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. For corporate debt, normal venture counsel (e.g.,

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2024

I spend a lot of time researching software trends in vertical software, compliance, and AI. I’m impressed by the number of businesses that we are seeing grow to $10-15M in ARR in a really capital efficient manner and driving real efficiency through scale. What’s the #1 bit of advice you’d give to SaaS founders today?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company. It was initially compliance focus. Look, this is not just about compliance, it’s about every vertical.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

Software is also a lovely thing to scale. The number of consumer electronics, appliances, and medical devices collecting sensitive data (and the regulatory and compliance scrutiny we apply to how they do it) is exploding, and I expect to see more software companies tackling these issues in the coming years.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 3, 2022

When an idea succeeds, great — let’s scale it up. Hire a VP of Europe to lead this — someone experienced but who still enjoyed being close to the action; they’d be expensive but they could scale the operation as it grew. But it won’t be easy and it won’t scale [11].

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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. Security/Compliance: Early-stage startups are likely not going to be SOC certified. Take a fresh approach with startups.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

At what scale does that become impossible? I think one thing about RJ Metrics that maybe goes on that list of mistakes is that even though we founded the company in 2008, the next thing that happened the day after we founded the company was the Lehman Brothers collapsed and the venture capital market was non-existent.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. We’ll handle all the hard stuff, such as localizing checkout, billing and ecommerce compliance, and tax management — and let you focus on building and growing your SaaS business.

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? It’s got to scale on the back end. They want to establish certain compliance things in place.

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Contract reviews with big clients, compliance matters, any type of changes of law, tax audits, dealing with advisors, etc. Not sure what your subsidiary structure etc. is but an experienced finance person can play a vital role in internationalisation as well. are usually also things such a person could take care of instead of the founders.

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Baremetrics

APRIL 16, 2021

For top-tier programs ( YC , Techstars , 500 Startups ), you need to be a top 10% company, fitting a near-term venture capital profile across your team, your product/market and your traction. These programs generally push companies onto the venture capital path. Venture Capital. Types of Capital.

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? It’s got to scale on the back end. They want to establish certain compliance things in place.

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Neil Patel

MARCH 1, 2021

Equity crowdfunding is a relatively new market, and although it’s valued at over $10 billion , that’s a tiny drop in the ocean compared with the $282 billion raised through venture capital in just a year. The last step is taking care of compliance by ensuring you have all the legal documents and pass the financial tests.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It is a sign of development, showing that the business has effectively transitioned from an R&D organization dependent on venture capital to an autonomous, long-lasting enterprise. . When you land an enterprise client, you must be prepared to scale your business to meet their needs. Keep your intellectual property safe.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

These factors resonated well with the investment theses of venture capital firms. Avalara provides tax compliance solutions for direct and indirect taxes. This approach normalizes the data to account for scale which shows what happens to sales efficiency as company revenues grow.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Learn what it takes to create your own category, achieve scale in a niche SaaS vertical and how it requires more than just discovering an unmet need. Some compliance factors had added fuel to our fire in terms of more people wanting to adopt. We saw this opportunity to grow faster, but we needed capital. He joined our board.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

I thought it was worth putting three trillion into perspective for you so you could get some sense of scale. I thought it’s also worth giving you some sense of scale for how much the US government takes in in revenue every year. That happens in venture capital, and that’s happening right now.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

They understood technology, and they had a unique respect for regulatory and compliance. I talked about our first failed podcast – we tried to imitate Masters of Scale – but there wasn’t really room in the market for another startup podcast. What made you trust the founder’s vision and make that jump?

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