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“Seed is Broken But There is More Seed Funding That Ever”: The Latest Deep Dive with Harry Stebbings and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Harry and Jason did a deep dive on this and so much more here: Intro (00:00:00) Seed investing is broken due to limited founders capable of triple-digit growth. There is more capital available to startups than ever before. He says that there are three main reasons for this: The cost of customer acquisition has gone up.

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A closer look at the 6 things to pre-empt 90% of Due Diligence

The Angel VC

Since last week's post about 6-7 things to pre-empt 90% of Due Diligence was liked/shared/retweeted quite a bit, I'd like to follow up with some additional details on what exactly SaaS Series A/B investors will look for when you supply them with the data and material that I've mentioned. How has your ARPA developed?

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

Neil Patel

Micro startup acquisitions. From Facebook to Microsoft, there is a massive trend to seek out tiny teams of five or less, buy them, and use the technology and talent to gain a competitive edge. But before we dive into that, we need to look into what micro startup acquisitions are and why you need to sit up and take notice.

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The Startup Funding & Financing Guide

Baremetrics

Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team. million – about half of all the cash they had on hand – to buy out their main venture capital investors after eight years since founding.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week With Rippling and Salesforce — May 31, 2019

SaaStr

How can one prevent their customer support team from being a wall of protection for the product and eng team? Stripe recently announced their 5th office would be… “remote”, so how does Parker feel about the building of remote teams? What are the most important things when establishing your first remote team?

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SaaStr’s Podcast “Best Of Guide” Our Top 10 Podcasts of All Time

SaaStr

David’s successful exits as an investor at Matrix include HubSpot, JBoss, AppIQ, Tabblo, Netezza, Diligent Technologies, CloudSwitch, TribeHR, GrabCAD, OpenSpan, and Enservio. Before joining Upfront Mark was Vice President, Product Management at Salesforce.com following its acquisition of Koral, where Mark was Founder and CEO.

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Building a Roadmap for Early-Stage SaaS Growth [Webinar]

SaaSOptics

Watch our latest webinar to hear from Bigfoot Capital Founder Brian Parks, SaaSOptics CEO Tim McCormick and Techstars Partner Ari Newman as they share best practices on raising seed capital and getting to a series A round. Hear tips on how to find and target the right investors and what to expect from negotiations and due diligence.

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