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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Demo days at startup accelerators are a pretty big deal around here. That startup was DoorDash, by the way. Full disclosure: In 2016, I was 500 Startups’ Journalist-in-residence. Yesterday, Jon Shieber and Alex Wilhelm covered 500 Startups’ 27th virtual demo day and selected eight companies as their favorites: Stack.

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Founder Bounty

MARCH 13, 2023

YC , one of the world best early stage tech investors, had had its latest cohort which had 65% invested in b2b SAAS startups which shows. We have put a couple of other reasons together why you should be building SAAS startups. This can be particularly attractive to investors and can help startups raise funds for growth.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Startups and SMBs are usually the first to adopt many SaaS products. If you’re building SaaS, odds are you’re holding very important customer data. If you’re building your backup strategy, thinking about future flexibility around backup management will help you stay ahead of these asks. uptime or higher.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

In this challenging fundraising environment, more startups than ever are turning to alternative financial solutions such as debt. Despite the negative connotation associated with debt, a startup should not view it as an act of desperation during downturns, as TechCrunch’s Kyle Wiggers and Alex Wilhelm have recently noted.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

French startup Graneet is building an all-in-one software-as-a-service product focused on small construction companies. That’s why the startup raised a €8 million Series A round ($8.7 This is an interesting data point as Point Nine has a good track record when it comes to B2B SaaS investments.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Userpilot , a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, has raised $4.6 The startup’s new funding follows $1.2 As investors focus more on profitability, product-led startups may be sitting pretty. Userpilot, a product-led growth platform for SaaS companies, raises $4.6M The product-led growth playbook.

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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

JULY 9, 2021

Doing more with less: This is what marketers get asked for when they join an early-stage startup. How do you collaborate with the startups you work with as a consultant? Typically I will work with startups in two ways. So for example, when they want to explore a potential new customer market or introduce a freemium strategy.

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2022

At the same time, it’s taking a lot longer to secure startup funding than it did just a few months ago, which means many companies are burning cash faster than they can raise it. How to grow a SaaS company efficiently in a recession. Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Editorial Manager, TechCrunch+.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2021

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? Because the best go-to-market (GTM) strategies for startups are like hamburgers: The bottom bun: Bottom-up GTM.

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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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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. Self-employment and remote work is the future.

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Startup Blogpost

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

9 Key Financial Metrics for Startups: What to Track and Why To shed light on the crucial financial metrics startups should track, we’ve gathered insights from nine top startup leaders, including CEOs and Founders. Keith Gregory , Chief Revenue and Financial Officer, Highland Laboratories Inc.

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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 22, 2023

A hallmark of that spirit is quite visible these days in the country’s flourishing startup ecosystem, which has expanded rapidly in the past few years, to say the least. However, the global slowdown has impacted startups’ growth in the country, just like everywhere else in the world. How has your investment strategy changed?

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

On October 27, we’re taking on the ferociously competitive field of software as a service (SaaS), and we’re thrilled to announce our packed agenda, overflowing with some of the biggest names and most exciting startups in the industry. Databricks co-founder and CEO Ali Ghodsi is coming to TC Sessions: SaaS.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Imran Ghory Contributor Share on Twitter Imran Ghory is a general partner at Blossom Capital, where he invests in Series A companies in Europe across SaaS, security and infrastructure. Rather, we guide founders to build a strategy that helps them understand when to grow, when to pull back, when to spend and when to save.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Private equity firm Vista Equity Partners announced today that it is taking a majority stake in Drift , a company which aims to be the Amazon of businesses, with a “growth investment” that propels the venture-backed startup to unicorn status. The startup says it is out to ”reimagine the B2B buying experience,” according to Cancel.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Leta , a Kenyan B2B supply chain and logistics SaaS provider launched last year to optimize fleet management, is looking for growth opportunities in West Africa, even as it scales operations in its existing five markets. Our product has stabilized and we have a very good understanding of our sales process and our go-to-market strategy.

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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 10, 2021

Decades after Palo Alto’s first garage startup, talent and capital has become more evenly distributed: This year, Bay Area startups only attracted 27% of all U.S. How to acquire customer research that shapes your go-to-market strategy. How to acquire customer research that shapes your go-to-market strategy.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Jamie Viggiano is the chief marketing officer at Fuel Capital , an early-stage venture capital firm investing in consumer, SaaS and infrastructure businesses. 5 questions startups should consider before making their first marketing hire. More posts by this contributor. Start building your brand book with a visioning workshop.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Tickets are still available for the three-day virtual event, which encompasses everything from Ryan Reynolds’ lessons on “fast-vertising” to Startup Battlefield, where early-stage companies will compete for a chance to win a slice of equity-free funding. What we can learn from edtech startups’ expansion efforts in Europe.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The flow of capital in SaaS is becoming increasingly bifurcated. More importantly, are there strategies or tactics that management teams can employ to optimize for this type of outcome? There are the “haves” (public companies with revenue growth of over 30%) and the “have nots” (everyone else) of B2B software.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

where it’s been operating for around five years, it’s now working with some 700 care businesses whose staff are delivering “millions” of visits per month to the circa 35,000 care recipients (and 8,000 family members) being supported by its customers — with growth of 3x since the startup last raised.

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AsiaTechDaily

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Register In a bold move to reshape the B2B sales CRM software landscape, Korean startup Relate, has unveiled a cutting-edge CRM tool meticulously designed for B2B startups. Prioritizing product-led growth (PLG), Relate addresses the distinctive challenges faced by B2B startups in streamlining their sales processes.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

The startup sells a salary-advance service to employers to offer their staff — charging companies a commission for the tech rather than levying a fee on users to withdraw a portion of their salary early (as some other salary startups do). It also touts it as a differentiating feature vs other salary advance startups.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

At one of my first startup jobs, I walked in one day to find two sleeping co-workers who’d spent the night configuring servers at a co-locating facility 60 miles away. In his latest article, he explains why copying your rivals’ most successful marketing strategies can be one of the fastest ways to get traction with new customers.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

A lot of SaaS products are sold on flat-rate subscriptions. Today, one of the companies building tools to meet that demand — a startup called m3ter — is coming out of stealth, and as sign of the state of the market, it already has customers and a tidy sum of funding. The London-based startup has picked up $17.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 14, 2023

4 SaaS engagement metrics that attract investors Image Credits: Tetra mages (opens in a new window) / Getty Images Past performance doesn’t always predict future results, but it’s the best place to find customer retention stats that have investor appeal. Cast your vote before Thursday, April 20!

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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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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

Register Startup founders are often too focused on the amount of money they can get from an investor that they mostly fail to see the value that other investors have to offer to grow their businesses further. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally.

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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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Feedough

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Marketing isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, and it’s really hard when it comes to startups. 150Birds – Startup Review By Feedough. 150Birds is a freelancer- aggregator -cum- SAAS-platform that provides professional marketing services with a flexible team made up of freelancers. The SAAS works on a simple revenue model.

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Startup Blogpost

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

From optimizing your sales funnel to getting a head start with sales/marketing copy, here are 9 answers to the question, “How can a startup (with limited capital and resources) utilize artificial intelligence in their business?”

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Are you ready to launch a bajillion-dollar startup? Startup pitching has become an existential drama, in part because so many founders exaggerate the size of the total addressable market (TAM) in which they hope to compete. 3 investors explain how finance-focused proptech startups can survive the downturn. Walter Thompson.

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