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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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Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie (Video)

SaaStr

The internet economy is expected to double from 2019 to 2023—and that’s after the cost of software tools to run your business has collapsed, from $4M in 2011 to a paltry $4000 today. Software companies have realized how much of the market can be tapped by servicing horizontal use cases with vertical functionality. Key takeaways.

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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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