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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. The post Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video) appeared first on SaaStr.

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It’s Time to Raise Your Debt Facility: Execution Tactics for Founders

Andreessen Horowitz

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The Defining Characteristics of Successful SMB SaaS Startups

Tom Tunguz

Encouragingly, the market size for enterprise software is roughly equal to the market size for the SMB market: about 57M potential seats in each. Of course, the true number depends on the market segment: sales, HR, payroll, expense management, etc.

SMB 100
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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

My perspective is a logo is probably a term one uses to describe market share acquisition, but at the essence of any acquired customer, there is a human. Then we both became savvy to this idea of market segmentation. They want to establish certain compliance things in place. It’s really a customer.

Scale 107
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5 Shifts to Move to Mega-Deal Thinking & Catch Whales: Overcoming Small-Deal Syndrome (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

What had happened was, we had gone through an acquisition of a product that the customer was using, and during that acquisition what many times what happens is many people in the acquired company tend to leave and go do something else. The customer was very, very unhappy, the customer was considering alternative providers.

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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

My perspective is a logo is probably a term one uses to describe market share acquisition, but at the essence of any acquired customer, there is a human. Then we both became savvy to this idea of market segmentation. They want to establish certain compliance things in place. It’s really a customer.

Scale 49
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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you go back to thinking about what kind of company is a great fit for PLG, there are two important criteria: The first one is your target segment, your customer size. Hila is a mentor with Mucker Capital.

Startup 52