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B2B Sales: How to think about compensation for your B2B Sales team
Your product’s in place, your sales team (mostly) in place, now how do you add more fuel to the fire to really motivate your sales team? We’ve dedicated this episode to this juicy topic of how to think about compensation for your sales team, especially as your team scales. Get it right and it’ll be worth a million bucks (literally!) but if not, it can become a tricky trap to get out of.
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Welcome Samaipata 3.0: Same, same but different. Backing founders who dare to better the world
After months of hard work and deep introspection, we are very excited to introduce you to our revamped brand and website.
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Reinventing Partnerships Between Brands to Revolutionize the Way Ecommerce Acquire Customers
We are very happy to announce that Samaipata is leading Sqwad’s $3m Seed round, alongside top business angels from the industry. As we welcome them to the Samaipata family, we wanted to share this note about our investment thesis on Sqwad.
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Why We Invested in Vivla
We are very happy to announce that Samaipata is leading Vivla’s $30m pre-seed equity and debt round, backing the company alongside top notch institutional investors like FJ Labs, Fasanara Capital, Extension Fund and numerous business angels.
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A Brave New World [Part 1]
We started 2021 cautiously hopeful. We thought the worst of the pandemic was behind us, we were assured by plans for rapid vaccine roll-outs and above all, at least for us, we were curious how this new world would look like.
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A Brave New World [Part 2]
Below we recapitulate on some of the key themes that saw major developments in 2021, which will shape the new world and open up enormous opportunities for building and investing into digital platforms — our overarching theme at Samaipata:
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A Complete Guide to Nailing a Seed Announcement
So, you’ve raised some money, that’s great! But now what? I know just what you’re thinking. I don’t just want to be another seed announcement. With the acceleration of seed funding over the last few years, you don’t believe raising seed is news. Well, I’m here to tell you you’re wrong.
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Why We Invested in Karmen
Yesterday, Karmen announced their €22m Seed round, and we are very excited to lead the round alongside Fasanara Capital and outstanding business angels such as Edward Lando, serial angel investor with Pareto Holdings and Guillaume Prince, ex-head of Stripe Southern Europe.
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B2B Sales: How to Optimize Your Sales Team Structure
Welcome to the next instalment of our B2B series! In case you missed it, Part I on building out your top-of-the-funnel is linked here. We wrote this article in collaboration with our Operating Partners at Samaipata. It strives to be useful and actionable to early stage startup-founders, covering all the typical challenges. For our other articles, please find them here!
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Venture Capital: Debt & Tech
At Samaipata we have spent a fair amount of time in recent months looking at capital-intensive tech businesses within our investment thesis across different sectors, B2B and B2C (quick refresher: we are a pre-series A fund investing in digital platforms with network effects at scale across Europe).
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The Hive, or How We Are Building a Portfolio Support Plaform at Samaipata
A product is often said to be at the intersection of business needs, UX and engineering. In the case of a VC Platform, we are at the intersection of boosting fund returns (the Business) by building value-adding solutions for our founders (the UX) while finding scalable ways of doing it (the Stack/Engineering). Yes, Platform owners are Product builders.
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4 weapons and 6 tactics to ignite your network effects and solve the cold start problem
I started my studies with engineering and I studied maths and physics before going into economics, business and management, which arrived quite late in my curriculum.
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Somos un fondo early stage, creado por y para fundadores, que invierte en negocios digitales con efectos de red.
IA y experiencia de usuario: un romance potencialmente infinito
A rebufo de modelos fundacionales como ChatGPT o Midjourney, las startups tienen la oportunidad de diseñar sus propias capas de software sin necesidad de recurrir a grandes cantidades de capital.
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VIVLA: la proptech que revoluciona el concepto de residencias vacacionales
La startup madrileña (28 millones levantados) oferta casas exclusivas a una fracción del precio original bajo la fórmula de la copropiedad y con un potente bastidor tecnológico orientado a la flexibilidad.
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Fuentes de Financiación de Startups
¿Quieres saber cuáles son las principales formas de financiar una startup? El equipo de inversión de Samaipata explica brevemente las principales fuentes de financiación de negocios tecnológicos.
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Carrera en Venture Capital
¿Alguna vez te has preguntado qué es Venture Capital (VC)? ¿Cómo funciona un fondo de Venture Capital? El equipo de inversión de Samaipata te lo cuenta de primera mano.
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¿Qué es Venture Capital?
¿Alguna vez te has preguntado qué es Venture Capital (VC)? ¿Cómo funciona un fondo de Venture Capital? El equipo de inversión de Samaipata te lo cuenta de primera mano.
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