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

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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. I would argue that retention is probably the most important of these categories, so the first thing to note is that retention is really going to differ, depending on your market segment.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

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I was managing a team of 15 and the company had grown to about 140 employees. Focus on a market segment until you dominate it When I arrived at Buildium, we were selling our product only to residential property managers located in the United States. We mostly succeeded. I’m proud of all that.