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Oren Klaff

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
257 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

You can get enough people into your process and have them interested.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

Then you have much less risk saying, here's the LOI we're interested in doing.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

If it's outside the bounds for you, we totally understand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

We'll move on.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

So that's the number one forcing function is, you know, and many, it's not as familiar for startups, but really most of the capital markets work that way, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

Here's our deal, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

This is our subscription.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

You know, here's our sub docs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

Here's our, you know, closing documents.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

You can sign up for this or not.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

It's not we're waiting for an LOI to come in.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

And so the second one is to not get involved with an LOI that is sort of a typical valley.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

One paragraph.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

We're interested in investing in the company, you know, up to $10 million, you know, at a valuation range of up to $15 million.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

based on normal due diligence processes.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

That's not an LOI, right?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

And so the second force of function is really having enough meat in the LOI that it can then be translated fairly easily into a definitive agreement.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

So that's the second one.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

And I think the third and maybe the most important one is saying, hey, on this date,

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1198 He's done $2b in Transaction Volume, Here's How he Pitches

We're accepting LOIs and beyond that, you're out and we're moving forward with people across that threshold, right?