ProfitWell

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Do you gun straight for the glamour (and pressure) of venture capital investment? What about a venture capitalist who might be sympathetic to your mission? We break down different funding options, when the time is right to be seeking investment, and what you need to really impress your investors. Venture capital.

Venture Capital 56

Venture Capital Scale SaaS Benchmarks 56

Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

5 Reasons I Hate the Rule of 40 by Mikael Johnsson, SaaS Nordic While not necessarily completely useless, I would strongly argue that R40 is a metric applicable to the world of PE and public markets investing and is not a good metric for assessing the quality of venture-stage companies. Because this drives investment decisions.

Scale 52

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring SaaS 52

ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

SaaS, or software as a service, is a delivery model in which a centrally hosted software is licensed to customers via a subscription plan. A SaaS company maintains responsibility for the servers, database (and the data they contain), and other software that allow their product to be accessed and used. Recurring payments.

Business Model 54

Business Model SaaS Payments Payment Methods Payments 54

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

To date, Amit has raised $68m in funding for Gong from the likes of Norwest, Battery Ventures, Cisco Investments, and Wing Venture Capital, just to name a few. It’s not guaranteed, people still churn even with annual subscription. Amit Bendov: Product and product marketing.

Outsourced Development 132

Outsourced Development Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Scale 132

Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

But Buildium had found product market fit , and although I didn’t know it yet, I was stumbling into a great situation. Venture capital is a tool and a commitment, not an outcome. At this point Buildium raised $2M from K1 Capital , investing the money primarily in marketing and hiring.

SaaS Payments 145

SaaS Payments Sales Hiring Payment Methods Payment Services 145

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2022

And diversifying, if you’re still early, before 10, 20 or 30 million revenue, that could be a sign that things just aren’t working, that you don’t actually have product market fit, which is unfortunate, but you need to be honest about it. You need to be honest, if you have product market fit.

Scale 203

Scale Sales Hiring Scaling VP of Engineering 203

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

What does David believe is the crucial step missing in B2B when it comes to finding product market fit? David Skok: So I actually, I’m definitely a believer that it definitely gets easier and I think we see that in our venture investments too. What is the most common mistake B2B companies make in the hunt for PMF?

Scale 189

Scale Sales Hiring Underperforming Technical Team Sales Recruiting 189

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Watch our latest webinar to hear from Bigfoot Capital Founder Brian Parks, SaaSOptics CEO Tim McCormick and Techstars Partner Ari Newman as they share best practices on raising seed capital and getting to a series A round. We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 .

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Watch our latest webinar to hear from Bigfoot Capital Founder Brian Parks, SaaSOptics CEO Tim McCormick and Techstars Partner Ari Newman as they share best practices on raising seed capital and getting to a series A round. We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56 .

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

Watch our latest webinar to hear from Bigfoot Capital Founder Brian Parks, SaaSOptics CEO Tim McCormick and Techstars Partner Ari Newman as they share best practices on raising seed capital and getting to a series A round. We discuss: How seed and Series A investment criteria differ. Tim McCormick: 00:06:56. Excellent, great.

SaaS 40

SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

A discussion about venture capital and the effects Covid-19 has had on in the industry. Join Nicole Quinn, General Partner at Lightspeed Ventures, Ann Miura-Ko, Founding Partner at Floodgate, and Alex Konrad, Senior Editor at Forbes as they talk about what they have seen in the industry lately and how they are moving forward.

Venture Capital 216

Venture Capital Investment Travel Marketplace as a Service 216

Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

I think there’s this dichotomy that people swing between bootstrapping versus venture capital. And the one thing about the bootstrapping choice is you’re choosing to invest years of your life, whether you know it or not, and they’re often the best years of your career. It was just the most broken system ever.

Payment Solutions 209

Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Whether you have a Software-as-a-Service, subscription or membership business or you sell one-off products or services and simply want to do business with your customer more than once, Customer Success should be your driving purpose. Every company has an initial catalyst for investing in Customer Success.

Customer Success 136

Customer Success SaaS Payments Payment Solutions Payment Services 136