SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

But you can’t base your business model purely on gut instinct: you need to understand the problem by conducting serious research. Many start-ups think they need to net venture capital to jumpstart their growth. UserZoom invested in a model where they didn’t just provide software, but services, in a model known as SaaS++.

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SaaStr

JULY 16, 2022

There’s a common meme in Venture Capital that traction is tough to quantify, but you know it when you see it. And invest. You’ve established the self-sustaining base of a compounding, powerful SaaS business model. Well, let’s take a stab at it anyway. Quantifying it. With some redundancy.

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

This article looks at the history of SaaS as it relates to financial capital and production capital. I argue that standard saas metrics make it possible for founders to scale using debt capital (production capital thats cheaper) instead of solely relying on venture capital (financial capital thats more expensive). .

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SaaStr

MAY 4, 2021

But here are some things that founders do that perhaps suggest you aren’t yet ready to raise venture capital. You change / make up a new valuation based on how much the VC wants to invest. Don’t change the price, at least not explicitly, based on a VC saying they’d invest $Xm or $Xk. “Oh And up to a point. Look it up.

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Baremetrics

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

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. Hedge funds invest in high-growth, high-risk businesses.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

The speakers believe that the next 10 years will be better for the region, with opportunities for investment in various industries using technology to solve problems. Latin America has interesting characteristics that make it a viable place for investment, including a high level of internet penetration and social engagement.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Today—and for quarters to come—staying in business will require a steadfast commitment to staying in the black, but doing so in a way that makes customers feel like they’re more than a number. You can do that with an investment in Customer Success and customer education. . From “grow at all costs” to “grow sustainably”.

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SaaSHolic

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In the startup world, “success” has long been measured by the ability to attract venture capital, secure large rounds of funding, and achieve high valuations. The problem is that fundraising sucks all the oxygen from other more crucial aspects of business development.

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SaaSHolic

JUNE 30, 2023

In venture capital, there is a very real phenomenon often referred to as the “magic of zero” The premise is that companies with zero revenue can many times be valued (much) more highly than companies with some revenue. The logic is based on the potential for growth and scalability.

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The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Inspired by Ben Horowitz’ excellent “Good product managers, bad product managers” post and Stefan Smalla’s “Good leader, bad leader” masterpiece I’ve tried to put together my thoughts on what I think makes a great venture capital investor. Not scalable? Screw scalability. A good VC doesn’t only react to requests from the founders.

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SaaStr

MAY 19, 2023

In an AMA at SaaStr APAC 2023, Black Mangroves Founder and Managing Director Arnaud Bonzom, and SaaStr Founder and CEO, Jason Lemkin answered some of the bigger questions about venture investing in 2023. Everything peaked, and there was a ton of capital. Get to know their business model. 2021 was a wild time.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 27, 2013

Though the industry is called venture capital, the goal of a VC isn’t to maximize every risk. Instead, we try to understand all the risks a business might face and weigh those risks with the reward - the exit. Market timing risk - Is now the right time for the business? But the market just wasn’t yet ready for it.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2023

You have to understand how venture capital works. PLG aren’t magic letters that fix a broken business model. We’re going to invest, and we’re going to make a freemium or PLG or low-end edition a top-three corporate priority. 99% of startups aren’t that. No one has time to have coffee with all of those folks.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 25, 2022

Though the SaaS segment hasn’t emerged untouched from market-wide volatility, SaaS continues to attract high multiples and significant investment interest in companies with strong business models and strong growth rates. Investment Scrutiny. But it’s not all bad news. . Speed to Market.

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

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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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

However, if a company has backing from a venture capital firm, we would recommend that they meet with their venture firms first to review the firm’s existing relationships and/or to get recommendations for lenders based on the company’s stage and preference.

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The SaaS Garage

APRIL 26, 2017

MUNICH & BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–riskmethods, the leading provider of solutions to identify, assess, and mitigate global supply chain risk, has successfully completed its Series-B financing round with an investment of 13.5 Senovo is an independent venture capital company based in Munich. million euros.

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The Angel VC

MARCH 5, 2012

What you do: Support evaluating the dealflow; give us your opinion on >100 business ideas and plans per month; find the one we should invest in. What we offer: Insights how a venture capital firm works. Do networking; meet people and founders. Screen new markets; find hidden champions; be faster than the rest.

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SaaSOptics

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

It’s an exciting time to be a SaaS business. With the model’s explosive growth, more money than ever is being invested in SaaS. We talk a lot about metrics and the KPIs you should track in order to scale, but which indicators do investors use to evaluate the potential risk vs. return of SaaS investments?

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Before diving in, let me remind readers that I do these predictions in the spirit of fun, they are not business or investment advice, and that all of my usual disclaimers and terms apply. Flood of venture capital (VC). Venture capital continues to flow. seed, angel) and the later growth stage as well.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Not all investors are equal : you should target the right ones who are interested in investing in SaaS and tend to fund in your geography & startup stage. A person who agrees to invest in a risky early-stage business with no final product and customers, is probably an angel. First, angel investor or VC?

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 9, 2023

If you’re mostly selling to venture capital-funded startups a lot of them are probably trying to reduce their burn rate, so they will look at SaaS spend. (…) There are also aspects of SaaS as a business model or industry that make it really strong in tough times.

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Kellblog

JULY 18, 2019

In venture capital (VC) land, you should view investors as long-term partners in value creation. Their investments give them contractual rights (e.g., inside rounds) and strong reputations such that other VCs are willing and eager to invest behind them in future rounds [5]. Answer: a small business.

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FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds. That’s true: Elements such as a global business focus and experienced professional moderators (that’s me!) As a business person yourself, you know how it works.

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The Angel VC

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

We can make around 30-40 investments with our fund, so statistically the chances of hitting a unicorn are very low. We’re small enough for not being dependent on unicorns, but – and that’s the big difference to angel investing – we’re too big for generating a great performance by piling up a larger number of small exits.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“Industry-Centric” SaaS business models offer an alternative SaaS company categorization to the “Customer-Centric” SaaS model, which is defined based on the “go-to-market” strategy used by a management team. When SaaS business models originated, the most successful venture-backed startups used a horizontal model.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 22, 2018

The difference now is how important and meaningful the subscription model has become to the national economic engine. Technology is the undisputed future of the biggest economy in the world, and the subscription model is quickly becoming the dominant business model.

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SaaSOptics

MAY 22, 2018

The difference now is how important and meaningful the subscription model has become to the national economic engine. Technology is the undisputed future of the biggest economy in the world, and the subscription model is quickly becoming the dominant business model.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

SaaS companies in particular have high gross margins (no IT admin) and recurring revenues (subscriptions), a combination which means they can re-invest a substantial piece of their revenue into (hopefully) predictable growth. It’s not very surprising then that we’ve built, invested in, and bought a ton of software over the last few decades.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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. All right, so the answer is there are actually 61 a cloud unicorns, and we’ll flash them up. How long can this last?

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Kellblog

JANUARY 23, 2022

People who typically majored in economics or finance (sometimes CS), worked for 2 to 4 years in management consulting or at a tech firm, attended a top business school, joined a VC firm as an associate, and then worked (usually hard and against the odds) their way up to partner. In high school, they were in the investing club.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

And in the course of doing that, I think I really discovered and fell in love with SaaS as a business model and it really doubled down on my interest in data analytics. We didn’t take our first dollar of outside capital until 2012 for that business. The business ran for four years completely bootstrapped.

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Backlinkfy

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Thinking of starting a small business but worried about finances? We live a totally different world today, gone are the years where you'll need to have Angel or venture capital funding for you to start a business. Starting out you'll also want to make sure you are hiring the right people to scale your business.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

What kind of investment are you going to raise? At that moment, the world decides that now it’s safe to invest in this thing. If you guys don’t do it, because now everybody sees that it should exist, somebody else is going to do it. Now, let’s decide what the company strategy is to solve that problem.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is the SaaS business model. As a result, revenue recognition is a fundamental part of the SaaS business model. Recurring payments. Early stage.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

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. Aileen Lee: Yeah.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products. We also have a lot of developers who build with our API just for their own Slack workspaces as customers, and 90% of our paying customers actively use apps in a given week. Ceci Stallsmith : So, we want to … Oh, here’s who we are.

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