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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Keith Rabois and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. This episode is an excerpt from Keith and Jason’s session at SaaStr Summit: The New New in Venture. Look at Model T sales or something. That makes no sense in many ways.

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Decacorns & Unicorns in 2020: Founders Fund Keith Rabois and SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

There was this joke on Twitter the other day, someone who was pointing out how on your LinkedIn you said PayPal, it exited at a billion and now it’s worth 40 billion or 50 billion. Last month, housing sales in the US are actually ahead of last year, like literally ahead. Does venture capital even need to bother?

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Point Nine Capital 2019 Team Predictions

Point Nine Land

The tokenization of traditional financial instruments such as stock, bonds, loans, private equity and venture capital investments will become increasingly common. 2018 already paved the way for a number of tokenized fund launches such as Blockchain Capital and SPiCE VC. Enterprise: the verticalization of the SaaS landscape.

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Understanding viral growth in SaaS

Point Nine Land

PayPal, Dropbox, Typeform and Loom have been very successful in launching incentivized referral programs, for example, where users who referred other users would get additional features for free. Also, try to avoid running multiple experiments at the same time, you’ll likely not be able to disentangle different impacts on the overall target.

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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So there’s a lot of kind of, I don’t know, dogma in venture capital. We started a company with engineers and a few sales people and for a long time that’s the only two major roles we have in the company. It’s very inspiring for me. I also want to break a lot of the stigma. That’s been a major focus.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

I think there’s this dichotomy that people swing between bootstrapping versus venture capital. The way you talked to your customers was by exporting your PayPal dashboard because everyone used PayPal for subscription back then. Finding our North Star. And it tells me there’s so much more upside there.

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The 8 Best Content Marketing Companies of 2020

Neil Patel

Content marketing can generate huge amounts of traffic, leads, and sales for your business. The Content Bureau focuses its attention on the technology, venture capital, and financial sectors, working almost exclusively with global corporations who rely on them year-round. The 8 Best Content Marketing Companies of 2020.