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“Seed is Broken But There is More Seed Funding That Ever”: The Latest Deep Dive with Harry Stebbings and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Ok the title here is a bit dramatic, but certainly seed investing is in an odd place in 2024. Harry and Jason did a deep dive on this and so much more here: Intro (00:00:00) Seed investing is broken due to limited founders capable of triple-digit growth. The best investments grow from $1 million to $10 million in 5 quarters or less.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

SaaStock

Today Carman is Founder and Managing Partner of Click Ventures, the globally renowned Hong Kong venture capital firm. Before getting into the investment world, she started and sold two successful companies in edutainment, and made a prominent name in the tech field around the world. Jessie Lam. Diane Mensah. Maxine Ryan.

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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

SaaStr

Even if you have almost no capital, you can afford to fly to visit your top customers, prospects and partners more often. Less and you under-invest. That was great and created freedom from venture capital and many other benefits. 5/ Moving from CTO-led -> VPE-led dev team. on the balance sheet. More here.

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Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5 million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform

The SaaS Garage

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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Web Summit Rio 2023: Summary of days 2, 3, 4.

SaaSHolic

The speakers believe that the next 10 years will be better for the region, with opportunities for investment in various industries using technology to solve problems. Latin America has interesting characteristics that make it a viable place for investment, including a high level of internet penetration and social engagement.

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 1 (Pod 607 + Video)

SaaStr

They were aware of it, but startups that I work with closely or invested in, if they got all the way to 25 million with 75% NRR, I would tell them to quit today. Jason Lemkin: I think I noticed a pattern, and I wrote it up a couple of years ago and refreshed it, and then I’ll add a new anecdote. VCs can only invest in outliers.

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Loyalty Prime Raises $5.5 million for Next-Generation, AI-based Loyalty Marketing SaaS Platform

The SaaS Garage

The product development is led out of Germany by Jan Riedel, a software engineer virtuoso and veteran, who Loyalty Prime was able to win as their new CTO at the beginning of 2019. Christoph Straub, Loyalty Prime’s founder and CEO is excited about this new chapter of his company. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de