SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

353: Keith Rabois (Paypal, Linkedin, Square) and SaaStr Founder Jason Lemkin talk about the landscape of SaaS & Cloud fundraising and valuation in 2020. This episode is an excerpt from Keith and Jason’s session at SaaStr Summit: The New New in Venture. Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? March was rough.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

With all the talk about the decreasing costs to start a company because of the cloud and elastic computing, why are today’s small companies less profitable and ultimately far less successful in the public markets? Instead, venture capital growth funds are financing these companies at these stages. Small IPOs. . Large IPOs. .

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

And so we started building a cloud solution, but it was a long arduous journey. Tim Handorf you can see there, joined me at BigMachines in 2000. We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. It’s in the cloud. We built a CPQ in the cloud, can we partner?”

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

394: Where is Venture Capital today? I wanted to have another fun, informal conversation with, one of, I think, the most insightful and smartest cloud investors, Sunil Dhaliwal. Interesting for a couple reasons, but Sunil’s been investing in cloud internet since before almost anybody. And how do you hack it?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Jennifer Tejada: Another example we’ve seen plenty of in our customer world is this expedition of cloud migration. So, we’re now seeing customers that are reinventing, reinvigorating the customer journey, leveraging the cloud as an automation platform for that. Jason Lemkin: With their list.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 30, 2019

In my article “SaaS” is not to be understood as an industry, but rather as an innovation wave (product and business model innovation) which impacted the B2B software industry in the 2000s and came after the “on-premise” wave. Comparing the installation phase for the SaaS and AI waves 1.1

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

Look at this, the BVP Cloud Index we plummeted in March and then as we were talking about before, if you just put all your money just into Square on March 20th, you would have doubled your money, right? Does it not all bubble up to even the best cloud stocks? Does venture capital even need to bother? I think by segment.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

To date, Amit has raised $68m in funding for Gong from the likes of Norwest, Battery Ventures, Cisco Investments, and Wing Venture Capital, just to name a few. Finally, before that, Amit was the Founder & CEO @ SparkThis, an outsourced marketing and sales service for cloud companies.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Enough venture capital can certainly bridge that gap. But I think what I do know one thing for sure, if you’re building something no-code and you’re good is that, whatever happens in the B2C markets, whatever’s happening over there, the CIO dollars going to cloud deployment and digital transformation is so powerful.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Perhaps best of all, the advent of cloud computing has made the barrier to entry in this field lower than ever before. It’s a common sentiment that one year of start-up experience is equivalent to two years of experience at a larger company, which I wholeheartedly agree with.

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ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

Freemium in its infancy: 1982-2000. Bundled service providers like AOL have phased out and cloud-based subscription services are enjoying their time in the sun. Evernote was another product that spread like wildfire in the mid-2000s. They had recently saved on server costs by switching to the cloud.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

And so when you think back to what was happening, when we start back in 2010, when we were working on this idea in 2009, we just saw there’s this huge shift going on, where we were going from a world from hardware and software that you owned to services in the cloud that you rented. And I remember like AWS was growing really quickly.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

To date Gainsight have raised over $156m from some of the world’s best VCs in the form of Lightspeed, Bessemer, Insight Venture Partners, Battery Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. Nick Mehta: I remember in 2000, the internet market had fallen apart. We actually almost went public.

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