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How Pertino is reinventing the future of business networking

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Almost a year ago, my partner Barry Eggers and I met with Craig Elliott and Scott Hankins to talk about their vision for a new company, Pertino. From a business model perspective, the Pertino team observed how the shift to the cloud was enabling an entirely new class of IT services that could empower the little guy.

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How These Brothers Went from Hip-Hop Duo to Transforming the World of B2B Sales

ReadWriteStart

It’s a shared workspace so buyers and sellers can work together throughout the laborious B2B sales process—making it a lot more collaborative and a lot less painful. . As part of the founding sales teams at Stripe (Ross) and Google Cloud (Ryan) saw how little innovation there was around the buyer <> seller relationship.

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Cracking The Code: Unveilling of the Bessemer's 10 laws of Cloud.

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Unveilling of the Bessemers 10 laws of Cloud Computing and SaaS - Winter 2010 Release. The Cloud computing stack is currently defined by three levels: SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS. Tuesday, November 10, 2009. Mind the GAAP!

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Cracking The Code: Impact of the recession on SaaS.

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing productivity. equivalent to a one year payback on your sales&marketing investment. Philippe Botteri Accel Partners London, UK My Bio. Cloud Computing. (1).

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Cloud computing for SMBs

BeyondVC

Cloud this, Cloud that – the word cloud is clearly an overhyped word and reminds me of the beginning of the hype around hosted models and ASPs (application service providers) in the late 90s and the term SAAS today.  Rightscale is an on-ramp to Amazon EC2 and other clouds and provides automate systems management. 

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The easiest path to growth and profit is up: why startups should focus on the long-tail

Version One Ventures

In addition, by focusing on selling to smaller companies in the long tail, you’ll benefit from shorter sales cycles. It would have been a much different story had Clio first tried selling a cloud-based management tool to large legal firms (which are notoriously slow to adopt anything new).

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boldstart in 2016, enterprise tech in 2017

BeyondVC

2016 was a banner year for boldstart , and we could not have achieved any of this without the amazing support of our boldstart family and the founders who have given us the opportunity to invest in and partner with them. Fortune 1000 companies continue their slow but steady march to the cloud unlocking significant $$$.

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