What happens after your startup is acquired?
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Samebug builds a stack-trace search that matches errors across GitHub and StackOverflow, scrapes public sources for examples, raises $1M and grows to eight people but never gains steady revenue or enough occurrence data. After a first failed merger discussion, Rollbar acquires Samebug on Dec 31, 2018 and integrates three offices (Budapest, San Francisco, Barcelona), forcing nine-hour syncs, cultural adjustments and distributed-process workarounds. Outcomes: product vision survives, payroll and fundraising anxiety disappear, and engineering + SaaS know-how scale under Rollbar. stack-trace search that matches errors across GitHub and StackOverflow acquired by Rollbar Dec 31 2018 raised $1M and team of eight
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- 0:00Intro
- 0:43One out of 10 startup fails
- 1:42About Renata
- 2:48How it all began
- 3:29First MVP
- 4:02Raised
- 4:22Three things we were missing
- 5:19Who has the data
- 7:08What happened
- 7:20Three options
- 8:12First round
- 10:15Selling Samebug
- 12:22Rhobar Acquisition
- 12:50You sold it
- 13:22Challenges
- 16:22Distributed teams
- 17:47Time zone difference
- 19:11Disadvantage of being a woman in technical industry
- 20:40Advantages of being an entrepreneur
- 22:15Challenges of being an entrepreneur
- 22:52Openness in the company
- 24:09Goodwill
- 24:55Examples of goodwill
- 25:16Shared vision
- 27:52Core values
- 30:00Emotional journey
- 31:43Anxiety
- 33:21Fundraising
- 35:39Conclusion
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