SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Christoph has invested in more than 20 SaaS startups and lives and breathes SaaS, everything from “A as in AI-enhanced B2B software” to “Z as in Zendesk”. Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011. In 2008 he became an angel investor and discovered Zendesk, Clio, FreeAgent – and his love for SaaS.

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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. No proper finance or account until even after raising millions, even to $5m+ ARR.

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ProfitWell

AUGUST 13, 2020

But first, the B2B SaaS index. Ben Horowitz is the co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a private venture capital company. How is the B2B SaaS market trending? ??7 Today, our B2B SaaS index is valued at 1,665 points, with overall growth climbing 0.77% over the last seven days. I'll fill you in.

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Payments SaaS Payments Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team 52

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

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. Financing was an obvious must but not the necessity of it being from local sources. Horizons Ventures.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In that post, I looked at how long it took publicly traded SaaS companies to get to $100M in ARR and concluded that if your goal is to reach $100M in ARR, you should try to get there within 7–9 years after launch. Meanwhile, a few SaaS companies have shown even more spectacular growth. eight years.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. I learned a million lessons about SaaS, about start-ups, and about life along the way.

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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. Each time a payment is made, the fund’s ownership stake is reduced with the founders’ ownership shares increasing.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And I’ve been building SaaS Companies now for 20 years, so that’s a long time. They were building time and expense software. But they were doing it earlier than Java and trying to do it in a way where it gets deployed on the internet, which is something we would call SaaS today. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Point Nine Land

MAY 20, 2021

a problem we’ve been wanting to solve for a while Payroll, the process of compensating your employees for their work, continues to be a complex and convoluted process for companies of all sizes. Enter Pento… Beautiful software + end to end automation = Pento ? there’s an $80Bn giant elephant in this room and it’s called ADP ).

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Outsourcing Services SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 52

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Mark Suster | Managing Partner @ Upfront Ventures. We woke up February 2020 with a shock to the system and no idea what it would mean for our business. So we had a shock to the system with no idea what it actually meant. Why is financing hard right now? It’s very difficult to get financed.

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Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 189

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. million round of financing led by Grotech Ventures in 2017.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I moved out to the East Coast of the US to go to Harvard where I majored in applied math with a focus on decision systems and artificial intelligence before it was cool. And that was my first time in enterprise software – I’d spent some time in consumer software before that and did that for a few years.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

When we announced a few weeks ago that we would be bringing our leading SaaS conference to Asia, and running it in Hong Kong, many locals thanked us for choosing the city. Their solutions span a wide range of verticals: from E-commerce, HR and Health to collaboration, infrastructure and AI. See our agenda and book tickets here.

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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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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

We can only process so much change, and I feel like we’ve been through three worlds since early March. I think it’s, in SaaS, in cloud, if you define it that way, I think it’s about 15 to 20%. They’re going to adopt the Shanghai processes. The rate of change, right? Aileen Lee: Yeah. What do you think?

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