The Angel VC

JANUARY 10, 2017

So if you want to raise capital for your SaaS startup in 2017, investors will wonder if you can become a true system of record, build a real platform/ecosystem/marketplace or build a unique data asset over time. The latter option will get particular attention this year, so I highlighted that in the "Defensibility" row of the napkin.

SaaS 262

SaaS Marketplace as a Service Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence 262

Sales Hacker

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Why it’s hard to build a two-sided marketplace [13:38]. Do you create broader richer data sets and sell those back to companies for benchmarking purposes? And the ones that aren’t are generally, kind of related industries, IT services and those sorts of things. Show Introduction [00:10]. Or how do you make money?

Marketplace as a Service 95

Marketplace as a Service CTO Hire Sales Recruiting Scale 95

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

5 Reasons I Hate the Rule of 40 by Mikael Johnsson, SaaS Nordic While not necessarily completely useless, I would strongly argue that R40 is a metric applicable to the world of PE and public markets investing and is not a good metric for assessing the quality of venture-stage companies. Forget about Threads. What’s your TikTok strategy?

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52