Blog Posts, Fundraising, Leadership
In the annals of Blog Posts About Things I Don’t Care About, Convertible Debt versus Equity is high on the Top 10 List. It’s not higher than How to Have…
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Blog Posts, Featured Videos, Fundraising, Leadership, Marketing, Videos
As we gear up for SaaStr Annual 2021 in the SF Bay Area, we wanted to take a look back at some of our most iconic speakers and sessions from…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Q&A
Q: What is the best way to prove you can be a great venture capitalist? My learnings here are that it’s hard b/c every proxy has its issues. Basically, you…
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Blog Posts, Exit, Exit Strategy, Fundraising
At least a few times a week, I am sent a deck or exec summary that includes an “Exit Strategy”. The slide sometimes references a nice acquisition by an adjacent…
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Early, Fundraising, Q&A
Q: I have been advised to restructure our cap table by a VC. How do I structure an attractive cap table for future VC investment? Usually “restructure your cap table”…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising
Year after year, VCs show up to SaaStr Annual locked and loaded, term sheets in hands, on the hunt for soon-to-be Unicorns to add to their portfolios. From the Founding…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Leadership, Q&A
Q: Dear SaaStr: Why Do Venture Capitalists take Board Seats? It took me a while to figure this out. When I started writing venture (vs. angel) checks, the last thing…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising
Crunchbase has a new post on lots of data on how VC investing is changing, and how so much of it comes from growth funds and firms. Read it here….
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Q&A
Q: Who are the key personnel in the VC organization and how can they help in the company connect with funding? Anyone that’s an investing professional, one way or another,…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Growth
As the number of Cloud and SaaS IPOs increase, each one becomes a little case study. We’ve looked at many of them in our 5 Interesting Learnings series. And one…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising
If you are doing your job as CEO, you already have 1 or 2 investors that want to invest in the next round No matter when that round is —…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Leadership, Metrics
The hardest investment rounds to price are seed rounds. They’re incredibly situationally dependent: A founder that sold her last company for $400m or IPO’d might be able to raise a…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Leadership
There are two exercises I like to do with SaaS companies marching up-market. The first is to challenge them to double their highest ACV ever on the next similar prospect. If…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Leadership
Worried about a bunch of VCs replacing you? You should be a little worried, probably. A ways back, a CEO that I know fairly well was fired by a VC….
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Blog Posts, Fundraising
It can be hard to tell from the media and Twitter just what’s happening in SaaS and Cloud startups these days. We see emerging leaders like Brex quickly raise at…
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