Rally Ventures Operating Partner Luke Zaientz and Allen Control Systems Co-Founder and CEO gave the keynote at NVNG’s Venture North Conference.
Insights
The Rally Ventures team has deep expertise investing in and operating enterprise technology businesses, and we’re excited to share our insights, experiences and knowledge with you. Our network of experts covers a wide range of topics, including startup strategy, industry insights, technical guidance and much more.
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We partnered with Emergence Capital to create the inaugural edition of Beyond Benchmarks, a deep dive into the metrics and trends observed across the early-stage enterprise cloud market.
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A financial audit is a valuable tool for early stage companies to enhance transparency, build credibility, comply with regulations and support decision-making processes. It instills confidence in stakeholders and lays the groundwork for sustainable growth. It can be time consuming, especially during a first-time audit, but the sooner you put the right building blocks in place, the better the process will be as your company grows.
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In a recent masterclass for the Rally portfolio, a panel of Rally Tech Partner sales experts talked about sales organization design, comp strategy, how to build early sales and marketing and how to foster a great sales culture at your company.
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Charles Beeler recently spoke to portfolio company Influ2 about the challenges faced by businesses in the current market downturn and insights on navigating through difficult times.
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We were thrilled to have Sal Khan, the founder and CEO of Khan Academy, join us at this year’s Annual Meeting to give a talk about Khan Academy’s educational chatbot, Khanmigo. You can watch Sal’s TED Talk below.
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Rally Venture Partner Ben Fried recently put together a Large Language Model overview and recommended reading list for those of us interested in learning more about how it works, what it’s good at (and not good at) and where the technology is going. We’ve never seen a technology move this fast, and we’re both excited about the opportunities it will bring and cautious about implementing LLMs responsibly.
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Rally Managing Director Charles Beeler gets into the details on how founders should approach negotiating term sheets with investors — and what can be learned about each other in the process.
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SaaS+ is the strategy of adding embedded fintech and other products on top of a SaaS platform as a secondary revenue model. It’s a company changing model that can turn a $10k Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) SaaS customer into a $100k ARR SaaS+ customer, and there are many SaaS platforms that have the ability to become a SaaS+ business.
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1. Just start. “Just stop doing what you’re currently doing and start. Because the idea is never going to be right; the first direction is definitely not going to be right. But you can’t get to the right idea if you don’t get moving.” —Justin Kaufenberg, founder, SportsEngine (Episode 75)