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Drata’s CEO Adam Markowitz on creating a culture of cyber security

Intercom, Inc.

In today’s data-driven SaaS scene, these can affect hundreds of millions of users and cause damage in the billions of dollars, and as compliance frameworks become requirements to do business, businesses are turning to third-party services that can help expedite and facilitate the process. And that’s where people like Adam Markowitz come in.

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Solving Hard(ware) Problems

Point Nine Land

I can already hear Christoph and the rest of our software-loving P9 team telling me that they would have preferred to invest in SaaS if it had existed, and he’s probably right. Some pure hardware businesses have capex requirements that would break a typical venture fund’s model. Still, it’s clear that things are different today.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Crossbeam and Podium – January 10, 2020

SaaStr

To date Bob has raised over $15m with Crossbeam from friends of the show including Andy @ Uncork, Matt @ Firstmark, Bill @ First Round and Matt @ Salesforce Ventures, to name a few. Prior to Crossbeam, Bob founded Stitched, a powerful ETL service built for developers that was acquired by Talend in 2018.

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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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? Increasingly organizations talk about B2D marketing, to developers. Some developer’s tinkering with something.

Scale 109
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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.

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When should you hire a CFO?

Point Nine Land

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. Contract reviews with big clients, compliance matters, any type of changes of law, tax audits, dealing with advisors, etc. Let’s take a closer look at how the “finance department” of a typical SaaS company might develop over time.

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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. These programs generally push companies onto the venture capital path. Venture Capital.