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The Series A Landscape in 2025: Insights from Chemistry VC’s Ethan Kurzweil

SaaStr

At SaaStr Workshop Wednesday live , Ethan Kurzwiel, previously partner at Bessemer Venture Partners and now founding partner at Chemistry VC, took us through a deep dive of exactly where Series A funding is right now in 2025. And sign up for the next FREE Workshop Wednesday here.

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4 Things Most Founders Get Wrong About Marketing with Dave Kellogg

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And see everyone at 2025 SaaStr Annual, May 13-15 in SF Bay for 300+ more sessions, workshops, and braindates like this! Then one day, while reviewing your P&L, you had a moment of clarity (or perhaps shock): you’re spending twice as much on sales and marketing as you are on R&D.

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14 tips to help you run a successful product design workshop

Intercom, Inc.

Collaboration comes in many flavors, from small informal working sessions and group critiques to full-blown workshops. What are product design workshops? Product design workshops are an opportunity for a team to untangle a problem together by going through a series of group exercises designed to get to a specific outcome.

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Founder’s Checklist: 10 Rules of the Boardroom with Threshold VC

SaaStr

In a special Workshop Wednesday session, Josh Stein (Founder & Managing Partner at Threshold VC) and Katie Evans (Investor @ Threshold VC) share ten secrets for great meetings. SaaStr Workshop Wednesdays are LIVE every Wednesday. This is due to a lack of accountability for individuals in a large group. Sign up for free.

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500,000+ Tuned into Our Digital Events in 2020. Here Were The Top 10 Sessions.

SaaStr

Things start off looking bleak, with SaaStr Annual 2020 the first big tech event to be postponed due to Covid. And then we all plunged into what looked like a big tech recession — at first. We again had almost 100 roundtables and workshops, and had the CEOs of Okta and Airtable join dozens of CROs, CMOs, CCOs and more.

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The Fall of the Metric Monolith with Battery Ventures Principal Brandon Gleklen (Video)

SaaStr

In an insightful SaaStr workshop , Battery Ventures Principal Brandon Gleklen shares how the views on SaaS metrics are changing and considerations for measuring success continue to shift in today’s landscape. Burn levels are not one-size-fits-all –– R&D-intensive products trade off higher burn early for greater technical moats later.

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Strategic Finance in Today’s Market: A Tactical Guide to Building & Scaling Your Team with IVP

SaaStr

Instead, due to a decade-long exodus from Wall Street, the strategic CFO has burst onto the tech scene. I think what we’re seeing in all of our portfolio companies and tech at large is that finance is increasingly seen as strategic, and they now have a seat at the table when it comes to making major decisions at the company.”

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