Value SaaS More SaaS IPOs are great. Growing with control is even better Expensify IPO was a Value SaaS blockbuster having raised $32 million to build a business worth $2.6 billion. In the same week another SaaS founder found himself uninvited from his own IPO party. This underscores the importance of being in control of the business that you worked hard to build.
first principles How to run meetings that don't suck Counter-intuitive as it might sound, it is in startups that you need better meetings. Better run meetings.
saas valuation How to angel invest in SaaS? SaaS delivers higher success rates for investors. In SaaS angel investment, while access to deal flow and capital are critical, the scarce part is developing judgement to bet on the right investment. Here is what you can do to improve the odds of success further.
saas SaaS Forward: What’s behind the SaaS M&A spike, and other top news decoded Why M&A deals are on speed and why more SaaS companies are turning unicorns faster than ever before in the post-COVID, hyper-accelerated SaaS universe.
saas How to start a SaaS startup: The anti-Paul Graham edition for Indian founders Of the countless articles written on starting a startup, Paul Graham's essay is the most thoughtful. However, in the context of SaaS industry and Indian founders, the advice on building a startup is very different from what Paul recommends
How to save 18 months of runway when building your SaaS startup from India Most founders try for India first and then pivot to South East Asia and then to the US. If they directly choose to build for US then they save the time they spent in India.
saas The SaaS Playbook for coming decade will look wildly different The number of public companies with more than a billion dollar valuation has increased manyfold, go-to-market has fundamentally changed and there’s a fundamental shift in how these businesses are measured. This shows the strength of SaaS businesses.
Value SaaS SaaSForward: What Capital Rush in the SaaS space means for founders (Video) Excess liquidity is great news for founders but it also means that when one part in a value chain becomes abundant, something else becomes scarce.
saas How to get your first 10 SaaS customers? Fix what you are selling and then how to sell. Insights on how SaaS founders can turn strangers into fans.
3 Reasons Why SaaS Founders From Engineering Background Struggle With Marketing and How to Overcome Them You made the world’s best chocolate and wrapped it in a newspaper. Is it going to sell itself? Maybe not? This is where the role of marketing comes into
anti fragile Founder in First Gear World has a new reality now. Time to shake your beliefs. Does not matter what experience shaped those for you. Two weeks ago you may have had validated demand, unit
acquisition Upekkha Cohort 6 announcement Application for Cohort 6 of Upekkha program is now open. Apply here Upekkha helps SaaS founders build Value SaaS business. Value SaaS is getting to $10m in ARR capital efficiently.
b2b UpekkhaOne Cohort 5 announcement Application for Cohort 5 of UpekkhaOne in now open. Apply here Upekkha is a catalyst that helps founders build Value SaaS business. Founders turn their business Value Saas by getting
b2b PRODUCT - POT, POTTER or POTTER's CLAY What is a product? Typical answer from engineering founders is that, ‘A product is a set of features’. This mindset leads to a never-ending spiral of building ‘new
m&a Endgame of Startup Most founders jump into the startup scene similar to participating in a running race with no finish line. Think like a Chess Grandmaster Studies point out that chess grandmasters visualise
Founder Future, Employees Eyes One of the problems that founders often lament about is that they feel their employees do not have the same sense of ownership of the company as they do. In
Exits are Hidden Most startups die, only a few exceed expectations and become successful beyond imagination. These successful ones become the talk of the town, while the failed ones quietly fade away into
saas Announcing UpekkhaOne Cohort 4 Application for Cohort 4 of UpekkhaOne is now open. Apply here by Jan 25. UpekkhaOne is a two year program that helps SaaS startups get to their first $1m in
product market fit Market trumps everything Starting point of a startup is an idea and it goes through a journey of product releases and pivots to reach its product market fit and further scale. Source of
acquisition M&A is fear meets greed on a treasure hunt voyage “Startups are bought never sold” Like many others I have used this aphorism in every M&A Connect conversation in last 8 months. It sounds intelligent, pithy making some
