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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

That’s an expensive mistake if you make the wrong investment. Instead, larger tech companies like Twitter and Pinterest are making investments in small startups. Over the last couple of years, there have been clear trends in why big companies are choosing to invest in these small teams and use them as part of their growth strategy.

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How an Estonia-based SaaS Grew to €10M ARR by Expanding Across 3 Continents?

FastSpring

How Messente scaled with no funding. They also noticed a lack of transparency and efficiency in the services that were being provided at the time and decided to fix that problem. One way to scale: be location-agnostic. Instead of looking for hot new markets to market their services in, Messente let their customers lead.

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Scaling Revenue via Indirect Channels and Platform Ecosystems with Stripe, Box and Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products.

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How going the extra mile to understand customers propelled Squire into a $750m SaaS company 

ChurnZero

In a sense, it was originally more like a lead generation service, or marketplace for barbershops. On the one hand, the investment tied up Squire’s cash and put the company at risk of failing. Squire debated expanding its ICP to enterprise – think hair salon chains – hoping to scale faster. It was a huge gamble.

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Hi from David at P9

Point Nine Land

After wrapping up my degree, I joined the epic team at Seedcamp on their internship program where I totally immersed myself in the European tech ecosystem and learned a lot about early stage investing. Long-term my goal is to support the first African companies to truly compete on a global scale.

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Start-Ups VS Enterprise: Which Sales Team Should You Work for? (Infographic)

Sales Hacker

ADP, a large organization that sells payroll and human resource services, for example, is well known for its rigorous, mandatory weekly sales meetings. As the company scales up due to growth, more formalized procedures and processes will be put in place. They also usually invest in fulfillment and customer support functions.

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Ryan has been building and scaling companies on the sales side for over 20 years. And the ones that aren’t are generally, kind of related industries, IT services and those sorts of things. Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38].