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“Seed is Broken But There is More Seed Funding That Ever”: The Latest Deep Dive with Harry Stebbings and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

Harry and Jason did a deep dive on this and so much more here: Intro (00:00:00) Seed investing is broken due to limited founders capable of triple-digit growth. This is due to several factors, including low-interest rates, the rise of venture capital , and the increasing popularity of angel investing. Is it sustainable?

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FinOps Debt. Like Technical Debt; Only Worse.

SaaSOptics

Most in the software world have heard of ‘technical debt’ (thorough exploration here by Martin Fowler) but a short definition from Wikipedia is: the implied cost of additional rework caused by choosing an easy solution now instead of using a better approach that would take longer. . But our developer has a deadline tomorrow.

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Top 10 Mistakes Founders Make with Series A with Black Mangroves, Square Peg, Vertex, and GGV (Pod 651 + Video)

SaaStr

Mistake #1: Viewing Investors Only As Capital As founders build a team, they focus on obtaining complementary skill sets. Of course, building great teams and finding product market fit is critical, but don’t forget about product investor fit. Due diligence is essential; you should feel empowered to ask those questions from day one.

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CRO Confidential: The Hangover’s Over: 5 Ways to Get Your SaaS Revenue Back On Track with Gong’s SVP Sales and Founders Fund

SaaStr

Jameson Yung, SVP of Sales at Gong, and Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and previous CRO at Brex, share five tactical ways to get back to growing and hitting revenue targets. The days of working a little for big returns are behind us in the Boom of ‘21, so what can you do to start hitting revenue targets? #1: Revenue matters, too.

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Become a Revenue Architect (and Level Up) With a Revenue Engine Framework

Sales Hacker

Revenue Operations is at the forefront of a paradigm shift — to view the buyer’s journey as a seamless thread across multiple people, systems, and value propositions. This involves driving more new logo and renewal revenue, lowering customer acquisition cost, and increasing forecasting predictability. Simple right?

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The ultimate marketing technology stack for 2019

Intercom, Inc.

Known as the Martech 5000 — nicknamed after the 5,000 companies that were competing in the global marketing technology space in 2017, it’s said to be the most frequently shared slide of all time. Marketing technology is now the largest portion of total marketing budget (29% on average according to Gartner ).

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Women in Tech – Female CxOs Share their Challenges in Tech Startups – with Melissa Kwan, Alice de Courcy, Maja Voje, Laura Erdem & others

User Pilot

I asked DALLE to ‘Give me an image of a tech CEO’. Then I tried regenerating the image to see on which try it would give me a tech CEO of a different gender (or colour). Check out this viral post by Andrew Gazdecki to learn more about what a ‘tech CEO’ is like US Census data from 2022 revealed that only 17% of tech CEOs are female.