SaaSOptics

AUGUST 11, 2022

Rising inflation and a weak stock market are causing investors to be more careful with their financing, and without a plan to manage your cash runway effectively, you’re putting both yourself and your company at risk. So what should you do if you’re strapped for cash and have your sights set on venture capital?

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The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 1, 2014

Inspired by Ben Horowitz’ excellent “Good product managers, bad product managers” post and Stefan Smalla’s “Good leader, bad leader” masterpiece I’ve tried to put together my thoughts on what I think makes a great venture capital investor. Feedback and discussion with other VCs and entrepreneurs is very welcome. Inch by inch.”

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Mattermark

AUGUST 22, 2017

Natasha Azur of Osage Partners takes a look at trends in venture capital activity ( which we’ve also been digging into lately on the Mattermark blog ) in “ What’s the Pulse on 2017 Midyear VC Investment? Believing in the product is most of the reason I like coming to work.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 14, 2013

With more than 80% of venture capital investments occurring in enterprise and with the public markets disproportionately rewarding SaaS companies with huge enterprise value-to-revenue multiples ( median is 7.6 ), it’s no surprise that interest Software-as-a-Service is booming. Characteristic 3: Finances Its Own Growth.

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The SaaS Garage

APRIL 26, 2017

Positioned for Continued Growth and Market Leadership: riskmethods Receives an Additional 13.5 Million Euro Growth Capital. Digital+ Partners leads Series-B financing. Previous investors, EQT Ventures, Senovo and Bayern Kapital all co-funded the round. About EQT Ventures. By Businesswire , April 26, 2017 08:00 AM.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Management changes , as leadership teams drift from a spirit of value creation for customers to value extraction from them. Flood of venture capital (VC). The combination of Covid accelerating digital transformation and unprecedented VC financing has accelerated software company growth (aka, the Covid boost ).

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SaaSHolic

MAY 15, 2023

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes. Corporations have a huge responsibility in providing workforce development opportunities for their employees.

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ProfitWell

APRIL 21, 2020

This one will be permeated by SaaS leadership and expertise, all about bridging the gap during the downturn. From hiring and sales cycles to venture capital, it’s an open conversation on what we’re seeing now in SaaS (and what it means for our futures).

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Chart Mogul

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In many ways, 2022 (Q2-ish) marked the end of the glory days and we entered the “SaaS slump” We saw new business plummet and an 82% year-over-year drop in venture capital investment in 2022. Previously, she held leadership roles at Spotify, Ooyala, Discovery, and Viacom. Now, efficiency is more important than ever.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 13, 2020

This book is an invaluable read for those building a company or in a leadership position. And how to be vulnerable in a leadership role. Ben Horowitz is the co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a private venture capital company. The different types of CEOs. But first, who is Ben Horowitz?

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ProfitWell

APRIL 2, 2020

This one will be permeated by SaaS leadership and expertise, all about bridging the gap during the downturn. From hiring and sales cycles to venture capital, it’s an open conversation on what we’re seeing now in SaaS (and what it means for our futures).

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

He’s also one of the most well known and well respected writers on venture capital and early stage investing. Today we’ve got a very special guest, Semil Shah, who runs Haystack Ventures, is a venture partner at Lightspeed, and has made a name for himself as an “observation leader.”. What You’ll Learn.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 4, 2020

Years later, he’s got a thriving business that is not venture capital backed. Years later, he’s got a thriving business but one that is not venture capital backed. As a leadership team, I think it’s on you to make sure you’re managing the business with those in mind.

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Sales Hacker

AUGUST 12, 2019

Leadership, Culture, and Managing Executives [09:12]. They are a company that’s grown at a venture scale without venture capital infused into the business, which makes them, from my perspective really, really interesting. Leadership, Culture, and Managing Executives. Subscribe to the Sales Hacker Podcast.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. You can’t talk with a founder without talking about financing. Our recommendation is that you think one financing ahead.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In order to execute on this mission, founders can bootstrap their company, raise outside money ( venture capital is the most popular), or use a combination of both to help build their business. Additional growth signals to look out for: Recent leadership hires. – Marcus Lo, Head of Finance, Crunchbase.

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Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

He leads FirePower Capital in all his endeavors setting its strategic direction, providing top level guidance on key transactions, and assessing new direct investments for FirePower Capital. Private capital funds under his leadership it’s become one of the leading investors in M&A advisory firms in Canada.

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SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2021

The vast majority of startups struggle to raise even a tiny bit of angel funding, let alone a single round of venture funding. But once you do take off, venture capital will likely at least be an option. The next dilution you hopefully won’t lament, but may, is Equity Financing (i.e., Angel and VC Dilution).

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Kellblog

JULY 25, 2020

To me, this all suggests that in these frothy times, the balance of growth and profit (which is what Rule of 40 measures) matters less than other factors, such as growth, leadership, scarcity value and hype, among others.

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SaaStr

MAY 23, 2019

There’s a tendency, you’ll find this kind of teeter-totter where people want to push back financing because, if we can get a couple of more good quarters we can reduce dilution. There’s a bunch of people across the street who’ve raised 75 million dollars or 150 million of venture capital and they are trying to kill me.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

Funding becomes more tight, which means that only the most impactful and disruptive opportunities get financed. The tokenization of traditional financial instruments such as stock, bonds, loans, private equity and venture capital investments will become increasingly common.

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

His posts shed light on SaaS finance and calculations. You can follow Ben to manage your SaaS startup finances and calculate growth metrics accurately. She is an active speaker on startups, venture capital, inbound marketing, remote work, and spacetech. contact-form-7]. Danielle Morril. David Skok. Marc Benioff.

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SaaStr

MAY 31, 2019

Google is obviously great at product and engineering but they also have an incredible legal organization, incredible finance team. We went out to raise a series B round in January of 2009, which was the absolute worst time to raise a round of venture capital funding. And our company was in like, no position to do it.

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Kellblog

OCTOBER 13, 2019

However, as soon as a founder/CEO raises venture capital (VC) they have decided to take investing partners along on the journey. In most venture-backed firms, a hired CEO will find a board consisting of several different venture capital partners, each with their own opinion. Nothing can take that away.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Because of this, make sure that whatever path you choose, all key stakeholders (co-founders, board, investors, leadership team) are aligned on the plan and potential fallback scenarios. In a situation like this, two or three missed quarters can be life-threatening if you don’t have enough cash in your war chest.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Between your competitors’ 100 tweets a day about how Everyone In the World Loves Them, their $50m in venture financing last week, their We Rule the World press releases (that no one reads but you) … competition is all around you. But otherwise, just act as if your competitor raised another $20-$40m in venture capital.

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SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Afterward, Patrick founded several businesses in diverse sectors, including tech, healthcare, and finance. With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Earlier this year, we redoubled our focus on our enterprise segment where we have a strong leadership position. And by then you’ve got a mouth full of decay and your teeth falling out, this whole set of painful bigger problems that are now harder and more expensive to resolve. And those are the outcomes that we’re looking for.

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OPEXEngine

JUNE 16, 2020

However, as soon as a founder/CEO raises venture capital (VC) they have decided to take investing partners along on the journey. In most venture-backed firms, a hired CEO will find a board consisting of several different venture capital partners, each with their own opinion. Nothing can take that away.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Throughout my time there, a little over six years, I went from being the top-performing account executive globally to moving into leadership to help build out our mid-market team out of the West Coast. On the side, I do some stuff in the venture capital community, some scouting for a wonderful VC firm, Cowboy Ventures.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

I was a CFO, so I went down the hall to finance to meet my people in finance. Venture capital always finds you, even when you’re in Phoenix. The second thing as Heidi mentioned briefly before that she started a thought leadership conference five years ago called Ascend. We don’t need any pipelines.

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SaaStr

JULY 1, 2021

You’re in the valley, you raise venture capital. There’s a set of things that are always there, like PR work, fundraising, financing, investor relations work, candidates hiring, etc. Spencer : This is something we screwed up a lot of different times. The first executive hire we made did not work out.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

We raised $0 of venture capital. ” Now, seven years later, SalesLoft has over 400 employees, has raised over $75 million of venture capital, and in the next two years, if not sooner, my prediction is that they will be a unicorn that you’ll be able to read about on Tech Crunch. We started the business in 2007.

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OPEXEngine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Most finance tools are optimized for GAAP but they can be made more effective for increasing company value by enabling better cash management, finance leaders say. Despite its importance, cash flow often gets short shrift in finance systems. Leadership visibility.

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The SaaS Garage

MAY 10, 2017

.” Alexander: Daniel, how did you come up with the idea to provide debt capital to rather early stage companies? We had to finance everything with money which we received from equity financing rounds. DK: Clearly all shareholders benefit from additional debt capital which comes without any further dilution.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 5, 2019

We’re over 600 employees, and we’re currently privately backed, and you could see the list of a lot of our venture capital backers who have some common Silicon Valley names. They are like Kleiner Perkins, Google Ventures. They want to call the leadership of the company. Who are they going to call?

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. They taught us strategy finance and they taught us how to raise money but they did not teach us how to sell. And so by the end of that first year I started to realize, “Oh, wow we’re starting to have problems.

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