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Thanks to Carta, Make, Outreach, SAP, and Worldline for Sponsoring SaaStr Europa 2023!

SaaStr

The company is trusted by more than 30,000 companies, over 5,000 investment funds, and half a million employees for cap table management, compensation management, liquidity venture capital solutions, and more. Our vision is a world where everyone has the power to innovate without limits. We are Worldline.

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The Riskiest Venture-Backed Startups Are 3H’s: High Growth, High Churn and High Burn

SaaStr

Don’t disguise it in growth and/or venture capital. SaaS + hardware, SaaS + payments, etc. But they often have much lower gross margins than pure software. No the point is this isn’t D2C, it’s B2B. That means you can probably fix this situation — if you act soon enough: Relentlessly attack churn.

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Doubling Down: Nina Achadijian, Partner at Index Ventures

SaaStr

Often, we ask ourselves: “If there was no venture capital available, would this person still want to build this business?” Nina focuses on venture and growth investments in enterprise SaaS, vertical SaaS, and AI.

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The State of SaaS – Global Data Trends from 1000+ Companies with Capchase Co-Founder/CEO Miguel Fernandez and 01 Advisors VP Kristen Clifford (Video)

SaaStr

Most of the app sales and net retention comes from deploying software and tech-driven features that have 100% gross margin. Sometimes you can offer flexible payment terms to customers, but then finance part of the future payments to recover the CAC upfront and be able to redeploy the cash in the future.

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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. Funding options by stage of growth.

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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. That includes: A global focus. Professional moderation.

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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

Make off-boarding simple and straightforward, enabling users to cancel within the app directly without your support team’s help.”. Venture capital-backed companies update their pricing once every 2.8 Adjusting your payment methods and currencies will bring you some gains. Lever #4: The nostalgia effect.

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