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Start-Up Success in SaaS?  You Have to Bend the Odds In Your Favor.  Some Thoughts on How to Do It.

Start-Up Success in SaaS? You Have to Bend the Odds In Your Favor. Some Thoughts on How to Do It.

By Jason M. Lemkin on January 8, 2013

Mark Suster put together a presentation (and a blog post) a few weeks ago that has really stuck with me me. I never, perhaps intentionally, looked at the odds of achieving a solid exit in a start-up. Actually it’s just this one slide that has really stayed with me … It turns out the odds of [...]

Posted in Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged co-founders, echosign, Entrepreneurship, exit, m&a, mark suster, Meebo, Pinterest, saas, startups, Uncategorized | 2 Responses

A Real Life SaaS Case Study: Eloqua. Marketo. Pardot. There Are 3 Different Paths to Success, My Young Padwan.

A Real Life SaaS Case Study: Eloqua. Marketo. Pardot. There Are 3 Different Paths to Success, My Young Padwan.

By Jason M. Lemkin on October 12, 2012

I don’t know about you, but I really can’t stand case studies.  They always seem either contrived (forcing contrasts in companies that aren’t really there) or else too hypothetical, because we know which way things really worked out in real life (Case Study: Company A had to decide whether to do action X or Y.  [...]

Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Featured Posts | Tagged echosign, Eloqua, ExactTarget, exit, Initial public offering, ipo, m&a, marketo, merger, Pardot | 3 Responses

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