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Scaling Success: Digital Entrepreneurship and SaaS Exits

FastSpring

and now very big in the case of, say, a zero, which is cloud accounting software. What we have seen though, Jesse, and I think it’s super interesting, is the rise of sort Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe entrepreneurial environment, entrepreneurship hubs. Are you using accounting software? And I’ve done that.

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The Top 50 SaaStr Answers on Quora in 2020

SaaStr

What is the next big trend in SaaS (software as a service)? Could you talk about your experience with the downside of entrepreneurship or startups? never talk about the dark side of entrepreneurship? What do the top 1% of sales people (software/SaaS) do that the other 99% don’t? How much does a VC partner earn?

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Who Will Win the GTM AI Race — Startups vs. Incumbents? With Stage 2 Capital Co-founder and Managing Director Mark Roberge

SaaStr

For the first time in twenty years, we have a blank canvas, complete artistic freedom to reimagine everything in B2B software. There is a close parallel between how the internet disrupted society and software and how AI will, too. We’re on the brink of one of the biggest technological advancements of our lifetime — AI.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

All the while, she was also building up her path in entrepreneurship. And then she studied software development at Fullstack Academy. She has been an investment manager as well as a product manager at a Techstars startup, so she knows a thing or two about venture capital and entrepreneurship.

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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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How Predictable Revenue built its innovative Outbound Validation program with CPO Kenny MacKenzie

Predictable Revenue

But they failed on the sales and marketing side – they developed a really cool, cutting edge piece of software that wasn’t aligned with what the market needed. And that’s the story of entrepreneurship. even the best ideas can fail for a host of different reasons.

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

SaaStr

The main driver behind this success is that from day one, Atlassian took a product-led self-service approach to enterprise software. Patience will be the most redoubtable resource in your entrepreneurship journey. Scaling a platform and ecosystem isn’t easy and doesn’t happen overnight. Understand when to partner and compete.

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