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Doubling Down: Nina Achadijian, Partner at Index Ventures

SaaStr

The company is an AI platform that empowers teachers to give instant, personalized feedback to students, based in San Francisco. Many founders hit the brakes on growth to pivot towards profitability when in reality, the right combination is aiming for durable growth with a profitable business model. Why did you do the deal?

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5 Ways Small Businesses Can Setup An Online Store On A Tight Budget

Backlinkfy

We live a totally different world today, gone are the years where you'll need to have Angel or venture capital funding for you to start a business. Today, selling products through traditional brick and mortar stores are slowly depleting, due to most purchases that start with an online search.

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Understanding the SaaS business model

ProfitWell

The SaaS business model powering all of this activity is startlingly unique, still young, and inextricably tied to the power of cloud computing. What is the SaaS business model. Recurring payments. Recurring payments take the form of monthly recurring revenue, otherwise known as MRR. Early stage.

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The Startup Funding & Financing Guide

Baremetrics

While not disastrous, these startups demonstrate the significance of choosing the right funding for your business. million – about half of all the cash they had on hand – to buy out their main venture capital investors after eight years since founding. Buffer spent $3.3

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Why We Created a Slack Community for SaaS and Software Professionals

FastSpring

In our first post about our online community , we mentioned launching the Global SaaS Leaders Slack group because we saw a need for the kind of software-and-SaaS-focused community we’d want to be a part of. More established professionals and businesses (less students and early-stage startups). That includes: A global focus.

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What is Equity Financing?

Baremetrics

Equity financing is a method of capital raising via the selling of stock. Businesses grow money for a variety of reasons. They may need cash to meet immediate financial obligations or have a longer-term objective and require capital to invest in their development. Table of Contents. What is Equity Financing in SaaS?

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

A venture capital investor, she is the founder of Cowboy Ventures. Are you more excited about eCommerce? Partially, I think, for personal reasons. If you didn’t analyze its business model, you would think that intuitively. 346: Aileen Lee is a U.S. seed investor. Jason Lemkin: Yep.