"Investors expect you to prove different aspects of your business model at each stage of growth to achieve your next round of funding. [...] According to Jeff Epstein [Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners], this means that seventy-five percent of your sales reps are meeting their quota, and your growth is greater than 100%. When you hit your growth stage, you’re proving your net renewal model. This means you need to demonstrate that your customers are coming back a second and third time to buy from you."


S T E P 1 : Integrate Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ) to Financials
S T E P 2 : Establish Flexible, Contract-based Billing
S T E P 3 : Build End-to-end Revenue Management
S T E P 4 - 1 : Create Real-time GAAP and SaaS Dashboards
S T E P 4 - 2 : Create Real-time GAAP and SaaS Dashboards
S T E P 5 : Forecast the Future

See attached ebook from sage Intacct. 

"For the purposes of their study, All Raise counted any startup with a woman co-founder as women-founded, meaning that nearly 86% of total funding last year went to all-male founding teams. The numbers get starker from there. Startups led by all-women founding teams accounted for only 2.3% of funding raised, at $3.5 billion, compared to 2.5% in 2019, or $3.25 billion."

Full article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebeccaszkutak/2021/04/27/venture-funding-hit-a-record-in-2020-for-women-founders-it-dried-up