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It’s Time to Raise Your Debt Facility: Execution Tactics for Founders

Andreessen Horowitz

Given the shifting landscape, it’s helpful for you as a CEO and/or founder—or for your finance and capital markets teams, if you have those hires to help you through this process—to know who the key players are at each stage so you can spend your time and energy speaking to the right firms. small business loans for their customers).

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Data Governance: Salesforce Objects in a Lead-to-Cash Process

Sales Hacker

Subscriptions (custom object). But if you are selling software and services and more than one product type, orders and subscriptions will be useful for seamlessly passing “inventory” data through the system. Most software companies sell professional services, subscriptions, or both. Order > Invoice. Activities.

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3 ways SaaS CFOs can prepare for hypergrowth in 2022

OPEXEngine

It is not just a finance focus, but your job is to facilitate the view through every aspect of your business. When structured correctly, finance can improve overall operational efficiency by helping all the operators be more thoughtful about their business. You also need to challenge other functions to have a multi-year perspective.

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The Defining Characteristics of Successful SMB SaaS Startups

Tom Tunguz

Encouragingly, the market size for enterprise software is roughly equal to the market size for the SMB market: about 57M potential seats in each. Of course, the true number depends on the market segment: sales, HR, payroll, expense management, etc. It’s all subscription. Take it or leave it.

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Successful SMB SaaS Companies Have a 2 Step Value Proposition

Tom Tunguz

Encouragingly, the market size for enterprise software is roughly equal to the market size for the SMB market: about 57M potential seats in each. Of course, the true number depends on the market segment: sales, HR, payroll, expense management, etc. But these two markets require very different approaches.

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5 Stages of the Recurring Revenue Maturity Curve

Navint

While we want our recurring revenue stream to grow “up and to the right” as our companies mature, Navint has found that, at a certain point in time, the business performance can start to unintentionally erode. Exploring : Starts with an idea about launching a recurring revenue business or service line.

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3 Steps to perform a pricing audit and maximize profitability

ProfitWell

A pricing audit assesses your subscription business’ pricing process to ensure consistency across similar accounts, maximize profitability, and benchmark against other companies. Discounting is a huge topic of interest in the subscription world and unnecessary discounts can have a negative impact on your business.