Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 28, 2009

We hadn’t even thought about having a customer support line or who would staff it. As the economy soured and people grew wary of buying Internet software (we were SaaS as early as 1999 – our buyers were certainly “early adopters&# ) and life grew more difficult. Tags: Start-up Advice. We were unprepared.

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American Entrepreneurship

JANUARY 4, 2024

AskOmni simplifies and enhances SaaS security, enabling administrators to ask their way to securing their SaaS estate AppOmni , SaaS Security Posture Management (SSPM) leader and SaaS security pioneer, today unveiled a groundbreaking advancement with the introduction of AskOmni.

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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, 2022

Rigopoulos and Bamberger shared their cold-calling advice with TC+, along with the full text of one of their winning emails and a detailed breakdown of the three-step process they used. SaaS startups that incrementally improve will stack small wins that have the potential to alter the company’s trajectory.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Obviously I’m a proponent of still working closely with your investors to make sure that they feel bought into your decisions which will matter a lot if you ever need their support in the future. Startup Advice' Unless you’re SnapChat, Instagram or similar this is probably 3-5 years into your existence.

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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. Tags: Startup Advice. First, I’m embarrassed now that we didn’t just start with a hugely customer oriented SLA and stand confidently on our ability to successfully manage our service. We called it PUCCKA.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2022

The Series A funding will go on expanding its operations across Europe, including by growing its team across legal, technical, and operational areas to support the growth sprint, it added. . “Our customers can easily connect with one of our partner law firms for bespoke legal advice whenever desired.”

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Paul G. Silva

AUGUST 20, 2019

AccelVT built a network of utilities and similar entities that didn’t only write checks and show up to share advice… no, they did the hard work to figure out how to run real pilots to put the startup’s innovations to work making VT’s climate greener and safer. Source: AccelVT & the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 28, 2023

The Tory Burch Foundation, which was launched in 2009 by fashion designer Tory Burch, has a long history of supporting women entrepreneurs. It’s best known for its fellowship program that provides education grants, networking opportunities and business advice to women entrepreneurs.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 12, 2023

“We created an educational SaaS that enabled real-time two-way communication between teachers and students through IT. EVENTUS automates tasks through event SaaS, reducing workforce and costs while recording and scoring attendees’ behaviors and actions during the event. Jaewoo Ahn and Jungho Choi lead the development team.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

TechCrunch Experts continues to gather and share authoritative advice for founders who need help with growth marketing and software development. If there is time, investing in SEO and a highly defensible content moat to generate inbound supported by ongoing growth experimentation and CRO would be ideal.

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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. Like so many others, you’ve worked hard to realize your vision and bring your product to life. Don’t skip this step. It sets a startup off on the right (or wrong) path.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2022

In meeting and talking to founders, I saw interesting talent coming here, but there was no support, and startups were very undercapitalized and had low valuations,” Pavlyukovskyy said. “We There were no other experienced founders to guide them or give them advice on how to build companies,” he said.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

During COVID-19, the Dutch government has also announced support packages such as tax deferrals, temporary employment bridging schemes and other initiatives. Digital health, education, B2B SaaS. We look at digital health, education and SaaS and they all thrive in this climate. Bas Godska , founder, Acrobator Ventures.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Education, support and sage advice are arguably as essential to startup success as fundraising. I also used it to meet founders in adjacent areas like climate or B2B SaaS — interesting people I wouldn’t necessarily have connected with otherwise. I loved that unexpected benefit.

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Smart Hustle Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Faster wireless networks also mean software-as-a-service (SaaS) products will be more effective. She and her team support local small businesses by offering expert advice about technology, devices, and mobile solutions that can help businesses compete. Plus, it links seamlessly to accounting programs, such as QuickBooks.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 12, 2014

This post is part of a continuing series evaluating the S-1s of publicly traded SaaS companies in order to better understand the core business and build a library of benchmarks that might be useful to founders. Over time, that figure has fallen, but it far surpasses any of the SaaS companies we’ve analyzed to date.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

SaaS streaming tools. “For brands, SaaS streaming tools will be the most impactful way to take advantage of livestream commerce trends,” Gregory writes in an Extra Crunch guest post. Compare that to the median multiple for public SaaS companies of 14x. Host discovery and outreach tools.

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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. Xembly founder and CEO Pete Christothoulou said that despite the market’s noise, companies should look to work with VCs like Winfield because while everyone is looking to put money to work in AI, not all support is created equal.

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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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Startup Catalyst

AUGUST 15, 2018

We talked about how startups have changed over the last few years, what support has meant to them, Startup Catalyst missions and their impact, as well as ways to get involved in the startup community. He has been a supporter of the startup community since before the word startup was in general conversation. Support does have returns.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2022

The company connects a client in need of support when conducting layoffs to a seasoned executive for anything from day-of support in sharing the news to high-level advice. Latch, a proptech meets SaaS platform that went public via SPAC in June 2021, was the first business that I saw conduct two consecutive weeks of layoffs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Featuring topics like articulated robots, autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), commercial hardware, humanoids, IoT/consumer hardware and interstellar technologies The SaaS Stage: Discover software-as-a-service tools that reveal insights, power productivity and allow creativity and efficiency to blossom within your organization.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Prior to starting Pixis, the co-founders spoke to chief marketing officers and chief revenue officers about how to scale SaaS companies quickly in a “cookie-less” world that would require companies to deploy their own systems to respect privacy for customers. After talking to marketing leaders for a year, here’s my advice for CEOs.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

He particularly was interested in speaking with Oak HC/FT because of its global presence and approach to bringing together its portfolio companies around tips and advice for founders. We look forward to supporting the team as the company continues its growth and expansion in LatAm.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

So, in keeping with our mission, we present to you today a list of Ukrainian tech companies and initiatives you can support, the products you can use, and the startups which you – if you’re an investor – can look at funding. But over 90% of Ukrainian startups say they need financial support to survive the war.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

The truth is, a lot of the time ambitious founders and executive teams don’t have a marketing background, so they need to outsource to find the right support to deliver on huge growth ambitions — usually within very limited time frames. For instance, in health and finance, credibility and trust are critical.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

According to Brian Parks, “Bigfoot provides RBI, term loans, and lines of credit to SaaS businesses with $500k+ ARR. Our wheelhouse is bootstrapped (or lightly capitalized) SMB SaaS. Investment Criteria: B2B SaaS or tech-enabled services with proven, recurring contracts. Bigfoot Capital. ARR of $500K+. Capital need of up to $1.5M

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

Here’s how I read that comment: It may be natural for a SaaS product like Airtable to have a community where power-users can share hacks or inspiration, but is there a more specific way to empower those users to trade notes? What about newcomers or people who are looking for more basic advice? Image Credits: Commsor.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Businesses can use Digip to research trademarks and get on-demand advice from its team for free. But Digip does have a global network of lawyers that its customers can go to for support. Digip’s team. If they become subscribers, they can then use Digip’s platform to manage their trademark applications in 180 countries.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

After more than a 12-year bull run for tech in the global markets supported by low interest rates, since the beginning of 2022, we have witnessed a significant slowdown in capital flows. What advice would you give your portfolio startups to continue growing at this time? How has your investment strategy changed?

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Hunter Walk

AUGUST 26, 2022

And then take your experience and turn it into a piece of thought leadership career advice to share with people reading this. My advice to people early in their career is pretty simple: your mission isn’t to pursue a career, it’s to discover it. Put yourself in interesting situations.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

For the duration of the accelerator, Techstars participants will get a Brex platform support team, access to exclusive Brex events and free use of Brex’s Pry financial forecasting platform. Glyman and Kote shared how they’re working to preserve capital, while Blader offered up some of the advice she’s giving to her portfolio companies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Today, the company makes money by working with organizations in a consulting or support role to help them use the development library or build profiles via a subscription model. While there isn’t a marketplace or central library for sharing profiles quite yet, the plan is to create one where there will be an organized way to share them.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

My first company launched in 1999 and we were offering a SaaS document management in the cloud (we were called ASPs back then). I didn’t have first-hand experience in document management systems other than as a user and nobody had SaaS experience – the market was too new. I learned the domain lesson myself.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

I know that this advice won’t apply to every possible startup – but I think it applies to many. On some level we felt we did because being a SaaS company in 1999 was trailblazing. Deer are not so big that they can make huge demands on you for your development resources or customer support. See definition of a whore.

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