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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.

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Q&A: Role of Customer Success According to Three Leading Investors

ChurnZero

million round of financing led by Grotech Ventures in 2017. Grotech Ventures is a team committed to helping creative and driven entrepreneurs build technology companies that last. A: Very few of our early-stage investments have a Customer Success team at the time we invest. Let’s hear what they each had to say. .

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between the covers??

ProfitWell

Ben Horowitz is the co-founder and general partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a private venture capital company. CEOs are often reluctant to share bad news because they suffer from positivity delusion. That’s why he calls it a delusion: employees can handle bad news. How is the B2B SaaS market trending? ??7

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Funding in the Time of Coronavirus with Mark Suster (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I thought it’s also worth giving you some sense of scale for how much the US government takes in in revenue every year. In revenue, the US government takes in 3.5 So the amount that we’ve handed out just in money going out of the US government is equal to 86% of the total revenue we take in in a year.

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Is Seed the new Series A? (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Since 2010 we’ve seen more startups, funds, and capital than ever before, but with this drastic increase, investors are seeing unexpected new trends reshaping the future of the industry. Pietro Bezza | Managing Partner @ Connect Ventures. Ophelia Brown | Founder, Partner @ Blossom Capital. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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When should you hire a CFO?

Point Nine Land

Lemkin recently posted a tweetstorm about his observation that most startups are bad at finance. As you’d expect from Jason, he didn’t try to sugarcoat things: A top trend I have noticed past 3 years: Startups are MUCH, MUCH worse at finance. Like, all of them. So, when is the right time to hire a CFO?

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Jason Lemkin: Well, we admire, but also she’s very early in the micro VC trend. When Aileen founded Cowboy Ventures in 2012… Aileen Lee: 12, yep. Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. We can only process so much change, and I feel like we’ve been through three worlds since early March.