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

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. I mean, maybe you do, but I don’t know anyone right now with extra money, time, or people, right? I see it all the time, which is, you said it super well, make money, save money, reduce risk.

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CloudGeometry

JULY 8, 2021

Yet they live on borrowed time. Interest payments accelerate faster than you realize. Bottom-up cost transparency is a key feature of any public cloud platform. Sure, it’s awesome to get it right the first time, but it’s also pretty darned rare.) See a useful background talk from their CTO Pini Reznik here ).

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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.

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Hull

JANUARY 22, 2019

These roles are filled by engineers that roll up to the CMO/COO (not CTO) as part of a growth team. Their job is to enable go-to-market teams through "joining the dots" between tools, teams & data, optimizing the business rules that drive growth. Selling has changed since Predictable Revenue was published.

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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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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 21, 2021

We’re not exactly sure how, but yes, it’s that time of the year again. More than integrations and features and quarterly reports, back in August, Intercom turned 10. Zanade Mann , founder of Black Women’s Business Collective. Will Larson , CTO of Calm. Des Traynor , Co-founder and CTO of Intercom.

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Chargify

OCTOBER 4, 2017

It provides metrics month-over-month on critical data such as the number of customers, revenue, and lifetime client value.”. You’ll save time and money in the long run.” Anything that falls into the Non-Strategic and Non-Critical the company should disregard; it doesn’t need to be part of their business.

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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. While Baremetrics was fulfilling the desire for public transparency, internally the team was using Looker almost exclusively to track and report revenue metrics. What is Buffer.

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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. Hundreds of thousands in Europe.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Investment funds like Indie.VC The company had for a few years prior followed a growth-first path, hiring aggressively and prioritizing projects designed to make an immediate impact on their growth rate. We felt confident that the profitability constraints the debt imposed would be healthy for the business.

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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

APRIL 18, 2019

Join G2 Crowd CEO Godard Abel for a session on the secrets to the top-rated vendors on G2Crowd, AppExchange, and other platforms. I came back to G2 as a CEO about three quarters ago after a little bit time at SteelBrick. And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer. FULL TRANSCRIPT BELOW.

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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. Yousuf Khan: Well, the CIO is fundamentally owning the business technology function of the company. My advice is hire earlier rather than later. Harry Stebbings. Yousuf Khan.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 14, 2020

That was our first transitionary moment, and from that point forward, we began investing heavily in building a way to teach people technology skills outside of a physical classroom. The first few dozen courses that we published on the platform were authored by the Pluralsight co founders.

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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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Sales Hacker

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Highlights: (08:58) Building the first SaaS product and transitioning to recurring revenue. (14:58) 29:06) The importance of sales playbooks and codifying the sales process. (35:30) Highlights: (08:58) Building the first SaaS product and transitioning to recurring revenue. (14:58) That was the business.

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SaaStr

JUNE 28, 2022

But finding out post-term sheet about too many material issues can lead VCs to run for the hills. While startups have ups and downs, if you tell the VCs you’re going to hit $250,000 in revenue this month … make 100 percent sure you hit that projection. At least, just that one month during the funding process.

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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. And we had real challenges with stability.

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SaaStr

JULY 19, 2019

Previously, Peter was also the CTO/CIO of CBS Interactive where he brought CBS into the cloud. At Sun, Peter was the CTO of the Liberty identity consortium that designed SAML 2. How has Peter found the transition from CTO to CEO this time? Here’s what Michael talks about: How quickly should you hire?

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