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. 2001–2007: THE BUILDING YEARS The dot com bubble had burst. Until we weren’t. Nobody cared about our valuations any more.

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SoCal CTO

JANUARY 26, 2010

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. What are the biggest areas of technical risk? What technology research is required?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. .” They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue? My general advice is to do less.

Software Review 150

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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. We had just gotten over the dot com crash and return to normalcy where nobody seemed to give a s**t about tech companies any more. I had been doing SaaS for 7 years. We attended Saleforce.com parties.

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