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Solving Hard(ware) Problems

Point Nine Land

SaaS companies in particular have high gross margins (no IT admin) and recurring revenues (subscriptions), a combination which means they can re-invest a substantial piece of their revenue into (hopefully) predictable growth. It’s not very surprising then that we’ve built, invested in, and bought a ton of software over the last few decades.

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

SaaStr

Bessemer Venture Partners’ Alex Ferrara takes a look at trends and predictions for the cloud industry in 2019. Alex Ferrara | Partner @ Bessemer Venture Partners. 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.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

To date Bob has raised over $15m with Crossbeam from friends of the show including Andy @ Uncork, Matt @ Firstmark, Bill @ First Round and Matt @ Salesforce Ventures, to name a few. Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018.

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SaaStr Podcast #395 with UserTesting CEO Andy MacMillan

SaaStr

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? I’ve heard so many good things from Kobie, now at Upfront, and then also the team at Openview. Andy MacMillan: I started my career in tech actually as a developer. How does one instil volume based pricing without disincentivizing usage? Andy MacMillan: Excellent.

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. Aileen Lee | Founder @ Cowboy Ventures. Jason Lemkin: Well, we admire, but also she’s very early in the micro VC trend. When Aileen founded Cowboy Ventures in 2012… Aileen Lee: 12, yep.

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How to Start a Business

Neil Patel

You can then use it to arrange for the required capital to launch your product or service. Follow this up by building your team and finding a location if you’re opening a physical store. After all, your customers would prefer more of a good thing and less of a bad thing. Solve a problem you identify.

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The Best SaaS Blog Posts and Resources Library

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5 Reasons I Hate the Rule of 40 by Mikael Johnsson, SaaS Nordic While not necessarily completely useless, I would strongly argue that R40 is a metric applicable to the world of PE and public markets investing and is not a good metric for assessing the quality of venture-stage companies.

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