The Angel VC

MAY 17, 2017

In our weekly investment team call earlier this week we decided to pass on two early-stage SaaS startups that were both on track to grow from zero to $100k in MRR in their first 12 months of going live. As Clément said, this is not about good or bad. I’ll keep you posted.) And chances are that it would have been a good investment.

Business Model 180

Business Model Venture Capital SaaS Underperforming Technical Team 180

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 25, 2022

In 2010, after noticing how young people were using social media to report what was happening, he founded Storyful, the world’s first social media newswire that combined a traditional news agency with authenticated user-generated content. We were still the poor people of Europe. That won’t be inspiring you for the future.”

Social Media 208

Social Media Scale Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 208

SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2022

It wasn’t the case 20 or even 10 years ago, where the business models of the internet were more focused on eCommerce, marketplaces, or even advertising. The second constituent there is the developer. Why do developers love SaaS products? The last kind of constituent here is investors and business owners.

SaaS Payments 230

SaaS Payments Metrics Payment Methods Scale 230

SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

We had run around the world and we would show up to a company using technology in some interesting way and we would teach them for four, maybe five days straight, and that was our business model. And from about 2007 till 2010 we bootstrapped and built the first version of the Pluralsight you see today.

B2B 132

B2B B2C Scale New CTO 132

Neil Patel

APRIL 12, 2021

This isn’t a difficult component of your marketing mix to develop. This might sound like a great idea, but it’s really short-sighted when developing market share. You get what you pay for” has never been more true than when businesses and freelancers try to underbid each other. Publish those testimonials on your site.

Strategy 141

Strategy Marketing Technical Review Social Media 141

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

As for Krish, under Krish’s leadership the team has grown to over 300 people and over 5,000 clients making it one of the next generation in truly global SaaS businesses started in India. First, what is continuous customer development? ” How do you think about this type of business and how would you respond to that VC?

Scale 124

Scale SaaS Payments Sales Recruiting Payment Services 124