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The Riskiest Venture-Backed Startups Are 3H’s: High Growth, High Churn and High Burn

SaaStr

Don’t disguise it in growth and/or venture capital. SaaS + hardware, SaaS + payments, etc. Rag & Bone is selling to Guess $GES for $56m on ~$250m of revenue. No the point is this isn’t D2C, it’s B2B. Yes, HubSpot didn’t get to 100% NRR until well past $30m ARR. But we aren’t all HubSpot.

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How an Estonia-based SaaS Grew to €10M ARR by Expanding Across 3 Continents?

FastSpring

Learn more about how FastSpring helps SaaS and software companies collect and remit taxes globally or localize and accept global payments. Founded in 2013, Messente developed a messaging platform that originally served businesses in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. What Is Messente? Were they delivered?

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. These businesses usually consist of 2 to 3 people, and companies are taking bets on their products that aren’t even fully realized yet. The platform is free, private, and has no middlemen.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

SaaStock

Arbor Ventures is a visionary VC focused on shaping the way the world transacts by investing in early stage companies at the intersection of financial services, data and digital commerce, through partnering with extraordinary founders and accelerating the growth of next-gen FinTech, facilitated by unparalleled strategic networks. JAFCO Asia.

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The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 581)

SaaStr

Have revenue, but early, so like 50K ARR after two months of charging for a product. People were so excited about SaaS when public companies were trading at 30 to 50 X revenue that they would want to take that meeting. Now, revenue’s coming in looking good. Last year offered checks of between five and 10, early.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. Lars was one of his early customers at Cloudera and I met him at Dreamforce in 2013 and unbeknownst to me and my business partner Matt Gourniak, he came up to us. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. Aileen Lee: But I think, yeah, for … I mean, the cloud index is not even post-revenue. That’s way post-revenue. Obviously, the majority of the people who they were managing the shifts and the payments for who were working in February, they were not working in March or in April.