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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. Until we weren’t. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

socalTECH

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. An A-round investment in the late 90's, or even in 2005/2006, or 2007, was a $5-8M check.

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Meet the Investors & Tech Leaders Judging at Startup Night SXSW 2018

Tech.Co

Beginning in 2006, he began creating entrepreneurial ecosystem components in Memphis, Tennessee and then founded Start Co., Previously, he was a founder of a tech startup, served as a mentor at the Technology Entrepreneurship program for Stanford, and AE at Living Social. Eric Mathews, Founder and CEO of Start Co.

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One Weird Trick to Build a Personal Brand

Both Sides of the Table

My long-time friend Jason Lemkin is on the verge of launching a spectacular SaaS conference called SaaStr this week. In 2006 when I was a budding entrepreneur building my second startup I ran into a young (ish) enthusiastic founder of an electronic signature company called EchoSign. I had been doing SaaS for 7 years.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

SaaS 101: 7 Simple Lessons From Inside HubSpot - OnStartups , July 19, 2010 It’s been a little over 4 years since I officially launched my internet marketing software company , HubSpot. The “official” date is June 9 th , 2006 — for those that are curious about such things). I got a taste of that within my first weeks on the job.

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