Founder Bounty

APRIL 21, 2023

Starting a SaaS (Software as a Service) business in 2023 can be an exciting venture, but it requires careful planning and execution. 70% of YC has invested in SAAS in the last cohort so its worth getting out there and trying to build one! Here are some tips to get you started.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

How to evolve your DTC startup’s data strategy and identify critical metrics. ” How to evolve your DTC startup’s data strategy and identify critical metrics. Here come the single-digit SaaS multiples. SaaS startups have seen smooth sailing, but in this ongoing downturn, stormy weather is on the horizon.

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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

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

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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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. Why more SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based pricing. The consequences of SaaS sprawl: A real-world study. This year, that figure rose to 45%.

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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Before Twilio had a market cap approaching $56 billion and more than 200,000 customers, the cloud-communications platform developed a secret sauce to fuel its growth: a developer-focused model that dispensed with traditional marketing rules. SaaS companies can grow to $20M+ ARR by selling exclusively to developers.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2022

With the average employee using at least eight SaaS apps costing $2,884 in subscriptions per month, it’s becoming tougher to compete for enterprise IT dollars. He realized that the Liquid R&D team was busy developing the live product, but sales needed a version of the product built for showcasing. Image Credits: Demostack.

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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. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. ” Thanks very much for reading, Walter Thompson. .”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

The SaaS platform provides care workers a suite of digital tools to support their work by streamlining admin and patient management while enabling real-time visibility into care events — helping keep family members informed of important details around their loved one’s care. In Birdie’s home market of the U.K.,

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Take a look at most subscription-based SaaS pricing strategies and they will often have a free version for a certain number of seats, a pro version for a larger set of seats and an enterprise version for large companies. Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Wiliot — the IoT startup that has developed a new kind of processor that is ultra thin and light and runs on ambient power but possesses all the power of a “computer” — has picked up a huge round of growth funding on the back of strong interest in its technology, and a strategy aimed squarely at scale.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

After taking a hiatus from covering SaaS multiples, Alex Wilhelm took a closer look at software revenue and noted that “the upward charge has plateaued” in recent months. Choices and constraints: How DTC companies decide which strategy to follow. Image Credits: Nigel Sussman (opens in a new window). of that equity class.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

MAY 17, 2021

Unless you find an alternative business model to monetize a totally free SaaS product, you’ll have to attach a price tag to it. The (literal) Billion dollar question then is: how much should our SaaS product costs? So the actual Billion dollar question is: how much should our SaaS product cost to begin with ?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

While software development frameworks make developing software faster and easier than ever, pre-deployment testing gets more and more complex by the day. Our strategy here is to keep the total capital into the company less than our revenue run rate. It’s an interesting way to look at fundraising.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Other than that we’ve adopted a “barbell strategy” where we may choose to avoid the high-priced, less-proven A & B rounds but we have raised 3 Growth Funds that then can lean in when there is more quantitative evidence of growth and market leadership and we can underwrite a $10–20 million round from a separate vehicle.

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Tomasz Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Last week, I participated in two discussions about the changes in the SaaS world. The level of competition in many core SaaS segments is intense. The SaaS era is about 20 years old. Over that 20 year period, annual SaaS investment has increased 20x, peaking in 2014 at $7B. The table stakes in SaaS are rising.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A gaggle of companies, including Meta, Microsoft, AWS and TomTom, have partnered with the Linux Foundation to form the Overture Maps Foundation to do a few things: develop interoperable open map data and knock Google’s map dominance down a few pegs. Does anyone else miss paper maps? : Paul has more. Is it a plane? to 17 cents.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

Y-Combinator- backed Localyze has nabbed $12 million in Series A funding led by Blossom Capital for a SaaS that supports staff relocations and hiring across borders. “We developed a software that automates large parts of the relevant processes around global mobility,” explains Asmussen.

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Tomasz Tunguz

AUGUST 28, 2021

Should you price your SaaS per seat or per use? Many people think of pricing as monetization, but just as important to think through it as an acquisition strategy. There are many companies who employ a two-part tariff: a base platform fee and an ongoing usage fee to capture postive aspects of both types of pricing strategies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Mike Cardamone Contributor Mike Cardamone is CEO and managing partner at Forum Ventures, where he focuses on developing Forum’s investment strategy with the mission to make the B2B SaaS journey easier, more accessible, and successful for early-stage founders. Carta […] © 2023 TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2022

But if you ask the co-founders of Modular , a startup emerging from stealth today, the software used to develop it is “monolithic,” fractured into silos piled with layers of complexity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

Now, the plan is to take on some funding to accelerate that with more investments into R&D and product development, more global deals, and M&A to bring in more functionality and to enter new markets. As more people are waking up to our message, it is time to turbo-charge the growth,” Peters said in an emailed interview.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2021

This forced retailers to accelerate their online strategies, finding new ways to capture shoppers’ attention without in-store samples. Virtual beauty try-on technology, like the ones developed by Perfect Corp., The Series B will be used to further develop Perfect Corp.’s The new funding brings Perfect Corp.’s

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TechCrunch

JULY 11, 2022

How to evolve your DTC startup’s data strategy and identify critical metrics. Developing or revising a pricing model is a complex, multi-dimensional problem. Here’s a closer look at the questions we ask to begin laying the foundation for a pricing strategy. 5 key questions in our pricing strategy framework.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

It operates a SaaS business model, charging employers a tiered fee depending on the number of employees using the product. On the product dev side Payflow is developing a “super app” to start to expand its feature set. Payflow is targeting the product at large corporate clients. Or, well, that’s the fintech dream.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Mike Tong Contributor Share on Twitter Mike Tong has over a decade of experience leading GTM strategy and operations for tech and data companies as part of McKinsey TMT, AtSpoke, Splunk and the VC firm B Capital. SDRs are ‘top of funnel’ salespeople, making cold calls, writing email outreach, or sending outbound mail.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

Each founder showcased the innovative business ideas they developed and refined throughout the Bridge2 program. Participants in the program engaged in weekly workshops and coaching calls, refining their revenue models, competitive strategies, and customer acquisition.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 2, 2022

The Israeli-based company developed artificial intelligence-driven data analytics that help food brands make smarter decisions around product development, marketing and retail sales for their next healthy, sustainable and delicious product. A one-size-fits-all approach is no longer possible.”.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 18, 2023

Develop multiple products from Day One. This is called a suite strategy: Zoho published a history of the 2-4 product launches per year, which illustrates the idea. In a recent podcast, Parker Conrad champions the suite strategy, also called a compound company. Constellation Software.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

At this phase of development, you need a committed partner who has both the time and the experience to guide you,” says Stinnes. “Google search is not what it used to be,” Ryan Sammy, the director of strategy at growth-marketing agency Fractl, writes in a guest post. How much to pay yourself as a SaaS founder.

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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 don’t want to compete for the largest AUM (assets under management) with the biggest firms in a race to build the “Goldman Sachs of VC” but it’s clear that this strategy has had success for some.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 30, 2021

TC: You focus on SaaS companies. Since leaving Facebook, I worked at B2B SaaS companies, with different audiences and different stages, so that’s been my experience. I think there’s a huge opportunity for marketing and it is changing in the B2B SaaS world. Estreich: That’s been our experience.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 29, 2023

The initiatives were painful for both the engineering and finance departments, they say — which is when the pair realized that they wanted more flexibility over how software-as-a-service (SaaS) products were billed and monetized. Orb’s pricing engine provides tools to test new strategies and analyze usage data.

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AsiaTechDaily

OCTOBER 27, 2023

After interviewing 200 such salespeople, Nelson had another interesting finding: the agents’ work required them to use up to 14 separate SaaS applications to complete their daily tasks and effectively earn their commissions. Register According to iLife * founder Nelson Lee, roughly $200 billion in premiums are signed annually in the U.S.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JUNE 15, 2016

As a SaaS startup scales from finding initial product market fit to building its go to market organization, one of the most important goals in building that go to market organization is developing a multifaceted marketing team. Many early stage SaaS companies focus on a single channel of customer acquisition at the outset.

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