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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). That includes: A global focus.

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What is Equity Financing?

Baremetrics

Equity financing is a method of capital raising via the selling of stock. Businesses grow money for a variety of reasons. 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 Equity Financing in SaaS?

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The Startup Funding & Financing Guide

Baremetrics

While not disastrous, these startups demonstrate the significance of choosing the right funding for your business. million – about half of all the cash they had on hand – to buy out their main venture capital investors after eight years since founding. TinySeed , Earnest Capital , and Indie.vc Buffer spent $3.3

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Scaling Revenue via Indirect Channels and Platform Ecosystems with Stripe, Box and Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

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Understanding the SaaS business model

ProfitWell

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing.

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After Selling For $580M, Here’s What I Learned About SaaS During My Time At Buildium

Outseta

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I learned a million lessons about SaaS, about start-ups, and about life along the way.

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. Aileen Lee | Founder @ Cowboy Ventures. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years.