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Are IPOs Really Back? And Where is Growth Investing? 20VC Roundtable #4 with Jason Lemkin, Woody Marshall, Deven Parekh, Harry Stebbings

SaaStr

Harry Stebbings of 20VC was kind enough to have us back on the latest VC Roundtable with 2 of the very, very best in growth / late-stage investing — the leaders of Insight Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures. They’ve led later stage investments in the best in SaaS and Cloud. And Where is Growth Investing?

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Doubling Down: Harpinder Singh, Partner at Innovation Endeavors

SaaStr

What’s your most recent disclosed investment? What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? I find that often, in SaaS, it’s easy to get excited after a few customer acquisitions, and teams will too quickly pivot into investing capital into demand gen, sales, and marketing. Check that out here.

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Venture Capital, Withering & Dying

Tom Tunguz

So far this year, 29 venture-backed companies have tried initial offerings, compared with 252 in 2000. Most vulnerable are funds that were raised and invested at the height of the bubble, in 1999 and 2000, when 70 percent of all high-technology venture capital for the last two decades was invested.

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How Zapier supports 3 million users by investing in customer outcomes

Intercom, Inc.

For Pam, it all stems from a long-held belief that investing in the customer’s success will chart a direct path to the company’s. In the return of the Scale podcast, Pam details her support philosophy and the investments she’s making to drive better customer outcomes, for the long term. For them, proactive outreach is part of the job.

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How Similar is the Fundraising Environment Today to 2000?

Tom Tunguz

In Q2 2015, VC investment totaled $16.7B, about a 66% of the $28B deployed in Q2 2000 according to a new report. A big contributor to this growth are nontraditional investors including mutual funds and hedge funds, which now account for approximately 40% of dollars invested. And the trends shows no sign of stopping.

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The Figures that Will Move the Venture Capital Market in the Next 5 Years

Tom Tunguz

Let’s examine the relationship between total venture capital investment and the 10 year Treasury in some detail. The y-axis tracks enture capital investment by year and the year of the data point resides in the reddish circle. Our story starts in the bottom right of corner in the year 2000 with 6% interest rates and $18.2b

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Lessons from Interviews of Pre-Eminent VCs in 2000

Tom Tunguz

In fact, I found only two books: a textbook on private equity and venture capital by HBS professor Joshua Lerner, and an out-of-print collection of 32 VC interviews called “ Done Deals ,” published in September 2000. By mid-1999, $300M was being invested in Internet companies each week. Mitch Kapor, Accel. John Doerr.