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5 Very Good Days, and 5 Pretty Bad Days, as a SaaS CEO

5 Very Good Days, and 5 Pretty Bad Days, as a SaaS CEO

By Jason M. Lemkin on March 6, 2014

Forbes was kind enough to pick up a thread I did on Quora about my 5 favorite good days, and 5 most visceral bad days, in the early days, of getting from $0 to $10m in ARR. If you didn’t see it there, let me share it here.  Maybe it will be cathartic for you. […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Cash Flow, Entrepreneurship, Forbes, Quora, SaaS, SaaStr, startups | 1 Response

Analyzing Pacific Crest’s SaaS Survey Results

Analyzing Pacific Crest’s SaaS Survey Results

By Evangelos Simoudis on June 25, 2012

A few weeks ago I delivered a webinar on SaaS metrics, paying particular attention on the metrics that characterize breakout SaaS companies, and have continued to comment on the quarterly performance of Trident Capital’s SaaS portfolio, most recently here.  In the webinar I had stated that breakout SaaS companies: Focus on the right prospects and […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged Cash Flow, Customer Lifetime Value, SaaS, software as a service, Trident Capital | 1 Response

Accounts Payable, The Role of Process, The CustomerNever Think Bloodless

Accounts Payable, The Role of Process, The CustomerNever Think Bloodless

By Paul Greenberg on March 7, 2011

As anyone who knows me, knows (me), I speak at a lot of conferences. I get the opportunity – and never see it as anything less than a true “thank you” opportunity – to put out my sometimes saw-toothed thoughts in front of hundreds of thousands of people a year – and they often genuinely […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged accounts payable, Accounts receivable, Business, Cash Flow, customer focus, Invoice, process, process-driven, workflow | 2 Responses

Digital Payments Going Viral

Digital Payments Going Viral

By Phil Wainewright on February 23, 2011

Offering the potential to transform how businesses bill and collect payments, three new digital payment mechanisms look set to open up a world of opportunity for entrepreneurs, not only in digital content and services but also in new smartphone based s…

Posted in Business, Featured Posts | Tagged business innovation, Business Transformation, Cash Flow, charging for online content, digital, micropayments, My Venture Pad Exclusive, On-demand Web applications, payment processing, startups, Yes

Friday Rant: When Finance Takes Over Procurement

Friday Rant: When Finance Takes Over Procurement

By Jason Busch on May 28, 2010

In my spring 2010 “predictions” conference presentation (which I’ve now given almost half a dozen times), one of the scenarios I posit for the future of procurement in the next five years is that finance will take a much more active stance and roll within the procurement function. I don’t think I’m alone in this […]

Posted in Business | Tagged Business, Cash Flow, finance, McKinsey & Company, procurement, supply chain, Working capital

When Your Suppliers Swim in (Loan) Shark-Infested Financing Waters

When Your Suppliers Swim in (Loan) Shark-Infested Financing Waters

By Jason Busch on February 1, 2010

When I first started researching and covering procurement, it was rare to find an article in a popular newspaper or magazine about the area. But now, it seems to happen at least once a week. Just this weekend, The New York Times published a highly in…

Posted in Business | Tagged Cash Flow, Factoring, Financial services, Invoicing and EIPP, loan, Loan shark, Purchase order

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