The Zapier Blog

JUNE 25, 2025

LinkedIn has been my lifeline as a content strategist for B2B SaaS companies—it's where I find clients, build relationships, and establish credibility in my field. That's when I started experimenting with LinkedIn marketing tools to find a sustainable rhythm that actually works for lead generation and business growth.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

If you can’t connect with an investor who can help you find and fill in your gaps with regard to talent or expertise, you can’t build a sustainable company. How to evolve your DTC startup’s data strategy and identify critical metrics. Here come the single-digit SaaS multiples. Walter Thompson. yourprotagonist.

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American Entrepreneurship

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The early-stage investment fund’s vertical specialties span real estate, finance, insurance, and sustainability. The post Moderne Ventures’ Oversubscribed Fund Reflects its Successful Strategies appeared first on American Entrepreneurship Today®.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

More funding for sustainability reporting: Sweden’s Worldfavor , an early mover platform focused on building digital infrastructure to support supply chain transparency and cater to organizations’ ESG (environmental, social, governance) reporting needs, has bagged €10.2 million in Series A funding to step on the growth gas.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 6, 2022

“ Our strong numbers back us up in this case as they have proven the cadence is picking up, people are talking and customers are adopting our strategy – and we’ve had fantastic results. 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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Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 1, 2019

One well known SaaS unicorn focused itself on monthly product launches. The company sustained this cadence for two years. The benefits of such a strategy were many. First, the company sustained a torrid pace of product development for a long time achieving more than most thought possible. What might launch this month?

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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

This process-based service model is, in our opinion, the only way to grow a business in a sustainable way. 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. But this wasn’t the goal at all.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

She shared her prerequisites for making product-led efforts more successful and sustainable with TechCrunch+. Her advice skips straight past basic best practices to explain alignment and partnership strategies, recommendations for nurturing community, and other PLG tactics.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 18, 2020

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. Two professional services pricing strategies.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

She is passionate about leading design, implementation and oversight of actionable strategies unlocking synergies, leveraging untapped efficiencies and fostering collaborations across functional areas. Orchestrating a “soft” landing was a “hopeful” strategy that is proving increasingly elusive. Shachi Shah.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

and on the indoor climate around the plants to maximize sustainability and production. “They collaborate with the different control systems to take that strategy and actually make sure to do so implemented in the most efficient way possible.” What should you do today and tomorrow, both on the plant (i.e.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

How do you think those qualities contribute to your success in working with startups and forming strategies? Marketing strategies that help find product-market fit are very different from acquiring your first 100 customers, which is very different from scaling your customer acquisition or lead generation. What value do they add?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 31, 2020

What’s required this decade is to start to encroach on the harder questions, topics like how we build a better society, make people more empowered to do deep and creative work, and how we can build a more resilient and sustainable planet for all. How to execute a bottom-up SaaS growth plan. Image Credits: Intpro / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Did your investment strategies change along with the current market conditions? We have seven key areas of interest that we remain committed to: financial services and insurance, life science and health tech, edtech and digital talent accelerators, enterprise SaaS, digital infrastructure, agtech and food security.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2022

. “Victoria is General Partner at Prelude Ventures, where her climate tech investments span mobility, food and agriculture, clean energy, sustainable apparel and carbon markets. Prior to Prelude Ventures, Victoria worked on climate change strategy at BCG and started an agriculture supply chain company.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The following areas should be explored to determine the feasibility of the business under consideration will become sustainable and profitable. Knowing the Value Proposition is key to establishing a marketing strategy that distinguishes a company from its competition.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 27, 2022

Research by BCG found that fewer than 15% were sustainable in the long run. But in 2020, the startup began to broaden its product strategy, targeting marketers seeking to create and convert sales leads. Perhaps as a result, business ecosystems — while profitable — have a high failure rate.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Testimonial: “As a startup CTO, I was looking to work with a team that can be sustained for multiple years of development and product launch. Testimonial: “We went from running a ‘hobby’ SaaS offering to running a real company with goals, releases and a growing customer base. ” Consultant: Ajmera InfoTech.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 3, 2022

virtual events platform Hopin serves as another example, rising from a seed-stage upstart at the pandemic’s outset to become a $6 billion juggernaut in just 12 months — before laying off a huge chunk of its staff in pursuit of more sustainable growth. What is its ESG (environmental, social and governance) strategy ,’?”

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Consumers who are concerned about sustainability appreciate seeing their contributions quantified: the company that delivers my weekly grocery box keeps a running total of how many pounds of food, water and CO2 my purchases have conserved. 3 views: How should creators weigh monetization strategies in the platform era?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 10, 2022

After that $150 million is in, tell me about that next stage — that’s going to require more creative business models, different go-to-market strategies that generate revenues along the way. For good entrepreneurs, there’s always a path, right? I think climate investing, what I do, is still extremely brisk.

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Jason Malki

AUGUST 21, 2023

He assists startups in achieving repeatable growth and scalability, leveraging his extensive background in leading global organizations for renowned SaaS and cybersecurity companies including Oracle, McAfee, Proofpoint, and Cofense. I’m not a product inventor.

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TechCrunch

MAY 21, 2021

In order to determine one, you should ask fundamental questions: What’s the long-term, sustainable reason that the company will stay in business? When a company chooses supervised learning, it needs to have a strategy that allows it to label data as quickly as it acquires it. Help TechCrunch find the best email marketers for startups.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The company says goodbye to dear teammates, rallies around its new vision as a multiproduct company, and invests in becoming a long-term sustainable business. Eric Ries said that “a pivot is a change in strategy but not a change in vision?—?” What did I know about hyperscaling a SaaS startup? But I understood. We were corporate.

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Reforge

JULY 20, 2022

Additional roles are opened to sustain growth and teams rapidly expand. You’ll also get a chance to explore common mistakes and strategies for troubleshooting so you can build off of Tom’s Dream Team experience instead of starting from square one. B2B saas companies will likely include folks from sales and marketing.

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OurCrowd

MAY 26, 2022

E-commerce and SaaS companies are spending a whopping $80B a year on digital-experience data tools, and Convizit has already deployed its system with select clients. The company says Kardashian will highlight the brand’s delicious, nutritious and sustainable product portfolio with her signature recipes and engaging creative content.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The investment focus, within rural Colorado, is on founders and entrepreneurial teams in outdoor recreation, B2B SaaS (Govtech, Cybersecurity), Energy, Aerospace, CPG, and Agtech industries. Similar to Fund I, Fund II will invest in 25-30 companies with an average initial check size of roughly $500k.

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American Entrepreneurship

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The investment focus, within rural Colorado, is on founders and entrepreneurial teams in outdoor recreation, B2B SaaS (Govtech, Cybersecurity), Energy, Aerospace, CPG, and Agtech industries. Similar to Fund I, Fund II will invest in 25-30 companies with an average initial check size of roughly $500k.

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Startup Blogpost

DECEMBER 15, 2023

This financial scrutiny forms a realistic basis for evaluating whether the business idea is sustainable in the long run. For startup founders aiming at sustained success, the initial focus must be on building a comprehensive product or a suite of products. However, the startup landscape demands a more holistic approach.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Other than that we’ve adopted a “barbell strategy” where we may choose to avoid the high-priced, less-proven A & B rounds but we have raised 3 Growth Funds that then can lean in when there is more quantitative evidence of growth and market leadership and we can underwrite a $10–20 million round from a separate vehicle.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The opportunity that the company sees has really forced us to reallocate resources and strategy,” said Brown. 4 strategies for deep tech founders who are fundraising. 4 strategies for deep tech founders who are fundraising. Subscription-based pricing is dead: Smart SaaS companies are shifting to usage-based models.

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Founders Coop

JANUARY 11, 2023

Our firm’s original premise was – and remains – dead simple: Seattle is a global gravity well for engineering talent, thanks to the sustained excellence and corresponding human capital needs of Amazon and Microsoft.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2021

With the convergence of product-led growth strategies and the elimination of friction, it doesn’t have to be. Let’s rethink how we approach growth models; maybe we don’t have to include a trial or free version of our products — especially when not every company is able to sustain the investment and resources required for trial products.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 25, 2021

Aimed at managers, this post offers several testable strategies that will help you boost productivity and say goodbye to poorly run, lazily planned meetings. Inside GM’s startup incubator strategy. Inside GM’s startup incubator strategy. I would say that’s OK in the consumer industry, like consumer electronics or SaaS.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2022

A SaaSy hotel lobby : Ingrid covers Mews’ $185 million fundraise for its SaaS-based hotel management platform. “Diversify your ad strategy, test different ideas and don’t give up if your ad doesn’t show results right away.” Is it a plane? Kirsten reports that Zipline now is the national drone service provider for Rwanda.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Bank of America has predicted $20T to flow in ESG investing strategies in the next two decades. – StratiFi is the first low-cost, intuitive, and scalable portfolio hedging SaaS platform for investors. For context, the entire S&P 500 is worth about $25.6 trillion. . Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype.

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Bank of America has predicted $20T to flow in ESG investing strategies in the next two decades. – StratiFi is the first low-cost, intuitive, and scalable portfolio hedging SaaS platform for investors. For context, the entire S&P 500 is worth about $25.6 trillion. . Starship was launched by the co-founders of Skype.

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