Ed Sim - Issue #4
Scaling startups
You Can't Growth Hack Your Way to Success
great deck on marketing/creating sustainable growth
It’s important to build a marketing strategy around a foundation instead of stringing together small “growth hacking” experiments. It’s about PEOPLE, PERSONAS,…
Infrastructure and Dev
great overview of financing rounds, M&A, market from Momentum Partners
Google’s Chrome Hackers Are About to Upend Your Idea of Web Security | WIRED
bravo - much needed - security becoming mainstream through browser
Markets
Outlook gets its own lightweight CRM, Outlook Customer Manager | TechCrunch
great move - like StreakCRM inside of google apps, lightweight email-based CRM
Microsoft today is rolling out a new tool for business owners using Office 365 and Outlook called Customer Service Manager, a lightweight CRM for companies..
Trends in Early Stage SaaS Fundraising Market of 2016
surprised by this - thought marketing SaaS oversaturated - marketing SaaS cos have raised most so far in 2016 and horizontal SaaS over vertical in $
boldstart Portfolio News
excited about launch - disrupting how SaaS cos deliver professional services to customers
Snyk - Automatically Scan and Fix Ruby and Nodejs Vulnerabilities
founder of github on Snyk’s launch - securing open source for Node.js and now Ruby
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