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How to Pitch Your Seed Stage Startup with Y Combinator’s Michael Seibel (Video + Podcast)

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Stand Out by Being Concise and Easy to Understand Michael has done over 2000 YC interviews, and the one thing founders don’t understand is that if investors don’t know what your company does, they can’t fund you. “The Two sentence description of what Airbnb does: They let any home or apartment owner rent out their place online.

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AMA at SaaStr Annual 2022 with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin – Part 2 (Pod 608 + Video)

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So hire that person as early as you can find her or him. Audience Member 2: You recently wrote an article that said when the phone rings, pick it up. And so very early, when I realized I couldn’t hire 10 support people, I immediately hired an outsourced team in Canada so that someone could do the chat and pick up the phone 24/7.

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Cash Accounting

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Note that cash accounting has many names, so you may have heard it called cash-basis accounting, the cash method of accounting, or the cash receipts and disbursements method of accounting, among others. As a SaaS founder, you know that failed payments can break your growth targets. Table of Contents.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matt Garratt, Trisha Price, David Schmaier, Rob Bernshteyn, and Jason Lemkin

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We’ve invested in over 300 companies at Salesforce Ventures and have partnered with both of you closely and it’s been amazing to see this story up close and personal over the years. Yeah, I’m a product person by training and so we had had a lot of experience building SaaS and vertical products. You can do that.

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

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Their products include POS, hardware, software, and payment processing with a large number of additional options provided by their great ecosystem of partners. SEMrush is an online visibility management and content marketing SaaS platform that helps businesses get measurable results from online marketing. Founded: 2000.

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Sales Hacker Recommends: 97 Best Sales Books for Peak Performance (2020 Update)

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If you truly want to be a better leader, better salesperson , better speaker, better writer, or just a better person, you need to study the craft. You will learn why traditional sales methods which were developed for small consumer sales, just won’t work for large sales and why conventional selling methods are doomed to fail in major sales.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

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According to Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, the one thing necessary for any company to succeed in China – or in any of the Asian countries – is to get local investment. It has more than 100 investments since its founding in 2001. SAIF is also one of the biggest funds, investing in Hong Kong, China and India.