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61 – Fundraising 101 For Founders, with Michal Cardamone

Natalia Luneva

Michael Cardamone is the CEO/Managing Partner at Forum Ventures (formerly Accleprise) which is a B2B SaaS focused seed fund & pre-seed accelerator with locations in SF, NYC & Toronto. Raising money and venture capital is not for most businesses. Crunchbase – Discover innovative companies and the people behind them.

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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The age-old sales funnel has worked fine for decades…until now. Why is the sales funnel alone, no longer an appropriate way of thinking about customers? Hilarie Koplow-McAdams – Venture Partner at NEA. But a go to market advantage, business model advantage, that is much more sustainable. Hilarie K.:

Scale 107
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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

The age-old sales funnel has worked fine for decades…until now. Why is the sales funnel alone, no longer an appropriate way of thinking about customers? Hilarie Koplow-McAdams – Venture Partner at NEA. But a go to market advantage, business model advantage, that is much more sustainable. Hilarie K.:

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The Best of SaaS at YCombinator: A Deep Dive with the CEOs of Gusto, Amplitude and Plangrid (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

You’re in the valley, you raise venture capital. It’s a sales funnel like any other. We ended up so totally nailing product market fit because we were laser focused on the customer. Spencer : You have to hire someone who is an expert at it in product marketing. I don’t know.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Matrix Partners and EZPR — February 21, 2020

SaaStr

What does David believe is the crucial step missing in B2B when it comes to finding product market fit? So if we start today on the hailed and much discussed topic of product market fit, there’s a common assumption that you find product market fit and then just aggressively scale.

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