Scott Dorsey
7 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Dec 5, 2016 by Scott Dorsey · across every show →
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Dec 5, 2016
Dec 5, 2016 neutral
Dorsey: High Alpha's venture studio model requires 5 to 10 years to prove out
“You know, we're not going to know whether the high alpha model works for, I mean, truly probably five, seven, 10 years when these companies hopefully break out and become, you know, meaningful and very big success stories.”
Dec 5, 2016
Dec 5, 2016
Scott Dorsey: Biggest VC Challenge for Former Operators Is Giving Up Control
“So for me, and I think for all of us at high alpha being former operators, the biggest challenge is encouraging and nudging and trying to use our powers of persuasion, you know, to help these companies move in the direction we think is the right direction, but…”
Dec 5, 2016
Dorsey: ExactTarget struck out with every VC before Bob Compton invested
“Bob was our first investor and exact target. Served as chairman for the first seven or eight years of our company's life. And he was the one angel investor with a great software and VC background that believed in us when literally nobody else did Harry. So we …”
Dec 5, 2016
Most early-stage SaaS startups underprice their products due to low confidence
“Most early stage SaaS companies under, underprice their offering, and I think it's maybe lack of confidence, or lack of enterprise experience, or understandably so, being timid about a small feature set That you're putting into the market.”
Dec 5, 2016 positive
ExactTarget scaled accounts from $2,000 to $10M+ on a single codebase
“You know, back in our day at ExactTarget, we were able to sell to small businesses, often two, three, four, 5000 per year, and then we're able to sell to very large enterprises. Some of our accounts were north of ten million dollars a year, and it was essentia…”