TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

In times of recession, you have to make things easier, not more difficult,” says Ari Jacoby, CEO and co-founder of Deduce. 4 ways founders can amplify revenue during hard times. Should founders announce down rounds? Should founders announce down rounds? Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. The kicker?

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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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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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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Maya Moufarek, founder of Marketing Cube , spent more than 15 years working for companies like Google and American Express before launching her own growth consultancy. Whereas for an HR SaaS brand, the challenge is all around driving adoption because the market they are creating is totally new. What problem are they solving?

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Typically we focus on what we call “innovative companies” — whether that’s because they have a SaaS offering or they’re an innovator within a traditional industry doesn’t really matter. We then construct a framework as part of our growth program that also allows room for certain beliefs a company has.

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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

MAY 13, 2021

RIBS: The messaging framework for every company and product. Bottom-up SaaS: A framework for mapping pricing to customer value. Bottom-up SaaS: A framework for mapping pricing to customer value. Should your SaaS startup embrace a bottom-up GTM strategy? More posts by this contributor. David Cahn.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

John Borchers, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Decathlon Capital, claims to be the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. RBI structures help to protect the equity of both founders and investors. However, according to Bryce Roberts, co-founder of Indie.VC, only 0.6% of founders raise VC; the other 99.4%

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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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TechCrunch

JUNE 22, 2021

“If you’re the founder of a seed-stage [company and] you’re worried about your electricity staying on this month, then your salary is too low. This tweet is just one of many in a now burgeoning conversation about how founder pay needs to change. A framework for compensation.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2022

Given the school’s past in spinning out successful startup founders, it unsurprisingly had no trouble raising $1.5 The company says that it provides interested clubs with the back office framework, legal and tax support and has a platform where leaders can look for capital raise opportunities, meet other members and manage portfolios.

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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.

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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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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

But ask any founder what really proves their startup has taken off, and they will almost instantly say it’s when they win their first customer. That’s easier said than done, though, because winning that first customer will take a lot more than an Ivy-educated founder and/or a celebrity investor pool. Let’s see how: 1. Develop the SWOT.

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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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TechCrunch

MAY 14, 2021

Software companies that sell directly to end users share a simple framework for managing growth that leverages discoverability, desirability and do-ability — the “aha!” Department of Homeland Security not to cancel the International Entrepreneur Parole program , which potentially allows founders from other countries to stay in the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

.” Over the course of the last year, WhyLabs has made it easier for data teams to use its service, in large part because it launched its SaaS platform with a free self-serve tier. “Because we’re a SaaS, we focused on privacy a lot. ”

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TechCrunch

JUNE 10, 2021

“Faced with American giants with large scopes and complex products, we have built a solution that is accessible and easy to use, allowing SMBs to sign their first documents within the hour, and not a month” Yousign co-founder and CEO Luc Pallavidino said in a statement.

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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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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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TechCrunch

AUGUST 10, 2021

Pierre-Alexandre is an Investment and M&A director at HoriZen Capital — a team of experienced SaaS operators, digital marketing and finance experts helping micro-SaaS companies deliver their growth potential. It is common for founders in an M&A process to be unfamiliar with the notion of QofE and leave value on the table.

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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.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Luos CEO and co-founder Nicolas Rabault says that as a former embedded hardware engineer, he wanted to build a solution that would simplify the way these engineers have historically worked. Prior to creating this framework, engineers would typically create custom code for each component on a board, a time-consuming and frustrating process.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Tobi Konitzer, founder and CEO of Ocurate, founded the company in July to establish lifetime value as an organizing principle for business-to-consumer companies. 5 predictions for the future of e-commerce. Two of its customers, Wild Earth and eSalon, say they are already getting good insights.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Bottom-up SaaS: A framework for mapping pricing to customer value. Should your SaaS startup embrace a bottom-up GTM strategy? Over more than two decades of advising founders, I’ve heard all kinds of stories — good, bad and everything in between. More posts by this contributor.

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Tomasz Tunguz

JANUARY 6, 2014

Tien is the founder and CEO of Zuora [1], and was formerly CMO and CSO at Salesforce. He is a brilliant marketer and created the notion of the three doors to SaaS success. Tien Tzuo’s three doors is a simple framework for creating SaaS websites that tell customers a story of why they ought to use a product.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

As often as the ‘R’ word is bandied about in tech, a survey of 450 early-stage founders found that only 12% plan to hire fewer workers and 6% have laid people off. ” Eighty percent of the seed-stage and pre-seed founders who responded to January’s survey have less than a year of runway left. Engagement.

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Tomasz Tunguz

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

What does that mean for founders when planning their 2016 budgets? Today, the early and growth stage SaaS market prices companies on a forward revenue multiple. The top quartile public SaaS companies trade at about 7.5x This is certainly not the outcome the founders might have expected. forward revenues.

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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

JANUARY 13, 2023

Many, if not most, founders who are attached to their 2021 valuations are living in a fantasy, according to Jeremy Abelson and Jacob Sonnenberg of Irving Investors. “We see incredible founder momentum, untapped areas to build new businesses and a window to an increasingly tech-accessible, rapidly growing consumer market.”

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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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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.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2021

OctoML , a Seattle-based startup that offers a machine learning acceleration platform build on top of the open-source Apache TVM compiler framework project , today announced that it has raised a $28 million Series B funding round led by Addition. Image Credits: OctoML. ” OctoML raises $15M to make optimizing ML models easier.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Image Credits: Rittikrai_PIX (opens in a new window) / Getty Images In the final article of a five-part series , growth marketing expert Jonathan Martinez shares the key metrics he tracked at Coinbase and Uber, along with a framework for activating and retaining early adopters who drive revenue.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

First, Varos is collecting data from customers to provide SaaS and e-commerce firms with real-time performance metrics from the market. Vendr’s SaaS buying service scaled rapidly last year. Joshua Posamentier, co-founder and managing partner, Congruent Ventures. Maryanna Saenko, co-founder and partner, Future Ventures.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

An example: “growth at all costs” is a fairy tale made possible by cheap money that helped venture capitalists set expectations for founders — and each other — for years. “Growth at all costs” is a fairy tale made possible by cheap money that helped VCs set expectations for founders — and each other.

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