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Blog Posts, Early, Fundraising9 Quick Tips To Better The Odds in Raising a Seed or Series A Round
Here 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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Sponsored PostsSolving the number-one blind spot in customer success
By Matthew Klassen, Gainsight Head of Creative The promise at the heart of the SaaS business model has always been that by sacrificing relatively large one-time payments, you’d maximize revenue…
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Blog Posts, Growth, MarketingExhibiting at Events is Expensive. Very Expensive. Here are 9 Reasons You Should Still Do the Top Ones.
It took me a while to understand the power of events and field marketing. One thing is clear — events are expensive. Putting on your own event is expensive —…
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Blog Posts, Early, MetricsYou Should Be Collecting At Least 100% Of Your MRR Each Month in Cash. Ideally, 110%+.
Cash collections is a topic we haven’t discussed much on SaaStr, but boy it can be important all the way until you have a CFO. And often after. What’s the…
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Sponsored PostsFour key relationships that define the journey from startup to billion-dollar business
By Neha Mirchandani, RingCentral VP of Corporate Marketing At SaaStr Annual this year, Vlad Shmunis, RingCentral founder and CEO, participated in a fireside chat with Fortune Magazine’s Jonathan Vanian. The…
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Early, Podcasts, SaaS Product Pricing, SalesSaaStr Podcast #211: The Ultimate Guide To SaaS Pricing From Investors @ Benchmark, Matrix, Upfront Ventures & Operators @ Figma, Snyk and Kustomer
Welcome to Episode 211! In Today’s Episode: * David Skok, General Partner @ Matrix Partners: Why does David believe that all good products have at least one variable pricing axis?…
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Q&AAs the CEO of a startup, what should I tell my employees who keep asking for raises after they realized we just raised a new round of funding?
Two meta-thoughts: First, you have to decide if you are going to “hold the line on burn” after a fundraising. If you plan to — tell everyone. They will get…
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Q&AWhat are some of the best founder exits from a start-up?
Probably deals where the founders made > $1b each. The data here isn’t my strength, but let’s make a partial list for U.S. start-ups pre-IPO: WhatsApp Founders, $5.5b (+-) each…
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Sponsored PostsThree Secrets to a Successful Acquisition
By Dialpad CEO, Craig Walker, Dialpad Founder, and CEO An acquisition can make or break your startup. At worst, a disastrous deal leads to wasted wasted time and money, a…
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Q&AShould all CEOs be required to have annual leadership training?
Required is a strong word … but the answer is Yes. Everyone can benefit from leadership training. Especially, the folks so senior that traditional training doesn’t cover them. Who trains…
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Q&AWill individual employees ever be able to sign up for SaaStr Pro for personal Learning & Development? Has there been any sort of traction for this idea? (i.e. Treehouse)
Probably not for a little while. We tried this in the beginning, but there just was too much “sales” friction for an individual vs. a team. We want to get…
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Why did Slack file for a direct listing rather than an IPO?
Because you save a lot. You save a lot on dilution, and a bit (but not THAT much) on fees. When you IPO, you generally sell 15%-20%+ of the company,…
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Q&AWhat #1 factor can sales teams implement to improve overall sales performance?
Training. Training the single most important factor you can do to increase sales team performance: Onboarding properly. Initial co-calling and co-selling. Building collateral the team can use. Creating scripts for…
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