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Navan Files for IPO: The Opening of B2B IPO Floodgates?

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Instead, the company pivoted aggressively into expense management and payments, expanding beyond its travel roots. “We can see the signals,” CEO Cohen said in a May 2024 CNBC interview, describing the company’s IPO readiness. Filed April 2025 Stripe 2010 Patrick Collison Payments $1.4T valuation, raised $2.5B

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SaaStr Podcast #343 with Point Nine Capital Managing Partner Christoph Janz

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Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. Before that, he co-founded two Internet startups (DealPilot.com in 1997 and Pageflakes in 2005). Christoph Janz: So what does it take to raise capital in SaaS?

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7 Best Pinterest Alternatives to Look Out For In 2024

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Behance 2005 Matias Corea and Scott Belsky 3. Easily integrates with Adobe Lightroom and facilitates the easy import of pictures and visuals. Its registration process can seem complicated for beginners. Its registration process can seem complicated for beginners. Negatives Has a rigorous review process.

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The Playbook to Hiring Your First VP of Sales and Not Screwing it Up…….with Cassidy Ventures Founder Brendon Cassidy (Video + Transcript)

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I was the 15th employee for LinkedIn and their first head of sales, joining the company back in late 2005 when everybody thought it was a spam company. So you look at companies, Top 10 SaaS companies in history, none of those companies got their first VP of Sales wrong. So I have a process, sort of a checklist.

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What It Takes to Build an Enduring Business: Celebrating 20 Years of FastSpring

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A lot has changed since 2005! Likewise, in the tech-meets-ecommerce space, there were very few SaaS companies out there, live service gaming didnt really exist yet, and software companies wanting to sell their software globally had very, very few options. On June 28th, FastSpring will celebrate its 20 year anniversary.