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The Sales Tech Stack
A sophisticated buyer is driving growth in the sales technology landscape
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Stacey Bishop
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Scale Studio
Magic Number Calculator for SaaS
Benchmark against top SaaS companies
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Dale Chang
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Customer Identity as a Service
Stormpath elegantly centralizes identity into a service, enabling developers to focus on building the application they imagine.
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Andy Vitus
Trends
How Great Entrepreneurs Avoid A Down Round
A down round can occur to anyone, but a mindful founder can minimize the risk.
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Alex Niehenke
Trends
3 Ways Analytics Can Supercharge the Sales Cycle
How empowering sales team with the right resources and technologies can impact the bottom line
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Stacey Bishop
Trends
A Decade of SaaS Valuations
Identifying the best position for company valuation
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Alex Niehenke
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Breaking Down the IOT Stack
A closer look at the technology underlying IoT
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Andy Vitus
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The Current State of SaaS
Number of companies in Scale Venture Partners SaaS Index up 100% in four years
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Alex Niehenke
Portfolio
How Work Gets Done; Our Investment in Wrike
The next generation of work management is Wrike
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Portfolio
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Rory O'Driscoll
Trends
Diversity in Venture Capital - A National Conversation
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Kate Mitchell
Portfolio
Remove the Guesswork from Sales Forecasts
Predictive Analytics for Sales and our investment in Aviso
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Portfolio
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Stacey Bishop
Portfolio
A Database For Your Pocket
The team at Realm has built a database that has several critical advantages over SQLite.
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Portfolio
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Andy Vitus
Trends
Losing Ground: Why Software Purchases Are Moving from IT Decisions to LOB Decisions
Five Motivators Driving the Shift
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Cack Wilhelm
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Congratulations Box!
Proud to be an investor in the next great enterprise software company
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Rory O'Driscoll
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The Time for Scaling... People, Investments, Exits
The Road from 2014 to 2015
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Kate Mitchell

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