Tom Tunguz
JULY 19, 2019
I’ve written before about the Jacob’s Ladder of Fundraising. The Jacob’s Ladder is a children’s toy that flips over, and it’s a great metaphor for the seed market. Seed rounds are rapidly approaching and now often equal to the sizes of Series As just five years ago. The chart above shows the mean round size in the US across.
IT World
JULY 19, 2019
Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) is a type of cloud computing offering in which a service provider delivers a platform to clients, enabling them to develop, run, and manage business applications without the need to build and maintain the infrastructure such software development processes typically require. Because PaaS architectures keep the underlying infrastructure out of sight of developers and other users, the model is similar to the concepts of serverless computing and function-as-a-service (F
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Nimble - Sales
JULY 19, 2019
How do you improve your sales, maintain a healthy team dynamic, and keep everyday processes as simple as possible? The answer is CRM. What does CRM stand for in sales? Moving away from manual work and digitizing your business development is essential to stay on the frontiers of the sales industry in 2019. This article […]. The post So You Implemented a CRM for Your Sales Team…Now What?
Andreessen Horowitz
JULY 19, 2019
If you’ve listened to parts 1 and 2 of this 3-part podcast series (which originally aired on YouTube ), you learned whether venture capital is the best source of funding for your startup, and you’ve successfully negotiated a term sheet …
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SaaStr
JULY 19, 2019
First, of course, you are already in trouble. If you are worried about your co-founder already, trouble will come. The best way to mitigate founder economic issues is a longer vesting schedule. This may seem counter-intuitive at first. Isn’t a long (e.g., 5–10 year) vesting schedule “taking away” something you’ve earned? No. What a long vesting schedule does is: Force both of you to go long, or at least plan to.
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SaaStr
JULY 19, 2019
It is, at least by some, viewed as a slight negative sign. But, usually both aren’t Top Tier accelerators. So what most people do is just highlight the core one, and bring up the secondary one just to whomever cares, without highlighting (or hiding). View original question on quora. The post Is it frowned upon to do more than one accelerator as a startup?
Sales Hacker
JULY 19, 2019
I’ll be blunt. Today’s buyers don’t care about your sales process. They care if and how you are offering them the solution to their business challenge. BUT…it’s not as simple as merely offering a great product and executing a sales process. You have to be alongside your buyer throughout the entire buying process, ready to lend a helping hand at each and every stage.
ChurnZero
JULY 19, 2019
CSM Confidential – Part 1: Difficult Customer Conversations . . Being a Customer Success Manager is difficult enough. . Based upon the premise that customer support should be more proactive than reactive, the value of Customer Success cannot be understated. Between responsibilities like onboarding, advocacy, upsells and renewals, Customer Success Managers (CSMs) have cemented themselves as drivers of corporate growth. .
OpenView Labs
JULY 19, 2019
When they give out the Nobel Prize awards, they should seriously consider Elon Musk. No other person has achieved what he has: making electric cars cool. When first displayed in the 1970s, electric cars were presented as green devices. They didn’t go very fast and you had to plug them in, but at least you weren’t burdening the atmosphere too much. Flash forward to 2019.
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Explore how integrated payment strategies impact investor and buyer evaluations. Payments are more than a feature — they’re a key to long-term success and market differentiation. They help SaaS companies offer seamless user experiences and efficient operations. Investors and strategic buyers assess these integrated payment strategies as a measure of a company's growth potential and sustainability.
SaaS Metrics
JULY 19, 2019
To many people, Instagram might seem like a simple app you can use to check on your friends, keep up with what everyone is up to and enjoy some pictures of your favorite celebrities. However, there are plenty of people who are using the power of Instagram to build brands, network with influential people and gain financial freedom. Know that you can make this happen for yourself.
Net-Results
JULY 19, 2019
The secret to inbound marketing is elusive. It’s something a lot of marketers don’t grasp and struggle with. Over the years, as marketing consultant, I’ve had my own struggle with inbound marketing. From personas to content to marketing automation (here’s a nice guide on how to use marketing automation btw)… I knew all about it and yet, having set up a new funnel, things just didn’t automatically work.
SaaStr
JULY 19, 2019
Ep. 250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. To date, Peter has raised $8m for InCountry from some of my very favorites including Bloomberg Beta, Felicis, Ray Tonsing @ Caffeinated and CRV just to name a few.
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