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Braindates Are Open for SaaStr APAC 2023!

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with Olivier Adam, Chief Growth Officer at ReferralCandy Successful Scaling Across Markets, Lessons in Marketing & Building GTM with IvyCap’s MP with Ashish Wadhwani, Co-founder and Managing Partner. And thanks to our partners at Globalization Partners for helping bring Braindates to SaaStr APAC. Happy Brain-dating!

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8 Out of 10 SaaS Founders Are Burning Cash Faster Than Ever — And Why YC is On Fire (SVB’s 2025 Data Breakdown)

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Some funds are changing their Limited Partner Agreements to reflect this new reality. Defense Tech Has Quietly Become a Major VC Category The Surprise : Defense tech VC investment jumped 2x in 2023 and stayed at that level in 2024 , with 15 active unicorns now valued at $50B collectively.

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An Underused Strategy: Truly High Value Drip Marketing to Prospects

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— Jason ✨Be Kind✨ Lemkin  (@jasonlk) July 28, 2023 So there’s a strategy I really only see a handful of vendors using, but it really, really works IMHO. Guillaume “G”Cabane of HyperGrowth Partners, ex-VPM at Drift, Segment and Gorgias ran the actually numbers and found something similar. And no, you can’t outsource it.

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Building Resilience Through Efficient Scaling In 2023 with ICONIQ Growth General Partner, Doug Pepper, and General Partner and Head of Analytics, Christine Edmonds (Video)

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General Partner of ICONIQ Growth, Doug Pepper, and General Partner and Head of Analytics, Christine Edmonds, joined us for Workshop Wednesday , held live every Wednesday at 10 a.m. It was a tough growth environment, but it feels like it’s changing in 2023. 28% of companies are looking to outsource to cut costs.

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10 Things That Always Work in Marketing with SaaStr Founder and CEO Jason Lemkin: Part 2 (Pod 653 + Video)

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In 2023, highly personalized outbound to the right buyers always generates conversations, and mediocre outbound with trite cadences often gets you nowhere. If you outsource a firm or agency and dump cloned content on them and destroy your list, outbound won’t work for you. Pick one or two and do them well. You have to do the research.

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How To Actually Succeed in SaaS: AMA Part 1 with SaaStr Founder And CEO Jason Lemkin

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Sam went on to become a CRO at Brex and is now a Partner at Founders Fund. Folks who do mediocre outsourced content or a boring podcast won’t move the needle. Don’t outsource tweets to someone who does the same tweets for 11 other clients. At SaaStr Annual, Lemkin will do a deep-dive opener on SaaS trends of 2023.

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Unlocking Growth in the Internet Economy: a Perspective from Stripe Head of Invoicing, Suzanne Xie (Video)

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The internet economy is expected to double from 2019 to 2023—and that’s after the cost of software tools to run your business has collapsed, from $4M in 2011 to a paltry $4000 today. You can deploy subscriptions as a service, billing as a service, fraud prevention as a service. Platforms-as-a-service.