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How Revenue Multiples Really Fall After Each VC Round

SaaStr

So Michael Ho did an analysis here of Carta valuation data in a way that IMHO visualizes in a way so many founders miss. And misunderstand. At the end of the day, the top SaaS companies IPO and end up trading at “standard” ARR multiples. Today, on average that’s about 6x. Not great, but it is what it is. But they don’t start there. Seed rounds can’t really be done at 6x ARR typically.

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Clouded Judgement 2.29.24 - Shades of 2021

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. Follow along to stay up to date! Subscribe now Shades of 2021 in Venture Markets Private markets are really starting to heat up, and I’m starting to see shades of 2021. Anything AI related has always been “hot,” but it has really hit a fever pitch in the last few months.

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Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What’s The Number One Challenge for Scale-Up Stage Founders? In SaaS, once you have even a few million in ARR, the #1 challenge is recruiting top-tier VPs and building a truly top-tier management team: SaaS products mostly don’t sell themselves. You can hack managing and finding 1–3 reps yourself, but after that, you really need a VP of Sales.

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Top SEO Tips for 2024 — Whiteboard Friday

The Moz Blog

It's no surprise that in 2024, the main theme that we're going to see is how to manage SEO in an AI landscape. Crystal shares her top SEO tips to navigate this.

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SaaS Essentials: Failed Payment Solution Guide

For SaaS businesses, improving retention is one of the easiest and most effective ways to drive revenue and profits. With a clear link between failed payments and customer churn, having a robust failed payment recovery solution isn’t optional—it’s essential. Achieving your retention goals starts with the right solution.

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How to Handle a Retreat: 16 Tips from Bufferoos as We Head to Cancún

Buffer Resources

At the time this article goes live, I’ll likely be bouncing up and down on my overstuffed suitcase in an attempt to get it closed, checking I have my passport for the 345th time, or — if I’m very organized — in the back of a taxi en route to Cape Town International Airpot.  I’m embarking on my very first Buffer retreat, where I’ll meet my teammates face-to-face for the very first time in Cancún, Mexico.

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Three Questions with… Jamil Khan, H&R Block

Andreessen Horowitz

This content first appeared in the February 2024 Fintech newsletter. If you’d like more commentary and analysis about news and trends from the a16z Fintech team, you can subscribe here. “The amount of innovation we’re about to see in tax is unparalleled in recent history,” says Jamil Khan, the Chief Strategy and Small Business Officer for tax giant H&R Block.

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Why SaaS Companies Are Embracing Owned Media and How to Make it Work for You

Sales Hacker

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter – read by over 50,000 revenue professionals weekly to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow is the media extension of GTMfund – sharing insight on go-to-market from working with hundreds of portfolio companies backed by over 350+ of the best in the game executive operators who have been there, done that at the world’s fastest growing SaaS companies.

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Introducing Talent x Opportunity Spring ‘24 Cohort

Andreessen Horowitz

Since its launch, the Talent x Opportunity Initiative (TxO) has been more than a funding vehicle; it’s been a launchpad for culturally inspired innovation and a community of support for under-networked founders. Like the startups in our portfolio, TxO is constantly evolving to ensure we’re meeting the needs of our founders. While funding is just a small part of the value we aim to provide our founders, we’re thrilled to share today that we’re dialing up our investment in the Spring

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Guide summary: 7 Smart Customer Success Playbooks

ChurnZero

Is your company’s customer success team stuck operating in a reactive mode? Do customer success managers (CSMs) cobble together outreach and response plans at key touchpoints in the customer journey? Without a structured system to engage, retain, and grow accounts, companies risk losing customers to a fragmented and out-of-touch customer experience.

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An Omnichannel Payment Solution––Without the Complexity

Simplify omnichannel payments with a solution that unifies every channel through your platform. By integrating front-end systems like online, mobile, and in-store payments with robust back-end infrastructure, you can deliver a seamless payments experience without the need for heavy engineering. Omnitoken technology enhances security by tokenizing card transactions for reuse, enabling merchants to drive cross-selling opportunities.

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Cold Calling Script Examples: 3 Samples to Help You Close Deals

Teamgate

This article provides an in-depth exploration of cold calling script examples, a crucial tool that empowers sales reps to conduct effective and meaningful conversations with potential clients. These scripts not only instill confidence but also ensure consistency and professionalism across calls.

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Don’t Eliminate the Lead Object

CloudKettle

Salesforce is a powerful CRM that helps businesses manage customer relationships and streamline their sales processes. One of the cornerstone elements of Salesforce is the Lead object, which allows companies to track potential customers and move them through a qualification process at the top of the sales funnel. While a staple of the enterprise sales […] The post Don’t Eliminate the Lead Object appeared first on CloudKettle.

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Strategic Insights from Zuora’s Subscribed Institute Executive Breakfast in London

Zuora

The New Era of the Subscription Economy Insights from Subscribed Institute Executive Breakfast​​ London Zuora’s Subscribed Institute Executive Breakfast in London was a confluence of data, strategies, and discussions focused on the next stage of the Subscription Economy. The event highlighted the remarkable growth of subscription models, underscored by a 17% Compound Annual Growth Rate […] The post Strategic Insights from Zuora’s Subscribed Institute Executive Breakfast in Lond

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Best Free Loom Alternative for 2024

Dubb

Are you searching for a more robust, feature-rich, and free Loom alternative, you're in luck. Buckle up, because in this article, we're pitting Loom head-to-head against Dubb — a video hosting and screen recording tool that's been aptly described by users as "Loom on steroids." Yes, you heard it right, these are the words The post Best Free Loom Alternative for 2024 appeared first on Dubb Blog.

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How Clinic Sense Reduced Churn and Unlocked More Revenue

ClinicSense is a SaaS platform that supports over 7,000 massage therapists who use it for appointment management, payments, scheduling, marketing activities and more. Despite having a relatively low payment failure rate, the company discovered that the failures disrupted the customer experience. This often led to churn as customers decided to cancel or abandon their account, preventing ClinicSense from realizing the full lifetime value (LTV) of its users.

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6 Questions Founders Should Ask Themselves to Drive Value from Generative AI with Base10 Partners

SaaStr

Generative AI is a platform shift where models can take inputs such as text, image, audio, video, and code and generate new content into any of the modalities mentioned. TJ Nahigian, co-founder and Managing Partner of Base10 Partners, and Luci Fonseca, Partner, deep dive into the current GenAI landscape, incumbents vs. startups, and the six questions founders should ask themselves to drive value from GenAI.