SaaStr

JULY 16, 2023

Dear SaaStr: Do Late Stage Startups Prefer to Get Acquired or Go Public? It really varies. Especially these days, when the IPO markets are closed. When it was literally an IPO a Day in 2021, it seemed almost easy. And today — it seems so far from easy. It Was an IPO-a-Day in 2021. We’ve Never Seen That Before Today, an acquisition can seem so much easier.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 16, 2023

Last Monday, I published a chart that looked like this. It shows the standard deviation in Series A round sizes over time. I needed about 20 minutes using a language called R to create it. Then I tried to replicate it using ChatGPT3’s Code Interpreter feature & I spent less than 5 minutes duplicating it, most of the time waiting for the computer (see video at the end of the post).

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SaaStr

JULY 16, 2023

A simple post here, really aimed at founders that have revenues but are still getting off the ground: Just Do The SOC-2. Really, do all the “security stuff”, but especially just do the SOC-2. Just embrace it early. Why? First, you’ll have to do it to close even slightly larger buyers. Second, you’ll be scrambling later to do it once you are forced to by a bigger customers.

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SaaStr

JULY 16, 2023

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Why Booths Work at Top Industry Events. But You Have to Put In The Effort. Selling Your Startup? 5 Things To Think About 5 Interesting Learnings from MongoDB at $1.5 Billion in ARR G2: 49% of Buyers Are Increasing Spend, But 47% Are Going Less Than Annual The Cold Hard Truths About SaaS in 2023 with Jason

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