Scytale

JANUARY 22, 2024

In the modern business landscape, compliance is not just a buzzword but a fundamental requirement, essential for evaluating a startup’s capability to offer risk-free, reliable, and trustworthy services. Adhering to regulations prevents duplicated efforts, reduces errors, and guarantees efficient and effective processes.

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Chart Mogul

AUGUST 15, 2019

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. New investment structures are gaining traction in the early-stage SaaS financing market. A high-level look at Revenue-based financing (RBF).

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Baremetrics

MAY 7, 2019

Company C was funded by pre-orders from customers, a friends and family round, and then through revenue-based financing for a period of time. For Companies A, B, and C, they all exchanged equity for capital, leveraged debt, and used profits from customers to fund their startup. TinySeed , Earnest Capital , and Indie.vc

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Plus, the price tag on those more established businesses often run into the billions. That’s an expensive mistake if you make the wrong investment. Micro startup acquisitions are a move away from buying businesses with established products or even proven revenue streams. The solution? Micro startup acquisitions.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. We’ve seen a clear trend toward technology companies capturing a growing share of venture funding recently.

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OPEXEngine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Technology is reshaping the economy, and it starts with venture capital. Technology was a driving force behind the boom in venture investments over the past decade. We’ve seen a clear trend toward technology companies capturing a growing share of venture funding recently.

Technology 40

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ProfitWell

JULY 7, 2020

You're wasting revenue by fixing it. Listen wherever you get podcasts: The silent killer of your subscription business. So, let’s walk through the top three hidden areas of churn you might not be thinking about: failed credit card payments, lack of annual contracts and not utilizing value metrics. Failed credit card payments.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 12, 2022

Jason recently opened up an AMA on Twitter Spaces to answer questions about scaling and VC funding. You would take three to four years to deploy it for new investments, not follow-ons but new investments. And they’ve probably cut the amount they want to invest in the next 12 months by half to 66% because of the math.

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FastSpring

DECEMBER 8, 2022

As a former agency owner, now the Chief Marketing Officer at FastSpring, David Vogelpohl has helped many software companies scale around the world. How FastSpring Simplifies Selling Around the World Automated Localized Checkout Consumers often prefer to pay in their local currency or using payment methods that are popular in their region.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Software Review 78

The Angel VC

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

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Backlinkfy

OCTOBER 5, 2019

Thinking of starting a small business but worried about finances? We live a totally different world today, gone are the years where you'll need to have Angel or venture capital funding for you to start a business. Starting out you'll also want to make sure you are hiring the right people to scale your business.

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Point Nine Land

DECEMBER 12, 2018

While this is generally true for most companies, it’s particularly true for SaaS businesses, which invest heavily in product development, sales, and marketing upfront and get payments from customers over a delayed period of time, usually several years. I’ve created a very simple model that illustrates this.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

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. Notable mentions that have helped the Asian SaaS space are 500 Startups, Y Combinator, Sequoia, Matrix Partners, Eight Roads Ventures and Intel Capital.

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SaaStr

JULY 8, 2020

What Nobody Tells You About Seed Investing with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Cowboy Ventures Founder and Partner Aileen Lee. Aileen Lee | Founder @ Cowboy Ventures. I think it gives us a perspective that maybe we don’t get in some other places, in addition to many great investments over the years. Jason Lemkin: Yes.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Investment funds like Indie.VC Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. And the companies choosing the independent path are not all hipster led lifestyle businesses choosing nobility over bankroll and operating with a chip on their shoulders.

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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. And we thought, who better to ask than those that chose to invest in us along the way.

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SaaStr

JUNE 20, 2019

In this session, the audience will learn about Adyen’s journey from a Dutch payments startup, to a global public company with more than 15 offices around the world working with large global companies like Facebook, Spotify, Uber and Microsoft. I mean payment cultures, payment habits are, yeah, different in every country all over the world.

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Payment Methods Merchant Services Payments Payment Services 142

Outseta

APRIL 14, 2020

I’ve come to believe that there are only two scenarios where it undeniably makes sense to raise venture capital: You’re building something so capital intensive that it can’t possibly be built without massive amounts of money. If the second describes you, well done—venture capital may very well make sense for you.

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Payment Methods Payment Solutions SaaS Payments Payments 68

Outseta

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

By Geoff Roberts 12 min read When we first started building Outseta we stated outright that we weren’t interested in raising venture capital—instead, we planned on bootstrapping the business and remaining independent. Your company will begin repaying the fund 12 to 36 months after the investment is made.

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

What started as Dimitris (now my Co-founder at Outseta ) writing a few lines of code to collect rent payments from tenants he had living in a duplex in Providence, Rhode Island, turned into something worth hundreds of millions of dollars 15 years later. Venture capital is a tool and a commitment, not an outcome.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2020

A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. Jason Lemkin: Unicorn generation, how does that inform your thinking in terms of types of investments? I’m really passionate about seed investing. 346: Aileen Lee is a U.S. seed investor. ”, we are going to have more unicorns.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

I thought it was worth putting three trillion into perspective for you so you could get some sense of scale. I thought it’s also worth giving you some sense of scale for how much the US government takes in in revenue every year. In revenue, the US government takes in 3.5 It’s very difficult to get financed.

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Technical Review Payment Services Payment Methods Development Team Review 202

SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

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. . When you land an enterprise client, you must be prepared to scale your business to meet their needs.

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ProfitWell

DECEMBER 4, 2019

And with the field having undergone a couple of “ knockout expansion years ,” with more revenue pouring into SaaS than ever, it has never been a better time for a young SaaS company. The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. But my co-founders has done an amazing job, creating a scale platform that now has 600,000 reviews and 3 million SaaS software buyers coming every month looking for products like yours.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

In Moz Founder Rand Fishkin’s brilliantly open and honest book Lost and Founder , he uses an example VC fund called “Scorpio Ventures” to outline some of the fundamentals of how venture capital firms work. Scorpio Ventures goes out to a series of limited partners (LPs) and pitches their ability to pick great startups.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

Chart Mogul

MARCH 24, 2020

In Moz Founder Rand Fishkin’s brilliantly open and honest book Lost and Founder , he uses an example VC fund called “Scorpio Ventures” to outline some of the fundamentals of how venture capital firms work. Scorpio Ventures goes out to a series of limited partners (LPs) and pitches their ability to pick great startups.

Payment Methods 52

Payment Methods Venture Capital SaaS Payments Sales Hiring 52

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Pietro Bezza | Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures. We are a $50 million fund based in Lisbon, and we invest mainly in seed stage.

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Intercom, Inc.

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Don’t just listen to what they say – watch what they do, understand their world and their challenges, and consider how your product integrates and fits in with everything else happening in their lives. You should think about how your product integrates with and fits in with everything else that people have going on in their lives.

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Payment Solutions Payment Methods Underperforming Technical Team Sales Hiring 209

Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Now he’s a partner making investments on the VC side at Foundation Capital with over 20 years of operational experience. About Angus Davis & Foundation Capital [1:45]. SMB Sales & SDRs at (Smaller) Scale [18:20]. He then founded Upserve and sold that business to Vista Equity Partners.

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Payment Methods Scale CTO Coach SMB 55

Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

Which means we’ve sort of blanketed the ecosystem of early stage accelerators, early stage venture capital firms, and been able to – from that entire startup life cycle perspective, across all different types of marketing – stay in front of the customer. We’ve been really, really good at ground game.

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Sixteen Ventures

DECEMBER 31, 2019

In 2019 I worked with amazing companies, venture capital firms, and startup accelerators around the world. In 2016, I co-authored a book for Wiley called “ Customer Success: How Innovative Companies Are Reducing Churn and Growing Recurring Revenue ” ( Também está disponível em português! ) Sales Process Engagement.

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