2016 Pacific Crest SaaS Survey – Part 1
For the fifth year in a row, we’re proud to work with Pacific Crest Securities, a SaaS-focused investment banking firm, to share results from a survey of 336 SaaS companies. The survey represents deep benchmarking data and insights on …
Microservices Essentials for Executives: The Key to High Velocity Software Development
“Software is eating the world” – Marc Andreesen
Companies thriving in the new world order have technology as a core competency. They build complex cloud applications. They constantly bring new capabilities and features to the market. And despite the constant …
What Your Opportunity Slide is Missing – Make Investors Believe
This article is part of our series “Pitching to Investors” that shares real examples and practical advice from the Matrix General Partners on creating your pitch deck. The intro to the series is here: Five Ways to Nail Your Pitch …
Demystifying Churn: Measuring and Benchmarking this Metric
As every SaaS entrepreneur knows, churn is one of the single most important metrics in determining the day to day health of the business. Acquiring new customers is time and capital intensive, and this growth is meaningless if those customers …
The Team Slide: You Had Me At Hello
This is part of our series “Pitching to Investors” that shares real examples and practical advice from the Matrix General Partners on creating your pitch deck. See intro to the series here: Five Ways to Nail Your Pitch and Win …
Five Ways to Nail your Pitch and Win Over Investors
There are many opinions on creating a pitch deck and presenting to potential investors, but there is still a big gap between what entrepreneurs perceive to be important and what investors really value during a pitch presentation.
This post is …
A Resource Guide: Hiring For Growth
At Matrix Partners, we’ve collectively hired many people by starting our own companies and as investors, and written lots of advice for startup founders. We’ve put together the following articles into a comprehensive resource guide for you to reference as …
The Close: New Rules for Hiring Executive Candidates
This article originally appeared on TechCrunch.
When Polyvore CEO Jess Lee was looking for a CFO, she found everything she wanted in Cheryl Dalrymple: incredible experience, shared values about how to run a company, and immediate personal rapport. Yet …
SaaS Sales Compensation: How to Design the Right Plan
Intro
Sales compensation is a more complex topic for SaaS/subscription revenue companies. Unlike traditional software sales, the job of sales doesn’t end when a new customer signs a contract. Instead, it is crucial to retain customers over many years, as …
The Key Drivers for SaaS Success
SaaS/subscription businesses are much more complex than traditional businesses, and SaaS performance cannot be measured in the same way as traditional businesses are measured. Based on a talk given at the SaaStr Annual Conference in San Francisco, this slide deck …
Executive Hires: The Case for Extreme Referencing
Hiring a strong executive management team is one of the most proven ways to ensure startup success. Yet, hiring executives is a very different undertaking than hiring for other roles in your company and requires a different process, skill-set, and …
Having Success With Code Bootcamps: Where To Work As A Bootcamp Grad
The following is part three of a guest post series by Rob Gonzalez. You can find part 1 here and part 2 here. Rob is the co-founder of Salsify, a leading cloud-based product content management and syndication solution …
Having Success With Code Bootcamps: Hiring Lessons For Employers
The following is part two of a guest post series by Rob Gonzalez. You can find part 1 here and part 3 here. Rob is the co-founder of Salsify, a leading cloud-based product content management and syndication solution …
A Guide: Successfully Hiring Code Bootcamp Grads
The following is part 1 of a guest post series by Rob Gonzalez. You can find part 2 here and part 3 here. Rob is the co-founder of Salsify, a leading cloud-based product content management and syndication solution …
12 Tactics to Perfect your Interviewing Process
“Talent is the limiting resource in everything we do right now.” If that observation rings true, you’re not alone. Despite every effort, most startups struggle to hire the best people.
My partners and I believe developing a competency in hiring …
