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Why It’s Easier for Second-Time Founders to Raise Venture Capital. Even With Nothing Even Built Yet.

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Dear SaaStr: Why Is It So Easy For Entrepreneurs With Previous Success to Raise Funds From VCs for Their New Venture Despite Not Having Domain Expertise? And most things in venture dont really work.) The post Why Its Easier for Second-Time Founders to Raise Venture Capital. It doesnt necessarily work better.

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Top SaaStr Content for the Week: Dave Kellogg, PayFit and Insider CEOs, Notion COO, Salesforce CMO and More!

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Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: 8 Signs a New VP Won’t Work Out. An updated classic SaaStr guide on how to know if that new VP you worked so hard to find, recruit and get on board … is really going to make it. And 3 Things Not to Worry So Much About. Much more here.

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55.5 Million SaaStr Views on Quora: What’s Popular

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What makes a bad CTO? What are the best-kept secrets about venture capital? As the CEO of a startup, what should I tell my employees who keep asking for raises after they realized we just raised a new round of funding? What does Apple do with all of its cash holdings? 52k views). 60k views). 710k views). 53k views).

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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Today Carman is Founder and Managing Partner of Click Ventures, the globally renowned Hong Kong venture capital firm. After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. The reason? Because, as she says, building a startup is simply much more fun. Jessie Lam.

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Top 10 GTM Mistakes Founders Make Again … and Again with SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin 

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Some are decades-old problems, while others have emerged from this new world we’re in. Also, determine whether you have the right CTO to handle these changes. If they aren’t sure how to integrate AI into your product, ask if you need a new CTO. VCs thought everyone would be a unicorn and people raised insane capital.

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10 Things That Would Have Helped Me Go From $1m to $10m Faster with Less Stress

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That was great and created freedom from venture capital and many other benefits. 5/ Moving from CTO-led -> VPE-led dev team. This is pretty well understood today, but was fairly new to me. We did it by focusing on second-order revenue to generate low-cost leads, and by taking in 110%+ of our MRR each month in cash.

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What SaaStr CEO and Founder Jason Lemkin Really Thinks About AI, Sales & Lead Gen In 2024

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You’re not building a product or getting any new customers. Get a good CTO and commit to understanding your market and staying in the game. Many folks who are bootstrapped misunderstand how venture capital works. Maybe we expect too much, even up to $10-20M ARR, and expect magic from product marketing. It’s up to you.

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