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CEO Gururaj Pandurangi on How ThriveStack Redefines B2B SaaS Growth with Hybrid GTM Tooling

Jason Malki

I had the pleasure of interviewing Gururaj Pandurangi, a three-time entrepreneur and now the CEO of ThriveStack.ai , a product designed to help B2B SaaS companies grow rapidly and efficiently. We are building ThriveStack, a product growth platform for B2B SaaS companies. What is it that excites you about what you’re building?

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What founders often get wrong!

Berkonomics

Thoughts from BERKONOMICS – Dave Berkus After 50 years in entrepreneurship and 200+ startup investments, here’s what most first-time founders get dangerously wrong: They obsess over the wrong metrics. The post What founders often get wrong! Monthly burn rate 4. Net revenue retention 5. Gross margin An example not to follow!

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Why Seed Rounds Are Growing as Startups Shrink

Tomasz Tunguz

We can decompose the decline to understand what reduced the small seed round & why it matters for founders today. Salary inflation isn’t driving founders to raise larger rounds. Carta data shows SaaS companies are 20% smaller at Series A today than in H1 2020. Three forces drove this transformation. in 2015 to $81.2B

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Presenting the Perfect Pitch Deck that Secures Startup Investment

American Entrepreneurship

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture capital firm, says, “The thing that gets me most excited is the founder whos obsessed with solving a problem that matters, and is determined to keep going no matter what.” Learn what investors want to hear that triggers their investment decisions.

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Google’s early-stage AI Fund Gradient Invests in Cake’s Open-Source AI Platform for All Businesses

American Entrepreneurship

Companies in every sector are investing in the latest technologies with an eye toward winning in their markets with AI, said Misha Herscu, CEO and co-founder of Cake. Unfortunately, the cutting-edge has historically been the exclusive domain of large ML engineering teams.

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NEC X Accepting Applications for Elev X! Ignite Venture Studio

American Entrepreneurship

The Venture Studio program provides founders with resources and up to $200K of equity funding to develop their vision into a business with substantial market impact. empowers ambitious founders with bold ideas to create a lasting impact,” said Shintaro Matsumoto, President and CEO of NEC X. Venture Studio.

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Parafin Transforming Delivery of Small Business Financial Services Closes $100M Series C

American Entrepreneurship

Small businesses are the backbone of the American economy yet banks do not have their backs, says CEO and co-founder Sahill Poddar. Its embedded infrastructure powers financial services for marketplaces, vertical SaaS, and payment platforms. and Canada.