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Venture Debt for SaaS Startups

Tom Tunguz

A startup growing at 15% per month will double revenues after five months. Fred Wilson wrote a post in 2011 : “I’m not a fan of venture debt for early stage companies. Debt can delay the timing of the next raise and reduce dilution. At this point, the company should command twice the valuation when it raises its next round.

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My First 16: Welding Yourself to Early Customers with Marqeta’s Jason Gardner

Andreessen Horowitz

About My First 16 Our new video podcast series My First 16 features interviews with founders and CEOs of fintech companies about how they acquired their initial customers and the hard lessons they learned along the way. So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically.

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7 Best Pinterest Alternatives to Look Out For In 2024

How To Buy Saas

Nowadays, everyone is after making things “Pinteresty”, and this trend is taking over all the major social media platforms. There are also other platforms, both new and old, emerging as Pinterest alternatives that are also worth checking out. There is a catch when it comes to joining this platform.

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3 Steps to perform a pricing audit and maximize profitability

ProfitWell

Conducting a pricing audit goes through five factors—acquisition, monetization, retention, pricing strategy, and discounts. Monetization. Next is monetization. What does your revenue look like? Are your tiers set up for monetization or acquisition? Why a pricing audit is essential for business.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

Buffer Funding History $120,000 through AngelPad start-up accelerator in August 2011 $330,000 seed round in December 2011 $3.5M After raising a total of $450,000 in 2011, Buffer would raise a Series A round of $3.5M of revenue at the time and the business was valued at $60M - a valuation multiple of 13x revenues.

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How Pendo Leverages a Great Product, Customer-centricity and Strong Culture for Success

OpenView Labs

With software “ eating the world ,” as Marc Andreessen wrote in the WSJ back in 2011, every company was going to be facing these technology-related problems. Conventional wisdom says best practice is to deliver value up front before you ever ask for any value—payment—from the user. We had an idea. We had a market.

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Top 30 SaaS Companies in India

SmartKarrot

A report from Bain & Company predicted that “Indian SaaS companies will reach $30 billion in revenue by the year 2025”. The company aims at providing a single platform for automated marketing, sales, and other services. Agile CRM offers lead generation, contact management, and integrated telephony services.