SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

It is a venture capital firm based in Brazil and Silicon Valley. Its partners boast diverse venture experience and have previously invested in more than 70 companies. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed. It works with Redpoint Ventures and e.ventures, the U.S. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed. Kaszek Ventures.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 8, 2015

In the last six months, VCs have invested more than $57B according to Mattermark data , which puts 2015 on pace to exceed 2000 as the year the most venture capital will be deployed, ever. Which sectors are benefitting from all these venture dollars?

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 18, 2015

I was curious if there was any relationship between type of license used by startup commercializing open source software, and their ability to raise capital, and exit. In part, this could be due to the fact that the GPL license predates the Apache license by 10 years, (1989 vs 2000).

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Venture Capital Software Review Acquisition Startup 109

The Angel VC

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I think that Silicon Valley as a whole or that the venture-capital community or startup community is taking on an excessive amount of risk right now. Some years ago, YC startups used to raise seed rounds with a $4M cap. I’ve heard of startups renting prime office space in the best locations of San Francisco.

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SaaSOptics

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Here’s what Gardner had to say: “Ten of the twelve public SaaS companies founded before 2000 are solidly profitable, with an average net income margin of 17%, which is increasing annually. Conversely, only 11% of SaaS Companies founded after 2000 are profitable.” Venture capital trends and expectations.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Startups may be managed differently. Instead, venture capital growth funds are financing these companies at these stages. The fraction of small IPOs with negative EBITDA has doubled to nearly 90% in about 30 years. Small IPOs. . Large IPOs. . Number. % < 0. Number. % < 0. Once public, profits don’t improve.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Notable mentions that have helped the Asian SaaS space are 500 Startups, Y Combinator, Sequoia, Matrix Partners, Eight Roads Ventures and Intel Capital. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed. Stage: Venture Capital, Angel. Stage: Corporate Venture Capital.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. Many of these are names that you know, and this is actually the largest we’ve seen in history.

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It was the first time Harry came across venture capital, and, he tells us, he was instantly hooked. Not long after starting the podcast, Harry got into investing himself, and in 2020, he leveraged the success of his show to launch his own venture capital fund, 20VC fund. There’s no right way to do venture.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

As a startup, we covered a lot of processes together really quickly out of necessity and we haven’t really had time or the wherewithal to go back to them and harden them for scaling. So while it may be hard, cross some things off the list. Jason Lemkin: With their list.

Scale 157

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Kellblog

MARCH 30, 2019

Growth is the primary driver of value creation in a software startup. state of market, stage of startup). Moribund Startups. I think in their desperation to grow too many moribund startups fail to realize that getting back in control should be done before trying to rejuvenate growth and thus die doing neither.

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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

He also discusses all the trials, errors and successes he had throughout all of his previous startups. But then after joining them, and we sold that startup to another startup NICU, I went home to Pittsburgh in 1999 which led to the inspiration for starting our first business. Want to see more content like this session?

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

So Pardot, SalesLoft and Calendly, you’re thinking, “How is this random guy from Atlanta 2000 miles away at the starting floor, at the ground floor of three pretty interesting SaaS companies?” We raised $0 of venture capital. Very simple idea, $2000 bonus for referring anybody. We sold Pardot.

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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Source 16 Startup Metrics by Jeff Jordan, Anu Hariharan, Frank Chen, and Preethi Kasireddy, a16z We have the privilege of meeting with thousands of entrepreneurs every year, and in the course of those discussions are presented with all kinds of numbers, measures, and metrics that illustrate the promise and health of a particular company.

Scale 52

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SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

He has a very good weekly SaaS email newsletter and pretty awesome entrepreneurship and business podcast together with Steli Efti, The Startup Chat podcast. Steli Efti Founder and CEO of Close.io , Steli is a well-known reference for startups and B2B sales and prides himself on being a hustler. Director of Product Management.

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SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

He has a very good weekly SaaS email newsletter and pretty awesome entrepreneurship and business podcast together with Steli Efti, The Startup Chat podcast. Steli Efti Founder and CEO of Close.io , Steli is a well-known reference for startups and B2B sales and prides himself on being a hustler. Director of Product Management.

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SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

239: Amit Bendov is the Founder and CEO @ Gong.io, the startup that provides you with powerful visibility into your customer conversations with conversation intelligence. 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.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve been in venture capital for about 20 years, made my first SaaS investment about 18 years ago and have really been focused on this space for a long time. I work at a firm called Shasta Ventures. I’m really excited to give this talk about a great company and some really great lessons learned from the journey.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. That capital is returned to us with some return.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. That capital is returned to us with some return.

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SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

He’s experienced in leading multiple B2B software companies from startup through acquisition. The problem these companies generally face is they’re sitting in a gap in the capital market. They may or may not be a fit for institutional venture capital yet. That capital is returned to us with some return.

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SaaS Scale Sales Hiring Venture Capital 40

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2022

Enough venture capital can certainly bridge that gap. Someone that can come in and mine your base, that can segment those 2000, go out and talk to them and figure out which ones can buy. Jason Lemkin: There are so many startups out there that when you go back, it took them 24 months to get to a million in revenue.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

I did a consumer startup. Nick Mehta: That’s a great question, Harry, and I’m old enough to have been through two crashes because in college I started my first company, this consumer internet company in the late 90s which when we graduated we ran, we raised a lot of venture capital. I worked in a big company.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 29, 2018

The venture capital markets are flush with capital. In that epoch, despite the record volumes of venture dollars, startups went public quickly, in 4-5 years. From 2000-2005, the “typical” IPO-bound startup listed on an exchange 5 years after founding. Since then, the trend has continued.

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ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

Freemium in its infancy: 1982-2000. Evernote was another product that spread like wildfire in the mid-2000s. When it launched as the first cloud-based notes app during the recession in 2008, its founders didn't raise much venture capital. To start us off in this first chapter we want to see where it all started.

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SaaStr

APRIL 7, 2022

I am a partner at Accel, the Global Venture Capital Fund, and I’m very happy to be here with one of these mythical creatures that people were talking about earlier. Today, every single global 2000 company has somebody thinking about RPA and next year every division within a global 2000 company will think about RPA.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

The second aha that we had was our go-to-market where we wanted to start with all of the startups and small businesses and nonprofits and developers out there who today were using nothing because they didn’t have the budget or technical resources to buy kind of these enterprise-grade services that existed for big companies.

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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. SaaS startups had to explore new interfaces and user experiences that would fit the web browser.

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