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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

20X year 1⃣ 12X year 2⃣ 5X year 3⃣ #deelspeed @deel [link] — Shuooo (@shuoshuooshuooo) January 23, 2023 When we look at SaaS companies’ success stories, everything looks great on their growth maps. Shuo Wang is the CRO and co-founder of Deel, one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies. Trust the process.

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SaaS Financial Plan 2.0

The Angel VC

Almost exactly four years ago I published a financial plan template for SaaS startups based on a model that I had created for Zendesk a few years earlier. The original v1 model was a very simple plan for early-stage SaaS startups with a low-touch sales model. The "Revenues" line shows your end-of-month MRR for the respective month.

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UX Analytics 101: How to Collect and Use User Data in SaaS

User Pilot

How do you perform UX analysis for SaaS and make data-driven decisions? User journey and funnel analytics tools show you at which steps in the user flow friction and churn happens. It enables you to spot friction points in the customer journey and make it seamless to optimize conversion rates and customer experience with your product.

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Financial planning for SaaS startups

The Angel VC

It's a simple plan for an early-stage SaaS startup with a low-touch sales model – a company which markets a SaaS solution via its website, offers a 30 day free trial, gets most of its trial users organically and through online marketing and converts them into paying customer with very little human interaction.

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

The Angel VC

In that post, I looked at how long it took publicly traded SaaS companies to get to $100M in ARR and concluded that if your goal is to reach $100M in ARR, you should try to get there within 7-9 years after launch. Meanwhile, a few SaaS companies have shown even more spectacular growth. eight years.

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How Revenue-Based Financing Works and What RBF Providers Care About

Chart Mogul

New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. Bigfoot Capital invests in initial-scale SaaS companies using both RBF and venture debt investment structures. return on investment is returned, you have no further payment obligation and you have retained your equity ownership while growing.

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How Revenue-Based Financing Works and What RBF Providers Care About

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New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. Bigfoot Capital invests in initial-scale SaaS companies using both RBF and venture debt investment structures. return on investment is returned, you have no further payment obligation and you have retained your equity ownership while growing.

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