Fri.May 16, 2025

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Dear SaaStr: What Are Some Red Flags an Investor Might Not Be Serious?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: What Are Some Red Flags an Investor Might Not Be Serious? First, if youre not sure they want to invest they probably dont want to. And its 100% OK to ask. Just ask. The One Question To Ask At The End of Every VC Pitch: What Are The Odds You Would Invest? Just ask what are the odds theyd want to invest, based on what they know now. Beyond that here are clear red flags that an investor might not be serious about investing in your startup include: Overly Complex Terms : If the invest

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Prepaid Card Issuing vs. Traditional Payout Methods

USIO

The way businesses pay vendors, employees, gig workers, and customers is changing fast. And prepaid card issuing is leading the charge. If your business still leans on traditional payout methods like paper checks or manual ACH, it’s time to consider what you might be missing. Lets explore how prepaid card issuing stacks up against traditional payoutsand what makes the most sense for your business.

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Our CAC is Way Too High. Should We Cut and Marketing To The Bone?

SaaStr

Dear SaaStr: We Have a $7m ARR Business But Our CAC is Way Too High. Should We Cut and Marketing To The Bone? Look don’t throw money away on sales & marketing. If your sales team can’t close anything , you need to part ways. If you are doing intiatives in marketing and they are bringing in zero customers, just stop those things. But more often, sales and marketing is closing some deals, just not enough.

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Clouded Judgement 5.16.25 - Net New ARR Trends

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 Net New ARR Trends We’re about halfway through Q1 ‘25 earnings season. As you all know, one of my favorite metrics to look at is net new ARR added in a quarter. For some public companies, they disclose ARR.

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Struggling to Scale Test Coverage Under Pressure?

When test coverage falls behind release velocity, quality suffers, and your team feels the consequences. This guide outlines when it makes sense to outsource quality assurance (QA), the risks to watch for, and how to scale testing without increasing headcount or slowing down engineering. You will learn how leading teams are leveraging external QA partners to expand coverage, enhance defect detection, and remain aligned with CI/CD timelines.

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Need to Know | Embedded Finance Unlocks Value for Underserved Small Business Sectors

Stax

The rapid evolution of embedded payments is reshaping industries and unlocking new opportunities, particularly for small business sectors that have often been overlooked. Adam Gray , Chief Transformation Officer at Stax, recently sat down with Hal Levey of PYMNTS to discuss emerging trends in payment processing and vertical integration. By enabling more tailored solutions, streamlining operations, and addressing vital concerns like fraud and security, embedded finance is becoming a crucial driv

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ZoomInfo Just Changed Its Ticker to $GTM – Here’s Why That Matters

Sales Hacker

Hello and welcome to The GTM Newsletter by GTMnow – read by 50,000+ to scale their companies and careers. GTMnow shares insight around the go-to-market strategies responsible for explosive company growth. GTMnow highlights the strategies, along with the stories from the top 1% of GTM executives, VCs, and founders behind these strategies and companies.

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Why IoT Monetization Fails—And How to Fix It Before It Costs You Millions

Blulogix

By BluLogix Team Why IoT Monetization FailsAnd How to Fix It Before It Costs You Millions Lets be honest. IoT and Telematics companies arent struggling to innovate. Youre deploying smart devices, generating rich telemetry data, and providing actionable insights to customers. But when it comes to turning those deployments into recurring revenuethings fall apart.

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New SaaStr on 20VC! “The VC Playbook: What’s Working in 2025”

SaaStr

We’ve back this week on 20VC with Harry and Rory from Scale for another great deep dive on the latest in VC funding and more. We kick off with a quick deep dive on Vertical SaaS leader for restaurants Owner raising at $1 Billion — a deal SaaStr Fund led at seed. Why was it so hot? 5 Key Takeaways Capital is plentiful for the right metrics : Companies growing 10%+ MoM with $40M+ ARR can still close $100M+ rounds in days, while Series A rounds overall are down 81%.

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Video: Marketing Web Shops: Forbidden Fruit or Ripe Opportunity?

FastSpring

The FastSpring team was proud to sponsor Pocket Gamer Connects San Francisco during a very eventful week of gaming conferences. Our Head of Gaming Chip Thurston was on site to deliver a presentation that helps clear up a few things about how mobile game publishers can market their D2C web shops. Note : A major U.S. court ruling was released on April 30, 2025, with a judge declaring that Apples anti-steering policies for purchases outside of apps are anticompetitive and were to be discontinued im

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Mastering Apache Airflow® 3.0: What’s New (and What’s Next) for Data Orchestration

Speaker: Tamara Fingerlin, Developer Advocate

Apache Airflow® 3.0, the most anticipated Airflow release yet, officially launched this April. As the de facto standard for data orchestration, Airflow is trusted by over 77,000 organizations to power everything from advanced analytics to production AI and MLOps. With the 3.0 release, the top-requested features from the community were delivered, including a revamped UI for easier navigation, stronger security, and greater flexibility to run tasks anywhere at any time.

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Drive Sales: YouTube Strategies to Boost Your Sales Performance

Dubb

How to Use YouTube to Drive Sales and Produce Results In todays competitive marketplace, companies are constantly searching for smarter ways todrive sales, increase their sales performance, and build authentic connections with their target audience. One of the most powerfulyet underutilizedtools is YouTube. Lets explore how a simple yet strategic YouTube content plan can help The post Drive Sales: YouTube Strategies to Boost Your Sales Performance appeared first on Dubb Blog.