SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. We have over 1,500 apps listed in our app directory, so those are with third party partners. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

You may have heard of Revenue-based financing (RBF), venture debt or hybrid structures blending a revenue or profit share concept with an equity ownership stake. Or, maybe you haven’t and are still thinking your only options are to bootstrap or pursue angel and/or venture capital. Who is it for? Simplified RBF. Once the 1.5x

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Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

By Geoff Roberts 12 min read When we first started building Outseta we stated outright that we weren’t interested in raising venture capital—instead, we planned on bootstrapping the business and remaining independent. Each time a payment is made, the fund’s ownership stake is reduced with the founders’ ownership shares increasing.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. Obviously, the majority of the people who they were managing the shifts and the payments for who were working in February, they were not working in March or in April. There’s no technology, they need money to actually build software.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

I’m the founder of Blossom Capital. We’re a team of former investors and operators from the likes of Facebook, Deliveroo, and the Swedish payments company Klarna. I work with Dawn Capital. We are a purely B2B fund, focused on software and fintech. Then we deploy the capital to build. Evgenia : Hi.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

You may have heard of Revenue-based financing (RBF), venture debt or hybrid structures blending a revenue or profit share concept with an equity ownership stake. Or, maybe you haven’t and are still thinking your only options are to bootstrap or pursue angel and/or venture capital. Who is it for? Simplified RBF. Once the 1.5x

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Ever since John Koenig first coined the term “SaaS” back in 2005, the software-as-a-service industry has been one of the fastest-moving and creative in the world. SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. Recurring payments.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 20, 2021

Larger organizations sometimes use outdated software providers that sometimes are nothing more than a UI layer that leverages similar outsourced service providers (btw?—?there’s Enter Pento… Beautiful software + end to end automation = Pento ? there’s an $80Bn giant elephant in this room and it’s called ADP ).

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

Obviously, our first priority was working with our portfolio companies, but if you’ve got your investing engine on and you’re rearing to go, it didn’t feel like in February or March or April or May was really the time to deploy. There’s no technology, they need money to actually build software.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

that largely determine which path is right for you and your software business. In Moz Founder Rand Fishkin’s brilliantly open and honest book Lost and Founder , he uses an example VC fund called “Scorpio Ventures” to outline some of the fundamentals of how venture capital firms work. They raise a $400 million fund.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

that largely determine which path is right for you and your software business. In Moz Founder Rand Fishkin’s brilliantly open and honest book Lost and Founder , he uses an example VC fund called “Scorpio Ventures” to outline some of the fundamentals of how venture capital firms work. They raise a $400 million fund.

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Scytale

JANUARY 22, 2024

Start(up) your Engines: The Importance of Compliance for Startups There’s a common misconception amongst some founders that security, trust, and compliance should be reserved for the later stages of their business. Compliance requires creating security standards, implementing controls, monitoring systems, and remediating any issues.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

He’s a venture capitalist but he’s been an active entrepreneur executive and investor in the internet industry since its commercialization. In 1995, while a high school student Rhode Island he was an early employee at Intelecom Data Systems, one of America’s first commercial internet service providers and website developers.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 30, 2024

Venture capital A venture capitalist (VC) is a private investor who provides funding to companies with unique products that have a wide appeal. No large payments. Monthly payments. Unlike angel investors and venture capitalists, this form of funding requires money to be repaid rather than equities.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. Sparktoro Sparktoro, a Seattle based company that’s building a “search engine for audience intelligence,” is a product of Rand Fishkin (formerly Co-founder of Moz) and his Co-founder Casey Henry.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

It’s not the investor’s problem if you need too many folks, because you’re a business CEO and not an engineer. If you say, I need four million because we’re already growing 8% a month and I need to feed the engine. Jason Lemkin: This is how we feed the engine. It’s not the investor’s problem.

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2024

It’s sort of a death spiral: High churn, but no burn = struggle, but the engine self-perpetuates to an extent. Don’t disguise it in growth and/or venture capital. SaaS + hardware, SaaS + payments, etc. But they often have much lower gross margins than pure software. Look, this is tough. can be great.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And my education, I went to MIT to study mechanical engineering, and I think I would have thought I was going to go into the pump business like my father. They were building time and expense software. I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.”

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It is a sign of development, showing that the business has effectively transitioned from an R&D organization dependent on venture capital to an autonomous, long-lasting enterprise. . But as more business companies choose the SaaS (Software as a Service) path, now is a fantastic time to enter this industry. .

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. How FastSpring Simplifies Selling Around the World Automated Localized Checkout Consumers often prefer to pay in their local currency or using payment methods that are popular in their region.

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Pre-revenue Aaron Patzer, the founder of Mint, once said: “When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA”. With a few million dollars in ARR, improvements to how you manage working capital, credit controls, payments, various currencies, etc.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I moved out to the East Coast of the US to go to Harvard where I majored in applied math with a focus on decision systems and artificial intelligence before it was cool. And that was my first time in enterprise software – I’d spent some time in consumer software before that and did that for a few years.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

In our conversation, Michael shares the strategies that have been most impactful for growing their word of mouth, the attribution model that’s the engine for their marketing strategy and Brex’s long-term plans to disrupt the credit card industry, vertical by vertical. billion dollars. Short on time? They wanted to build something really big.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

The GTM Podcast is available on any major directory, including: Apple Podcasts Spotify YouTube Cassie Young is a General Partner at Primary Venture Partners, a $1B AUM early-stage venture capital firm in New York that has backed category-defining companies such as Chief, Alma, K Health, Latch, Alloy, Dandy and Vestwell.

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FastSpring

JUNE 2, 2025

Likewise, in the tech-meets-ecommerce space, there were very few SaaS companies out there, live service gaming didnt really exist yet, and software companies wanting to sell their software globally had very, very few options. So we wanted to build that next generation system.

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