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SaaS Is Dead, Long Live Software

InfoChachkie

However, the adjective “electric” was eventually dropped when all the devices in a product category utilized the technology. Even Salesforce abandoned it’s silly “No Software” tagline, after the company had to explain in 2015 that it meant, “No legacy software, just cloud software.”. ASP To SaaS To Software.

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Create An Industry Alliance Entrepreneurs: Need Friends On The Startup Playground

InfoChachkie

Entrepreneurs can emulate de la Guerra’s strategy and make their adVenture appear far larger than reality and thus increasing its influence and market reach while discouraging competitive threats by creating an industry alliance. Big Dumb Companies (BDCs) are surprisingly compliant when they are presented with a “Program”.

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Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures, On Mental Health And Investing In Founders

socalTECH

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. It's a comprehensive bucket. That's the framework we've build with Evolution.

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Interview with Scott Grimes, Stackin

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How did the company start? We curate the best products within each category of finance. Right now, we have two categories, banking, where we've partnered with Neobank to provide better solutions to our audience, digital solutions which are cheaper and help them savemoney. All of these partners, obviously, are referral based.

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10 Marketing Strategies To Drive Exponential Growth

Startup Professionals Musings

As an angel investor, I see plenty of startups focusing on building an innovative product, but I’m looking for the few who are also leading with an exponential growth strategy, to put them in the category of the next Amazon or Google. Build relationships and partnerships to expand your influence.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

A company like Moe will help legitimize the industry,” Bernstein tells TechCrunch. “I Founders and investors circling the space suspect a wave of Silicon Valley interest is coming, however, and that it will alter the category entirely. We are in phase three of the influencer economy. Bain Capital Ventures' Jamison Hill.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. For entrepreneurs there’s too much money sloshing around. We are experiencing a frenetic time. My general advice is to do less.