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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

SaaStr

I thought it would be worth drilling down deeper into each of them, and sharing the learnings and mistakes: 1/ Spending less time fixing things, more time recruiting senior folks to own them. No one spends enough time recruiting as it is, after $1m ARR or so. Yes, you can manage the sales team yourself. You can do this.

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What is Equity Financing?

Baremetrics

Equity financing is a method of capital raising via the selling of stock. They may need cash to meet immediate financial obligations or have a longer-term objective and require capital to invest in their development. What is the difference between Equity Financing, Loans, and Venture Capital Funding?

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

The Angel VC

The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded. While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years.

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

Point Nine Land

The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded. While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years.

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From Slooooow Growth to Hypergrowth with Collibra and Insight Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Felix Van de Maele, Co-Founder and CEO of Collibra, will be joined by Teddie Wardi, Managing Director of Insight Partners, to unpack how he built a unicorn company from idea to conception to record growth. Teddie Wardi | Managing Director @ Insight Partners. Want to see more content like this? Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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The $8 trillion opportunity

ProfitWell

Using CB Insights' tech insights platform, the team there, analyzed signals—like patent and investment activity, executive chatter in earnings transcripts, and media mentions—to identify the top 14 tech trends to watch in 2020. And you claim that sales should be hired last when dealing with a product-led growth initiative. Why is that?

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What we look for in early-stage SaaS startups

The Angel VC

I recently wrote that investors (myself included) should do a better job of making their investment criteria transparent to founders. Today I'd like to tell you a bit more about what we at Point Nine Capital are looking for in SaaS startups (other sectors are something for another blog post). along the way.