A Smart Bear: Longform

JULY 26, 2025

Because their financial data is public (in another example of their special, enviable culture), and because they’ve gone through a few different phases of life, they are a perfect case-study for SaaS metrics. How can we know where we should invest our time? How does that look? If you halve the cancellation rate, you double Max MRR.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

This significant investment, led by prominent venture capital firms Lightspeed Venture Partners and Felicis Ventures, positions the company to expand its market reach. His extensive background in scaling SaaS businesses and driving significant revenue growth will give him a pivotal role in shaping Observo AIs global marketing strategy.

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StartupNation

AUGUST 9, 2025

Here’s how to integrate long-term thinking into early name and domain strategy. Such names are often available for a four-figure investment, a sum that will pay off many times over during your business’s lifespan. However, tech startups, SAAS tools, or anyone entering a highly commoditized market should think big.

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Jason Malki

JANUARY 16, 2025

Vlad isnt just your average founderhes a serial entrepreneur, investor, and someone whos spent over a decade building successful service companies and SaaS startups in SalesTech andMarTech. It was also about proving to myself and others that you can build a company from scratch, even without substantial resources or external investments.

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The Zapier Blog

JULY 31, 2025

Huy Nguyen, B2B web architect at LeadingResponse , told me he uses the wealth of additional phrases to improve his team's PPC and content strategies. But if you're an agency or consultant juggling multiple sizable accounts, it's well worth the investment to elevate your efficiency and client services.

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StartupNation

JUNE 11, 2025

Today, we’ll explore actionable strategies you can use to build multiple income streams and build a more resilient, profitable business. This strategy is effective because you don’t have to reinvent the wheel for it to work. One of the best examples of this strategy is Amazon.

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StartupNation

JUNE 11, 2025

Today, we’ll explore actionable strategies you can use to build multiple income streams and build a more resilient, profitable business. This strategy is effective because you don’t have to reinvent the wheel for it to work. One of the best examples of this strategy is Amazon.

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The Zapier Blog

JUNE 17, 2025

The best way to translate all those different data streams coming at you from Sales, Customer Service, Marketing, and the intern's experimental TikTok strategy into something that resembles coherent business information is with CRM technology. If you're in SaaS, you might track technical requirements.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Matt Murphy and Grace Ge, Menlo Ventures Which trends are you most excited about in construction robotics from an investing perspective? We are active in construction with investments such as HOVER and Fieldwire and believe the entire sector is right for a digital and automation overhaul. About 10 percent of our time.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Software-as-a-service (SaaS) subscriptions have become a fixture of the modern enterprise; organizations with more than 1,000 employees use over 150 SaaS apps on average, according to BetterCloud. According to a recent survey from Workato, 57% of IT teams have received directives from the C-Suite to reduce their overall SaaS spend.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The Moderne Ventures team of founder Constance Freedman and partner Liza Benson built a track record of top-tier returns with its novel approach to venture investing. The early-stage investment fund’s vertical specialties span real estate, finance, insurance, and sustainability.

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Revolution

APRIL 6, 2021

By Revolution Ventures Managing Partner David Golden and VP Alex Shtarkman As voracious consumers of podcasting content, we could not be more excited to announce our investment in Indianapolis-based Casted , a company reinventing the traditional digital content marketing playbook. Stay tuned! [1]

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

How to grow a SaaS company efficiently in a recession. In fact, the more a founder can push the questions back to the investor in a way that gives a better understanding of their business and investment strategy, the easier the rest of the conversation will be.”. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members.

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Startup Blogpost

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The 15 Best Strategies for Developing New Business in a Crowded Market In the quest to uncover effective strategies for developing new businesses in a crowded market, we turned to fifteen Founders and CEOs for their tried-and-true tactics. In SaaS, it’s not much different. Any new local business could try this.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally. I also had the opportunity to learn firsthand how VC firms put together an investment fund and understood the type of LPs coming together to form a fund. What types of companies/sectors do you look to invest in?

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JULY 26, 2024

Overall, I learned that for me, true success comes not from financial achievements but from what will impact my time and the freedom to choose where and what I invest my time in.” — Ryan Featherby, EO Melbourne “I have joined an EO Forum — a peer group that can relate to the struggles of being an entrepreneur, a mom, and a wife.

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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

MARCH 10, 2021

Some of its well-known investments include South African car subscription company, FlexClub; Kenyan on-demand logistics company, Sendy; and Nigerian fintech company, Lidya. However , in 2016, Savannah transitioned into venture capital investing, focusing on seed and Series A stages within $25,000 to $500,000 checks.

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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

AUGUST 24, 2021

It’s clear that the additional overhead is generating higher prices, but not necessarily better results, according to Sumi Das and Nina Gerson, who lead healthcare investments at Capital G. “To make these improvements, in-home healthcare strategies will need to leverage next-generation technology and value-based care strategies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Now, investors see New Zealand as a country with a track record of building companies with global exits in SaaS, health tech and deep tech. Despite the pandemic, venture and early-stage investment in New Zealand is reaching record highs. In 2020, VC investments totaled NZD $127.2 million (USD $86 million), up from NZD $112.2 (USD

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Pipefy , a “low-code” workflow management SaaS startup, announced today that it has raised $75 million in Series C funding. It also plans to continue to hire globally and further develop its product and go-to-market strategy. million since its 2015 inception. Pipefy has plans to expand “rapidly” in other LatAm Countries.

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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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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Bridge2 program is an 8-week pre-accelerator designed to prepare scalable, tech-enabled startup companies for Oklahoma-based accelerator programs and to pursue funding from private and public investment sources. Together, we’re shaping a brighter future and making a significant impact in Oklahoma,” Wilborn said.

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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. I feel this “belief system” is truly essential to any growth marketing strategy. 5 companies doing growth marketing right.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Her advice skips straight past basic best practices to explain alignment and partnership strategies, recommendations for nurturing community, and other PLG tactics. Cloud providers’ default retention policies are not enough: You better back your SaaS up. Image Credits: Eoneren (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Once the parties are on the same page, Fast Forward provides the operator or founder with $100,000 — and value-add such as co-founder recruitment, engineering support, initial product strategy, execution on the growth side, administrative operations such as accounting and legal — in exchange of up to 20% of the company.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 13, 2023

A survey report called “The Next-Generation Cloud Strategy in Asia” show that 84 percent of the existing cloud service users are planning to increase their investments in the technology this year as more companies start to move their critical businesses online to efficiently handle their workloads in the post pandemic world.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

“Nacelle gives organizations a future-proof way to accelerate their innovation, leverage existing investments and do so with material ROI.”. 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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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. But how do you do that? .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Geared toward tech startups, it boasts that it has “supercharged the growth of over 200 innovative businesses,” from fintech and SaaS to hardware. When you’re starting, you’ll need a brand, strategy and the marketing infrastructure to reach early customers. How do you collaborate with startups?

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Smart Hustle Magazine

APRIL 24, 2021

Take a test-and-learn approach to avoid making the wrong big investments. This is the time to turn up your marketing investment. Building out your marketing team and investing in marketing technology. Regardless of the outcome, be prepared with a strategy. Step 5: Grow the business.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

He spends most of his time wrestling with fragmented and imperfect private market data in a never-ending effort to derive market-beating investment signals. A sound investment process analyzes both macro trends and fundamental data to assess the probability of various potential outcomes. Shachi Shah. Contributor.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

He focuses primarily on investments in software and technology-enabled business services. Should SaaS founders be raising capital now? The global software as a service (SaaS) industry is sustaining its steep growth trajectory, but developing and pricing professional services is oftentimes a difficult proposition for SaaS companies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Intel (which first invested in 2020 ) is a strategic backer in this case, meaning a financial investor and significant customer. He claims that solutions could provide up to double the bandwidth on the same infrastructure. “This has driven our sales demand from the world’s largest cloud operators by an estimated 25% to 30%.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Part of Mendel’s strategy is to attract customers with high payment volume and low credit risk, while at the same time charging a SaaS fee for the usage of their platform. Its roadmap will go beyond expense management to include accounts payable automation, employee cash advance and factoring. Image Credits: Mendel.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Many of us invest much of our identity in what we do for a living, which means layoffs can transform social and emotional lives overnight. In an interview, he broke down his fundraising strategy and shared several tactics for connecting with investors. Many tech workers have never experienced a job market like this one.

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