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07.09.2019

Lessons from Silicon Valley

Recently I read “Once You’re Lucky, Twice You’re Good” by Sarah Lacy.  It’s a fantastic book about the re-emergence of Silicon Valley after the tech bubble in 2001.  The book is well worth a full read and I highly recommend……

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07.05.2019

The demise of Yahoo

Nicholas Carlson wrote a fantastic book about Yahoo entitled “Marissa Mayer and The Fight to Save Yahoo.”  Below I have paraphrased what I found to be valuable sections, verbatim; the full book is definitely worth the read.      ……

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06.28.2019

Structuring your SaaS sales team

We just got back from visiting with the sales team of a fantastic SaaS business that has grown 30% in the past 5 months.  Below we share some of their best practices which hopefully can apply to your SaaS business……

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06.27.2019

The 12 rule of customer success

We’ve had the good fortune of learning from and investing in SaaS businesses with excellent customer retention and upsells. Below are some of the key learnings we’ve gathered over time. The Customer Success Team is not the only group in……

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06.25.2019

Lessons from a blockchain exit

We had the chance to speak to Bennett Collen of Cognate.  Bennett had a successful exit to GoDaddy.  Lessons from his story are below. Cognate found a niche with a deep need.  In 2014, Bennett started Cognate within his dad’s……

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