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The Top 10 Important Finance Mistakes First Time Founders Make

SaaStr

Take a read if you are still running finance yourself, or just have an part-time outsourced resource. In the old days, we didn’t have to worry about finance too much. SaaS accounting and finance has gotten pretty complicated, and the impacts of getting it wrong have gone up substantially. — Jason, ed. Cash is king.

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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

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The role of finance in SaaS is changing. No longer are finance teams the traditional “bean counters” of ages past. IVP Partner Michael Miao explains, “The role and the scope of the modern finance team has changed dramatically in the last decade. SaaStr Workshop Wednesdays are LIVE every Wednesday. Sign up for free.

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Why Sales Tax Compliance Matters for Growing SaaS Companies

SaaStr

And, when you do, do you even think about sale tax compliance? As you scale up, it’s essential to ensure that your sales tax management process is accurate and automated, so you don’t run into compliance issues in the future. . Let’s explore a few more ways in which sales tax compliance could impact your growing business.

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Finance 101 for Early Stage Startup Founders with Debbie Rosler

Mucker Capital

Finance 101: Why Should You Care? It's important for early stage startups to focus on finance from the very beginning. Often that means trying to do things in the least expensive way possible and that means doing finance accounting on their own. They are not wholly focused on the financials.

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Doubling Down: Mary D’Onofrio, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners

SaaStr

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? Teleport’s Zero-Trust security approach makes it the tool of choice for CISOs and compliance officers, but developers love it because their experience accessing everything from SSH and Windows servers to databases to Kubernetes to web applications is simply easier. #2.

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Thanks to Cledara, FIS, Insight Assurance, Paragon, and Zeni for Sponsoring SaaStr Annual 2023!

SaaStr

Today, Cledara brings visibility and control to all your software subscriptions, helping you reduce software costs by 30% and save +20h a month on finance admin. Insight Assurance is a professional services firm providing cybersecurity compliance, risk management, and tax services. ISO 27001 compliance services. vCISO services.

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Growing your SAM: Making the Leap from Small to Midsize-Business Customers

SaaStr

We created a product that was simple to use for entrepreneurs who were juggling a thousand different priorities and didn’t have (and didn’t want) an expertise in regulation, compliance or sales tax. Unlike our SMB customers, midsize businesses tend to have multiple key decision makers, including finance, product, IT, security and legal.

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