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Going Big in Venture Capital

SaaStr

years ago in the first few months of SaaStr.com, in November 2012. Back then, folks all over Twitter were making fun of Sequoia for investing $20m+ in an iOS app that never launched and failed. Now, to a small fund, or a new VC, I’d think a $14m loss would just be awful. So the original post below I wrote a full 10 (!)

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The SaaS Trust Crisis with Godard Abel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And we’re also pleased, now to have almost a hundred thousand different SaaS products listed there, and being backed by a hundred million dollars from LinkedIn and some great investors that do allow us to keep investing in this marketplace. And companies in general, are also right now, investing more in software and digital.

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. So, not that many people have started so early in the career, so long in the space, and great investments that we know like Datadog and Fastly, and good at it. GP and founder of Amplify Partners. Jason Lemkin: Crazy.

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Our New Transparent Pricing Dashboard: Where Your Money Goes When You Buy a Buffer Subscription

Buffer Resources

Our hosting costs include service providers like AWS, Cloudflare, MongoDb, Twitter, etc. Looking ahead at our future investments When we look ahead to future years, we anticipate that employee expenses will continue to make up the majority of our Operating Costs. We also plan to continue to invest in paid marketing.

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Top 10 Tools to Get Your App PLG-d

Frontegg

Making the bottom-up shift: You are shifting from the top-down to a bottom-up mindset, which means more money and time to invest in R&D efforts. Founded : 2011 Known customers: Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, AWS, Unity, Udemy, Shopify Price starts at: $38/month per user. #2 Before getting started with PLG, you need to make sure that.

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MongoDB’s Playbook for Breaking Into and Dominating a Market

OpenView Labs

I think there was a month in 2011 or 2012 where we did more events than there were days in the month,” Francesca recalled. She points to full investment from the founders as a critical part of the company’s DevRel success. We determined early on that social proof was the most effective tool we had. It was our super power.”. “I

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The Answers to Scaling, Hiring, and Everything Else: A SaaStr Europa AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 585 + Video)

SaaStr

Jason Lemkin: The highest stage of venture is crossover, crossover funds, TCV is one of an early one, but even mutual funds that invest in unicorns. A few can, Andreessen and maybe Sequoia, but 99% of the VCs you meet, legally, they can only invest in startups, whether they’re late stage or early stage. It could come back.