SaaStr 591: The Key to Successful Scaling Across Markets, From a Founder Turned VC with OMERS Ventures Managing Partner Harry Briggs
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How to Scale Internationally
Within three months of launching, we got a call from this very cool shop in paris called colette. They said, hey, we've seen your drink in selfridges,. Can we order some for paris? And before we knew it, we were in 20 countries. We hit the global financial crisis in two thousand and nine two thousand and eight. We needed to scale back. That gave me an opportunity to move into v c a bulleton, which was great. In 20 12, we sold the business to private equity. Made some money for our investors, sadly, not a lot for ourselves. But as ti say, learn quite a few things along the way. So i
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