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Sequoia India: 22 Things We Learned from SaaStr Annual

SaaStr

They are hiring leaders, building teams, and attracting advisors in the US while devouring the SV SaaS playbook. AI is likely the next platform, dev tools are strategic given the scarcity of developers, cybersecurity is front and center for enterprises, and the data stack is still going strong. Proximity to customers helps too.

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A Letter From Our CEO: Frontegg’s Funding Round

Frontegg

In addition, we are excited to welcome our new partners – the visionary team from Insight Partners, led by Praveen Akkiraju, Daniel Aronovitz, and Jeff Horring. Fast forward to now, Frontegg is running as the core product infrastructure for dozens of hyper-growing companies. You build it and start the product-market-fit quest.

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Blueprint for Early Stage SaaS Companies [Webinar Recap]

SaaSOptics

Customer Core —to maintain and develop customer relationships. Poor financial records are not something you can run away from. Accurate and up-to-date financial records display the current state of your business, help you maintain GAAP/IFRS compliance, and prove to potential VCs that your company is worth the investment.

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SaaStr Podcast #411 with Slack Chief Product Officer Tamar Yehoshua

SaaStr

How does Tamar think about effective product design today? How does Tamar structure the customer development process? What channels can teams put in place to have this real-time dialogue with their customers? I was a C++ developer working on electromigration on a full chip. What questions does she ask? You don’t.

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There are No Shortcuts: 5 Hard-Won Lessons from Zenefits CEO Jay Fulcher

OPEXEngine

“I’ve talked to countless entrepreneurs who are anxious about the next step—first seed round, hiring a team, landing a board member, etc.,” That’s exactly what got the former Zenefits leadership team into trouble. As you start to develop a go-to-market strategy, “make sure to think through the process holistically,” says Jay.

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Sales–Product Tension: The Secret to Segment’s Success

Andreessen Horowitz

In this conversation recorded at ELC 2023, Segment’s former CRO Joe Morrissey and former chief product development officer Tido Carriero discuss how they turned sales-product tension into a successful $3.2B And your feedback to me was, “look, this product is great. The problem is the sales team.

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The 10 Forms of SaaS Capital: From Inception to Exit

Baremetrics

If so, how much money will you need to build your product and get it to market and what types of capital will you employ to do so? This capital should be used for product development and the people required to help you build it. This is not the time to invest in sales and marketing. Debt capital gets a bad name.