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How Revenue-Based Financing and Venture Capital Funding Work Together

OPEXEngine

As alternative financing solutions attract more attention from entrepreneurs, some VC investors are noticing more startups are turning to these options for their growth and working capital needs, many times mixing and matching RBF with a term loan, line of credit with a forward commitment, or both. Lower-cost capital post-VC funding.

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds. Less focus on venture capital or funding rounds.

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Three chief customer officer job descriptions we love

ChurnZero

The role of the chief customer officer has become an essential function in subscription-based business models such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), where customer retention is paramount and requires executive-level leadership. SaaS businesses, meanwhile, benefit from predictable streams of recurring revenue.

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Summary of New York Tech Week 2023 (Itaú BBA, BTG, BofA)

SaaSHolic

Three important factors for companies to consider when implementing AI are discussed: organizational structure, management systems, and leadership models, with an emphasis on simplicity and financial optimization in data processes. Corporations have a huge responsibility in providing workforce development opportunities for their employees.

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between the covers??

ProfitWell

This book is an invaluable read for those building a company or in a leadership position. And how to be vulnerable in a leadership role. Ben Horowitz is the co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a private venture capital company. Recover payments and reduce churn ? The different types of CEOs.

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

SaaStr

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

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How to Build a $18B+ Success Story Far Away from Silicon Valley with Adyen (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

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.