OpenView Labs

MAY 5, 2021

Many companies are strategic consumers of open-source software as a means to reduce the burden on their software engineering team to build everything from the ground up. The answer likely depends on your market segmentation, as freemium may ease adoption friction for SMB/mid-market companies.

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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. 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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SaaStr

JULY 22, 2019

That’s not a bad start. We could see the market opportunity there, but nothing as big as we’ve been able to realize, now, as a company. We work with mostly modern teams. We started out in the commercial SMB mid-market space. Join us at SaaStr Europa 2020. Roger Scott | EVP @ New Relic. Good afternoon.

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Scale Scaling Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team 167

SaaStr

MAY 2, 2019

Join Vlad Shmunis, founder, chairman, and CEO of RingCentral as he discusses RingCentral’s journey from a two-person startup to a $7B market cap global enterprise communications company (NYSE:RNG) — the good, the bad, and the ugly. It’s how do you transition the team, how do you not loose each and every friendship that you’ve ever had?

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