Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

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. During this era, from 2009–2015, most founders I knew were in it for building great & sustainable companies. Until we weren’t.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2015

Techstars Disney Accelerator class of 2015 was announced yesterday. Decisive is a Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that uses real time data to enable advertisers to optimize mobile ad creative and targeting based on user engagement. Techstars Disney Accelerator Class of 2015 appeared first on TechZulu.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

In addition to an Undergraduate Certificate, the Program is launching a Master of Technology Management degree in 2015. The company quickly pivoted to create a SaaS solution and in less than two years later, it was acquired by Intuit for $30 million.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.” What you may not know is that Fred has been a behind-the-scenes mentor to many of the newer VCs in the industry including myself. This works brilliantly.”

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. See as a board we can already see very clearly how our 2014 & 2015 years pencil out with a fair degree of predictability. In the Early Days.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

My long-time friend Jason Lemkin is on the verge of launching a spectacular SaaS conference called SaaStr this week. Lemkin (@jasonlk) January 31, 2015. I know it will be hard for you to believe in 2015 but in 2006 Palo Alto (where I lived) was kind of dead. I had been doing SaaS for 7 years. Some background.

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