Incredo

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Not all investors are equal : you should target the right ones who are interested in investing in SaaS and tend to fund in your geography & startup stage. A person who agrees to invest in a risky early-stage business with no final product and customers, is probably an angel. First, angel investor or VC? What makes them different?

SaaS 154

SaaS Social Media Startup Scale 154

ProfitWell

MARCH 12, 2020

And Rent the Runway adds a new membership option to amp up its presence in the subscription clothing space. Listen wherever you get podcasts: Your top subscription news. We’ve had our eyes on Rent the Runway on the show before , as one of the more popular clothing subscriptions out there. The competitive side. It’s hard to say.

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payment Services Payments Venture Capital 52

ProfitWell

JULY 7, 2020

Listen wherever you get podcasts: The silent killer of your subscription business. How is the B2B SaaS market trending? ??7 How are churn and new revenue trending over time? It’s called Included VC—tackling the lack of diversity in venture capital head on. The [remote] capital experience. 7 day +0.83% | ??

SaaS Payments 52

SaaS Payments Payments Payment Services Venture Capital 52

ProfitWell

JANUARY 23, 2020

February may be creeping in, but we’re still on that new year grind —with 14 tech trends to watch closely in 2020. Your top subscription news. These are some of the top tech trends poised to reshape industries in 2020, according to CB Insights. And that’s a wrap for your January 23 subscription news. Killer robots.

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Sales Recruiting Sales Hiring Venture Capital Trends 43

Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

SaaS companies in particular have high gross margins (no IT admin) and recurring revenues (subscriptions), a combination which means they can re-invest a substantial piece of their revenue into (hopefully) predictable growth. Still, it’s clear that things are different today. Did I miss something?

Outsourcing Services 59

Outsourcing Services Underperforming Technical Team Outsourced Development AI 59

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company. It can order subscription. But again, at the time SaaS wasn’t, subscription wasn’t the norm at all.

Sales Hiring 177

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Government 177

SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

You can access the latest information, insights, trends, and data to enhance your knowledge of the latest SaaS industry developments. Knowing these trends will help you gain a competitive advantage and stay ahead of the pack in your business decisions. He led early-stage investments in Box and Yammer. Ben Murray. Chris Orlob.

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VP of Engineering Scale SaaS Venture Capital 10

Hitenism

JANUARY 16, 2017

Part of this has to do with reducing costs and tightening budgets, but it also reflects a much larger trend across SaaS. Optimizely CEO Dan Siroker wrote in this Quora post : “This was a journey we committed to back in August 2015 to put us on a path to sustained growth and profitability without additional venture capital.

Scale 147

Scale Venture Capital SaaS Headcount 147

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It was a subscription based model. ” And it’s something that I’m struggling with at the moment with an investment of mine. I mean, it is one of the best investments when you get to any level of scale is really having good sales enablement. So are those trending in the right directions?

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Sales Hiring Scale Leadership Sales Enablement 190

ChurnZero

APRIL 27, 2021

As ChurnZero recently secured a Series B investment bringing our total funding that has been raised to date to $35 million, we thought we’d take a look back and see the role that Customer Success plays at each respective stage of funding for SaaS companies. Our job is to peer around corners and make bold bets.

Scale 98

Scale Customer Success Payments Underperforming Technical Team 98

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

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.

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Outsourced Development Outsourcing Services Sales Hiring Scale 132

ChurnZero

AUGUST 25, 2020

Twitter can be a goldmine for discovering the latest Customer Success trends and strategies. Anna Talerico, Arthur Ventures Anna ( @annatalerico ) is an Operating Partner at Arthur Ventures , an early growth capital firm that leads investments in B2B software companies located outside Silicon Valley.

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Scale Technical Review Venture Capital Software Review 69

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.

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Venture Capital Investment Travel Marketplace as a Service 216

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 19, 2021

Projected trends for 2021 [27:18]. And if you look at a venture capital portfolio, of course, Storm has lots of investments in Europe. But also Notion, from the UK, has investments all across the world. ” Projected trends for 2021 [27:18]. A lot of these trends were accelerated.

Sales Hiring 63

Sales Hiring Scale Technical Advisors Travel 63

SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

I am a partner at Accel, the Global Venture Capital Fund, and I’m very happy to be here with one of these mythical creatures that people were talking about earlier. Luciana: I had been telling people that the inflection point came when Accel invested, but I guess it was market and product and all that good stuff.

Sales Hiring 252

Sales Hiring Scale Sales Recruiting Outsourcing Services 252

SaaStr

AUGUST 19, 2020

Of course, we’re seeing many of the trends that have been in existence being accelerated by 5, 10 plus years whether it’s telemedicine, e-commerce, mental health, food delivery, we’re very well aware of these COVID fuel tailwinds which are changing industries literally in weeks as opposed to decades.

Scale 244

Scale Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring Leadership 244