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. She watched the SaaS and Cloud wave ride and thought there’d be a huge pullback in markets this year.

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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. She has been featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Asia in Finance and Venture Capital for 2018. She has led marketing and communications and strategy at Samsung and PwC, among others.

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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. During the pandemic, the way people transacted and communicated changed rapidly. Those companies will have a headstart on the competition when the market arrives.

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Casey Accidental

JUNE 8, 2021

Initially, these were topics like email marketing or Google Adwords, but we started expanding them to other topics the team wanted to learn about, like venture capital and emerging channels. This is a style of communication that will not work with all cultures. This didn’t solve the root problem though.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Strong customer relationships are more important than ever for business success, but the old ways of communicating and building relationships with customers are broken. Old communication tools, like email and forms, simply don’t match the ways modern customers want to talk, connect, and receive help.

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Andreessen Horowitz

JANUARY 23, 2024

He modeled how to work with integrity, competitiveness, curiosity and humility and I could not have picked a better venture investor to learn from. A few years later, I learned how to communicate from the queen of marketing herself Margit Wennmachers, who alongside her team helped me find my voice and gave me the courage to use it.

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

From Silicon Valley to Rio – The Globalization of Venture Capital Mathias Schilling , Co-founder & Managing Partner (Headline); Romero Rodrigues, Managing Partner (Headline); Artur Búrigo, Reporter (Folha de S. Effective leadership communication is essential to ensure fairness and equality across global workforces.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2023

According to venture capital firm Sequoia , the standard DAU/MAU ratio is 10-20%, with only a handful of companies having over 50%. ” For example, a business communication tool like Slack expects users to log in daily, but invoicing tools know their users will only visit 1-4 times monthly.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 14, 2016

I can phrase math problems to Numi similarly to how I would communicate them a person. For example, Numi could use these technologies to begin to learn venture capital jargon and math like calculating the dilution for an employee stock option plan increase.

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FastSpring

APRIL 7, 2022

Lauri added: “Perhaps there’s a new communication platform that sounds really fancy in terms of what they allow it to do, and maybe the user base is growing as well. “So we always ask: What’s the quickest path to actually start making money with it? In some cases, it has seemed to us that there was no quick path to revenue.”.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

When interviewing product managers at Google, we ranked candidates on four metrics: technical ability, communication skills, intellect and Googliness. The more time I spend in venture capital working with startups, the better I understand that there are no templates or stencils or best practices.

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ChurnZero

JANUARY 18, 2024

A solid write-up by the venture capital firm a16z , on hiring a CCO, recommends candidates have core competencies in leadership, organization, process design, and a “tolerance for ambiguity.” The experts we work with suggest searching for leaders who have worked in multiple post-sale functional roles.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 19, 2022

What’s the ideal timeline for building and communicating comp plans? If you can stick to this timeline and communicate the comp plans clearly to your teams , you should be in good shape to introduce a new plan at your annual sales kickoff. communicate any changes to your team. Beginning of December: having your plan finalized.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

This week on the Sales Hacker podcast, we speak with Matt Rizzetta , founder of North 6th Agency, which is a communications and PR firm based in New York City. Years later, he’s got a thriving business that is not venture capital backed. Welcome to the Sales Hacker podcast. Today we’ve got on the show, Matt Rizzetta.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

He’s also one of the most well known and well respected writers on venture capital and early stage investing. He’s a thought leader in the venture capital space and one of the more well known and well respected writers on venture capital and early stage investing. What You’ll Learn.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 6, 2021

Communicating value is the key to driving sales. A great resume is another way to communicate success in the world of entrepreneurship. For example, let’s say you need an investment from a venture capital firm to start a new business. Resumes are yet another way you can communicate the value of your personal brand.

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ChurnZero

APRIL 23, 2019

“Building a Customer Success platform that integrates data and customer touchpoints from a myriad of sources, generates insights and analytics, and kicks off workflows and communications is a tough technical project and is a proud achievement for our team,” said You Mon Tsang, Co-founder and CEO of ChurnZero.

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OpenView Labs

AUGUST 15, 2019

Startups are in constant competition for two resources: capital and talent. Without capital, a business fails to exist. If you’ve raised venture capital before, you already have some combination of a great product, a highly functioning team and a growing market. Without talent, a business fails to flourish.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

Sharon: Another thing you talked about is just this tremendous amount of private investment venture capital going into defense. really has been the proliferation of space, low Earth orbit satellites, in particular, and communications, that the commercial sector really drove. I think what I would stress for the U.S.

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Chart Mogul

JUNE 29, 2018

This means that owning a category is in most cases a requirement for the level of growth and investment multiples that venture capital demands. Slack (business communication). Slack has transformed the way people communicate at work. Step 3: communicate it. Is it even anything new? Today’s category kings.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 20, 2020

First up, we see big news for BlueJeans , the experts in business-to-business video communication. The profitable company has, in the past, raised $175 million in venture capital from firms including Accel Partners and Battery Ventures and was valued at $700 million back in 2015. BlueJeans x Verizon. Their news?

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Totango

JANUARY 15, 2019

The bottom line is that once you understand how your customer likes to communicate, then you can establish exactly how best to listen. #4 From top venture capital firms to industry leaders, the. 4 Thank Your Customers. We began by comparing your customer relationship to that of a more human variety. The writing is on the wall.

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Intercom, Inc.

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

I spent a few years there and then went to a venture capital fund where I spent five years investing in online businesses with network effects. We’re always refining how we communicate it. Natasha: I’m Canadian, for anyone curious about the accent, but I’ve lived in London for 13 years.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

And my dad was a car mechanic who built some of the early radio communications infrastructure in the Czech Republic. And then the second was this period of, I would say, limited engagement between the defense community and at least some of the venture firms in the Valley and how that worked.

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SaaStr

JULY 24, 2020

There’s so much subtle communication that gets lost over video, you need to make it up with energy. So, focus on the people and communicating what’s special about you and your team. But that’s only the beginning for them, collecting data is the thing that they can do right now.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 13, 2020

Ben Horowitz is the co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a private venture capital company. Here are the three main things we’ll leave you with: Being a great CEO requires open communication when difficult circumstances arise. And how to be vulnerable in a leadership role. But first, who is Ben Horowitz?

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ChurnZero

JULY 21, 2020

Knowing the expectations of a journey drives consistent communication, particularly for their youngest and newest team members. Begin building a business case for investors.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In order to execute on this mission, founders can bootstrap their company, raise outside money ( venture capital is the most popular), or use a combination of both to help build their business. From a cadence/communication standpoint, checking weekly keeps me accountable to the steps I need to take in order to keep the process moving.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Where appropriate, seek out philanthropic donations, social impact investing, and venture capital. Assist marketing in developing and implementing customer communication initiatives, such as new feature launches. First-line assistance for resolving problems with technology and other concerns.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Where appropriate, seek out philanthropic donations, social impact investing, and venture capital. Assist marketing in developing and implementing customer communication initiatives, such as new feature launches. First-line assistance for resolving problems with technology and other concerns.

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Incredo

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Learn more about the next application process here. If you are interested in SaaS venture capital, you can check out websites like SaaStr Fund , PointNine , Accel , 500 Startups. They have two rounds or batches per year and can fund startups from all over the world. Was it helpful? Don’t cross personal boundaries.

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Kellblog

AUGUST 9, 2021

Maybe it’s just old-fashioned communications confusion. OK, I suppose technically they could think, “the board brought me in,” but didn’t the CEO interview them and make the final call? Did the board really bring them in — as in, against the CEO’s wishes? Genuine confusion.

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ProfitWell

MAY 18, 2020

Twilio , cloud communications platform, also found success after launching in the midst of a financial crisis. million in funding from venture capital firms and now has a market cap of $17.1 DTC beauty brands are rethinking their communication strategies leading them toward SMS text messaging with customers. Just text me.

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OPEXEngine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Taking the exact opposite tack, in a recent CNBC interview, Alan Patricof , founder of Greycroft Partners, an elite venture capital firm, said: “academic studies show that the success rate of entrepreneurs who start at the age of 60 are twice as successful as those that started in their thirties.”

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ProfitWell

JANUARY 6, 2020

This includes changing out people, rewriting your product, moving into a different market, telling your customers no or yes, raising another round of highly dilutive venture capital. How is your product communicated to consumers, i.e., are you sending the right message? Do it all.”. Change your messaging.

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Kellblog

JUNE 6, 2021

This week’s episode of the SaaS Product Power Breakfast is Thursday, June 10th, at 8am Pacific and we welcome a special friend and unique guest, Christopher McLaughlin , currently CMO at France-based powerhouse LumApps , a collaboration and communications platform backed by top European investors including Idinvest and Goldman Sachs.

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 24, 2018

As founding CEO of Datameer, I doubled revenue six years in a row, attracted $100M in venture capital and built a market-leading company. What’s even worse is that we hire great communicators with sparkly personalities but then force them to become data-entry robots. The secret sauce that led to my success?

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