TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Having earned “scars and stripes” at various startups, Heskins recently joined “tech for good” company Big Lemon as a part-time head of growth, but still offers her services to other teams as a SaaS and early-stage startup marketing consultant. Why have you decided to focus on SaaS startups?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2022

Beyond volatility: How semiconductor companies can thrive with a focused sector strategy. Beyond volatility: How semiconductor companies can thrive with a focused sector strategy. Build a solid deck for your quarterly board meetings. Build a solid deck for your quarterly board meetings.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

I’ve written a few posts about boards recently as part of a series on the subject. I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Pre-seed is just a narrower segment where you might raise $1–3 million on a SAFE note and not give out any board seats. There are of course many Seed VCs who take board seats, don’t over-commit to too many deals and try to help with “company building” activities to help at a company’s vulnerable foundations. just to name a few!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Why do SaaS companies with usage-based pricing grow faster? So, why do public SaaS firms with usage-based pricing see faster growth ? Why do SaaS companies with usage-based pricing grow faster? From dorm rooms to board rooms: How universities are promoting entrepreneurship. Fifteen U.S.-based

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2022

Current management, which includes CEO Mark Schoen and CSO/founder Jakob Schreyer (pictured below), will also stay on board post-transaction. We want to be at the heart of its SMB strategy.” Orderbird will continue to operate as its own brand, becoming a central part of Nexi’s push into the SMB segment.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 15, 2021

billion after raising a $300 million Series D round led by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. The company raised a $55 million extension round in September to bring on a partner, Education Testing Services (ETS) Strategy Capital, the venture arm of the world’s largest nonprofit education testing and assessment organization.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

Frequent readers know I enjoy using similes, so I won’t disappoint: SaaS companies are like leaky rowboats. Sid Jain, a senior analyst with ChartMogul, researched 2,100 companies and found that “ more than half of SaaS businesses had lower retention in 2022 when compared to 2021.” ” Thanks for reading TC+! .

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HPA

MARCH 14, 2023

Elate’s all-in-one platform helps businesses define strategies and track execution across disparate teams. As a result, Elate customers are able to build, deliver, and report on their strategy more quickly and efficiently. He is a serial entrepreneur and brings strong expertise in founding and scaling B2B SaaS businesses.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

New Accounts: Key Metric for SaaS Startups As a fintech startup, we track a lot of metrics, but what really matters for a SaaS company is the number of new accounts. It’s important because it helps us understand the efficiency of our marketing strategies and the return on investment for each customer.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

The relatively recent shift to cloud computing promised to lower costs and boost productivity, but “ cloud-first strategies may be hitting the limits of their efficacy , and in many cases, ROIs are diminishing,” writes Thomas Robinson, COO of Domino Data Lab. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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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

MAY 16, 2023

Christian Owens Contributor Share on Twitter Christian Owens is executive chairman and co-founder of Paddle , a payments infrastructure provider for SaaS businesses. To find out what makes a well-oiled PLG strategy, we analyzed data from 30,000+ SaaS companies that collectively generated more than $28B ARR.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 24, 2015

Over dinner, a veteran product manager argued most SaaS products’ onboarding practices miss a crucial step: create value for the user in the first session. After that conversation, I signed up for many brand-name SaaS products pretending it was for the first time, and I couldn’t help but agree with him.

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TechCrunch

MAY 28, 2021

This may seem like a great time to launch a SaaS startup, but the landscape is crowded with well-designed applications that promise “blazingly fast and delightfully simple” experiences, according to seed-stage investor John Chen of Fika Ventures. SaaS needs to take a page out of the crypto playbook. “It’s attention.”

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. Within 5 years I was on the board of real businesses with meaningful revenue, strong balance sheets, no debt and on the path to a few interesting exits.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

150Birds is a freelancer- aggregator -cum- SAAS-platform that provides professional marketing services with a flexible team made up of freelancers. Strategic guidance: The experts help clients develop the most profitable marketing strategies. The SAAS works on a simple revenue model. 150Birds – Startup Review By Feedough.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Aviel and I are both self-taught VCs: the parts of the job we learned as founders and operators of our own companies covered just a fraction of what it means to be effective money managers, fundraisers, board members and trusted partners within the tight-knit community of professional investors.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2021

Endgame , enabling software companies to turn customer observations into go-to-market strategies, announced Tuesday it raised a total of $17 million in back-to-back seed and Series A funding rounds. As part of the investment, Upfront Ventures Partner Kara Nortman and Menlo Ventures Partner Naomi Ionita will join Endgame’s board of directors.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 8, 2021

Others investing in the burgeoning startup are Des Traynor, co-founder and chief strategy officer of Intercom (amongst other angels). Butter also supports various third-party integrations, such as for white boarding, note taking, etc. Acapela, from the founder of Dubsmash, hopes ‘asynchronous meetings’ can end Zoom fatigue.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Businesses usually plot their growth strategies on spreadsheets, but Drivetrain wants to provide a faster alternative for financial planning and decision-making. During his six years at the firm, Goel evaluated hundreds of SaaS companies and served on many of their boards.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 29, 2022

Gibson, who previously served as general partner focused on crypto, web2, SaaS and devops) will lead the firm’s early-stage investment strategy. Months after the departure, Tan said that Ohanian isn’t leaving the firm altogether but is instead stepping into a board partner role at Initialized.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

If your investor worked inside of a SaaS company for years and disagrees with me then listen to them. Make sure your board challenges you enough about long-term vision & innovation. Not continuing to challenge yourself on product strategy will lead you down long-term ratholes. Most importantly – YOU need to care.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

. “Every enterprise is either already rearchitecting themselves to be built around learning systems powered by AI, or they should be,” said Lonne Jaffe, managing director at Insight Partners and now a board member at Run:AI.”

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

” With AI use cases being a central part of Intel’s next-generation growth strategy, these will be essential for building AI-based systems based on Intel’s processors, he said, adding that Aries Smart Retimers for PCIe are also featured in multiple reference designs and commercial platforms from Intel. ” . “We

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Steven Kramer, board member and former EVP of Hybris, said via email that over the past two decades, the e-commerce industry went through several waves of innovation. As such, Nacelle will invest the new round into its go-to-market strategy and expand its customer success, partner relations and product development.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

But in my experience it’s surprising at how little time we as investors and as board members and startups as management teams spend thinking about how to create the best team dynamics. I have a board meeting coming up this week and I just reviewed the agenda. Is she getting enough board exposure? Is she feeling motivated?

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Jason Malki

OCTOBER 30, 2023

As CRO of Dyn, Kyle led the company to $100 million ARR and a $600 million acquisition by Oracle, where he was a general manager and vice president of product strategy for the cloud infrastructure business inside the $300B Big Red empire. Current York IE investment highlights include Cyberhaven, Flywheel, Canvs, HourWork, Metadata and Vetro.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2015

We grew 100% in SaaS revenue year-over-year and 650% over the past three years. He also talked about the work he enjoyed doing: coming up with our strategy, working with our largest customers (like Allstate, DirecTV), working with VCs (Accel, Upfront, Rincon, Salesforce.com) and talking with future investors. In other words, Why now?

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Once a new CEO has been named, Mangel will become executive chairman of Pipe, focusing on product and strategy. CTO and co-founder Zain Allarakhia will remain on the board and serve as a senior advisor to the company. Usman Masood, currently the EVP of engineering, will take over as chief technology officer. “We He remains optimistic.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The company launched just six months ago, has already booked $6 million of sales and is claiming astonishing conversion rates across the board, with 250 brands already using the platform, and corraling more than 1,000 influencers onto its platform. “I was head of growth and then VP of Marketing for a company called Bellhop.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2022

Marjorie Radlo-Zandi is an entrepreneur, board member, mentor to startups and angel investor who shows early-stage businesses how to build and successfully scale their businesses. 4 key strategies for succeeding at international expansion. Marjorie Radlo-Zandi. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 16, 2020

I began my career at Oracle in the mid-1980s and have since been around the proverbial block, particularly in Silicon Valley working for and with companies ranging from the Fortune 50 to global consulting companies to leading a number of startups, including the SaaS company I presently lead. Wait ‘til we go public!”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I’ve seen too many companies go off track by a VC hell bent on the team pursuing the VCs strategy which at times is about chasing the next shiny object. Traditional software vs. SaaS. .” (you know … fly in, s**t on you and then fly away). VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With that in mind, SaaS startup Wingback made a fractional head of remote its first hire, “and it was the best decision we made,” said Yann Leretaille, co-founder and CTO. “A To help TechCrunch+ readers take on this challenge, we are looking for experts to participate in a survey about tactics and strategies for startup recruiting in Q1 2022.

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Feedough

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Hence, it’s really important to calculate how much it will cost to get a new customer on-board to keep the business profitable for the long run. This cost includes marketing and sales costs and salaries paid to the employees to get the customer on board. For example, Spotify spends enormous amounts on getting new free users on board.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

CEO Jonathan Abraham explained that Gamitee means “joined” in Hebrew, but the Jerusalem-based SaaS company decided to spell it “joy” because it aims to “spark joy in its customers’ experiences.”. Brands considering a live-shopping strategy must lean on influencers.

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