SaaStr

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Join this panel of investors from Connect Ventures, Blossom Capital, Dawn Capital, The Family, and Indico Partners as they provide an overview of the current investment landscape, and discuss whether the seed stage is emerging as the new Series A. We are a $50 million fund based in Lisbon, and we invest mainly in seed stage.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

That was when a new vision formed beyond the physical classroom to what would later become our cloud, where we can teach anyone anywhere the digital technology skills of the future. So we kept investing, we knew we were onto something, and little by little we saw our traction improve. We were not an enterprise company yet.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Yet they live on borrowed time. Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. Fix technical debt when you find it, and the code will be ready for change when the next boy or girl scout arrives. See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ). The inputs to learning are speeding up fast.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom. Government services shouldn’t be renowned for their endless queues, confusing forms, and excessive bureaucracy. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective. Janeen Uzzell , COO for Wikimedia Foundation.

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Point Nine Land

APRIL 9, 2021

Having invested in 9 B2B marketplaces and gathered data from 20+ different investors, here are our findings on what it takes to raise money in 2021 for B2B marketplaces. A technical co-founder or CTO is always a great-to-have at this stage and becomes a must-have as the business scales beyond seed. Market Characteristics ??

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

So, I co-founded another payments company called PropertyBridge, which allowed you to pay rent electronically. And I wanted to do another payments company, but I didn’t know what I wanted to do. You’re a payment nerd. Seema: Would love to talk about finding those initial customers who you tested with.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Investment funds like Indie.VC I’ll be the first to admit that all of the above resonates with me - I think more companies looking to stay independent and operate on their own terms is, generally, a good thing. If you’re reading this post, this probably isn’t news to you. in debt to buy out their investors.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

There’s a self-service page, which allows clients to update information on their own. For companies who build their own billing integration, they ultimately invest substantial resources in ongoing development work and an arsenal of various third party tools to keep up with their growing needs. Uri Foox, Founder, Zoey.

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Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Our investment in Graneet. Welcome Graneet Since Pawel and Christoph’s investment in Clio (which provides legal firms best in class software to run their business and was Point Nine’s #1 investment (!!)), our vertical SaaS portfolio has only grown further. Factoring in particular is relevant here as cash management is critical.

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Chart Mogul

MARCH 9, 2020

CEO Joel Gascoigne tells us about the decision to invest in new analytics tools and how Buffer sustained long-term growth thanks to growing their ARPA. Baremetrics was limiting in the sense that they could only analyze their revenue from Stripe, while the team was already using mobile and custom invoicing to bill and collect payments.

Payment Solutions 52

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Sales Hacker

JUNE 12, 2020

Leverage the prospect’s buying process (08:04). ? Find innovators (10:36). ? This is a relationship worth investing in. I demand payment upfront. Somebody may have a title, they may have a CTO, CEO, co-founder, or whatever. But whatever that person’s title is, enlist them in the sales process.

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SaaStr

MARCH 3, 2020

Brendon introduces his playbook to hiring the first VP of Sales from his experiences as VP of Sales at LinkedIn, EchoSign, Talkdesk and more. Learn the dos and don’ts to make the correct hire the first time and not rush into hiring the wrong VP of Sales, which can cost the company months or even years. Roughly 90%.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer. He was investing in internet companies. And I thank a lot of that to actually Met Gourniak, who I hired at that time. We’re automating every single business process with SaaS. He and I went to MIT together.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 15, 2020

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. And so I’m speaking specifically about the space that I’m operating in within New Relic. I see it all the time, which is, you said it super well, make money, save money, reduce risk.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 13, 2019

If you would like to find out more about the show and the guests presented, you can follow us on Twitter here: Jason Lemkin. So how did that experience impact your operating mentality and I guess what were your biggest takeaways from that experience? And that was one of the things that I had learned from an operating standpoint.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

The explosion of SaaS tools (and with it, data silos) together creates a need for a cross-functional, operations role to support go-to-market teams. These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Trend #2: Growth is not marketing; Growth is operations. This is not new.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And, The Hustle team decided that having "billionaire" in the title of the episode will attract more viewers -- so here we are. :) In any case, it's a fun episode and we cover a lot of different topics that I'm hopeful you'll find useful. And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful.

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OnStartups

JULY 7, 2021

And, The Hustle team decided that having "billionaire" in the title of the episode will attract more viewers -- so here we are. :) In any case, it's a fun episode and we cover a lot of different topics that I'm hopeful you'll find useful. And I think part of it's because you've been in the game for a while and you're incredibly successful.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

VCs operate in one of two modes — greed or fear. But finding out post-term sheet about too many material issues can lead VCs to run for the hills. At least, just that one month during the funding process. I don’t see this all the time, but I see it too often. Half of a VC investment is in the CEO.

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Sales Hacker

MARCH 11, 2025

Cassie’s time in tech dates back to 2006, when she joined TheLadders.com as an early employee and managed marketing and analytics for the company’s subscription business. She began her career as a tech and media analyst at Citigroup Global Corporate & Investment Bank. I am joined by Cassie Young. Cassie, welcome.

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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

29:06) The importance of sales playbooks and codifying the sales process. (35:30) 29:06) The importance of sales playbooks and codifying the sales process. (35:30) Martin Roth: [2:50] Friends and family, very small investment. We owned the long tail of search terms around construction lien rights and payments.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

250: Peter Yared is the Founder & CEO @ InCountry, the startup that allows you to operate globally with data residency as a service meaning they store your mission-critical data in it’s country of origin, without compliance. Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud.

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