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3 ways SaaS CFOs can prepare for hypergrowth in 2022

OPEXEngine

In recent years, the CFO role has evolved from being guardians of the compliance, accounting, F&PA, and forecasting functions to someone who can view and understand metrics to make data-driven decisions for scalable near and long-term strategy, As you plan for 2022, here are three things to help you prepare for hypergrowth.

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It’s Time to Raise Your Debt Facility: Execution Tactics for Founders

Andreessen Horowitz

The closing process typically takes about 4 weeks, which allows for legal documentation negotiation, account opening (if the lender is a bank), and the completion of all necessary compliance documents. asset pricing, factors that go into deciding yields, flow of funds, debt servicing, key vendors (i.e.,

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Managing a Thin Balance Sheet: 4 Lessons Learned From Laika’s $2 Billion Acquisition with Laika Co-Founder & COO Eva Pittas and CFO Dicken Chaplin (Video)

SaaStr

Founded in 2019, Laika (an enterprise-ready compliance platform) closed a $50MM Series C by the summer of 2022. They then overhauled their pricing and packaging to grow alongside their infrastructure and customers. . Looking back vs. looking forward.

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How to nail your product market fit and sales pitch with a value proposition diagram

Tom Tunguz

Expensify has adopted a bottoms-up strategy to win their market segment, so they target the end user who values ease of use. The finance team prizes compliance: ensuring accurate and correct expense reports. On the other side of the market, financiers and acquirers search for the best companies to invest in or purchase.

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5 Shifts to Move to Mega-Deal Thinking & Catch Whales: Overcoming Small-Deal Syndrome (Summit Replay)

Sales Hacker

This is not about moving around a few people or a few prices, this is about how we steward the most important IP in our company.” So, he was tasked with going to open a new market segment for his company, and so what he would do is he would set up monthly market updates, and he invited everybody in the C-suite of his company.

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When Does Open Source Make Sense for a Business?

OpenView Labs

The answer likely depends on your market segmentation, as freemium may ease adoption friction for SMB/mid-market companies. You can often see these types of feature segmentations detailed on open-source pricing pages, as with GitLab and HashiCorp. Compete on user segmentation (Ex: Slack/Mattermost).

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Product-Led Growth (PLG) For Startups

Mucker Capital

Are there types of companies, market segments, industries, or business models where PLG does not make sense? If you go back to thinking about what kind of company is a great fit for PLG, there are two important criteria: The first one is your target segment, your customer size. The pricing for SaaS is much more complicated.

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