American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Venture Studio program provides founders with resources and up to $200K of equity funding to develop their vision into a business with substantial market impact. Entrepreneurs with innovative ideas utilizing NEC’s technologies and businesses can move their ventures forward into seed-ready startups upon acceptance into NEC’s Elev X!

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American Entrepreneurship

AUGUST 6, 2024

Identify and access management company Okta will award up to $500K as an investment to the winner of its inaugural SaaS startup competition. Okta’s platform helps startups develop identity-enabled applications. The company seeks the latest application innovations underway using identity, privacy, and security-enabled workflows.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 6, 2022

In the latest development, AppOmni — which has built a platform not just to connect with and secure SaaS apps, but to seek out, highlight and help fix vulnerabilities that arise when different apps are used together or in tandem — has raised $70 million.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2021

Bootstrapping a SaaS company is not only possible – I believe it’s a saner, more sustainable way to build and scale a business. If you’re a SaaS founder who’s wary of VC funding, here are my best bootstrapping tips. After finishing college with a computer science degree, I worked as a developer for a New York media company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models. Net revenue retention was near 70%, a far cry from the 100%+ that most SaaS companies aim to achieve. Kyle Poyar. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kyle Poyar is VP of Growth at OpenView. More posts by this contributor. Something needed to change.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Userpilot , a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, has raised $4.6 Sehwail’s entrepreneurial journey started after college in 2013, when he developed enterprise web software for the likes of BMW, a business that also inspired his Userpilot strategy. The startup’s new funding follows $1.2

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Many startups are feeling the pressure in today’s uncertain economic climate, but for SaaS companies, the next 12 months could present major opportunities for growth: 70% of small and mid-size businesses (SMBs) globally are reporting higher investments in technology this year, according to Gartner Digital Markets.

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Revolution

MARCH 28, 2023

Its most recent development targets two of ChatGPT’s biggest limitations: First, it generates output but can’t deliver outcomes (or act on your behalf). Equipped with FiscalNote’s live policy and market intelligence, ChatGPT can now keep us up to date on critical global developments. Learning Spanish? Studying for a calculus exam?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

SaaS startup Stimulus announced today the closing of an oversubscribed $2.5 Her experience in and around procurement uniquely positioned her to develop a solution that could quickly find a fit within her early target segment,” Norman said. “As million seed round led by Black Ops Ventures.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2025

The company now boasts over 500 employees, with more than 200 focused on product development and engineering. It improves productivity, simplifies the IT stack, reduces complexity, and embeds security. Since emerging from stealth mode in early 2022, Island has scaled rapidly.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Before that, he led the firm’s Proactive Portfolio Management function and acted as director of corporate development, supporting the portfolio on inorganic and balance sheet related initiatives. The flow of capital in SaaS is becoming increasingly bifurcated. Sean Fanning is a vice president on OpenView ’s Investment team.

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American Entrepreneurship

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

Software and app developers design and build digital tools, apps, or software. They monetize their work through app sales, subscriptions, or offering software as a service (SaaS). They sell their works as digital downloads or as NFTs (non-fungible tokens), or work as freelancers for brands or agencies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2015

I built my first software company in the early days of SaaS and there were few models to go by. It is the opposite of what SaaS is supposed to be. We said to customers, “We only sell SaaS and we think that’s the right solution for you. So we took a stand. How responsive are they to your needs now?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 8, 2023

Garin Hess, a tech entrepreneur based in Utah, experienced what he calls the “ demo bottleneck ” at a previous software-as-a-service (SaaS) startup while pitching to potential customers. There’s Arcade, a startup developing a Chrome extension for product demos, which raised $7.5 million last September.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 10, 2023

The largest SaaS companies in the world have released English-language APIs. Previous APIs require learning programming languages to use & have been reserved for developers. When every major SaaS application has an English-language API, users of all kinds will be able to ask & receive answers of their applications.

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Dream It

MAY 14, 2020

Net Health, a premier provider of cloud-based EHR software for specialized care settings, today announced that it has acquired Tissue Analytics , a pioneering developer of automated mobile wound and skin imaging and predictive analytics solutions. About Tissue Analytics Tissue Analytics, Inc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2023

That’s why we’ve pivoted to a SaaS model. Fortunately, the SaaS direction has delivered upsides: We’ve achieved relatively strong product-market fit and cash flow-positive status without big VC raises or burn rates. How we pivoted our deep tech startup to become a SaaS company by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

Traditional software vs. SaaS. Of course it is super helpful if a VC can drop you in to important people for business development, recruiting, PR, sales and eventually M&A. The problem with this is that past successes aren’t always relevant to future ones as the methods and environment of the past may no longer apply.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 15 Best Strategies for Developing New Business in a Crowded Market In the quest to uncover effective strategies for developing new businesses in a crowded market, we turned to fifteen Founders and CEOs for their tried-and-true tactics. In SaaS, it’s not much different. Figure out where your audience congregates.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 26, 2016

SaaS companies needs to estimate the amount of sales resources spent on clients (can be measured by activities like visits, sales calls, etc) / the clients who convert to look at sales productivity. And then of course you need to layer in marketing to understand the true SaaS customer acquisition costs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2015

Let me give you some examples I see of fauxmentum: In the SaaS world I see many business plans where companies have achieved 100-300% year-over-year growth and this is truly impressive. So those bullish pipelines your teams have developed that may be completely real in this market environment but at some point will stop materializing.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 28, 2025

Example: For a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product, provide data on the growth of cloud computing, SaaS adoption rates, and projections for future market trends. Whether you’re looking to hire key personnel, fund product development, or scale marketing efforts, investors want to know how their money will be put to work.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 22, 2012

So investing $3-5 million in a company and taking a year to 18 months to see how it develops before adding more fuel can often be the right course of action. We worked with police departments, the ministry of defense, many of the largest utility companies in Europe and a ton of contractors, engineers, architects, developers and suppliers.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

I follow Jason Lemkin closely (he’s a long-time friend) and he speaks frequently and passionately about SaaS businesses having built a successful one himself. These are both new journeys and I can’t wait to see how they develop. His blog is even called SaaStr (a bit too close to Suster if you ask me ;-)).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 23, 2022

” Out of those discussions was born Vibrant Planet, a public-benefit startup that is developing Land Tender. It’s basically SaaS for forest management, something the company calls an “operating system for forest restoration.” What does the future look like? And what can be done about it?”

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Paul G. Silva

MAY 12, 2022

Rapidly growing SaaS startups have high multiples. For instance a modern consultancy might have: SaaS (S), Tool Use (T), and Consulting (C). SaaS (S): Recurring subscriptions for access to an application that are high-margin, require minimal labor, and generate predictable future income. Valuation = R*M OR R*E.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

Everyone is a rock star developers, every company is crushing it and when they’re not crushing it they’re killing it. Do fewer business development deals but make the ones you do have more impact. They’re doing how much in SaaS revenue? And do the things that you ARE doing better and with higher quality.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles. ” I applied this advice and started writing about SaaS and about Online Video and have found Fred’s advice spot on. This works brilliantly.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Should SaaS companies trade at a 24x Enterprise Value (EV) to Next Twelve Month (NTM) Revenue multiple as they did in November 2021? We drew this conclusion after a meeting we had with Morgan Stanley where they showed us historical 15 & 20 year valuation trends and we all discussed what we thought this meant.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Founded in January 2020, Opsera lets developers provision their CI/CD tools through a single framework. Using this framework, they can then build and manage their pipelines for a variety of use cases, including their software delivery lifecycle, infrastructure as code and their SaaS application releases.

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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. I have also been involved in developing the startup ecosystem in Malaysia at the Malaysian Global Innovation & Creativity Center (MaGIC). I have got to say B2B SAAS just because we are focused on that!

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The Seraf Compass

MAY 18, 2022

Nicolas Biet is a partner in The Faktory Fund, a private early-stage investment fund, which invests in startups developing disruptive technology that enables new products to take worldwide leadership in B2B markets primarily in the Internet of Things and Software as a Service (SaaS) startups located in BeNeLux and France.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MAY 3, 2024

Master Your Mindset In 47 years of living and seven as an entrepreneur, I’ve learned the greatest lesson of life is recognizing patterns, and then — more importantly — developing your own. Here are four patterns I’ve noticed that visionaries exhibit: 1.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 13, 2023

And we have five more for you: &integrate : Ampersand helps SaaS companies build their customer-facing integrations , and raises $4.7 million to help developers securely connect software services , Kyle reports. Now, Comixology vets return with their own publishing company. million to do so, Frederic reports. Get the revenue.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 16, 2021

Michael Cortez, vice president at YL Ventures, focuses on business development initiatives to grow the market leadership of the firm and its portfolio companies, with an emphasis on strategic and tactical support for early-stage go-to-market activities. Such metrics have been previously established for wider areas of technology, such as SaaS.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2017

Our defensible infrastructure comes from the fact that we now have huge volumes of customer storage earning the equivalent of SaaS revenue and any new entrant would have to invest in the fleet of cars, bins, drivers and warehouses that we now have not to mention 4.5 years of software development.

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