Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2022

What the soon-to-be podcast host and venture capitalist calls to mind is a somewhat forgettable scene where Peter Thiel becomes Facebook’s first major investor. It was the first time Harry came across venture capital, and, he tells us, he was instantly hooked. There’s no right way to do venture. Delighted to have you.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

Portag3 Ventures Partner Chris O’Neill discusses leadership and teamwork lessons he’s picked up in his career through a hobby and a metaphor of sailing. Chris O’Neill | Partner @ Portag3 Ventures. So over the course of those 20 or so odd years in technology leadership roles.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

This is an ongoing pattern driven by Clayton Christensen’s cycles of disruptive innovation. Management changes , as leadership teams drift from a spirit of value creation for customers to value extraction from them. Flood of venture capital (VC). Venture capital continues to flow.

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The SaaS Garage

APRIL 26, 2017

Positioned for Continued Growth and Market Leadership: riskmethods Receives an Additional 13.5 Million Euro Growth Capital. Previous investors, EQT Ventures, Senovo and Bayern Kapital all co-funded the round. Senovo is an independent venture capital company based in Munich. million euros. www.riskmethods.net.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership. Talk: SaaS.City Bootcamp: Sales Leadership.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 27, 2020

Our friend Kyle Poyar , VP of Marketing Strategy over at OpenView —the expansion stage venture capital firm—says it’s time to revisit your pricing. His latest blog post guides you through innovative pricing plays you can consider implementing right now, as well as high-profile examples of companies giving them a shot.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

In this era of ever-increasing digital disruption and innovation, category design can be the ultimate business strategy for brands wishing to stand out from the crowd. It’s called Play Bigger, How Rebels and Innovators Create New Categories and Dominate Markets. It tackles this idea of responsible innovation.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

That was great and created freedom from venture capital and many other benefits. Early adopters take vendor risk, they seek out innovation, they kick a lot more tires. We did it by focusing on second-order revenue to generate low-cost leads, and by taking in 110%+ of our MRR each month in cash. on the balance sheet.

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SmartKarrot

MARCH 2, 2023

The Venture Capital sector has seen substantial expansion in recent times and some VCs have started to podcast and share valuable resources for entrepreneurs, other investors, and those interested in learning more about the industry. Hoffman hosts a podcast named Masters of Scale where he interviews a new founder every episode.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

You got to be really frugal and you’re going out to innovate your way out of problems. You really innovate your way out of problems or engineer your way out of problems. Let’s innovate our way out of the problem.” You need to hire a leadership team that’s better than you in everything you do.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes. Corporations have a huge responsibility in providing workforce development opportunities for their employees.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve been in venture capital for about 20 years, made my first SaaS investment about 18 years ago and have really been focused on this space for a long time. I work at a firm called Shasta Ventures. They pioneered things like content marketing, thought leadership. I’ll just do a quick introduction.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2019

Leadership, Culture, and Managing Executives [09:12]. They are a company that’s grown at a venture scale without venture capital infused into the business, which makes them, from my perspective really, really interesting. Leadership, Culture, and Managing Executives. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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SaaStr

JULY 28, 2021

With 3 full days of sessions, featuring over 300 speakers from the best SaaS companies around the world, SaaStr Annual will be filled with actionable thought leadership to help grow your business. We’re continuing to innovate. Venture capitals are playing a numbers game. Transcript: [background music].

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 29, 2021

Ultimately, NexHealth is going to become a three-sided marketplace that connects doctors, patients, and developers to accelerate healthcare innovation. Our dental SaaS product is the wedge to our entire strategy to accelerate healthcare innovation. We led NexHealth’s seed round less than two years ago.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2020

” No, we are led into areas of innovation by founders, so if it’s not an industry we know well, we will work hard to try to get smart in that industry, and we want to learn from the founder, so we’re not opposed to investing in industries that we don’t know.

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Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

It’s amazing how people can innovate when they’re forced to. I’ve come to believe that there are only two scenarios where it undeniably makes sense to raise venture capital: You’re building something so capital intensive that it can’t possibly be built without massive amounts of money. Think SpaceX.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

I think this leads us to lesson number four, which is continuously innovate through proactive listening. Venture capital always finds you, even when you’re in Phoenix. The second thing as Heidi mentioned briefly before that she started a thought leadership conference five years ago called Ascend.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Get technical help and a dose of motivation from two of the leading B2B sales trainers, leadership coaches and business strategists on the market. B2B marketing experts James Carbary and Jonathan Green interview a business leader on leadership, sales-to-marketing realignment, buyer personas, marketing strategy, and a host of other topics.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

You’re in the valley, you raise venture capital. Then, if I like them, and there’s a mutual fit, and connection, then we bring them on for two sets of on site interviews, which are four hours each with both me and various members of the engineering and leadership team. Part of it is this is why.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 20, 2019

I’m a vice president at Bessemer Venture Partners, which is a venture capital firm, which was very lucky to be a part of SendGrid’s journey. And that was an important shift, I think, for our leadership team. I’ve never been behind a table before so I feel very talk show hosty. That was perfect.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. All right, so the answer is there are actually 61 a cloud unicorns, and we’ll flash them up. How long can this last?

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products. I have been at Stripe for about four years.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Join PagerDuty’s CEO, Jennifer Tejada, as she discusses the need for agility and innovation and how automation is aiding adaptability and allowing enterprises to surge ahead. So looking forward, we also need to innovate and automate policies around flexible working, childcare and lead to address some of these challenges.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2019

And you get folks like Tobi at Shopify and also this room, I’d like to think, are now part of this club that’s driving tech innovation and tech value creation and job creation on a massive massive scale. Last year was a record in terms of total combined capital by a large multiple.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

To date, Amit has raised $68m in funding for Gong from the likes of Norwest, Battery Ventures, Cisco Investments, and Wing Venture Capital, just to name a few. To date, Amit has raised $68 million in funding for Gong from the likes of Norwest, Battery Ventures, Cisco Investments, and Wing Venture Capital, just to name a few.

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The SaaS Garage

MAY 10, 2017

The Master of Business Economics, with a focus on Innovations- and Technology Management, explains to me, that he has been an entrepreneur and founder himself. ” Alexander: Daniel, how did you come up with the idea to provide debt capital to rather early stage companies? A look at Daniel’s background explains why.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

As the pace of innovation in this sector accelerates, incumbents feel the increasing pressure to work more with startups. The tokenization of traditional financial instruments such as stock, bonds, loans, private equity and venture capital investments will become increasingly common.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

Michiel Rauws: And luckily our innovation is very innovative, so people invite us to speak for free. Every market has so many vendors today, but there’s always a sub-segment of the market that’s looking for a particular type of innovation. And most of us can’t access that much venture capital anyway.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company. Felix : We thought that you can’t innovate on too many dimensions. Want to see more content like this?

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

The ultimate irony here is that while this hurry can breed innovation, more often than not it’s actually hurtful to entrepreneurs and their chances of becoming successful. Your leadership team, collectively, should be on the hook for company performance far more than any individual should be assessed against a given metric.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The Timmys finalists in this category are chosen for their innovation, forward-thinking leadership and work environment. These companies are not only attractive to talented professionals nationwide, but ones that strive for everyday innovation,” says Mandy Walker, Director of Marketing at Tech in Motion.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Known for his innovative writing style, Alex is credited for making Groove a successful company. She is an active speaker on startups, venture capital, inbound marketing, remote work, and spacetech. David Skok is a serial entrepreneur who founded four companies and is a venture partner at Matrix Partners. Alex Turnbull.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It is a sign of development, showing that the business has effectively transitioned from an R&D organization dependent on venture capital to an autonomous, long-lasting enterprise. . Factors affecting purchasing decisions include your company’s market leadership, reputation, and visibility.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

We had it, we knew we could innovate. I was on a board with John Doerr a while ago, you know, the legend of venture capital, he modeled 6% dilution a year. We couldn’t buy it. We had to pivot. We had to go through and stand this up in an efficient way that worked in scale. So when we got to 2016, it was in our DNA.

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