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Kate Ahlering
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Kate Ahlering is the chief revenue officer at Calendly, where she leads sales, sales enablement, revenue operations and partnerships functions.
Between the changing tides of the economy and digital buying preferences, SaaS companies are under tremendous pressure. Many of these companies understand that 80% of their interactions with...
Eric Tarczynski
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University entrepreneurship — without the university
To predict what 2023 will look like for venture capital, we need to start by understanding where we are now. We’re entering a messy middle where prices continue to drop and the “2021” deal, industry slang for an...
Christian Owens
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Christian Owens is CEO and co-founder of Paddle, a payments infrastructure provider for SaaS businesses.
Scaling a SaaS company is tougher today than in the past few years. Whatever stage your company is at, a near 70% drop in the value of public SaaS stocks, increasingly limited access...
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Where does Facebook go from here?
A California judge just struck down Prop 22: Now what?
When we’re looking at different startups, we constantly ask ourselves the same question I imagine every venture fund does. Can Amazon do this? Google? Facebook? Apple? Microsoft? And then we...
Jason Schoettler
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Raising a Series B for any startup is challenging right now, with many VCs pulling back on investments — funding for Series B rounds across all sectors fell 55% in August compared to a year earlier, for example.
But raising a Series B for a hardware startup can...
What the CHIPS and Science Act means for the future of the semiconductor industry • TechCrunch
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Simon Butler was founder and CEO of Methodics Inc, acquired by Perforce in 2020. He is currently the general manager of Perforce’s Methodics Business unit.
This year is proving to be momentous for U.S. semiconductor manufacturing. During a global chip shortage and record inflation, U.S. President Biden signed into...
When it comes to startup board participation, VCs and CEOs must do their jobs • TechCrunch
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Matt Blumberg
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Was anyone else as appalled as I am by the contents of Connie Loizos’ recent article, Coming out of COVID, investors lose their taste for board meetings? The stories and quotes in the article about investors reducing their interest and participation in board meetings, not showing up,...
Gaetano Crupi
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Gaetano Crupi is a partner at venture capital firm Prime Movers Lab. He serves on the boards of OCEANIX, Atom Computing, Conscious Cultures and MycoWorks.
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How to create a due diligence road map for Series B investors
Use chronological scenario planning to help your...
For LatAm payment orchestration startups, market fragmentation is a blessing in disguise • TechCrunch
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In the vast and varied lands between Patagonia and the Rio Grande, a region entrepreneurs and investors like to call “LatAm,” there are 38 different countries using 39 different currencies.
Only 19% of Latin American adults own a credit card, and 70% of credit cards in Brazil, Argentina and...
Alex Circei is the CEO and co-founder of Waydev, a development analytics tool that measures engineering teams' performance.
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Insider hacks to streamline your SOC 3 certification application
Use Git data to optimize your developers’ annual reviews
The move to remote working is creating tensions between CEOs and...