrepreneurship is that it changes you. The post Entrepreneurship … It Changes You appeared first on SaaStr. You might only work 40 hours a week. You can’t work constantly. Is it worth it?

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

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This conversation was candid as ever and Jason debunked the ease that startups and venture capital are often portrayed with. The post Uncharted Podcast #100, Lessons Learned From a Lifetime in Entrepreneurship With SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin appeared first on SaaStr. Sign up here –> Headspace.com/uncharted.

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Startup Century: A New Book on Technology Policy by Balderton’s James Wise

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Today is the US launch of Startup Century , a new (and debut) book by Balderton partner James Wise. The This is neither a how-to book on building startups nor self-interested VC propaganda designed to foster more startup activity.  Earn in a proportional way to their (or their product’s) success.

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Who Will Win the GTM AI Race — Startups vs. Incumbents? With Stage 2 Capital Co-founder and Managing Director Mark Roberge

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At this year’s SaaStr Annual, Mark Roberge, co-founder and Managing Director of Stage 2 Capital, takes the stage to have a bake-off between startups and incumbents when it comes to who will win the AI Go-to-Market race. So, consider what the innovator’s dilemma is today as you rethink your startup in an AI-first world in a hyper cycle.

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How to Detect if Your Startup Has a Faux Focus

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I’ve realized that one of things I do for (or should I say, to) early-stage startups is detect whether they have a real or a faux focus (pronounced fo-focus) — the latter being a focus that appears to be real at first, but is in fact fake. Look, I’ve run startups. Planning is an additive process at most startups.

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The Top 50 SaaStr Answers on Quora in 2020

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It’s been a fun experience being on Quora for … a decade We’ve crossed 60,000,000 views of our answers there, so let’s take a look at the Top 50 most viewed SaaStr Answers on Quora in 2020: Why do many startup owners sell their firm and move on instead of planning on making it a big player like Google, Microsoft, etc.?

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3 Incredible SaaStr Sessions with Stewart Butterfield, Co-Founder of Slack. And The End of One Era in SaaS.

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So Slack is ending a bit of an era at $2B+ ARR, having been the fastest growing SaaS startup of its generation, rocketing to an incredible IPO, and then an epic acquisition by Salesforce in 2021 for $27 Billion! Flickr, his startup before, had a real but modest impact (and possibly even inspired the name of a blog you may have read).