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AI is On Fire. But Will There Be Enough Decacorn Exits?

SaaStr

What Separates Future Decacorns The companies that will break through the $10 billion barrier share specific characteristics that go far beyond traditional SaaS metrics: Scale Requirement s True decacorn candidates operate with 500-2000+ employees and demonstrate the ability to scale operations across multiple geographies and market segments.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Expensify at $140,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

1M in ARR per employee could be a new efficiency record at IPO for SaaS. They raised little in VC capital and quickly became cash-flow positive. Sometimes, the self-serve / PLG engine stalls out at a certain scale. Their tiniest customers still have higher churn, as with almost every other SaaS company.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

SaaStock

As we first looked at bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia and considered what help we could offer, we thought about localization and know-how about legal and cultural differences as some of the critical success factors. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed. Horizons Ventures.

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds. We provide a service; you make money; repeat on autopilot.

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The Alternative Funding Options For SaaS Start-ups Cheat Sheet

Outseta

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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Scaling Revenue via Indirect Channels and Platform Ecosystems with Stripe, Box and Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

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How Revenue-Based Financing Works and What RBF Providers Care About

Chart Mogul

New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. 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. We do not pursue hybrid structures with a significant equity component attached.

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