SaaStr

JULY 28, 2023

So Capchase surveyed 900 SaaS businesses between $1m and $15m ARR, and their data showed what I’ve seen as well: it’s tougher out there,and media growth is down. In any event, good data above to be honest about where you stack up. And the median at $1m ARR was “just” 60% annual growth.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In the 2000s, when capital was scarcer, founders & VCs would derive round size by debating the quantum of money required to achieve Series B milestones. When capital is scarce, it’s rationed. In the 2010s, US venture capital grew 40x in 10 years. In 2021, employment costs per capital increased to roughly $200k.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

She serves as a board member or observer for Teleport, Netlify, Imply Data, LaunchDarkly, GetInsured, and Contractbook. Mary was previously named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 List in Venture Capital and is a protagonist in a Harvard Business School case on Bessemer’s Century Fund.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The US venture capital ecosystem has grown 40x in dollars from $8b to $320b invested in 10 years. Fueled by this capital, startup company formation rates touched fifteen-year highs in 2021. The Decade of Data is just a few years in & already it has transformed the way we do business.

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Buffer Resources

AUGUST 2, 2023

I was working at a Venture Capital firm and was feeling the itch to create something new on my own. After some time in Venture Capital, I took the knowledge I built around market research and started applying it to my personal life. I have historically always balanced having jobs and online businesses.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Our breadth and depth of expertise and A-SCEND, our proprietary compliance management platform, enable you to assess against the leading cybersecurity compliance frameworks important to your business – with one partner. We support our exceptional founders on their extraordinary journeys, with life time capital and a value-add platform.

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Cybersecurity Venture Capital compliance Government 233

Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2023

It’s a marvel of business with strong growth, great efficiency & the potential to reignite interest in SaaS IPOs. Klaviyo is a customer data platform company which ingests marketing data & empowers their customers to automate their marketing with data & AI. for the last 6 months.

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Benchmarks Venture Capital Marketing SMB 172

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Bank provides community banking products including lending and comprehensive deposit and treasury management services to small and medium-sized businesses through our California-based branch offices and Denver, Colorado branch office.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 26, 2023

It’s a marvel of business with strong growth, great efficiency & the potential to reignite interest in SaaS IPOs. Klayviyo is a customer data platform company which ingests marketing data & empowers their customers to automate their marketing with data & AI. for the last 6 months.

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SaaStr

MAY 25, 2020

4: Growing & Scaling SaaS Businesses from $1M to $500M in ARR with Intercom. 5: “The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd” Godard shares from data what scales and what doesn’t in SaaS. #6. It’s really good. #4: A SaaS classic on how to build a unicorn. #5:

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 23, 2021

The conversation of how long capital will last, which was ubiquitous is mostly debating during seed rounds, if at all. This has as much to do with novel GTM strategies, better product-market fit, and the consequent greater leverage in businesses, as does the demand side. A few years ago, raising a large venture round anointed a winner.

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Software Review Venture Capital Cloud Pricing 364

SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Most Surprising Thing About VC This Year Shen has been in venture capital for 12 years now, and it’s been a crazy ride to watch the whole bull market back in ‘10 and ‘11 when 10x revenue was insanely expensive for a SaaS company. NotionAI is the fastest-growing AI business, and it’s already an existing product.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 28, 2024

Prior to joining Demandbase, Kelly honed her start-up skills as the first CMO at HYCU, a series B, venture capital-backed data protection SaaS company. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University. She now continues at HYCU as an Advisor.

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Revenue Venture Capital Strategy Marketing 95

SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2022

An impactful deck that explains your business and the opportunity waiting for investors can often clinch the deal. Logan Allin, Managing Partner at Fin Venture Capital, has reviewed hundreds of deck submissions and shares the secrets to crafting the perfect presentation to win over investors.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 21, 2023

What’s your pulse check on the venture markets right now, today? Venture is cyclical. Historically, the headlines read “venture capital is dead ” every 7 to 10 years. And we have a world-class Go-to-Market Council made up of operating executives who provide our CEOs with advice on scaling their businesses. #6.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Hence tokens, which have value, constitute the business’s CAC. The profit and loss statement of a business records the quantum on the Selling & Marketing Expenses line. It’s too early in the development of the ecosystem for most businesses to concentrate on customer acquisition funnel optimization.

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Venture Capital Blockchain Acquisition Benchmarks 254

Buffer Resources

AUGUST 2, 2023

I was working at a Venture Capital firm and was feeling the itch to create something new on my own. After some time in Venture Capital, I took the knowledge I built around market research and started applying it to my personal life. I have historically always balanced having jobs and online businesses.

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Business Venture Capital Technical Review Trends 52

User Pilot

JUNE 13, 2022

We covered the best blogs on SaaS growth, product marketing , UX analytics, venture capital, and sales. The Kalungi blog is focused on educating users about how to implement inbound marketing in their SaaS businesses. The Brad Feld blog is one of the best venture capital blogs dedicated to entrepreneurs and investors.

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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. Table of Contents. What is Equity Financing in SaaS?

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

A healthy availability of capital is one. We looked at the data and discovered a few vital moments in the funding history of the region. Undoubtedly, Brazil is the most mature market for VC funding in Latin America – with both a diverse pool of venture companies and a range of promising SaaS businesses to attract funding.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Today Carman is Founder and Managing Partner of Click Ventures, the globally renowned Hong Kong venture capital firm. At Click Ventures, Carman uses her impressive skills to lead companies on the right path, with an unheard of failure rate of funded businesses – below 10%. Jessica Liu. Hooi Ling Tan.

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SaaStr

JUNE 30, 2023

When I look at the purpose of venture capital, it’s not to burn a dollar five in order to grow a dollar of revenue,” says Magnuson. From 2011 to 2015, the only part of the mobile market that was making money was mobile gaming, but tricking children into buying fish food wasn’t a sustainable business.

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Scale Mobile Venture Capital Scaling 198

Baremetrics

AUGUST 23, 2021

Now, we use bootstrapping to describe the not quite impossible task of building your business without financing. If you choose not to finance your business by selling part of it to venture capitalists, and you also do not want or cannot secure a loan, then you are left with bootstrapping. What are the bootstrapping stages?

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SaaStr

JUNE 5, 2020

Few folks have more data than Nathan Latka and he offers up some insights on how to properly leverage up in SaaS. Carlota Perez argues in her book Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital that in the early days of a “golden age”, financial capital is necessary to fuel new technology innovation. . — ed.

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Venture Capital Technical Review SaaS Scale 218

SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2023

PST, to unveil the data behind effective scaling. Pepper shares that ICONIQ, a venture capital firm with $10B under management, made fewer investments last year than ever before. A Look Back At 2022 Performance ICONIQ Growth leverages quarterly operating and financial data from 92 enterprise SaaS companies.

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Outsourcing Services Scaling Venture Capital Forecasting 161

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Using advanced machine learning techniques, Loyalty Prime’s AI will maximise efficiency and effectiveness of loyalty program business rule creation, segmentation and personalisation, next best offer management, and fraud prevention, to name a few.” The venture capital portfolio currently consists of 31 technology companies.

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Generative AI Artificial Intelligence CTO Coach Venture Capital 90

Clouded Judgement

JANUARY 12, 2024

If we rewind the clock back to 2021, the venture funding market went crazy. I pulled some data from Pitchbook that you can see below (screen was for US based companies that they categorize as “software”). They’re getting fit from the early days, operating efficiently, and building their businesses the right way.

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Cloud Venture Capital Acquisition Metrics 284

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2021

For the past 10 years, I’ve been a sales advisor for the portfolio companies of early stage venture capital firm True Ventures. It’s fascinating work for a sales mind like mine that’s focused on helping brilliant people turn ideas into revenue-driving businesses. . They don’t close business.

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Sales Hiring Scale Venture Capital Sales 170

Buffer Resources

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Dulma Altan Content pillars: Creator economy, tech, startups, and venture capital Dulma Altan 's venture into podcasting was a natural extension of her TikTok presence, where she explored topics revolving around the creator economy, tech, startups, and venture capital.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

Passion and dedication of the founder and the business model’s distribution potential are key points for investment models. Paulo) TL;DR Headline Ventures is a global venture capital firm with a portfolio of notable companies, focusing on building companies with the Silicon Valley idea around the world.

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Totango

JANUARY 15, 2019

While it’s no doubt a thrill to pursue and persuade a new customer to work with your enterprise, for software and subscription-based businesses, the real value lies in customer retention. The digital transformation of businesses has given us a wealth of new ways to directly engage with customers and keep the relationship fresh.

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SaaSOptics

JUNE 24, 2021

In a recent webinar, SaaSOptics CEO Tim McCormick and Bigfoot Capital CEO Brian Parks discussed the changes that have taken place across the SaaS financing landscape, particularly those in debt financing of SaaS companies. . As a debt lender, Bigfoot Capital CEO Brian Parks takes a data-driven approach to choose partnerships to pursue.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 27, 2024

Dropping into your inbox with a Saturday special today, and here’s why: this week was a particularly busy one, capped off by our first GTMfund dinner of the year. Take a look at these contrasting statements: GTMfund is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in pre-seed to series A software companies.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 13, 2018

Christoph Janz ( @chrija ) is managing partner at Point Nine Capital — a venture capital firm that’s highly prevalent in the world of SaaS. What it takes for SaaS startups today to raise venture capital. How startups should be using data today. Topics covered in this episode.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Venture capitalists have financed many of those businesses. Those venture dollars have financed a panoply of competition. Most businesses are competing with the same strategies as their competition. The fourth has the starkest data. The SaaS era is about 20 years old. Salesforce was founded in 1999.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 11, 2022

In this article, we’ll help you determine the next best step for your business and provide guidance on whether you should raise, sell, merge, or scale your SaaS. Option 1: Raising capital. So what should you do if you’re strapped for cash and have your sights set on venture capital? Option 2: Selling the business.

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Scale Scaling Technical Review Venture Capital 97

ProfitWell

MAY 18, 2020

Some good news regarding this data—overall, DTC growth is continuing to trend upward. Be sure to check your subscriber newsletter every Monday morning so that you can kickstart the week with some fresh data on DTC growth. Know anyone who might also benefit from this data? So yes, you can launch a business right now.

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