Blog Posts, Early, FundraisingHere are 9 simple tips that are easy to implement — and almost 100% guaranteed to impact your odds of raising seed or Series A funding: If your existing investors…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, SaaStr EventsRecently, Fortune published a piece that a depressing 2.2% of VC Dollars in 2018 went to Female Founders. Having more diverse VCs may only be a partial solution, but it…
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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising, Growth, Scale, VideosAlex Western, Managing Director at Think3, talks about the problem he has seen consistently across SaaS startups that have VC funding – overgrowth. Overgrowth normally happens because of misalignment in…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Growth, LeadershipOver the past few weeks, I was fortunate enough to catch up with several Unicorn++ founders who relatively speaking, had not raised that much vs their peers. We talking about…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, SaaStr Events, Scale, VideosRaising Series B is no easy feat for any startup. Liz Fleming at Adara Ventures talks about the current state of Series B and interviews CEO at UserZoom, Alfonso de…
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Company Culture, Fundraising, Leadership, Podcasts, ProductWelcome to Episode 207! Jason VandeBoom is the Founder and CEO of ActiveCampaign, a sales and marketing automation platform that enables small businesses around the world to meaningfully connect and…
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Blog Posts, Fundraising, LeadershipWe originally ran a version of this post way back in May 2015. It didn’t seem like SaaS could get much better than in 2015. And indeed, briefly, for just…
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Blog Posts, Early, Featured Videos, Fundraising, SaaStr Events, VideosThis is a must-watch for those who are trying to scale their sales reps and organization for enterprise sales. Philippe Botteri, Partner at Accel, interviews Jeremy Jawish, CEO at Shift…
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Early, Fundraising, Podcasts, SaaS Product PricingWelcome to Episode 203! Krish Subramanian is the Founder & CEO @ Chargebee, the startup that lets you go beyond billing, payments and recurring invoices — to delivering subscription experiences that…
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Blog Posts, Early, Featured Videos, Fundraising, SaaStr Events, VideosEvgenia Plotnikova, Principal at Dawn Capital, goes through the perfect time you should ask for funding both when you are building and scaling your product. She debunks 3 common myths about…
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Blog Posts, Early, Featured Videos, Fundraising, SaaStr Events, VideosDavid Hornik, General Partner at August Capital, says all the taboo things that most VCs won’t talk about. With his background as an attorney with Jason Lemkin, to present day…
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Blog Posts, Early, FundraisingWhen you go to raise venture capital, if you are in the fortunate group of start-ups with access to venture capital, you’ll either have options (more than one VC wants…
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Company Culture, Early, Fundraising, Hiring, Human Resources, Leadership, PodcastsWelcome to Episode 199! on Stein is the Founder & CEO @ Betterment, the online financial adviser built for people who refuse to settle for average investing. To date, Jon has…
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Fundraising, Podcasts, SalesWelcome to Episode 192! Michael Katz is the Founder & CEO @ mParticle, the customer data platform that integrates all of your data and orchestrates it across channels, partners and systems….
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Early, Fundraising, Marketing Strategy, Podcasts, Product, SalesWelcome to Episode 190! Ed Sim is the Founder & General Partner @ Boldstart Ventures, one of the leading players in early stage SaaS investing. Their MO is to be a…
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