SaaStr

OCTOBER 25, 2023

You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. Get a good CTO and commit to understanding your market and staying in the game. Many folks who are bootstrapped misunderstand how venture capital works. Maybe we expect too much, even up to $10-20M ARR, and expect magic from product marketing. It’s up to you.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Christina Fonseca | Venture Partner @ Indico Partners. It’s taking the bets that will take longer to prove just because it’s new.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Jason Lemkin: I think I noticed a pattern, and I wrote it up a couple of years ago and refreshed it, and then I’ll add a new anecdote. Where am I going to wire out half of my 8 million a venture capital? And the best CTO I know in the world is the CEO. I don’t know. So I could think of more of those.

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SaaStr

JUNE 26, 2024

Growth is still good for them, but they had no net new customers last quarter. HubSpots NRR has fallen to 100%, so to grow 23%, they must add 23% net new customers. Are brand-new companies that seem epic with no revenue really worth $1.5B Maybe if you have the ex-CTO of Github, but that’s still a super speculative bet.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Is it venture capital that puts so much money into some of these software organizations and they’re forced to grow, grow, grow, and it’s literally just a body’s game, right? It’s not venture capital money. And while I don’t technically have a full on co-founder on the technical side.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. If I get picked, do I want the more experienced partner, the new partner?

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Intercom, Inc.

JANUARY 5, 2022

And then, in the 50s, they introduced this new thing, and there was resistance. Evernote’s CTO on Your Biggest Security Worries From 3 to 300 Employees. Drata recently raised $100 million in venture capital funding, which I believe makes it San Diego’s latest startup unicorn with an evaluation of $1 billion.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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Point Nine Land

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The additional capital and the support of Tiger Global will help further Factorial’s mission to build the Zendesk of HR , as Reid Christian of CRV (who led the Series A) put it. In the last few quarters, Tiger Global has emerged as one of the most aggressive venture capital investors.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. Perhaps worse yet, long tenured employees of the company began leaving, saying the new focus on growth “didn’t feel Wistia.” At the end of the day, “We broke pretty much everything,” says CEO Chris Savage.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Angus Davis: Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. We were part of the office of the CTO.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2024

There is more capital available to startups than ever before. This is due to several factors, including low-interest rates, the rise of venture capital , and the increasing popularity of angel investing. This is because: There are more venture capital firms. Venture capitalists are investing more money.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

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. One of the top SaaS influencers is Dharmesh Shah , co-founder, and CTO of HubSpot. [contact-form-7]. David Skok.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. And even if you haven’t started a company, I remember my CTO for my first company BigMachines was Vic Austin.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

From Silicon Valley to Rio – The Globalization of Venture Capital Mathias Schilling , Co-founder & Managing Partner (Headline); Romero Rodrigues, Managing Partner (Headline); Artur Búrigo, Reporter (Folha de S. Responsible tech in an era of hostile tech Rebecca Parsons, CTO (Thoughtworks.) Web Summit Rio, day 3.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

The 90-Day Rule , which argues that new managers need to be decisive about who stays on the teams they inherit. However, as soon as a founder/CEO raises venture capital (VC) they have decided to take investing partners along on the journey. The scariest thing a new CEO can say is “it looks like you guys had a bad quarter” [9].

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Kellblog

JANUARY 29, 2020

Unless you are solving a brand-new problem (e.g., Unless you are solving a brand-new problem (e.g., If they are already solving the problem in some way, your new solution more likely represents an optimization than a breakthrough. The net result is that the new choke-point is series A (prediction 9). baldness cures [5]).

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

With more companies launching and thriving outside of Silicon Valley, regions such as ‘Silicon Slopes’ in Utah and ‘Silicon Alley’ in New York City are gaining traction within the startup scene. We need to hire this new head of sales, who’s going to come in and change the way that we’re going to market. Yep, we did that.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners, a $1B AUM early-stage venture capital firm in New York that has backed category-defining companies such as Chief, Alma, K Health, Latch, Alloy, Dandy and Vestwell.

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