Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

This was a reasonable achievement when you consider that it was 2001-02, one of the worst years to be selling enterprise software and we were selling it SaaS style, which was still evangelical back then. SaaS was hot so I was able to land a very impressive guy. In our second year of sales we did $5.9 I shot as high as I could.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

For cash-strapped SaaS startups trying to reach scale, the math doesn’t look great. In his TC+ guest post, Owens shares several tactics “SaaS leaders can use to supercharge their expansion revenue,” such as adding upsell tiers and charging customers for priority support. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Constrained by a limited budget while seeking to grow as quickly as possible, startup founders must decide how to balance growing their engineering teams with their sales & marketing teams. After the first year, this ratio for the public SaaS companies increases to 2:1 (S&M:R&D) for the life of the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. Burn rate in case you don’t know is the amount of money a company is either spending (gross) or losing (net) per month. (it

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Don’t miss your chance to meet some founders currently participating in TechCrunch’s Include program. This collaborative program also includes prominent VC organizations like Kleiner Perkins, Salesforce Ventures and Initialized Capital to develop lasting mentorships with the TC Include founder cohort. Founded by Denise Umubyeyi.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Survival tips for startup founders living through their first market correction. After Anaplan, which SaaS company will private equity target next? ” After Anaplan, which SaaS company will private equity target next? Why so many SaaS companies are launching their own media operations. Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Regardless, the data set that came together felt worthy of sharing for its specificity and breadth — and so other startup founders can learn from how some of their peer group are performing. Software/SaaS. Acceleprise announces 26 SaaS startups from its trio of accelerators.

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 26, 2024

Co-founder, CEO Trevor L audate Kids Care Finder – Comprehensive platform connecting parents with child-related services kids need from birth to grown in ONE place. Founder, CEO Olivia Rutman, CTP Landng Inc. – SaaS MarTech startup that drives sales of travel products by connecting brands, influencers, and travelers.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2021

It is clear that Black, women, Latinx and LGBTQ+ startup founders face an uphill battle when it comes to getting a share of the VC investment pie in Silicon Valley. She said that Indiana is known for B2B SaaS and she wanted to tap into that energy.

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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. How to price your SaaS product for a bottoms-up growth strategy. But we’ll remember 2020 as the year that venture truly joined the cloud. Image Credits: Brighteye Ventures.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

Last quarter, UiPath grew its revenue by 39%, so “the company fits neatly into the high-growth SaaS bucket,” wrote Ron and Alex Wilhelm. What most startup founders get wrong about financial projections. The pressures facing first-time founders are enormous. ” Thanks very much for reading TC+ this week!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2023

Startup founder Josh Bartlett several years ago proposed a solution in ThriveCart , a toolkit small- and medium-sized businesses can use to build e-commerce carts and funnels. ThriveCart today announced that it raised $35 million in a funding round led by LTV SaaS Growth Fund, the company’s first public outside investment.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Despite the quickening pace of layoffs, there is some good news for SaaS startups: 70% of SMBs plan to increase IT spending in 2023, and the procurement process is getting faster. I try to keep things fresh, so I was dismayed to realize that I’d used the word “downturn” in two different headlines this morning.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

The deepest irony of the VC business – which we understood not at all when we started but is obvious in hindsight – is that excellence in investing requires the exact opposite of what’s demanded from the best startup founders. . By contrast, venture capital is a craft that defies both speed and scale.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Non-profit organizations such as Asan Nanum Foundation , established by Hyundai Group, and D.Camp , as well as startup founders and executives, including the co-founder and former CEO of Krafton, Gang-Seok Kim , also joined Sopoong’s climate fund, Han continued.

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TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2021

Sanjoe Tom Jose is a thought leader in the HR tech space and the founder and CEO of Talview. When considering a move to the United States, Indian startup founders first need to make a mental pivot to face the market they want to sell into and ask themselves how much risk they are willing to own. No game plan, just a product.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Alex Wilhelm uses his weekday column The Exchange to keep a close eye on “private companies, public markets and the gray space in between,” but one effort stood out: An overview of six API-based startups that were “raising capital in rapid-fire fashion” when many companies were trying to find their COVID-19 footing.

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Gust

JUNE 16, 2023

And even those who do make it have their regrets: The average SaaS founder walks away with 20% equity in their company, with some hitting numbers as low as 1% or 5%—not much when you consider the overall emotional, financial, and spiritual investment founders make into their companies.

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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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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Behind the scenes Greg knew many tech entrepreneurs who were wanting to start software or SAAS companies. Back then, local tech leaders and founders thought that “Phoenix isn’t a a software tech town.” Gregslist became an unexpected ecosystem catalyst, and a positive feedback loop for software startups in the region.

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StartupNation

APRIL 23, 2021

There are several different ways a startup founder might fund his or her business, including series funding, crowdfunding, loans, venture capital and angel investments. As an entrepreneur, investment advisor and consultant to startup founders, I understand that each startup is different.

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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 Now, two years later, the leader of that club, Steph Mui, is trying to replicate that playbook in the form of a venture-backed startup, and solo entrepreneurship.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Miguel Fernandez is CEO and co-founder of Capchase , which provides non-dilutive financing to SaaS and comparable recurring-revenue companies. A few years ago, founders only had two options when starting a company — bootstrap yourself or turn to VC money, and they would use that money primarily to pursue growth. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2022

Maybe something SaaS-y like Zoom, Box or Dropbox. AWS will buy a SaaS company, and other 2022 enterprise predictions. .” When fundraising, New Zealand startup founders should play the “Kiwi card” Image Credits: Jami Tarris (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. Senior Editor, TechCrunch+. Everything.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

” It’s a bold declaration for a startup founder aiming to work with robots — or more accurately, the software that helps turn a tractor, tiller or forklift into an automated vehicle. Think of it as SaaS for industrial robotics. “Robots suck.” Image Credits: Polymath Robotics.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 12, 2022

Plus, Founderpath secured $145 million in debt and equity to help B2B SaaS startup founders avoid dilution — a reminder that non-dilutive capital is always in vogue. Then we got to a big theme all about bets. Yep, we’re talking Axios gets scooped, Haus gets put up for sale and ByteDance gets… hospitals ?

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Founderpath secures $145M in debt and equity to help B2B SaaS startup founders avoid dilution. The company is adding around 100 new Amazon businesses, e-commerce and SaaS listings each month. So many cases, too, the buyer is not a U.S.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In the past few months, I’ve spoken with over a dozen Startup founders. Contributed to EO by Zac Stucki , a growth strategist who specializes in helping early stage SaaS companies bridge the gap between early and widespread adoption. My goal is to understand their struggles with scaling after they’ve found early traction.

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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. How do you collaborate with startups? Our services cater to every stage of the founder journey. For one-on-one work, who are your typical clients? .

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 30, 2021

The company will focus on investing digital transformation in areas including SaaS, insurance, fintech, healthcare, deep tech, fusion engineering companies, robotic companies, Riney told TechCrunch. The Japanese startup ecosystem is striking its stride now compared to 9 years ago, Riney said. “We

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Canvas describes its SaaS offering as a “fully virtual” recruiting platform that is based on self-reported data. About 87% of candidates on its platform disclose their demographic information (which it says is 7x the industry standard), according to the startup. We believe representation is a huge part of what we stand for.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Education, support and sage advice are arguably as essential to startup success as fundraising. Find all that — and connect with your early-founder community — at TC Early Stage 2021.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

“Students going to the top colleges is just 10% of the potential audience,” explained Chaturvedi, who spent his teen years attending talks from startup founders and also made money by bringing more people to those talks. To connect them with students, we have our SaaS offering Univalley.com ,” he said.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 28, 2022

Valuations are soaring, but revenue averages for SaaS startups “have seen a recent and rapid decline,” according to a Kruze Consulting report Alex Wilhelm studied yesterday. “In all, startups are getting paid better, faster for less work than before. It’s still a great time to be a startup founder.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Notes follow from Asem; Pejman Nozad of Pear VC; Iris Choi of Floodgate; Nathan Lustig of Magma Partners; Siggi Simonarson , co-founder of BuildBuddy , which took part in a 2020 Y Combinator class; and Torben Friehe , co-founder of Wingback , which is part of the Winter 2022 YC batch.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

We’re diving right back in next week with another installment in season two of Extra Crunch Live , our regular interview series with startup founders, venture capitalists, and other leaders from the technology community.

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