TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

I surveyed six seed- and early-stage investors to get their tactical advice for laid-off tech workers who are thinking about starting up. In an interview, he broke down his fundraising strategy and shared several tactics for connecting with investors. “All that begs for more defined team structures.”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Imran Ghory Contributor Share on Twitter Imran Ghory is a general partner at Blossom Capital, where he invests in Series A companies in Europe across SaaS, security and infrastructure. Rather, we guide founders to build a strategy that helps them understand when to grow, when to pull back, when to spend and when to save.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

According to a report by Capchase comparing more than 400 SaaS startups to unicorns that reached the public markets in the last two years, the top performers “are handily beating the ‘Rule of 40,'” reports Kyle Wiggers. According to its findings, SaaS founders should target at least 80% and aim to surpass 110%.

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TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

The piece looks at how changing priorities could force emerging fund managers to change strategy (or fragment their way to failure). Consumer fintech trading revenues don’t measure up to SaaS ARR (April 2022). By that we mean that some software companies were valued like SaaS businesses, even though they weren’t.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Tetra Insights co-founders Michael Bamberger and Panos Rigopoulos raised a $5 million Series A last year, and the duo said cold outreach was a key part of their strategy. SaaS startups that incrementally improve will stack small wins that have the potential to alter the company’s trajectory. million seed round a year later.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

How has your investment strategy changed? What advice would you give your portfolio startups to continue growing at this time? How has your investment strategy changed? Following that, we shifted our investment focus to smaller ticket sizes, earlier stages and toward companies in the SaaS and B2B domains.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

After talking to marketing leaders for a year, here’s my advice for CEOs. In a TechCrunch+ guest post, she covers the “downward pressure on the efficiency of marketing dollars” and shares several strategies that are producing results — as well as some “crazy” ideas “that seemed ridiculous at the time.”

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 31, 2023

HW: Any pieces of advice you got from mentors in the past that you want to share and pay forward here? Thanks Melanie for sharing some advice with me/us. And I can say in all honesty that this became pretty darn evident almost immediately. MN: Optimize for experimentation, not perfection. Try new things. GET ALL MY POSTS VIA EMAIL

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

I’ve got some hard-earned advice on that front, as well as suggestions for five must-have board slides — customized for leaders at B2B, software-as-a-service companies — that will help you give a great presentation and preserve your sanity. The other piece of advice here is to look ahead. Deliver the goods.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2018

As a VC and former entrepreneur let me offer you some advice. And PLEASE remember this critical advice for your meeting deck … The goal if a meeting deck is to aid your conversation not to show how great you are at making slides. This is part of a series on how to improve your fund raising game.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I’m going through this situation now with the first investment that I ever made as a VC in Invoca – (Inbound voice call), a SaaS marketing automation company. Startup Advice' Unless you’re SnapChat, Instagram or similar this is probably 3-5 years into your existence. Photo credit from 500px.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally. Currently our focus at Indelible Ventures is on B2B SAAS seed-stage startups that can scale internationally. Additionally, do you have any other advice for anyone looking to start a fund? billion in 2022 to US$ 883.34

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Recently, I met with an entrepreneur to discuss her financing strategy. First-time entrepreneurs frequently ask my advice about when they should start meeting with prospective financiers. The best way to do this is to define a trajectory towards success and then set milestones that demonstrate you’re moving in the right direction.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Investor’s advice during a downturn: Don’t panic. Fewer investors are writing checks these days, but what kind of advice have they been giving their portfolio companies in recent months? ” Investor’s advice during a downturn: Don’t panic. 6 key metrics that can help SaaS startups outlast this downturn.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Those were the early days of SaaS and you might remember that even Salesforce.com has major outage problems. Just as with product releases – our strategy was to put the process out there, monitor what worked and change the things that did not. Tags: Startup Advice. So we thought we were just managing our economic risks.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Advice is not a new concept, but Intro is putting its spin on access to in-demand experts through personalized one-on-one video calls. Many told him that as the conversations turned into advice, it was “shocking how much they could get done in a short period of time,” he said. Raad Mobrem, founder of Intro. Image Credits: Intro.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The other SaaS solutions in the childcare space have gone after the providers first and that’s been really hard and challenging because it’s a very fragmented market and it’s really hard to get traction,” Mauskopf said. Winnie raises $4 million to make parents’ lives easier.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Her advice skips straight past basic best practices to explain alignment and partnership strategies, recommendations for nurturing community, and other PLG tactics. Cloud providers’ default retention policies are not enough: You better back your SaaS up. Image Credits: Eoneren (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

Take a deep breath, and some useful advice. If you take one piece of advice away from this article it should be this one: talk to potential customers, a LOT of them. Regardless of the outcome, be prepared with a strategy. Like so many others, you’ve worked hard to realize your vision and bring your product to life.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Geared toward tech startups, it boasts that it has “supercharged the growth of over 200 innovative businesses,” from fintech and SaaS to hardware. When you’re starting, you’ll need a brand, strategy and the marketing infrastructure to reach early customers. Our services cater to every stage of the founder journey.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Twitter Spaces: SaaS marketing with MKT1 founders Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich. London for a Twitter Spaces conversation with Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich , founders of MKT1, a partnership that advises SaaS startups. Founders: How well do you really understand seed-stage financing? Image Credits: MKT1. EDT/10 p.m.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

What advice are you giving your portfolio companies entering 2021? They have executed against a strategy while many of their supposed peers have done very irrational deals, impaired shareholder value, etc. From retail to SaaS to research, there’s a lot of inroads to investing in cannabis. It’s going to be fun!

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 3, 2022

You’ll receive the best practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. Strategies to help you monetize your audience. ?? He’s the founder of both SwipeFiles and SwipeWell, he’s currently the Marketing Lead at SavvyCal, a disruptive calendar SaaS company. If a strategy isn’t working then abandon it.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

“You see a lot of folks who would have been decent SaaS founders, trying to be decent AI founders. This continues the firm’s strategy from its first fund which raised $15 million and started deploying in 2019. “It’s so easy to throw together a vertical AI demo,” Winfield told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Digital health, education, B2B SaaS. We look at digital health, education and SaaS and they all thrive in this climate. How has COVID-19 impacted your investment strategy? What is your advice to startups in your portfolio right now? . • Bas Godska , founder, Acrobator Ventures. Renaat Berckmoes , partner, Fortino.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2021

Tapping into someone else’s experience is a tried-and-true method, which is why two-time Y Combinator participant Chris Morton wrote a guest post for Extra Crunch with advice for founders hoping to be accepted by the famed accelerator. Ramp and Brex draw diverging market plans with M&A strategies. That’s worth something.”.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

If you’re a recently laid-off worker considering striking out on your own , an H-1B employee who’s had it up to here or just looking for tips and advice that can help you connect with early-stage investors, please read and share. There’s plenty of tactical advice here, and much more to come.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Hamed highlights 3 tools for visibility into revenues: SaaS business models , which mean recurring revenue; CAC:LTV ratios and other calculable analytics – which allow lenders to understand what amount of revenue a marketing input will generate; and. A better way to fund SaaS companies. Six Paths to Financing a SaaS Business.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

“More companies are disclosing and acting on water security and other water matters, but there’s a need for a SaaS platform to quantify and mediate water risk,” said Galindo. They started the company and took it through Y Combinator’s Summer 2021 cohort. Climate change is here, and this is going to accelerate.”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

The co-founder explained that startups may appear to have a community — aka, can get a community of people to come and talk about your product — but that doesn’t mean that they have an embedded community as part of the company’s strategy. What about newcomers or people who are looking for more basic advice?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

” I interviewed Gupta last month to find out more about the opportunities he’s looking for and get his advice for first-time founders, but last week’s Space was a chance to dive deeper. It could take a little bit longer than that, but not that much.” Because no one cares if the market is terrible.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

billion valuation — revealed that the company’s new strategy will impact 15% of its roles. A spokesperson told me via email that “the reorganization impacted nearly all teams and the decision was in service to the larger strategy we have been enacting at Notarize, and will enable us to move faster to best serve our customers.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

How do you think those qualities contribute to your success in working with startups and forming strategies? Marketing strategies that help find product-market fit are very different from acquiring your first 100 customers, which is very different from scaling your customer acquisition or lead generation. What value do they add?

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 2, 2016

Channel distribution represents one of the biggest and most important changes in customers acquisition for SMB SaaS startups in quite a while. It’s the most successful SMB SaaS acquisition channel ever built. After all, he’s built the most success SMB SaaS channel ever. Thank you, Thomas, for sharing your insights.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Artisanal Ventures raises $62M : Looking to invest in the competitive B2B SaaS startup market, Artisanal Ventures’ first fund is “backed by more than 50 founders and senior executives,” which could provide it with some leverage for its portfolio companies inside major companies. Been reading more French startup news in the last few quarters?

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Additionally, he is the founder and CEO of Infinitary Advisors , a SaaS consulting firm where he spearheads comprehensive competitive analyses for both startups and scaleups. One potent strategy for a B2B SaaS company to enhance growth is to revisit and refine its monetization blueprint.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Dear Sophie: Any advice for living my dreams in Silicon Valley? Any advice? Dear Sophie: Any advice for living my dreams in Silicon Valley? How to root out shadow IT and maximize SaaS investments. Just shine a light on your SaaS portfolio, according to CEO and co-founder of Zylo, Eric Christopher.

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