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. What type of asset is the company creating?

Outsourcing Services 129

Outsourcing Services Software Review Scale Banking 129

ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

If your product and market don’t align, some of your business’s best efforts may be dramatically impacted. Having a misaligned product-market fit means your advertising, marketing, rate of growth, and churn rates will take a hit. Marketing messaging. Churn rates. Churn rate. Advertising efforts.

Product Marketing 52

Product Marketing Underperforming Technical Team Marketing Advertising 52

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Do you gun straight for the glamour (and pressure) of venture capital investment? What about a venture capitalist who might be sympathetic to your mission? Venture capital. Venture capital is provided by firms or funds founded specifically to give investment to fledgling companies. Low churn rate.

Venture Capital 56

Venture Capital Scale SaaS Benchmarks 56

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. Recurring payments. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. What is the SaaS business model. Consistent updates.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We raised $0 of venture capital. We had 13 million of recurring revenue, 100% year over year growth. So too often entrepreneurs come to me and they say, “David, we want to go raise venture capital.” The Holy Grail, my most favorite metric personally for SaaS companies is net negative churn.

Sales Recruiting 157

Sales Recruiting Scale Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring 157

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

Focus on a market segment until you dominate it When I arrived at Buildium, we were selling our product only to residential property managers located in the United States. This included selling additional services like credit card payment processing, tenant background checks, 1099 e-filing services, and renter’s insurance.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

We were born and raised and bred serving the needs of early stage emerging and growth SaaS and subscription based businesses. Exclusively, we have a modern financial platform for early stage and growth subscription businesses and really focusing on three major pain areas of these businesses. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40