SaaStr

MAY 16, 2025

Dear SaaStr: What Are Some Red Flags an Investor Might Not Be Serious? First, if youre not sure they want to invest they probably dont want to. And its 100% OK to ask. Just ask. The One Question To Ask At The End of Every VC Pitch: What Are The Odds You Would Invest? Just ask what are the odds theyd want to invest, based on what they know now. Beyond that here are clear red flags that an investor might not be serious about investing in your startup include: Overly Complex Terms : If the invest

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USIO

MAY 16, 2025

The way businesses pay vendors, employees, gig workers, and customers is changing fast. And prepaid card issuing is leading the charge. If your business still leans on traditional payout methods like paper checks or manual ACH, it’s time to consider what you might be missing. Lets explore how prepaid card issuing stacks up against traditional payoutsand what makes the most sense for your business.

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2025

Dear SaaStr: We Have a $7m ARR Business But Our CAC is Way Too High. Should We Cut and Marketing To The Bone? Look don’t throw money away on sales & marketing. If your sales team can’t close anything , you need to part ways. If you are doing intiatives in marketing and they are bringing in zero customers, just stop those things. But more often, sales and marketing is closing some deals, just not enough.

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ChurnZero

MAY 16, 2025

It’s the ultimate technology dilemma for customer teams and the execs who control budgets: should you buy or build your customer success platform? When presenting a business case for a customer success platform, you can expect this to be the primary objection of a CEO or CFO: can we build this in our CRM instead of buying a new tool? Should you use the tools you already have to build something that will kind ofget you what youre looking for, or should you buy a tool developed for that spec

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Speaker: Kenten Danas, Senior Manager, Developer Relations

ETL and ELT are some of the most common data engineering use cases, but can come with challenges like scaling, connectivity to other systems, and dynamically adapting to changing data sources. Airflow is specifically designed for moving and transforming data in ETL/ELT pipelines, and new features in Airflow 3.0 like assets, backfills, and event-driven scheduling make orchestrating ETL/ELT pipelines easier than ever!

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2025

We’ve back this week on 20VC with Harry and Rory from Scale for another great deep dive on the latest in VC funding and more. We kick off with a quick deep dive on Vertical SaaS leader for restaurants Owner raising at $1 Billion — a deal SaaStr Fund led at seed. Why was it so hot? 5 Key Takeaways Capital is plentiful for the right metrics : Companies growing 10%+ MoM with $40M+ ARR can still close $100M+ rounds in days, while Series A rounds overall are down 81%.

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Blulogix

MAY 16, 2025

By BluLogix Team Why IoT Monetization FailsAnd How to Fix It Before It Costs You Millions Lets be honest. IoT and Telematics companies arent struggling to innovate. Youre deploying smart devices, generating rich telemetry data, and providing actionable insights to customers. But when it comes to turning those deployments into recurring revenuethings fall apart.

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Clouded Judgement

MAY 16, 2025

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Net New ARR Trends We’re about halfway through Q1 ‘25 earnings season. As you all know, one of my favorite metrics to look at is net new ARR added in a quarter. For some public companies, they disclose ARR.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 16, 2025

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies.

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TurnKey Labs

MAY 16, 2025

Endless client hunting, late payments, zero benefits — yeah, we’ve all been there. On paper, freelancing sounds like freedom. In reality? It’s often just instability wrapped in a pretty word.

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FastSpring

MAY 16, 2025

The FastSpring team was proud to sponsor Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco during a very eventful week of gaming conferences. Our Head of Gaming Chip Thurston was on site to deliver a presentation that helps clear up a few things about how mobile game publishers can market their D2C web shops. Note : A major U.S. court ruling was released on April 30, 2025, with a judge declaring that Apples anti-steering policies for purchases outside of apps are anticompetitive and were to be discontinued im

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Dubb

MAY 16, 2025

How to Use YouTube to Drive Sales and Produce Results In todays competitive marketplace, companies are constantly searching for smarter ways todrive sales, increase their sales performance, and build authentic connections with their target audience. One of the most powerfulyet underutilizedtools is YouTube. Lets explore how a simple yet strategic YouTube content plan can help The post Drive Sales: YouTube Strategies to Boost Your Sales Performance appeared first on Dubb Blog.

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