SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2024

So Redpoint Ventures published some of the slides they recently presented to their Limited Partners (their own investors) here. There’s a ton of good data there, but this one slide stood out to me, because it was put together in a really clear fashion, better than other data sources I’ve seen. And what it says is that even though Seed stage investing remains arguably as strong as ever … Series A hasn’t bounced back.

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Clouded Judgement

MARCH 22, 2024

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) vs ERR (Experimental Runrate Revenue) ARR (Annual Recurring Revenue) is one of the most popular SaaS (Non-GAAP) metrics. However, it’s also one of the most loosely used metrics, and is frequently misused.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2024

The path to Cheif Revenue Officer (CRO) is different for many people. Tracy Young , CEO and co-founder at TigerEye, sits down with three CROs to talk about how they navigated the journey to revenue leader. Jane Kim, former CRO of CircleCl, Laurabeth Harvey, President of Field Operations at Lattice, and Erica Anderson, Notion’s CRO, all share the key decisions or events that shaped their careers.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

Effectively monetizing any new technology is a race to capture market share while still giving yourself room to grow your business. But the stakes are much higher with generative AI: though it promises to deliver unprecedented value to businesses, it can also be very expensive to serve to each incremental customer. At the growth stages in particular, founders need to be mindful of their unit economics and margins.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2024

Dear SaaStr: How Can I Convince My Investor We’ll Double Their Investment By The Next Round? It may be an odd & unusual question — but I think it’s a good one. If you are a VC / private investor, there’s a key meta question: why invest now ? Because, at the same price … later is always better. Time always decreases risk.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2024

Dear SaaStr: How Do You Handle Customers That Want to Build It In-House? Be “Cool”. What I mean is, we all go through this, at least, a lot of us. When you first build a start-up, it’s often feature-poor, with little-to-no brand. Internal IT teams sometimes think they can built it themselves. And we’re even seeing a bit of renaissance here again, as many try to build apps on ChatGPT and OpenAI themselves instead of through an established, pre-AI vendor.

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Blulogix

MARCH 22, 2024

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