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The 4 Startup States During a Recession

Tom Tunguz

As the fiscal quarters of many startups draw to a close, board members and management teams are having one of four conversations: The World is Your Oyster, Time to Strategize, Chewing Gravel, or Go Big/Go Profitable. Here’s how these scenarios fall onto a 2x2 matrix. The x-axis is the Zero Cash Date: when the startup runs out of money. The y-axis is sales efficiency: a proxy for product-market fit (PMF).

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If Your Numbers Are Good — Now Might Be a Great Time to Raise a Little Extra Capital From Your Existing Investors

SaaStr

Agreed – a very good option. Starting to see that a lot right now. — Doug Pepper (@dougpepper) May 14, 2022. So there’s a lot of panic from VCs now. The markets, at least for now, for SaaS and Cloud stocks have fallen dramatically from their post-Covid peaks. Many aggressive late stage funds like Tiger and Softbank are, for now at least, sitting on massive losses.

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SparkToro & Followerwonk Joint Twitter Analysis: 19.42% of Active Accounts Are Fake or Spam

Sparktoro

TL;DR – From May 13-15, 2022, SparkToro and Followerwonk conducted a rigorous, joint analysis of 44,058 public Twitter accounts active in the last 90 days. These accounts were randomly selected, by machine, from a set of 130+ million public, active profiles. Our analysis found that 19.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: CircleCI CEO, Demandbase VP of Marketing, Gusto CRO, Snowflake Head of ABM, and More!

SaaStr

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: SaaS Multiples Are At a 3+ Year Low. Where It Goes From Here. A 4 Point Test To Know If You Are Ready to Hire BigCo Folks. When to Go Multi-Product in SaaS. Times Aren’t That Bad.

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Monetizing Analytics Features

Think your customers will pay more for data visualizations in your application? Five years ago, they may have. But today, dashboards and visualizations have become table stakes. Turning analytics into a source of revenue means integrating advanced features in unique, hard-to-steal ways. Download this white paper to discover which features will differentiate your application and maximize the ROI of your analytics.

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The Complete Guide to Successful CRM Implementation

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