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Category: Thought Leadership
Want to Grow? Focus on Your SaaS Go-to-Market Strategy
How is your SaaS go-to-market strategy performing? Here’s what you should know to ensure it’s successful as you seek to grow.
3 SaaS Market Trends for 2019, and How Venture Debt Factors Into Them
The SaaS industry saw some serious growth in 2018. While businesses have been using SaaS platforms for years, more and more have been adopting and implementing SaaS applications as key components of their business operations — so much so that cloud infrastructure platforms such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services, the cloud-based foundations of …Read More
The Risks of a Personal Guarantee Agreement
A final loan condition we wanted to cover is the use of personal guarantees in raising capital. A personal guarantee agreement isn’t something you’ll often find in the venture debt financing sphere, but you might be asked to sign one if you pursue other forms of financing. Specifically, bank loans and other lenders may require …Read More
The Debt Covenant: Is This Mechanism Right for Your Business?
There are many terms and financial mechanisms involved in venture debt financing, one of which is a debt covenant. This is one of the loan conditions you may be required to accept to receive venture debt financing. At first, this might give you pause — but a debt covenant is less of a risk to …Read More
Warrants: What They Are & Why They’re Risky
Warrants are a useful mechanism for incentivizing lenders to invest in your business. But they come with immediate and long-term risks.
Warrants, Covenants & Guarantees: Understanding Important Loan Conditions
Why Loan Conditions Are Needed Venture debt financing is one of the most flexible, founder-empowering forms of SaaS funding available on the market. While a number of other options are available, debt financing stands above the rest when it comes to keeping founders and owners operationally and strategically free. This is because of the flexible …Read More
Why Debt is the Flexible Financing Growing SaaS Companies Need
Debt is the flexible financing SaaS companies need to ensure operational freedom and long-term financial gain for owners. Here’s why.
The Venture Capital Success Rate for Startups
The venture capital success rate is are low, and there’s a reason and research to prove it. Here’s why you should weigh your options.
The Risks of Venture Capital Funding for Growing SaaS Companies
Venture Capital Can Pose a Productivity Challenge While venture capital funding (along with other models) provides resources that allow you to make improvements or changes, it’s not guaranteed that your SaaS business will become more productive as a result. In fact, raising venture capital funding can often have the reverse effect: when those funds come …Read More
What You Should Know About Raising Venture Capital
SaaS business owners are often drawn to venture capital investors without considering other funding options. There are a number of reasons for this. The sheer popularity of venture capital, the perception that VC funding will make a company successful, the higher appetite for risk, and so on. In the end, SaaS owners are trading important …Read More