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$1M to $100M in 20 Months, The Hard Part: How Everything Breaks in Hypergrowth with Deel Co-Founder & CRO Shuo Wang (Video)

SaaStr

Overcoming challenges by optimizing for success In the early stages of setting up your SaaS business, it’s always a good idea to invest time thinking about the direction you want to take. This insight led Deel to focus on solving payments and compliance. Identifying a direction is just the starting point. Trust the process.

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5 Interesting Learnings from Weave at $130,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

Weave started off as a dental ERP and comms platform (including VoIP / phone), and then expanded beyond that as it scaled. It’s a tough outcome for a team that is working hard to scale well into the nine figures of ARR. A reminder growth investing isn’t a space you automatically make money at. Series C ($5.35

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5 Things to Know About Running a Capital Efficient Software Company

SaaSX

For many startup software companies (and their founders), an early capital-efficient approach to growth can make a huge difference in the long run. For example, a 1:1 capital efficiency ratio means you’re earning one dollar for every dollar you invest into company growth. Capital efficiency is the ratio between spend and growth.

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How Revenue-Based Financing Works and What RBF Providers Care About

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New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. Bigfoot Capital invests in initial-scale SaaS companies using both RBF and venture debt investment structures. Here’s an example of how an RBF loan facility can work: We invest $300k with a 36-month payback term. What is RBF?

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How Revenue-Based Financing Works and What RBF Providers Care About

Chart Mogul

New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. Bigfoot Capital invests in initial-scale SaaS companies using both RBF and venture debt investment structures. Here’s an example of how an RBF loan facility can work: We invest $300k with a 36-month payback term. What is RBF?

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

The Angel VC

UIpath, the wildly successful robotic process automation solution out of Romania, is on a similar trajectory. What makes things tricky is, first, the uncertainty of how your CACs will develop at increasing scale and of how your churn rate will develop over time. eight years. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

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Founders: Before You Hire a Sales Team, Consider These Options

Sales Hacker

Even though our company is scaling quickly and getting close to the point of full capacity, it’s not the right time to hire salespeople — because a pivot to something more sustainable could be in the works. You have to be willing to scale your pitching to the point where you’ll occasionally land a win. And this is a big deal.