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

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Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. This is a guest post by Brian Parks, Managing Partner at Bigfoot Capital. A high-level look at Revenue-based financing (RBF). Higher revenue growth = Higher IRR for us. Lower revenue growth = Lower IRR for us.

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

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Revenue-based financing is quickly becoming a popular way for startups to raise funds without sacrificing equity. This is a guest post by Brian Parks, Managing Partner at Bigfoot Capital. A high-level look at Revenue-based financing (RBF). Higher revenue growth = Higher IRR for us. Lower revenue growth = Lower IRR for us.

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5 Things to Know About Running a Capital Efficient Software Company

SaaSX

In the simplest terms, capital efficiency means growing profitably , without overinvesting to land customers and drive revenue. The rule of 40 states that at scale, a company’s revenue growth rate plus its profit margin should be at least 40. Revenue per Employee. That’s a revenue treadmill.

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Everything we’ve learned about scaling sales

Intercom, Inc.

In this week’s episode we’ve dug down into the podcast vaults to bring you some of the best insights shared by our guests about scaling sales. It’s no surprise that one of the key levers for growth as you go from startup to scale-up is your sales team. Hiring for sales with John Barrows.

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The Playbook to Building a Customer Reference Program with Talkdesk SVP of Client Services Gillian Heltai (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

How to create boundaries and norms with the sales team, how to find customer advocates, how to build and scale your program, as well as the difference between incentivized vs. reward program. Customer reference program went from something that was nice to have and important to absolutely critical to our new business sales cycle.

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Sales and GTM in Uncertain Times with Adnan Chaudhry and Matt Garratt (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Leveraging survey data from 66+ enterprise SaaS companies, Matt Garratt, Managing Partner of Salesforce Ventures shares the landscape of how businesses are shifting their sales & GTM strategies to react to today’s uncertain times. Adnan Chaudhry | SVP of Sales @ Salesforce. Companies tend to stick around.

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Rules to Run Your SaaS Business By

Sales Enablement, SaaS and Growth

It’s a simple calculation to help you quickly and easily understand the health of a SaaS business. The rule states that a businesses annual revenue growth rate, plus its profit should equal 40%. The rule of 40 accounts for both scenarios and everything in between. Retention trumps acquisition.