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5 Interesting Learnings from Domo at $320,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

So Domo is an interesting case study on SaaS entrepreneurship. After a less-than-fun time being acquired, he came back and founded a next-generation enterprise analytics company, Domo. After a less-than-fun time being acquired, he came back and founded a next-generation enterprise analytics company, Domo. But GRR isn’t.

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The Key to Enterprise Sales Is Understanding Enterprises

Andreessen Horowitz

Unqork founder and CEO Gary Hoberman took an unusual path to entrepreneurship, spending decades writing code and managing massive budgets on Wall Street (his prior role was executive vice president and global CIO for MetLife) before starting his own company. By his estimation, it was the best thing he could have done to set him.

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3 Incredible SaaStr Sessions with Stewart Butterfield, Co-Founder of Slack. And The End of One Era in SaaS.

SaaStr

Slack was much bigger, and more B2B by this point, with a large enterprise sales team, and Stewart was in a much more contemplative mode: Then … Covid and lockdown hit in 2020. And if the winds at some point blow you back into entrepreneurship, in one form or another. Everyone was really struggling those first few weeks.

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How to Scale a Platform and Ecosystem to $10B with Atlassian CRO Cameron Deatsch (Pod 611 + Video)

SaaStr

Scaling to satisfy customers’ demands depends on innovation and foresight combined with enterprise-ready technology and the right partners. The main driver behind this success is that from day one, Atlassian took a product-led self-service approach to enterprise software. Understand when to partner and compete.

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Doubling Down: Luci Fonseca, Partner at Base10 Partners

SaaStr

Our thesis here is that there is a growing need for cybersecurity offerings for the SMB, the best way to deliver that offering is via managed service providers, and winning companies will take a platform approach to building products and features that are at parity to what enterprises have access to.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

Delving even deeper into the entrepreneurial seas, Patrick was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Alpine Investors in San Francisco, as well as Program Officer at the Center for Entrepreneurship at Stanford. In 2012, he underwent a shift in his professional path and studied Technology Entrepreneurship at Stanford.

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Raising Funding During COVID with Homebrew Partner Satya Patel (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

There’s a question, “Is there a directory for seed, pre-seed, VCs investing and enterprise SaaS?” And then, secondly, I believe there are some resources on the SaaStr website as well, around VCs active in the enterprise space. “How receptive are angels/super angels right now to SaaS enterprise IT tools?”

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