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Doubling Down: Nina Achadijian, Partner at Index Ventures

SaaStr

Many founders hit the brakes on growth to pivot towards profitability when in reality, the right combination is aiming for durable growth with a profitable business model. What’s your pulse check on the venture markets right now, today? Nina focuses on venture and growth investments in enterprise SaaS, vertical SaaS, and AI.

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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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Three chief customer officer job descriptions we love

ChurnZero

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. SaaS businesses, meanwhile, benefit from predictable streams of recurring revenue.

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SaaS Growth Trends in 2023

Chart Mogul

Christoph elaborates on how a long-term, strong economic market with low interest rates led to an influx of capital in the system. Renewal, payment, happy days. Prior to founding Salesroom, Daria was an investor at Oxx, a growth-stage B2B software investment fund. The result: a bubble. Click here to watch this point.

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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. Venture Capital. Buffer spent $3.3 Series C and beyond.

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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. We have over 1,500 apps listed in our app directory, so those are with third party partners. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

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5 Ways Small Businesses Can Setup An Online Store On A Tight Budget

Backlinkfy

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.