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Doubling Down: Luci Fonseca, Partner at Base10 Partners

SaaStr

Our thesis here is that there is a growing need for cybersecurity offerings for the SMB, the best way to deliver that offering is via managed service providers, and winning companies will take a platform approach to building products and features that are at parity to what enterprises have access to.

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The Five Characteristics of An Ideal SaaS Company

Tom Tunguz

With more than 80% of venture capital investments occurring in enterprise and with the public markets disproportionately rewarding SaaS companies with huge enterprise value-to-revenue multiples ( median is 7.6 ), it’s no surprise that interest Software-as-a-Service is booming.

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Kellblog's 10 Predictions for 2020

Kellblog

I’d argue it’s not – the markets have changed structurally such that companies are staying private far longer and thus living off venture capital (and/or growth-stage private equity) in ways not previously seen. The interesting question here is whether mean reversion is relevant. digital transformation, security, disruption).

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8 Tough Lessons from Closing 12,000 Customers at WebPT (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

So I went down the hall, met with the head of marketing, and I discovered a lot about in bound SaaS, about SMB, the importance of building this machine as I call it now that generates all these lovely leads. They all looked at me really weird because remember, I’d never done SMB before. Liberate some operating expenses.

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Point Nine Capital 2019 Team Predictions

Point Nine Land

The tokenization of traditional financial instruments such as stock, bonds, loans, private equity and venture capital investments will become increasingly common. 2018 already paved the way for a number of tokenized fund launches such as Blockchain Capital and SPiCE VC. inVision and Intercom launching their app store).

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Iterative Approach to Localized Marketing for SaaS & Software

FastSpring

Offloaded Sales Tax And Compliance Management At FastSpring, we act as the merchant of record for all transactions on your site, making us responsible for collecting and remitting taxes on your behalf. Whether you’re trying to manage reduced tax rates, customized taxation, tax-exempt transactions, B2C or B2B — everything is handled for you.