Check out my new blog: 'Learning from Failure: Lessons for Founders from Failed Companies'

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My hobby of collecting artifacts from failed companies: failure.museum.

Norwest
Lindsay Hyde
Tom Eisenmann
Harvard Business School
Failure Museum

Great talk by Nick Mehta at SaaStr Annual!

I never make the same mistake twice, I make it 5 or 6 times, to be sure

In most markets, the patient tortoise beats the over-anxious hare

Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin 
Scott Beechuk
Failure Museum
SaaStr

Great talk by Rebecca Lynn & Jake Heller at SaaStr Annual!

You have product market fit if:

40% of customers are disappointed if you remove the product

Your executive champion would invest their annual bonus in the company or would work there

Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin 
Scott Beechuk
Sean Ellis

Great being on stage at SaaStr Annual with Julie Iskow! We worked together in the pre-IPO days at @wageworks. 💰🤑

Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin 
Scott Beechuk
Norwest
SaaStr
Workiva

Great talk by Neil Sequeira at SaaStr Annual

VC capital raising from LPs is dead (or at least on life support)

VCs are distracted: first priority is to help companies in their portfolio (those who can be saved)

Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin 
SaaStr
Scott Beechuk
Bob Rosin

Startup death is not uncommon. Learn from 463 failure case studies at CB Insights

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And learn from 200 failure case studies at failure.museum

Failure Museum

Zume Inc.
Atrium
Theranos
Shyp
AOL.com
FTX
Blockbuster
Myspace

Fun seeing Godard Abel at SaaStr Annual

Scott Beechuk
Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin 
SaaStr
G2

Great talk by Dave Kellogg at SaaStr Annual!

Numbers are often used to bludgeon management

Metrics can we used to obscure not enlighten

Common form of misleading is cherry picking

Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin 
Scott Beechuk
Dan Darcy
SaaStr

Great discussion with David Sacks & Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  at SaaStr Annual

Mortality rate of seed deals was 20% two years ago and is 80% now

Craft Ventures is spending 70-80% of their new deal time on AI

SaaStr
Scott Beechuk

Great to see Workato at SaaStr Annual

Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin 
SaaStr
Vijay Tella @Workato
Bhaskar Roy
Norwest

This Friday at @SaaStr Annual, I’m excited to share learnings about moving upmarket with Workiva CEO Julie Iskow. Join us!

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Norwest
Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin 

Check out my new blog: '4 Lessons from Famous Product Flops'

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My hobby of collecting artifacts from failed companies and products can be seen at failure.museum. I feature over 200 items.

Norwest Thomas Kalinske Failure Museum

Congrats to Workato on a successful conference & book launch! Norwest Massimo Scott Brinker Vijay Tella @Workato Bob Rosin Rishi Mallik Ryan Floyd 🇺🇸 carter busse Bhaskar Roy

Are you a #cloud or #SaaS leader eager to break into the enterprise market? Join Workiva CEO @Julie Iskowand me at SaaStr on Sept 8 for practical knowledge and actionable strategies to make it happen.

Norwest SaaStr Annual

I hope you can join me for the premiere event of 'The New Automation Mindset' by Workato (@vijaytella) 's Twitter Profile">Vijay Tella Workato, Massimo Pezzini (IT Advisor), and Scott Brinker on August 31.

The event also features AI leaders from @NVIDIA, PwC US, and Bank of America.

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Workato Norwest

Let me know your thoughts on our blog post: 'How to Leverage Your Network to Crush Your Sales Quota'

nvp.com/blog/how-to-le… Norwest

I invest in companies that are next-gen players—companies that offer a solution no one else does. I found that in Spiff.

And working with Jeron Paul has been the icing on the cake. Thanks for inviting Norwest on your journey! nvp.co/3JT57hl

Domain expertise is the foundation on which Mahesh Baxi built Provus, and it’s one of the reasons I led Norwest’s Series A round in his company. Thank you for sharing your story with us, Mahesh! Why domain expertise is a founder’s greatest asset: nvp.com/blog/domain-ex…