Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

There are more funding and financing options for startups today than there ever have been before. There’s also been an explosion in debate and transparency about navigating startup funding and financing. Let’s explore the funding and financing options for your startup. Company C was funded by pre-orders from customers, a friends and family round, and then through revenue-based financing for a period of time. Equity Financing. Revenue-based financing.

Finance 83

Finance Startup Venture Capital Investment 83

ChurnZero

AUGUST 24, 2018

This week we hosted a well-attended webinar on – Customer Success & Finance: Get Aligned! The webinar discussed the process and impact of the renewal from both the Customer Success and Finance point of view. The post Customer Success & Finance: Get Aligned!

Finance 70

Finance Customer Success Retention Education 70

SaaS Metrics

JULY 17, 2018

Some of the terms included here are also common to other fields such as finance, but they make sense when you are dealing with SaaS (that’s why they have also been included). Let’s jump straight to the SaaS dictionary (arranged alphabetically) that helps users better understand the cloud technology, Uncategorized SaaS Finance Terminologies SaaS Finance Terms SaaS Terms Software As A Service Terminology

Finance 43

Finance Cloud Technology Strategy 43

Chart Mogul

MAY 25, 2018

six paths to financing a SaaS business In SaaS Roundup, we comb through the noise to find you only the best SaaS-flavored reads of the week — just our top three. Six Paths to Financing a SaaS Business.

Finance 52

Finance Scaling Sales Enterprise 52

Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

The most effective financing processes, like the most effective auctions, create scarcity. Of late, many founders have been triggering pre-emptive financing processes for their raises. An early process has the potential to eliminate financing risk much earlier than expected. Founders can steer the financing to investors of their choice with more control than a standard process. First, like any financing, these processes are time expensive.

Finance 100

Finance Social Media Engagement Investment 100

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Rob has a background in finance, but jumped into the startup world first at Groupon, where he was the GM for their Latin American division, before moving to New York to become the first sales hire for Justworks. The benefits of a career in finance on evaluating companies.

Finance 69

Finance Interviewing Innovation Compensation 69

IT World

MARCH 6, 2019

While spending for more developed use cases in the financial sector like trade finance and cross-border payments is still healthy and growing strong, relative to six months ago we've seen an acceleration in spending across a variety of other areas, such as energy settlements and warranty claims." The largest chunk of worldwide spending on new blockchain networks – nearly $2.9

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Finance Blockchain Banking Investment 49

Tom Tunguz

MAY 10, 2015

In other words, irrespective of the size of a startup’s financing round, whether in the series A or series B, follow-on rounds are typically raised 500 days after the previous one closes. The rate at which startups are raising follow-on rounds is decreasing, and has decreased steadily from 2003 through 2013. Between 2003 and 2006, post-Series A startups raised series Bs about 57% of the time. However from 2011-2014, that figure fell to 28%.

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Finance Trends Startup Data 100

Tom Tunguz

APRIL 2, 2014

I’ve gathered the financing histories of the 41 publicly traded SaaS companies and adjusted them for inflation. The table below compares the financing patterns of SaaS companies over time, in cohorts of 4 years. The number of rounds of financing each company raises before IPO has nearly doubled from 2.5 That pattern may be driven by an increasingly friendly financing environment or because of increased capital needs of the business or many other reasons.

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Finance Trends Cloud Data 100

Chargebee

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Don't move fast and break things. Move Slow & Make Things. Chargebee+QuickBooks pulls your recurring billing & subscription accounting out of the dark ages

Finance 60

Finance Subscription 60

OpenView Labs

MAY 2, 2019

Finance & OperationsThe post What Makes Zoom So Special? appeared first on OpenView Labs.

Finance 58

Finance 58

Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The WSJ published a recent chart of the 49 startups with billion dollar valuations. According to their research, there have never been as many privately held companies with such high valuations ever. The absolute number of these massively valuable companies alone is amazing. Ten years ago, most of them would have gone public by now. But what other insights can we tease from the data about these very special businesses?

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Finance Social Media Healthcare Enterprise 100

The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Understanding the mechanics of founder re-ups in financing rounds This post will likely not make me more popular and might offend some people. In the last 12 months or so it happened several times that later-stage VCs, as part of financing rounds, offered a “re-up” (i.e.

Venture Capital 198

Venture Capital Finance Investment Pricing 198

Divestopedia

JANUARY 30, 2019

Deal structures are complicated, wonderful things. You really can negotiate for the terms you need to make a successful business transition. Let Matt Boettner tell you how

Finance 40

Finance Interviewing Business 40

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 25, 2019

This means, you raise your typical Seed round and plan for a €1.5M – €2 intermediary ( Pre A ) financing in 9 – 12 months in order to boost your then €800k – €1M annual subscription revenues above the magic €1.8M Blog Execution Financing Seed Series A

B2B 68

B2B Subscription Finance Technology 68

Kellblog

MAY 3, 2019

Under ASC 606, multi-year, prepaid deals are seen as significant financing events , so — if I have this correct — revenue will exceed the cash received [8] from the customer as interest expense will be recorded and increase the amount of revenue.

Deferred Revenue 81

Deferred Revenue Churn Revenue Finance 81

Zuora

APRIL 16, 2019

Finance IT Subscription EconomyOn the latest Subscribed Podcast, we talk to Sandeep about the ongoing transition to “as-a-service” business models, customer support, and “the next $10 billion opportunity in enterprise IT.”. The post Subscribed Podcast: Sandeep Jain on the $10B opportunity in enterprise IT appeared first on Zuora.

Business Model 40

Business Model Customer Support Enterprise Business 40

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Finance & OperationsAnalytics is considered to be critical at many companies, but few are able to get it right. Most companies quickly realize that getting a strategy in place can actually be quite hard.

Development 82

Development Data Strategy Government 82

OpenView Labs

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

Finance & OperationsEditor’s Note: This article was co-authored by Mackey Craven and Sean Fanning. .

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Venture Capital Finance Enterprise Investment 77

Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. As you’d expect from Jason, he didn’t try to sugarcoat things: A top trend I have noticed past 3 years: Startups are MUCH, MUCH worse at finance. cfo saas startup venture-capital finance

Venture Capital 69

Venture Capital Forecasting Finance Pricing 69

The SaaS Garage

MARCH 25, 2019

This means, you raise your typical Seed round and plan for a €1.5M – €2 intermediary ( Pre A ) financing in 9 – 12 months in order to boost your then €800k – €1M annual subscription revenues above the magic €1.8M Blog Execution Financing Seed Series A

B2B 52

B2B Subscription Technology Startup 52

Zuora

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Finance Industry: SaaS Subscription EconomySelect excerpts from Subscribed Podcast with Professor McCarthy about subscription business valuation, CLV, and pitfalls to avoid. The post Subscribed Podcast: Prof Daniel McCarthy on CLV, valuations, and subscription pitfalls appeared first on Zuora.

Subscription 40

Subscription Business Finance 40

Chart Mogul

DECEMBER 5, 2018

Best Practices email course finance saas saas metrics refresherIn this week's lesson, we're tackling the tricky process of converting bookings into revenue — also known as revenue recognition. Repeat after me: cash is not revenue!

Metrics 56

Metrics Revenue Deferred Revenue Subscription 56

The SaaS Garage

MAY 10, 2017

We had to finance everything with money which we received from equity financing rounds. Blog Financing Debt Capital Funding

Banking 78

Banking B2B Finance Venture Capital 78

Cardin Partners

JUNE 19, 2017

FinancePreparing to sell your company requires a lot of work. Whether planned or unsolicited, when the time comes to ready the company for sale, you will be able to move much more quickly if your financial house is in already in order.

Acquisition 60

Acquisition Customer Lifetime Value Interviewing Market Segmentation 60

Cardin Partners

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

If you’d like an even better intuitive sense of how these numbers relate, please feel free to change the inputs in the interactive calculator, below: M&A SaaS FinanceThere’s something a bit magical about the LTV:CAC ratio.

Onboarding 52

Onboarding B2B Revenue Churn 52

Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

financing venture-capital saas startupA couple of years ago I wrote a post titled “How fast is fast enough?”. The subtext of the question was “How fast do you have to grow if your ambition is to get to $100M in ARR and build a very large company”.

Headcount 57

Headcount Venture Capital Forecasting Churn 57

Chart Mogul

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Free download: The Ultimate SaaS Finance Cheat Sheet , featuring: – Definitions of common terms. Best Practices Accounting finance revenue Revenue Recognition saasWhat's the difference between bookings and revenue? Revenue recognition.

Revenue 54

Revenue Deferred Revenue Subscription Pricing 54

Cardin Partners

JULY 7, 2017

M&A SaaS FinanceQ: How does my CAC recovery time affect the rate at which I can grow, without taking on any outside capital?

Churn 56

Churn Acquisition SMB Investment 56

Cardin Partners

JUNE 29, 2017

M&A SaaS FinanceQ: Should I use revenue and churn alone to calculate LTV, or should I also consider COGS and the time value of money?

Customer Lifetime Value 56

Customer Lifetime Value Churn Acquisition Metrics 56

Cardin Partners

JUNE 26, 2017

M&A Finance SaaSQ: What’s more important as a determinant of financial value: growth or churn? A: Probably the most common single question we get – and the Quick answer is the Quick Ratio , which accommodates both.

Churn 56

Churn SMB Acquisition Finance 56

Cardin Partners

JULY 19, 2017

M&A SaaS FinanceQ: If we are going to invest effort in ‘moving the needle’ with respect to just one of our core SaaS metrics, where will we get the most bang for our buck? A: Please read on. The short answer is: CAC, followed by churn.

Churn 52

Churn Metrics SMB Retention 52

TechStars

MARCH 20, 2019

Whether you’re an entrepreneur raising funds or an investor looking to take your venture finance skills to the next level, Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson have the answers for you. How do venture deals really work?

Finance 234

Finance 234

Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 7, 2019

In the world of finance and financial technology, established companies are starting to look at the rearview mirror at fast-approaching startups, wondering just true the phrase “objects in mirror are closer than they appear” might be.

Finance 66

Finance Technology Startup 66

The SaaS CFO

APRIL 24, 2019

It’s one of the most common questions that I receive from SaaS finance professionals and founders. Have I Outgrown My SaaS Accounting Software? They ask, “We’ve outgrown our current accounting software. What SaaS accounting software do you recommend?” There are so many choices in the marketplace, but I feel that few software vendors focus on […]. The post Founder’s Guide to SaaS Accounting Software appeared first on The SaaS CFO. Accounting Software Accounting

Software 70

Software Finance 70

SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

Here is our selection of top funds according to the predominant stage they are financing. The focus of ONEVC is on early stage and seed financing for entrepreneurs with high promise to create businesses that turn into leaders in their markets.

Venture Capital 172

Venture Capital Investment Healthcare Finance 172

Divestopedia

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Plus, he talks about how the 'money will always come' when you're trying to finance a deal Troy Berg takes us through his eight acquisitions and what strategies worked best for him to grow his company 3x in three years.

Finance 40

Finance Interviewing Acquisition Scaling 40

SaaStr

APRIL 15, 2019

“Hacking Your Cap Table: How Much Equity to Give and When” with Equify Founder and CEO Alex Leger Cattarini, Index Ventures Talent Partner Dominic Jacquesson, Futrli Founder and CEO Hannah Dawson and Alan Head of Risk, Finance and Compliance Paul Sauveplane.

Finance 207

Finance Scaling Management 207

SaaStr

MAY 5, 2019

Look, a lot of rounds of financing — all the way to a Series H —at almost any valuation do add up to significant dilution: Beyond that, Slack took additional dilution from its pivot from a gaming company to the Slack we know today, a communications company.

Finance 133

Finance Communication Marketing 133

SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

After 11 years in finances, in 2016 she became the CFO of Brinc.io, boldly entering into the tech world. Jessie provides invaluable know-how to portfolio companies on cash flow, fundraising, and financing strategies.

Venture Capital 272

Venture Capital Healthcare Consulting Banking 272

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Financing was an obvious must but not the necessity of it being from local sources. SAIF Partners is one of the top private equity firms that provides growth capital financing for Asia businesses. Click Ventures is a VC that finances tech companies with high scalability promise.

Telecommunications 195

Telecommunications Venture Capital Investment Healthcare 195

Navint

APRIL 18, 2019

He’s adamant about not taking a siloed approach to marketing, sales, and finance, but rather making sure all your key business functions have a seat at the table when you’re choosing the solutions and designing your end-to-end processes. “If

Revenue 65

Revenue Finance Interviewing Benchmarks 65

Tom Tunguz

JULY 22, 2018

Many founders have aspired to “skip” a round of financing. in investment - skipping a round of financing. How do you skip a round of financing? Jacob’s Ladder is a toy of thin wooden blocks attached by ribbon. If you hold it in your hand and rotate it to touch the second block, it seems to set off a cascade of blocks falling from the top. The blocks haven’t changed positions, though they do rotate. It’s a moving optical illusion.

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Finance Trends Investment Startup 100