SaaStr

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Dear SaaStr: Should I Buy My Stock Options After Leaving a Startup? Especially these days, with so many struggling unicorns, and public SaaS stocks down 50% or more in many cases. The post Dear SaaStr: Should I Buy My Stock Options After Leaving a Startup? This is one of the trickiest questions of all. Maybe pass.

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G2

AUGUST 14, 2023

After the pandemic, the stock market became the talk of the town. Many people on lockdown glued their eyes to the skyrocketing trends and plummeting attempts at success.

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SaaStr

MARCH 16, 2024

image from here ) The post 6 Reasons It’s So Hard to Sell Your Start-Up Stock as an Ex-Employee appeared first on SaaStr.

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SaaStr

MAY 16, 2022

So there’s much angst and even panic with so many SaaS and Cloud public stocks down 50% or more from their peaks. Stock prices go up and down, inflation will come down, and interest rates won’t rise forever. So there’s a lot of stress today in venture and in public SaaS stocks. For now, they are still on fire.

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Search Engine Land

DECEMBER 1, 2022

This week, Promotions were launched in the Ad Manager, giving brands access to Coupons, and Stock Up & Save campaigns. The post Instacart has launched Coupons and Stock Up & Save promotion campaigns in Ad Manager appeared first on Search Engine Land. What Instacart says.

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SaaStr

MAY 21, 2022

The markets for SaaS and Cloud stocks are down 50%+ in just a few months, and it hasn’t spared even the leaders. But let’s step back a bit … the damage hasn’t been even, and capital-efficient SaaS stocks in many cases have held up pretty well. Now all these stocks were even higher at the 2021 peaks. jasonlk) May 20, 2022.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 23, 2020

If we are doing a round at say $15m pre, and an ex-employee wants to sell $500k in stock — all of her stake because she’s left — that’s great for me. The post 7 Guidelines on Selling Some of Your Stock in a VC Round appeared first on SaaStr. Ex-employees can sell everything, if there’s a market and the company allows it, at any price.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

So why the hell do you insist on using stock photos?! You pay, download the stock photo, jury-rig it into your design, and look at your work with a mixed sense of pride and shame. But the client loves it! (“See, looks like stock photos weren’t so bad, were they?”). Alright, look, I get it. Image source ).

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ConversionXL

APRIL 27, 2017

What happens when ecommerce sites run out of stock? But First… How Sites Usually Deal with Out of Stock Product Pages. Great, now just add it to… wait, it’s out of stock?! The product is out of stock, but you don’t realize it until you’re ready to buy and check the fine print.

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Hubspot

APRIL 18, 2018

Best Websites for Stock Photography. Death to Stock. Startup Stock Photos. New Old Stock. Yet for some reason, many publishers continue to push out cheap (and usually cheesy) stock photography to serve as a representation of their brand. 20 of the Best Free Stock Photo Websites for Royalty-Free Images.

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The Advantexe Advisor

JANUARY 30, 2024

It’s hard to ignore The Wall Street Journal article with the headline about more big layoffs in 2024. What’s also hard to ignore are the mixed messages about the job market and what they mean to your business in the short- and long-term.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 26, 2020

Q: As forward stock splits create further dilution, why would a company want to split? The post Forward Stock Splits: Sometimes, Just Having More Shares Does Help appeared first on SaaStr. Forward splits (e.g., everyone gets 2 shares for each 1 share they have now) do not create dilution (nor do reverse splits).

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SaaStr

AUGUST 17, 2020

The post There Are Never Enough Stock Options To Go Around appeared first on SaaStr. Top Individual Contributor: 20%-50% of a Director, depending on value to org. First Year Employee: 2x what an ordinary employee would get.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 14, 2014

So Why The Hell Do You INSIST On Using Stock Photography?! You pay, download the stock photo, jury-rig it into your design & look at your work with a mixed sense of pride & shame. But the client LOVES it! (“See, looks like Stock wasn’t so bad after all, was it Mr. Designer?”). You’re on a budget.

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Anthony Cole Training

JANUARY 28, 2016

Suppose… you had a non-performing stock (salesperson).

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SaaStr

JULY 9, 2019

In the Old Days, preferred stock had two key advantages: They had some downside protection, in that they’d be paid first in the case of a small exit; and. But because the advantages have changed, more and more VCs are fine buying common stock on the secondary market, generally for a discount of some form. This has evolved over time.

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SaaStr

APRIL 17, 2024

Up to 8,000,000 More Shares to Founder CEO if Stock Price Hits Targets This is becoming more and more common, everyone from Squarespace to Tesla has done more and more of stock price-based grants to incent founder CEOs especially to grow the price higher than the IPO or current public price. 68% of Revenue in U.S.,

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Engage Selling

JULY 9, 2015

It’s time to take stock of where you are, and make adjustments now. When you’re doing the same thing day in and day out, it’s easy to get complacent. Pick up your copy of Nonstop Sales Boom! Get your team up to speed with the latest cutting edge sales strategies so you can increase your […].

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Heavy Hitter

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

I think I know why Extreme Networks stock has doubled in the last 90 days. You see, I had the privilege to present to the 800+ incredibly talented and motivated sales professionals at Extreme Networks last week. Along

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Yet for some strange reason, marketers continue to push out cheap stock photography to serve as a representation of their brand. The truth is, high-quality stock photos don''t have to come hand-in-hand with a hassle or high price tag. To prove it, we''ve compiled a list of 10 awesome sites for free, non-cheesy stock photos.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Stock photos are tricky. But when chosen and used well, stock photos can complement the content on your website, in your ebooks, and in your social media posts. So it''s perfectly fine to make stock photography a part of your visual content strategy -- heck, we use them all the time here at HubSpot.

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The Advantexe Advisor

APRIL 3, 2024

The best leadership teams can uniquely combine humility, transparency, and data into a story that gives direction and convinces analysts to want to buy more stock in the company, hold their stock, or sell their stock. It can motivate or demotivate an entire workforce.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Last year, I received an email from one of our blog managers communicating that a popular stock photography vendor was claiming one of the images in an ebook I created had been wrongfully used. What if we could help solve this issue for them by offering a repository of stock photos that anyone could use completely for free?

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Hubspot

APRIL 7, 2015

Finding the perfect free stock photo. Why is it so rare to find a free stock photo that''s the perfect fit for your blog post, email, or other piece of content? To help marketers avoid these headaches, HubSpot''s marketing team recently analyzed the most frequently searched stock photo keywords on the web. Computer stock photos.

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Hubspot

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Let''s just say it: Most stock art is awful. That''s especially true of stock art involving women. How about "Feminism, According to Stock Photography," which shows women in skirt suits climbing ladders (it''s a metaphor, geddit?) To read more content like this, subscribe here. Or women struggling to drink water ?

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Martech

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Real-time feed stock updates A shocking fact: for more than 95% of ecommerce brands, even after their products go out of stock, their product ads stay active on Google Shopping for 12 to 24 hours, and in some cases longer. While this not only drains your budget, it also leads to product disapprovals due to incorrect stock status.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 19, 2023

So I know we’ve all become stock market, interest rate, ZIRP and fed experts over the past 24 months. Shopify stock is up a stunning 116% (!) Klaviyo should almost be a Shopify tracking stock. What multiples it brings, and what stock market, I think we have no idea. Just as we were all geniuses in 2021. But still.

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SaaStr

APRIL 30, 2024

Absent other terms, every series / class of investor is going to at least get a vote on fundraising, selling the company, and adding to the stock option pool, among other factors. In the U.S. and Delaware and California, and under standard VC terms, it’s almost impossible not just to kick investors out — but even to deny them a vote.

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Martech

APRIL 15, 2024

Early last year several significant investors, including ValueAct Capital and Elliott Management, questioned whether all the acquisitions were good for stock value and pushed for changes. Salesforce stock fell Monday following the Informatica reports.

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Search Engine Land

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Real-time feed stock updates A shocking fact: for more than 95% of ecommerce brands, even after their products go out of stock, their product ads stay active on Google Shopping for 12 to 24 hours, and in some cases longer. While this not only drains your budget, it also leads to product disapprovals due to incorrect stock status.

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STAR Results

JANUARY 1, 2022

“Give me a stock clerk with a goal, and I’ll give you a man who will make history. Give me a man with no goals, and I’ll give you a stock clerk.” .” Og Mandino. “Begin with the end in mind.” ” – Stephen Covey. ” – J.C. ” – Dennis Waitley.

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Hubspot

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

With all of these challenges ahead for marketers in an ever-increasingly visual web, it''s not hard to see why 55,000 people downloaded our set of 75 free stock photos last month. But while those free stock photos were popular -- they weren''t exactly perfect. 6 Places to Use Your 160 Free Stock Photos.

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Hubspot

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Stock photos get a lot of hate. Stock photos get super expensive if you’re going to use them everywhere; there are lots of weird and creepy photos that leave you wondering who the heck took them – or would want to use them; and then when you see them thrown in randomly in someone’s blog post or website, you cringe a little inside.

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Hubspot

MARCH 6, 2014

Well, now Getty''s attempted to make it a little easier to find high-grade stock photos that are legal for most people to use. Or, HubSpot has hundreds of stock photos you can use any time, any place, with no attribution or iframes needed. What do you think of Getty''s "free" stock photos? Would you use them on your site?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Leaders we admire and look up to from Zoominfo to Zoom to Box have had tough years on the stock market, no doubt. The big stock price swings in 2023 in many cases are still under their 2021 peak. So no question many folks, especially selling sales and marketing tools, are having a pretty tough time of it. But not everyone. Not by far.

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Search Engine Land

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

These tools aim to assist retailers in making informed decisions about stocking shelves with new products, providing benefits to both customers and emerging brands seeking to expand their in-store presence. These new tools can improve a brand’s ability to engage with retailers, increasing the likelihood of having their products stocked.

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Hubspot

DECEMBER 31, 2013

We''re frequently on our Thinkstock stock photos account, trying to find engaging, high-quality images to use in the posts we publish. Now, every day of the week, multiple times a day, we were finding these stock photos that not even its photographer would love, sharing them with each other, and laughing for days. You''ve been warned.

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