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

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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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

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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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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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

A number of angel investors also participated including Airbase Founder and CEO Thejo Kote, Auth0 co-founder and CTO Matias Woloski, Mercado Libre CFO Pedro Arnt, Kavak COO and Bain Capital’s Keri Gohman, among others. ALLVP and Infinity Ventures, a firm founded by a trio of ex-PayPal execs, co-led the equity raise.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2020

If you have grown sick (as I have) of the latest apps and SaaS products du jour, this decade is going to be an amazing one to experience and build. How to execute a bottom-up SaaS growth plan. The combination of consumer tech product skills and enterprise revenue models fueled this decade’s explosion of SaaS success stories.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The agency’s founder Ellen Jantsch makes it clear: There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to growth. Client work aside, Tuff also launched Growth Guide , a remote growth marketing training program for founders.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Join us on Wednesday, May 18 and Thursday, May 19 to watch these incredible founders take the stage. I know you want to see who made the cut.

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Kentico was the brainchild of Petr Palas, who saw an opportunity to build a content management system (CMS) for developers using Microsoft’s.NET framework. This has led to hyper-growth in the headless CMS category,” Oliver Thomas, a co-founder and partner at Expedition, told TechCrunch via email. “Kontent.ai

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

APRIL 13, 2021

How Monica and Joe Priced Their New SaaS Business Product and Decided their Optimal Pricing Why customers buy based on the perceived worth that the price represents to them, and how you should price to get your fair share of that value. That’s what the VC guy, Albert, told me was the benchmark for saas companies like us.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Their discussion, which took place at TechCrunch Disrupt, also addressed the value of using test suites and selecting a reliable continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) framework. Lessons from founders raising their first round in a bull market. founder Manu Bansal. Flourishing Founder. asked Wetzler.

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David Teten VC

JANUARY 21, 2021

This essay is part of a series on alternative VC: I: Revenue-Based Investing: a new option for founders who care about control. III: Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? II: Who are the major Revenue-Based Investing VCs? IV: Should your new VC fund use Revenue-Based Investing?

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “Today’s investors are allocating more to alternatives in an environment where there are record numbers of new funds; and seeking deeper relationships with managers via direct and coinvestments. ” The site connects founders and investors by playing multiplayer games. 3) Raise capital.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Here’s just one example from Y Combinator’s Summer 2013 Demo Day: Positioning itself as the “FedEx of today,” it hopes to provide a logistics framework that goes beyond food and can be used for any type of on-demand order. 4 strategies for deep tech founders who are fundraising. That startup was DoorDash, by the way.

SaaS

TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

The current tax framework on capital gains tax (zero if you hold the shares for more than two years) and a new ‘digital nomad’ visa are helping to attract investors and talent to the city, which is also close to some of the best beaches in the world. Vedran Tolic , founder & CBO, Q agency. Matej Zelic , COO, Spotsie.

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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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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Cloud native engines maximize customization Today’s engines are monolithic desktop applications originally designed before modern cloud architecture and the SaaS age. Creations like Zaranova are building off of the base project framework, which already has an AI agent stack, to create their own game designs off the core experience.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Either way, it often involves educating the founders about the job to be done. TechCrunch is asking founders who have worked with growth marketers to share a recommendation in this survey. Why have you decided to focus on SaaS startups? I love working in SaaS, especially B2B SaaS.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2016

It is a hugely compelling show because Zakaria covers world issues that will affect all of us in ways that are accessible and with frameworks for processing disparate information. Whenever I’m looking at new investments I pay really close attention to verbal queues given between founders or management members.

frameworks

TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Founded in January 2020, Opsera lets developers provision their CI/CD tools through a single framework. Using this framework, they can then build and manage their pipelines for a variety of use cases, including their software delivery lifecycle, infrastructure as code and their SaaS application releases.

frameworks

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.,

SaaS

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.

SaaS

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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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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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

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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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.

SaaS

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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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.

founder

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. AI has transformative potential. Modular aims to change that.

development

TechCrunch

APRIL 15, 2022

Coming off an $8 million seed round announced last November, company founders Alice Deng and Lawrence Murata say the biggest thing that has happened is growth. The framework and the ground floor are there, and they are excited to build a great culture and talent. The new investment gives the company total funding of $32 million.

capital

TechCrunch

MAY 6, 2022

3 views: How should founders prepare for a decline in startup valuations and investor interest? Investors are pushing founders to be lean, but at the same time, offering them $10,000 to take PTO for a week and try their hand at entrepreneurship. Consumer fintech trading revenues don’t measure up to SaaS ARR (April 2022).

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