FastSpring

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds. That’s true: Elements such as a global business focus and experienced professional moderators (that’s me!) That includes: A global focus. Professional moderation.

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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. Typically founders will pay 3%-7% of monthly revenue until they have repaid the fund 3x the amount invested.

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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. And it’s kind of like MuleSoft for warehouse robotics for integrating.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. This is a guest post by Brian Parks, Managing Partner at Bigfoot Capital. Or, maybe you haven’t and are still thinking your only options are to bootstrap or pursue angel and/or venture capital. What is RBF?

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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. Jason Lemkin: Anyone post-revenue. That’s way post-revenue.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

And with the field having undergone a couple of “ knockout expansion years ,” with more revenue pouring into SaaS than ever, it has never been a better time for a young SaaS company. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing.

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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. When you’re raising your Series B, you have meaningful revenue. Move now, bringing back their CTO and engineering teams back to Paris.

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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. Let’s get into it. There are 12 security standards/requirements within PCI DSS.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

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. Scorpio Ventures goes out to a series of limited partners (LPs) and pitches their ability to pick great startups.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

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. Scorpio Ventures goes out to a series of limited partners (LPs) and pitches their ability to pick great startups.

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Chart Mogul

JULY 30, 2024

After all, they’re in business to earn money. Venture capital A venture capitalist (VC) is a private investor who provides funding to companies with unique products that have a wide appeal. They invest in businesses in exchange for an equity stake. No large payments. Cons: Revenue is required.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Today’s sponsor is Outreach , the leading sales engagement platform that enables sales reps to humanize their communications at scale, from automating the soul-sucking manual work that eats up selling time to providing action-oriented tips on what communications are working best. Now before we get there, we want to thank our sponsors.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 20, 2021

From employee master data, tax and benefits calculations, reporting, payslip generation, and payments, companies can now gather all the relevant data and teams can easily review everything before executing payroll in a single click using Pento’s beautiful UI.

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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. And the companies choosing the independent path are not all hipster led lifestyle businesses choosing nobility over bankroll and operating with a chip on their shoulders. They were doing $4.6M

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Have revenue, but early, so like 50K ARR after two months of charging for a product. People were so excited about SaaS when public companies were trading at 30 to 50 X revenue that they would want to take that meeting. Now, revenue’s coming in looking good. Jason Lemkin: This is how we feed the engine. Colin: Right.

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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. Rag & Bone is selling to Guess $GES for $56m on ~$250m of revenue. Look, this is tough.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. 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. I was more of an engineer, MBA.

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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. . This makes sense for some services vital to a consumer, like payment processing to an online merchant.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Note: FastSpring’s Revenue and Subscription Dashboards quickly show our customers where their revenue is coming from, the average order value or MRR per country, promotions performance per country, and more. And then, for seven years, the role I had right before FastSpring, I worked for a company called WP Engine.

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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

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. “After business school, I realized I love building things – building products, building teams, building companies.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In fact, it was in 2016 I started referring to it not as Customer Success, but as Customer Success-driven Growth, to bring to the forefront the fact that Customer Success is a growth driver; a growth engine. 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? Tara: You have a lot of customers.

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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

I think we wanted to build a business that treated its customers the way we thought we should have been treated as software vendors, Dan says. FastSpring has a rich history of serving game publishers for selling and monetizing video games. Platform Support Engineer Shawn Auberzinski, Sr. area and #13 in North America.

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