Greg Head, founder of Practical Founders, advises founders who want to scale their software businesses without taking on large amounts of funding. At our Collective Live event, he led a breakout on achieving SaaS success without big funding. Greg covered covered topics like: →Six different tactics on how he’s seen folks scale successfully without large amounts of capital. →The power of community building, where you can build a flywheel based on reference selling and word of mouth. → Becoming known as the best in your market for something important to someone specific. Thank you for an incredible session, Greg!
Tidemark
Financial Services
Tidemark is a growth equity firm purpose-built to help companies win and scale.
About us
We are a growth equity firm purpose-built to help companies win and scale. Tidemark is powered by a community of investors, entrepreneurs, and operators who are energized by ideas, a love of competition, and the drive to give back. We give 10% of our profits to our foundation, Tidemark10, to support the communities we serve.
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- Financial Services
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- 11-50 employees
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- Partnership
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- 2021
Employees at Tidemark
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📣 We’re excited to share the most disruptive pattern we’ve seen in Vertical SaaS since the introduction of embedded payments: a new control point pattern we call “Formation and Access.” Formation refers to helping entrepreneurs start a business in a new field or spin out of large existing organizations to create their own standalone ventures. Access is about solving key constraints in the new business by providing access to key resources and relationships. This includes giving these new startups an advantageous position from which to reach customers, suppliers, and licensors. We see that Formation and Access Vertical SaaS Vendors (VSVs) are earning 10x the take rates of traditional VSVs and quickly taking market share. They level the playing field for Davids to slay Goliaths. At the same time, they need to be thoughtful about how to sustain value propositions (and thus take rates) over time. Read more about why we’re excited about this idea and the potential pitfalls that founders pursuing it should be wary of: https://lnkd.in/gmBqMjUY
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💡 We recently hosted our second annual VSaaS Legends event, which brings together the best Vertical SaaS executives who believe in the power of sharing ideas for a day of Chatham-House rules sessions. We’re excited to share the line-up of friends of Tidemark, including our Fellows, who shared their insights this year: ➡ Chris Comparato (former CEO of Toast) on leadership and building talent density through change ➡ John Collison (Co-Founder & President of Stripe) and Jack Newton (Founder & CEO of Clio - Cloud-Based Legal Technology) on the nitty-gritty of payments and fintech for VSaaS companies ➡ Rami Karabibar (Co-Founder & CEO of EvenUp) and Mahesh Ram (Head of AI at Zoom) on two key patterns we’re seeing in AI: 1) how AI is disrupting VSaaS by replacing labor, and 2) how VSaaS incumbents can take advantage of their existing distribution to capitalize on AI ➡ Sam Gerstenzang (Co-Founder of Moxie) on how to 10x your take rate with a “Formation and Access” approach: helping entrepreneurs start their businesses and providing access to key resources ➡ Avanish Sahai (Tidemark Fellow) and Mike Rosenbaum (CEO of Guidewire Software) on building ecosystem gravity ➡ Bob Solomon (Former Sr. Vice President/GM, Network and Financial Solutions at Ariba) and Bruce Johnson (Chairman of GHX) on why every VSV should have a supplier network ➡ Ryan Davis (CEO of CINC Systems ) on why multi-stakeholder is the GOAT of VSaaS Thanks for a great event!
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How can you leverage embedded payments and financial products as you scale your VSaaS company? VSaaS Collective Live featured an awesome panel unpacking what leaders should be thinking about. Panelists included: ➡️ Neetika Bansal, Business Lead, Money-as-a-Service at Stripe (one of our event partners!) ➡️ Josh S., VP of Finance and FP&A at SimplePractice ➡️ Andrew Walsh, Partner at Tidemark They covered topics like: ➡️ Why go multi-product? ➡️ SimplePractice’s journey with embedding payments on its platform ➡️ What KPIs executive teams should be thinking about when it comes to embedded finance products ➡️ What each panelist has seen work well, and what they’ve seen end poorly Thanks to our panelists for an incredible session!
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Dennis Lyandres, former CRO of Procore Technologies, led a keynote session on scaling GTM at our VSaaS Collective Live event. The event's goal was to bring VSaaS CEOs together to learn from each other and from executives like Dennis, who have walked similar paths before. Key takeaways from Dennis’ session: 👉 The importance of being intentional about growth (use the VSKP playbook 😉) 👉 To win the category, you need to occupy a control point 👉 Think about expanding outward: launch integrated products that are hard to copy 👉 You need to extend through the value chain! Find your wedge, and use data, networks, and marketplaces to make it happen Thanks for joining us, Dennis!
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Historically, a Vertical SaaS company could comfortably see a 1-3% GMV take rate. At Tidemark, we believe the ambitious founder can earn a much, much higher take rate. How? By emulating all that is great about franchise businesses. Franchisors typically offer a bundle of services to justify their royalty rate. A VSaaS company can materially alter its revenue capture by being more aggressive in what parts of a merchant’s business it runs, like a franchisor. We’ve been meeting with companies for years that have been walking this path and are ready to share how they are accomplishing this. You can dive in here: https://lnkd.in/gKAiaYhp
The Franchise: An Archetype for Vertical SaaS
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👋 Multi-Product is the holy grail for software businesses. At our Collective Live event, we were joined by Tidemark Fellow and multi-product expert Ershad Jamil, who led a conversation on how executives should navigate the multi-product journey. Ershad shared the what, when, and how of multi-product: ➡️ The what: Multi-product creates new revenue streams, makes the whole platform stickier and creates a better experience for customers. ➡️ The when: Spoiler alert - it's now! But you should think deeply about if you have earned the right to win customers with your second and third products. ➡️ The how: Ershad shared how you should think about managing a portfolio of products, determining sequencing, buy vs. build vs. partner, pricing, etc. Thank you for an incredible session, Ershad! 👊
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One of our awesome breakout sessions at Collective Live was led by Andrew Riesen, Co-founder and CEO of Heard! Andrew shared his insights with fellow founders on the power of embedding payroll. We'll share deeper insights from his session soon!
Had an exceptional experience with some truly incredible leaders at Tidemark's vSaaS Legends Retreat! These are people I've admired from afar for so long while building Heard. This was followed by the exciting opportunity to talk with founders across all stages about the ups, downs and all arounds of embedding payroll, and the very positive experience we have had with Gusto Embedded. A major shout-out to the Tidemark team, specifically David Yuan, Andrew Walsh, and Courtney Mullin. And a special thanks to Michael Tan for his many revs of feedback on the prez.
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We were blown away by the incredible group of VSaaS operators who joined us for our inaugural VSaaS Collective Live event and look forward to sharing photos, videos, and insights in the coming days and weeks! Thank you to everyone who helped make this day possible!
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Magic! That is what happens when you get almost 100 Vertical SaaS CEO's in a room together! Thanks to our hosts at Tidemark - big shout out to David Yuan, Andrew Walsh, Michael Tan, and Courtney Mullin for getting it all organized for the inaugural event that was held at the SVB Experience Center in San Francisco. Shout out to Greg Head for the invite through his Practical Founders group. Lots of knowledge dropped, but some of the key takeaways for me: - Chris Comparato had some great leadership lessons about growing a leadership and executive team while at Toast. Navigating a growing technology company in the restaurant industry is something I can certainly identify with. - Dennis Lyandres dropped some knowledge on measured and planned growth, creating multi-product teams, and building top-notch training programs for employees so that employees love your customers while at Procore Technologies. - Ershad Jamil fantastically walked us through the journey and evolution of growth at ServiceTitan, which included a discussion on buy, build, or partner, or combining several of these options (which is usually the reality). Some of the sidebars with other Vertical SaaS entrepreneurs included: - Embedded finance and payments seems to be more easily absorbed by SMB customers, but more tricky when working with enterprises. - Bundling multiple products and services is also more tricky when working with enterprises. They are more likely to want to build their own tech stack, which is where a smart API comes in handy, and the API can become the additional product. - Interest rate hikes have hurt a lot of industries in some non-obvious ways, causing purchasing and growth to slow and stall. See all of you at the next one!
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👀 A sneak peak at our 2024 VsaaS Collective Live event! We’re honored to be joined by over 100 CEOs from the next generation of category leaders and members of the Vertical SaaS community for an afternoon of knowledge sharing and leveling up. Stay tuned for learnings from the event! Another special thank you to our incredible event partners who helped make this day possible! Stripe Gusto Embedded Duda Silicon Valley Bank Andrew Walsh David Yuan Tim Barash
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