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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 They collect the payment online and take a 15% fee for every booking. Let’s use Airbnb as an example. That’s it.

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The top SaaS companies ruling the East Coast

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Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Recorded Future is a leading universal threat intelligence solution that arms enterprises’ security teams with all the tools they need. In developing their solution, Affectiva has analyzed more than 7.5

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

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When you hire your first couple reps, they do need to have sold a software product. It can work out a little bit for tiny SMBs, but it doesn’t work in software, okay? And then I just kept investing in companies that did some of this because I was passionate about it. I invested a small amount in Front, which is 1.7B.

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Cash Accounting

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In its simplest form, cash accounting is a system in which a company records expenses and revenues as the money changes hands. Note that some jurisdictions don’t like this, however, and will usually make larger businesses switch to an accrual system when they reach a revenue threshold. The saying “cash is king” exists for a reason.

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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.

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Customer Retention Software Guide: 3 Best Tools Compared

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What is retention software? Retention software is software that focuses on optimizing user retention and reducing churn. 3 Best Retention Software Tools. As mentioned before, without a good retention system in place, you will not grow. And you only recover three out of 10 customers whose payments fail.

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The SaaS superstars of the East Coast

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Forter offers a real-time and completely automated fraud prevention solution for enterprise e-commerce businesses. Recorded Future is a leading universal threat intelligence solution that arms enterprises’ security teams with all the tools they need. In developing their solution, Affectiva has analyzed more than 7.5