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How to Attract Investors with an Irresistible Story that Makes Your Company Shine
If you’re an avid reader of our blog, you should know by now what financial metrics and growth metrics to focus on in your startup, and...
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Starting a SaaS Company? Here’s What to Do First
There are questions that every SaaS entrepreneur will have in the early days of starting their company. Unsurprisingly, the one question...
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How to Hire Sales Reps for Your SaaS Startup
Sustainable growth is essential for today's SaaS startups. Whether you’ve signed up your first three customers or your first three...
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Why SaaS Startups Should Build Software Integrations with Partner Companies
A unique feature of SaaS solutions is their tendency toward very specific functionality — trucking dispatch management, for example, or...
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Silicon Valley Likes Section 1045 Exchanges: Rollovers of Gain from QSBS
You might have heard of tax free rollovers. And you might be familiar with Section 1031 of the Internal Revenue Code, which allows you to...
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How to Email the Press and Get Your Startup's Story in the News
Part of being an entrepreneur is getting your company's story and brand message out there. Your startup is doing something great, but how...
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Why Teams Fail, Part 5: Personal Status Kills a Results-Focused Culture
Sometimes people are happy just being part of the team and the status that brings to them personally. Ensure they're invested in results.
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SaaS Entrepreneurs Think Twice About VC Rounds
Raising venture capital (VC) has drawbacks. Here are 5 reasons SaaS founders pursue other funding options to reach their growth targets.
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Why Teams Fail, Part 4: Avoidance of Accountability in the Workplace
This may be the hardest dysfunction to overcome, because it requires a high level of discomfort to accomplish. Read pt. 4 of Why Teams Fail.
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Book Review – Venture Deals, by Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson
You need a wide range of skills to found and develop a company. Regardless of what type of product or service you are planning to sell,...
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Why Teams Fail, Part 3: Lack of Team Commitment and Buy-In to Decisions
Functional teams break down when there is a lack of commitment to decisions made as a team. Ensure you have both commitment and buy-in.
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Why Niching Down Can Elevate Tech Startups to New Revenue Heights
Founders of fast-growing tech startups sometimes struggle with where to focus their offering. Is it better to cast a wide net to a large...
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The Two Sides of Annual Upfront Payments and Multi-Year Contracts for SaaS
So, you’ve made it through minimum viable product (MVP) stage and managed to convince a few clients to pay you for your product. Hooray!...
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How SaaS Adoption and Switching Costs Drive Revenue Growth
SaaS businesses looking to grow their revenue have two choices: raise prices or get new customers. However, gaining new customers only...
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Why Teams Fail, Part 2: Fear of Conflict
Next in our series exploring why teams fail, we dive into the fear of conflict and why conflict can actually be good.
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5 Women Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2019
Women are creating some amazing companies these days — taking exciting, new ideas to market and snapping up VC funding in the process. A...
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How to Mentally Prepare for Startup Fundraising
If deciding to start a business of your own if the biggest financial decision you'll make, how you finance your endeavor is your second...
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Cloud Storage Comparison: 5 Best Options for Startups
Your startup has lots of files to store and to share with your team, your investors, and your customers. The most practical way to store...
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Why Teams Fail, Part 1: Fear of Being Vulnerable
This is the first of a series of articles in which we discuss why teams fail and how you can prevent it from happening at your startup.
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Setting Up an S Corporation? Consider How It Affects Founder Stock
If you are starting a business, be careful not to rush to set your company up as an S corporation without first considering the qualified...
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2 Key Strategies to Attract New Customers
How can you attract new customers? It’s the $84 million question. And there’s no single answer. There are a variety of approaches, and...
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Book Review – When: The Scientific Secrets to Perfect Timing, by Daniel Pink
We are all familiar with the expression “timing is everything.“ From ice hockey to investing, success often depends on doing things at...
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Business Intelligence Software: 5 Best Options for Small Business
While B2B SaaS companies know the value of data better than most, they haven’t always implemented effective ways to capture the data that...
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Why Your Startup Should Use Two-Factor Authentication (And How to Enable it)
For just about any kind of business, one of your most valuable assets is your data. Whether you manufacture physical goods or sell...
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