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Reflections on 2018: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

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Sutton Capital Partners is a technology investment banking firm and we are, investors in local SaaS/subscription companies and is well known as the host of the annual Recurring Revenue Conference, which we co-host every year. We continue to focus on companies with Recurring Revenue (SaaS, Subcription) and in FinTech.

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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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. We've heard quite a bit about your mentoring efforts here, can you talk about that?

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Kevin O'Connor, ScOp Venture Capital, On Startup Success and Investments

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The companies we're generally looking for are software-as-a-service-based companies, and although we don't just invest in SaaS companies, it's our primary focus. If anything, the nice thing in SoCal, is that it's under-represented in terms of capital. Kevin O'Connor: I've learned a lot over the years.

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Startup CTO or Developer

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What’s our purchase, licensing, SaaS strategy? What metrics are going to be the key startup metrics and how do we get those metrics without too much cost? Where and how will we host the systems? What other CTOs can I ask about complex questions to see how they’ve addressed these issues? Please point me there.

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

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What’s our purchase, licensing, SaaS strategy? Learning, Networking, Mentors From the question, this person is clearly looking at the issue of how to grow into this role. And it's quite common for people to get together outside of meetings to discuss issues they face and/or to seek a kind of mentoring relationship.

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One Weird Trick to Build a Personal Brand

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My long-time friend Jason Lemkin is on the verge of launching a spectacular SaaS conference called SaaStr this week. I had been doing SaaS for 7 years. I thought about the fact that I knew SaaS better than most. Maybe I could be SoCal guy? He would double down on what he knew better than nearly any VC – SaaS.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

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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. So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. I got a taste of that within my first weeks on the job.

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