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We Automated SaaStr’s Instagram for 6 Months, Here’s What We Learned.

SaaStr

The small difference in posting that you could “win a round of funding” which implied winning VC funding and perhaps in return giving some equity to that VC or investor versus posting “win a cash prize!” The content didn’t exactly align with our community’s interests or knowledge.

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CRO Confidential: What It Really Takes to Be Successful in Enterprise SaaS Sales with Christian Smith, CRO of Splunk

SaaStr

In this week’s latest episode of CRO Confidential , Sam Blond, Partner at Founders Fund and former CRO at Brex, sits down with the CRO of Splunk, Christian Smith. They tag everything and measure mostly on last-touch attribution with now over 65% of pipeline generation coming from the sales organization, and marketing contributing about 14%.

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Raise, Sell, Merge, or Scale? How to Navigate the Market Downturn.

SaaSOptics

According to Crunchbase, valuations are declining, funding rounds are slowing, and some tech companies are freezing hiring or laying off employees to boost profits. Despite talks of a recession and a slowdown in VC funding , now might be the best time to raise your next round and pursue aggressive growth. billion in 2020 to $55.9

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Crossing The Chasm to Series A

The SaaS Garage

Munich, March 26th, 2019 Seed rounds have become a prevalent step in funding early stage companies. A new pedigree of European VC funds has emerged. They use phrases like”Seed VC”, “Startup VC” in their tag line and invest between €0.5M – €1.5M

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Are VCs Still Investing?

Point Nine Land

If we add the time it takes to get from signing a Term Sheet to closing a round we can assume that the Crunchbase data is lagging VC activity by at least a couple of weeks. The amount of Series A/B funding raised by SaaS startups fell by almost 65% y/y in April 2020 but increased in May 2020 and is not too far off from the amount in May 2019.

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Crossing The Chasm to Series A

The SaaS Garage

Munich, March 26th, 2019 Seed rounds have become a prevalent step in funding early stage companies. A new pedigree of European VC funds has emerged. They use phrases like”Seed VC”, “Startup VC” in their tag line and invest between €0.5M – €1.5M

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Cracking the Outbound Code: Proven Frameworks and Strategies (1/2)

Sales Hacker

Thanks to Michael Downing and team for hosting GTMfund at a fantastic event at The Stanford Research Institute yesterday bringing together emerging VC managers and the broader LP community. Jason was able to take a company from zero to 10 million ARR with no VC funding. Anyway, let’s get into it.

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