Consultant

Founder

From the little experience of being around VCs, it primarily depends on the geography being targetted: if USA(lot of VCs fund SaaS only if targetting US) then a prove that you have figured out US GTM. If targetting Indian customers, why will the customers pay? The value generation for end user has to be significant enough that they pay.Both are very tough to crack. 
  
 Also, CTO with significant equity or co-founder who knows tech.

Market traction and a lot of hits on your website

Software Engineer

Growth Manager

What sector are you serving? GTM? Revenue/Growth?  
  
 You should talk to Prasanna at Uppekha! He is sharp & been in SaaS for long. Get feedback & grow revenue. Have atleast $10-15k MRR to raise $1-2M

Analyst

Have a fully functional product and have 20 paying customers. What will it take me to raise a first round of 1 to 2 mn.

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What will I need to raise $1 -$2Mn as a B2B SaaS startup?

What will I need to raise $1 -$2Mn as a B2B SaaS startup?- Grapevine

Welcome to Business Roles's Private Community

It's 2024. B2B sales buyer behaviour is changing rapidly. Most companies are dropping their SaaS subscriptions left and right. Inboxes of decision makers are cluttered. Industries are becoming saturated with similar undifferentiated software that have unclear value prop.

If you had to grow (or already are growing) your early stage B2B SaaS startup 10x in 2024 to $100K ARR, what would you do?

Growing an early stage B2B startup in 2024

Software Developer

Look you need to have few database server farm decentralised for major countries,, and those will handle millions of searches every second plus you need to build an entire company and software systems to serve customers with potential few office and sales in 5 major countries. The product is full market fit and even 500 million users might pay a premium for it. What's your view? If any questions, please ask in comment.

If you startup SOM is more than a billion customers, could you raise $40 mil as seed funding?

Solution Architect

I’m considering joining as a founding engineer at an early stage startup who is just about to sign a $4M seed round.

They offered to match my current base and a $20,000 in ESOPs. 

When joining at such early stage companies, how should I think of ESOPs so that I can better negotiate. I’m banking on this idea going big and I want to get as much ESOPs as possible to maximise my returns in the future.

ESOPs in early stage startups

willl try my best to be honest, ask me anything

AMA - I work at a VC fund

A lot of folks working at startups seem to be "passionate " about their job. Some of them possibly, truly are. Some foolishly reverse engineer this passion because they're paid really well and they've been doing a good job and it's good personal PR to say "passion".  A few reality checks.

1. Your cool Bangalore lifestyle is a result of investment risks/bets taken by VC's .

2. Your salary is as much about the market demand as it is about your " passion " and talent.

3. Startups will generally lower the bar for hiring processes to meet their demand for talent. Why need so much talent? Because the startup  needs to spend that 100M$ Series C that just made them a unicorn. That's how they convince the VC to give more money. "We are going to 2x revenue by 2xing our salesforce and buying 10M$ worth of Saas that will increase our productivity by 5x. " And boom ...100M$ transferred into you SVB bank account.

4. You are as replaceable as a garbage bag on your dustbin. The HR is probably flirting with 10 other like you over linkedin.


5. The "values" this startup apparently espouses are mostly nothing but a honey trap and positioning to lure talent.

It's great to have a nice tech job that pays well and allows you to gloat on twitter like a techbro but don't let it fool you into getting an inflated sense of entitlement. You're probably living on borrowed time....and money. :)

" Passionate " Startup folks

Product Manager

Startup 1:
28 fixed
2 jb
2 retention
2lakh esops vested over 2 years
Location: gurgaon, wfo

Startup 2:
28 fixed
2 retention
7.5 lakh esops vested over 4 years
Location: Bangalore, wfh initially, wfo after few months

Very unsure about which one to choose, the offers look very similar to me.
Startup 1 has a probation of 3 months as well.
Current TC: 23

Offer evaluation

Currently I’m in the stage of building the MVP of my idea. Idea is not something unique. Already has a lot of competitors. In that scenario what is the chance of somebody investing in my startup. And I am also not from any tier 1 colleges or not an ex employee of any unicorn startups. In fact  I am a college drop out from a tier 3 college. What is chance of I’m getting funding?

How to raise angel funding for my startup?

I understand if someone is asking this question, the person isn't ready. But would like to know from founders, what was your motivation ? What pushed you over from a 9-5?
Is it just taking a bet on yourself and working towards solving the problem?

When should one startup ?

Hey startup founders, who've been there and done that. Is ConsumerTech dead with all the giant social networks already taking a users' screen time? A recent YC video (tarpit idea) suggested that B2B SaaS is good, B2C is shit. 

I feel if we have to build something big in India, for the people, the threshold is really high for a social network. On the other hand, B2C SaaS is not something that people would pay for easily, making it less scalable. So, what should one go about this?

SaaS v/s Social network

Product Owner

Hey all, I’m 29, Marketing and Growth Guy. Making 2.5L/Month (In Hand). And some side income of 50k-1L. 

I’m an expert in taking the startups in their journey of 0-1. 

However, every night it haunts me that in some years, I’ll be irrelevant because of younger generations taking up the positions or if not irrelevant, I’ll be costly for 0-1 startups.

In fact, even now, most of the high growth startups don’t hire me saying I don’t have experience of handling massive budgets. 

Can’t go into corporate after working for 8 years in startups. 

I’m investing and saving a lot. But that won’t be enough. Not looking to start my own business. Been there done that. Didn’t work out. 

So what are your plans? Or if you have any suggestions for me?

How does the future look like for 0-1 Guy.

Hello,
I am M7 US business school grad + IITB living in California. I have an idea (that I am already doing in my job at a bay area startup) that I want to start from India. Looking for a hustler who would be willing to execute it with me. I have GTM, product, customer persona, pricing, retention, etc figured. Just need someone who is willing to hustle and make some side income.

B2B SaaS startup idea

What is your opinion on a successful startup, is it raising million dollars, is it valuation, is it making profitable. My startup could make 1 lakh per month profit, revenue is around 1.5 lakhs, At this point, I do not understand what to achieve now. I did not raise single rupee. This question raised when I am about to raise 10 lakhs for 20%, This happened very randomly, I’m unsure about my company future. After working on this, the plans when I thought initially faded

As A new founder, what does success mean for a starup?

Welcome to Product Managers's Private Community

I work at an early stage B2B fintech startup as a lead engineer and very often have to wear a product hat. Revenue is our most important business metric and user adoption is our most important product KPI.

(a) I've been struggling to identify new features to build that will enhance our product and lead to a lift in revenue.

(b) Even when a problem is served on a platter by our B2B clients, I'm struggling to identify the best way to build a feature to solve that problem in a way that's coherent with our existing product.

(c) I am okayish at designing delightful user experiences but want to do way better here for our B2B clients' users.

I'm willing to work very hard and improve in these aspects (I've done that before and achieved great success in other domains). What would you recommend I do? What should I learn? How should I approach this journey?

Early stage B2B product management

I am building a D2C fashion brand and need to raise money (20 Lakhs) to get things off the ground. I am from Tier-I IIT and a single founder. 

I have been trying to approach investors through multiple mediums. Cold mailing / LinkedIn. But things haven't worked. 

College alumni also don't seem to respond, let alone give any warm intro. 

How should I go about the fund raising process?

Best ways to find angel investors

Product Marketing Manager

Hi, I'm a non-tech professional. I have a B2B SaaS business concept which I'd like to pursue. Any suggestions on how I could technically build it, as it's just me alone working on this? For example, are there freelancets or agencies who I could work with? Open to all kinds of suggestions

I have B2B SaaS business concept but I'm non-tech

Senior Consultant

What are your thoughts on the term that I am hearing in some of the podcasts (primary where one of the guest/organiser is a VC) - 'Founder market fit'. Is it really important/relevant/practical especially for aspiring entrepreneurs who have work experience (say 5-10 years)

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