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The Startup Funding & Financing Guide

Baremetrics

Choosing the right combination of funding for your business is just as fundamental as choosing the right co-founders (or not), the right market, the right product, and the right team. million – about half of all the cash they had on hand – to buy out their main venture capital investors after eight years since founding.

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

Intercom, Inc.

There are enough stories of data breaches and cyber attacks to chill even the savviest security engineer to the core. But before universities would do business with them, they needed assurance on their security posture. Portfolium was eventually acquired, but the team behind it never stopped thinking about a better way to do it.

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Solving Hard(ware) Problems

Point Nine Land

SaaS companies in particular have high gross margins (no IT admin) and recurring revenues (subscriptions), a combination which means they can re-invest a substantial piece of their revenue into (hopefully) predictable growth. We use software that runs in the cloud on top of data from other software that runs in the cloud…easy!

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SaaStr Podcast #395 with UserTesting CEO Andy MacMillan

SaaStr

What does it take to scale a sales team successfully? I’ve heard so many good things from Kobie, now at Upfront, and then also the team at Openview. Andy MacMillan: I started my career in tech actually as a developer. How does one instil volume based pricing without disincentivizing usage? Andy MacMillan: Excellent.

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The Best SaaS Blog Posts and Resources Library

Chart Mogul

We trust leaders to make decisions on what tools they need to get the most out of their teams. Guide to SaaS Revenue Recognition and Deferred Revenue in SaaS by Ben Murray, The SaaS CFO SaaS revenue recognition is an ongoing priority for SaaS accounting teams. This post describes my recommendations for SaaS board meetings.

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Scaling Faster, Part 2: An AMA with SaaStr Founder & CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 583)

SaaStr

And also on the side, doing a strategy of pure, just changing our ICP and fully picking it and making it super narrow and super focused, and having 25% of the team doing that. And 75% of the team continuing business as usual. No one has an engineering team with the time to build anything. Jason Lemkin: Yep. So, thanks.

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Q&A: Role of Customer Success According to Three Leading Investors

ChurnZero

million round of financing led by Grotech Ventures in 2017. Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. A: Very few of our early-stage investments have a Customer Success team at the time we invest. Let’s hear what they each had to say. .

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