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Raise, Sell, Merge, or Scale? How to Navigate the Market Downturn.

SaaSOptics

Rising inflation and a weak stock market are causing investors to be more careful with their financing, and without a plan to manage your cash runway effectively, you’re putting both yourself and your company at risk. So what should you do if you’re strapped for cash and have your sights set on venture capital?

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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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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. How long can this last?

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The Case Against Budgets, Forecasts, and Performance Targets

Outseta

You can’t have a top down budget created by an executive team and approved by the board, while also having self managed teams that are empowered to make decisions by sensing and responding to what the market and the business is telling them. The executive team needed this plan to drive alignment.

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The Best SaaS Blog Posts and Resources Library

Chart Mogul

Source From Mice to Whales – 5 Ways to Build a $100 Million SaaS Company by Christoph Janz, Point Nine Capital Your Guide to SaaS Product Metrics by Kyle Poyar, OpenView Partners How do you compare? Benchmarks across the PLG user journey The hardest part of PLG might actually be… marketing?! Forget about Threads.

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PODCAST 131: Data, Set, Match: How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace to Drive Revenue with Ryan Walsh

Sales Hacker

Managing a technical team as a non-technical person [24:13]. Okay, it’s not that easy, but Sapper Consulting has built REGIE to keep the promise of sales enablement alive and keep your team doing what they do best, which is winning. Do you create broader richer data sets and sell those back to companies for benchmarking purposes?

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Everything you need to know about SaaS funding

ProfitWell

Do you gun straight for the glamour (and pressure) of venture capital investment? What about a venture capitalist who might be sympathetic to your mission? Going into the pursuit of funding without a plan can lead you nowhere—or, even worse, leave you saddled with a funding plan that’s bad for you and your business.