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10+ Ways A Venture Financing Can Implode Post-Term Sheet

SaaStr

While startups have ups and downs, if you tell the VCs you’re going to hit $250,000 in revenue this month … make 100 percent sure you hit that projection. At least, just that one month during the funding process. VCs will ask you for customer references to call. Missing your financial plan in the middle of a financing.

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11 Key SaaS Roles and Responsibilities in 2023

User Pilot

Customer Onboarding Specialist: Responsible for helping new customers get up and running with the company’s products. Revenue growth rate : This measures the rate at which the company’s revenue is growing over a specific period. A higher revenue growth rate generally indicates positive business performance.

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Beyond Frankencloud: living with your once and future SaaS architecture

CloudGeometry

Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. What starts as an easy hack for a new feature that accesses the database directly sprawls quickly into reads and writes that conflict with all kinds existing functions. and onboarding new customers. Bottom-up cost transparency is a key feature of any public cloud platform.

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The B2B Marketplace Funding Napkin 2021

Point Nine Land

So if you’re a US-based startup, you might be able to shoot slightly higher ;) Unlike SaaS companies which have been around for years, B2B marketplaces are a relatively new category and not many investors have invested in them yet. As a result, we could not collect as many data points as we do for our SaaS napkin. Market Characteristics ??

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How to Write Effective Dunning Emails (30+ Examples Included)

Baremetrics

When most SaaS companies talk about reducing churn, they’re usually referring to voluntary churn. And if you’re not careful, it can slowly eat away at your revenue and bleed your company dry. The customers whose subscriptions end because their credit card payments failed and they never made up for the payment.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Bernadette Nixon, Jay Snyder, Nick Mehta, Loren Padelford, and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

362: The Future of the Customer with Bernadette Nixon, CEO @ Algolia, Jay Snyder, Chief Customer Officer @ New Relic, and Nick Mehta, CEO @ Gainsight. Nick Mehta: On a boat in Rhode Island and then our second guest Jay Snyder, who just recently took over as Chief Customer Officer of New Relic, publicly traded SaaS company.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. I remember when I was in business school the internet was brand new and back then the hero was Jerry Yang. And by 2003 we were almost out of business. Join us for SaaStr Annual 2020.