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Doubling Down: Mary D’Onofrio, Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners

SaaStr

To prioritize efficient growth. #4. What’s your pulse check on the venture markets right now, today? Multiples have come down since the peak, and today the venture-growth markets are prioritizing efficient growth. What’s the #1 bit of advice you’d give to SaaS founders today?

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Founders Today Just Need to Assume the Next Round Never Comes

SaaStr

The latter is the most important for raising venture capital. It took a quarter or two to sink in in venture, but now the effects are clear: Much of the growth market (Series B and later) has simply stopped investing, period. Cloud stocks are down 50%, and multiples are down 75%, from their peaks.

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Web Summit Rio 2023: Summary of days 2, 3, 4.

SaaSHolic

From Silicon Valley to Rio – The Globalization of Venture Capital Mathias Schilling , Co-founder & Managing Partner (Headline); Romero Rodrigues, Managing Partner (Headline); Artur Búrigo, Reporter (Folha de S. In times of economic downturn, focusing on organic strategies was recommended to strengthen brand growth.

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Your Sales Efficiency Will Probably Plummet Toward $10m ARR. Plan For It.

SaaStr

.” This is when you compete aggressively not only in the market segments where you have a big competitive advantage, and usually win (which usually has a much cheaper CAC) … but to win big, you also use your $20m, $40m, etc. in venture capital $$$ to compete in spaces where you generally lose.

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Doubling Down: Luci Fonseca, Partner at Base10 Partners

SaaStr

What’s your pulse check on the venture markets right now, today? Venture growth markets have been challenging in the past two years, but we are starting to see some real deal and investment velocity among pretty impressive businesses. That, and give your investors more homework. #4.

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What does Peloton's IPO mean for startups?

ProfitWell

Nasdaq reports Klaviyo snags a spot in the 2019 Cloud100 , just after the Boston Globe featured Klaviyo’s CEO Andrew Bialecki on growth and building the next pillar company in Boston. Klaviyo is a growth marketing platform created for online businesses— featuring powerful marketing automation and a revenue-driving email platform.

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

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Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products. We also have a lot of developers who build with our API just for their own Slack workspaces as customers, and 90% of our paying customers actively use apps in a given week. Ceci Stallsmith : So, we want to … Oh, here’s who we are.

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