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Raise, Sell, Merge, or Scale? How to Navigate the Market Downturn.

SaaSOptics

Rising inflation and a weak stock market are causing investors to be more careful with their financing, and without a plan to manage your cash runway effectively, you’re putting both yourself and your company at risk. So what should you do if you’re strapped for cash and have your sights set on venture capital?

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Kellblog Predictions for 2022

Kellblog

My point was that this is normal and healthy: you can long Miami and Austin without shorting Palo Alto which, by the way, would have been a bad idea in 2020. Is web3 going to change everything because, as Chris Dixon argues, the best entrepreneurs and developers have learned not to build atop centralized platforms? Web3 hype peaks.

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10 Things That Aren’t Obvious About Partnering With Big Companies – Workday Ventures (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

And the very first thing that I did, like any neurotic person is I Googled corporate venture capital. We have one company in our portfolio that this is the third time the founding team has been together. Workday wasn’t in that model, so we have a slightly different approach to portfolio development.

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What is product-market fit? Tapping into your best customers

ProfitWell

The initial effort you put into finding a product-market fit will have a direct impact on whether your advertising efforts will be successful or not. If you don’t have product-market fit, you could be advertising to the wrong buyer personas and attracting the wrong buyers, leading to higher churn and poor retention. Do it all.”.

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There’s more than one path to $100 million

The Angel VC

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. The main reason is that your customer acquisition costs are highly front-loaded.

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The Funnel is Dead. Long Live the Flywheel. With Hubspot CEO Brian Halligan (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? People talk about B2B marketing. People talk about B2C marketing. Brian Halligan: But then you go to market.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history. How long can this last?

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