TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

Max Parmentier, co-founder and CEO of Birdie, said the latest tranche of funding will go on scaling into continental Europe where it’s started to sign partnerships with local care providers, as well as wider business growth. In Birdie’s home market of the U.K.,

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors. However, according to Bryce Roberts, co-founder of Indie.VC, only 0.6% of founders raise VC; the other 99.4%

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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

AUGUST 9, 2022

Similarly, in a down market, SaaS startups that help clients make incremental improvements to cash flow are in a much better position to ride things out. 3 ways to optimize SaaS sales in a downturn. However, “you can be a completely non-technical founder, but you can’t be a completely non-product founder,” he notes.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Maya Moufarek, founder of Marketing Cube , spent more than 15 years working for companies like Google and American Express before launching her own growth consultancy. Whereas for an HR SaaS brand, the challenge is all around driving adoption because the market they are creating is totally new. What problem are they solving?

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Typically we focus on what we call “innovative companies” — whether that’s because they have a SaaS offering or they’re an innovator within a traditional industry doesn’t really matter. We then construct a framework as part of our growth program that also allows room for certain beliefs a company has.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 23, 2023

As an early-stage founder, your ability to deliver value quickly is your most critical — and sometimes the only — competitive advantage over the incumbent competition. To address my own need to validate these opportunities, I built an internal framework to: Identify notable problems and challenges within an industry.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

RIBS: The messaging framework for every company and product. Bottom-up SaaS: A framework for mapping pricing to customer value. Bottom-up SaaS: A framework for mapping pricing to customer value. Should your SaaS startup embrace a bottom-up GTM strategy? More posts by this contributor. David Cahn.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

Andy Stinnes, a general partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners, says founders who are between angel and Series A should seek out investors who are satisfied with $200,000 to $500,000 in ARR. How much to pay yourself as a SaaS founder. How much to pay yourself as a SaaS founder. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

In times of recession, you have to make things easier, not more difficult,” says Ari Jacoby, CEO and co-founder of Deduce. 4 ways founders can amplify revenue during hard times. Should founders announce down rounds? Should founders announce down rounds? Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. The kicker?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 25, 2022

Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 The company says that it provides interested clubs with the back office framework, legal and tax support and has a platform where leaders can look for capital raise opportunities, meet other members and manage portfolios.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Thousands of startup founders will resume the trek around Silicon Valley VC offices, once the vaccines arrive. We brought together Udacity co-founder and Kitty Hawk CEO Sebastian Thrun , Eschaton founder and college dropout Ian Dilick , and Cowboy Ventures investor Jomayra Herrera to answer our biggest questions.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

Leading the round is Framework Venture Partners, with participation from Gresham House Ventures, Sage and existing investors. Countingup’s business model combines both SaaS and fintech. On the SaaS side, the company earns monthly subscription fees. Countingup , the U.K. million in Series A investment.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

But in 2019, various policymakers across different parts of the continent signed the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement — a framework for Africa to be a single market for trade and services — to make intra-trade less painful (side note: the agreement is yet to make any significant impact.).

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 22, 2024

At the growth stages in particular, founders need to be mindful of their unit economics and margins. We often hear these founders ask: how can I capture the value created by genAI? We’re in the very early days of genAI and until adoption curves and costs stabilize, there won’t be any tried-and-true pricing or packaging frameworks.

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FundersClub

JUNE 8, 2017

Christopher Steiner is the founder of ZRankings , and Aisle50, YCS11, which was acquired by Groupon in 2015. We've addressed things that founders and employers should look for in finding and interviewing the right engineers. In the history of the U.S. That makes hiring engineers hard. This isn't an issue for tech startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

To help first-time founders avoid waving red flags, she breaks down the Berkus method and explains why uninformed founders often seek unrealistic valuations. I was able to easily, but only because the passage was particularly boring and didn’t sound like them at all. .”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

This framework for marketing technology products has been one of the canonical foundational concepts to product-market fit for the three decades since it was first published in 1991. Veeva was a pioneer in “vertical SaaS” — software platforms that serve niche industries — which in recent years has become a popular category.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

Not a scientific sampling, but I noticed that several investors signaled this week on Twitter that they remain interested in talking to founders who are still at the idea stage. The best founders look for a framework to strategically cut burn while keeping their startup’s value drivers functioning.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

But ask any founder what really proves their startup has taken off, and they will almost instantly say it’s when they win their first customer. That’s easier said than done, though, because winning that first customer will take a lot more than an Ivy-educated founder and/or a celebrity investor pool. Let’s see how: 1. Develop the SWOT.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

“Faced with American giants with large scopes and complex products, we have built a solution that is accessible and easy to use, allowing SMBs to sign their first documents within the hour, and not a month” Yousign co-founder and CEO Luc Pallavidino said in a statement.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2020

A startup called Sanity has built a platform to help businesses (and their people) do that more easily with a SaaS platform that lets developers create code and systems to manage content. million to fuel its growth.

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Tomasz Tunguz

MARCH 23, 2015

If you want to understand how to build a great SaaS sales organization, you should read Mark Roberge’s The Sales Acceleration Formula. The book is invaluable for every founder, CEO and member of the management team because it not only explains how the Hubspot sales team is structured, but why the structure came to be.

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American Entrepreneurship

MAY 22, 2023

GenAI, Developer-and Data Stack-Focused Companies Dominate List as well as 80% of ET30 founders are Millennials Five years ago, Wing Venture Capital introduced their annual Enterprise Tech 30—a list of the most promising, private enterprise tech private companies across all stages of maturity.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

” That might work inside mature companies, but early-stage founders who are presenting themselves to investors must be more specific. In an interview with Natasha Mascarenhas, B2B stealth startup founder Akshaya Dinesh recounted the time her team was rejected by an accelerator because they hadn’t yet picked a CEO.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Software companies that sell directly to end users share a simple framework for managing growth that leverages discoverability, desirability and do-ability — the “aha!” Department of Homeland Security not to cancel the International Entrepreneur Parole program , which potentially allows founders from other countries to stay in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

.” Over the course of the last year, WhyLabs has made it easier for data teams to use its service, in large part because it launched its SaaS platform with a free self-serve tier. “Because we’re a SaaS, we focused on privacy a lot. ”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Currently, the platform is home to more than 130,000 detections aligned with the MITRE ATT&CK framework, a curated knowledge base of known adversary threats, tactics and techniques. .” This curates threat detection content from nearly 400 researchers and allows you to pull it into your existing SIEM and XDR platforms.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2022

According to co-founder and CEO Lanre Ogungbe , the team was initially building a platform that required consumers to use biometrics (face, fingerprints, or voice) and cards to make payments. Recently, the two-year-old company launched a SaaS platform in addition to its APIs. “We will not just stop there,” Ogungbe said.

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Hunter Walk

SEPTEMBER 9, 2023

Do these folks want to be the 100th investor chasing SaaS or do they want to define/invent new categories where they can be the thought leaders? Today’s founders got to see a bunch of experiments run on other people’s time and dollars! And you can directly and indirectly monetize your creativity in a myriad of ways.

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Y Combinator

AUGUST 5, 2019

In short, Paul Graham predicted that there would be way more startups, that they’d be cheaper to start, that new kinds of investors would fund them, that founders would be more technical, and that founders would keep control of their companies. Founders increasingly retained control of their company.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

In co-authoring Beyond Product , I set out to help founders with exactly this challenge. In the book, I brought in 50 business leaders to advise you on how to grow your business from your basic idea through to your eventual exit and summarized it into a step-by-step framework. Take a deep breath, and some useful advice.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When you are the founder of a young startup, it is always very hard to gauge the right amount of effort to dedicate to marketing. Geared toward tech startups, it boasts that it has “supercharged the growth of over 200 innovative businesses,” from fintech and SaaS to hardware. Botch it and you risk looking unprofessional.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

If not, just about anyone could schedule Zoom calls with founders to talk about making their dreams come true. In this comprehensive article, Puutio provides an overview of ESG disclosure frameworks, including action items for startups that hope to be acquired or go public. ” Thanks for reading! . Are solo GPs screwed?

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Don’t play at entrepreneurship Image by Andrea Piacquadio on Pexels I recently began mentoring other founders after three profitable years for my own SaaS startup. Then one day the company website disappeared and any emails I sent to the founder bounced. Fool me once, shame on you but fool me twice, shame on me.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 6, 2014

Tien is the founder and CEO of Zuora [1], and was formerly CMO and CSO at Salesforce. He is a brilliant marketer and created the notion of the three doors to SaaS success. Tien Tzuo’s three doors is a simple framework for creating SaaS websites that tell customers a story of why they ought to use a product.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Pierre-Alexandre is an Investment and M&A director at HoriZen Capital — a team of experienced SaaS operators, digital marketing and finance experts helping micro-SaaS companies deliver their growth potential. It is common for founders in an M&A process to be unfamiliar with the notion of QofE and leave value on the table.

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