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What is Equity Financing?

Baremetrics

Equity financing is a method of capital raising via the selling of stock. They may need cash to meet immediate financial obligations or have a longer-term objective and require capital to invest in their development. What is the difference between Equity Financing, Loans, and Venture Capital Funding?

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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

For example, when Instagram bought Luma (its first acquisition), the tiny three-person team was part of the deal. Each seller provides key metrics to give buyers an accurate idea about the sustainability of their business. Flippa is a marketplace for buying and selling websites, apps, domains, and online businesses.

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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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What Bootstrapped Companies Do Better than VC-Backed Ones with Paddle Chief Strategy Officer Patrick Campbell and Senior Product Manager Allissa Chan (Video)

SaaStr

Venture capital-backed companies update their pricing once every 2.8 Adjusting your payment methods and currencies will bring you some gains. Make sure to expand on those attributes in future product iterations. Lever #5: Monetization. Pricing is another vital lever in your business.

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Are You Counting Payments as Renewals?

Kellblog

Enterprise SaaS has drifted to a model where many, if not most, companies do multi-year contracts on annual payment terms. But these multi-year deals are almost always done on annual payment terms. Most investors believe you could better maximize ARR by simply raising more capital and sticking with annual payments.

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The Startup Funding & Financing Guide

Baremetrics

million – about half of all the cash they had on hand – to buy out their main venture capital investors after eight years since founding. Whether founders want to admit it or not, less-than-ideal funding sources like personal savings and credit cards are more popular than you’d think. Buffer spent $3.3

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Understanding the SaaS business model

ProfitWell

Recurring payments. The software-as-a-service business model involves providing a subscription service, so you will have to worry about getting payments every month/year as opposed to only once. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. In SaaS, clients do not buy hardware.