SaaStr

AUGUST 25, 2023

You have to understand how venture capital works. PLG aren’t magic letters that fix a broken business model. Freemium isn’t a marketing strategy. Many people think it’s cheaper than a sales or marketing-led initiative, and it’s the wrong way to do it. 99% of startups aren’t that. Or let’s go PLG.

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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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Outsourcing Services Software Review Scale Banking 124

Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Flood of venture capital (VC). SaaS provided provided both a market disruption opportunity and a total available market (TAM) expansion in each market segment. Venture capital continues to flow. PLG brings many good ideas that companies should consider and map to their own business models.

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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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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? If you haven’t adopted one of these light touch business models, you are screwed, in my opinion.

Scale 107

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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

MARCH 8, 2019

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? If you haven’t adopted one of these light touch business models, you are screwed, in my opinion.

Scale 46

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Social Media 46