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What Bootstrapped Companies Do Better than VC-Backed Ones with Paddle Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Campbell and Senior Product Manager Allissa Chan (Video)

SaaStr

Startups often begin with a bootstrapping phase with little to no outside investment. Instead of displaying the 10-15% discount that users will receive while signing up for an annual contract, say they’ll get $15 off or two months free.”. Venture capital-backed companies update their pricing once every 2.8

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How going the extra mile to understand customers propelled Squire into a $750m SaaS company 

ChurnZero

A double-booking problem emerges Named for a character role in the Netflix series, Game of Thrones , Squire set out to be a reservation system for barbershops: “Open Table for barbers”, as some have put it. The barbers still wanted cash payments too. Dave had found his niche and Squire was born. But it didn’t go well.

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

SaaStr

Niall Wall, Box SVP of Business and Corporate Development alongside Vicki Lin, Stripe’s Head of Ecosystem and Cecilia Stallsmith, Slack’s Director of Platform Marketing discuss scaling your revenue via indirect channels and platform ecosystems. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

SaaStock

According to Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, the one thing necessary for any company to succeed in China – or in any of the Asian countries – is to get local investment. SAIF Partners is one of the top private equity firms that provides growth capital financing for Asia businesses. SaaS Investments: Goodera, and others.

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A Step-by-Step Guide to Landing Your First Enterprise Client

SmartKarrot

It is a sign of development, showing that the business has effectively transitioned from an R&D organization dependent on venture capital to an autonomous, long-lasting enterprise. . It is challenging and labor-intensive to develop a product that meets all the requirements of an enterprise organization.

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Running payroll like it’s 2021

Point Nine Land

Our investment in Pento. Ola, Christoph, and I have been working very closely with Pento over the past two years and now is a great time to share more about our investment and our thesis for Pento. Enter Pento… Beautiful software + end to end automation = Pento ? million Series A led by our friends at General Catalyst.

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Funding in the Time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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. So people were paying people to take their futures contracts. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.