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Lessons Learned, Experience Gained: Ruminations on Mark Small’s Journey from Salesperson to Sales…

Jason Malki

Mark brings a wealth of experience and a global perspective as a senior sales and revenue operations leader to his role as a Strategic Advisor to emerging, potentially disruptive companies. It was revolutionary and completely disrupted the way legal research was done. Lexis was an early application of full-text boolean search logic.

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Extra Crunch roundup: first-check myths, Miami relocation checklist, standout SaaSy startups

TechCrunch

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. Use discount code ECFriday to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription.

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Shop Circle wants to keep Shopify merchants from going ‘round and ‘round finding apps they need

TechCrunch

We want every merchant selling online to use our tools to run and superpower their stores.”. There was also some venture debt mixed in, and TriplePoint Capital provided that. At the same time, it’s fun to build in silence without too much disruption. We wanted to be the ‘Microsoft for e-commerce merchants.’

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Construction tech survey, founder-CEO friction, diversify your cap table

TechCrunch

Configuring a robot to mix cement is easy, but delivering a CementTron 3000 to a job site, training employees on its use, and keeping it maintained are not the kinds of disruptions builders are looking for, especially when margins are so thin and experienced workers are hard to find. Sungjoon Cho, general partner, D20 Capital.

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Q3 outlook forecasts cloudy days ahead for fintech M&A

TechCrunch

The company has raised over $86 million over its lifetime and counts NewView Capital and SoftBank’s SB Opportunity Fund among its backers. Meanwhile, Yaydoo has raised over $20 million from investors such as Base10 Partners, monashees, SB Opportunity Fund and Leap Global Partners. Today the U.S. ” Image Credits: Paystand/Yaydoo.

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8 Czech VCs on green shoots, pandemic impacts and 2021 opportunities

TechCrunch

Among the trends they identified are startups in B2B, business automation processes, e-commerce, AI, SaaS and COVID-19-related solutions, as well as “smart” everything: factories, cities, offices, etc. Still, new opportunities are popping up in remote work, psychedelics and wellness. Innovative. Healthcare, industry 4.0.

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How Ecosystem-Led Growth Unlocks the Next Generation of GTM

Andreessen Horowitz

In this conversation, a16z Growth general partner Sarah Wang speaks with Crossbeam CEO Bob Moore about his new book, Ecosystem-Led Growth: A Blueprint for Sales and Marketing Success Using the Power of Partnerships. But how do you actually make use of that data that’s now available? This showed up in the SaaS-pocalypse.

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