Tom Tunguz

JULY 20, 2014

In 2008, when I started working at Redpoint I knew very little about how the venture business worked, and before I started at the firm, I wanted to prepare by learning as much as I could about the industry. Unfortunately, not much was written about venture capital at the time. Mitch Kapor, Accel.

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SaaStr

JUNE 16, 2020

Leaders in G2000 enterprises and leading SaaS and cloud vendors will share strategies, learnings, and issues; and venture capital and private equity investors will discuss the trends they are investing in and why you should care. at a Global 2000 or similar company ($300M or more in revenues, or close). .

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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. Kaszek Ventures. Kaszek Ventures is among the biggest venture capital firms in Latin America.

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Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Third, this confluence of factors creates an opportunity for vertical integration in venture, where VCs provide capital at every stage in the company’s lifecycle: from seed to A, B through to pre-IPO rounds. In the previous world of venture capital, with smaller funds and capital scarcity, distributing risk made more sense.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 18, 2015

In part, this could be due to the fact that the GPL license predates the Apache license by 10 years, (1989 vs 2000). In terms of exits, including both acquisition and IPO, GPL licensed projects dominate, having generated more than $6 billion in liquidity, compared to $2B for Apache projects.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2016

For all the talk about late stage rounds, megarounds and unicorns, early stage startups are benefitting disproportionately from near-record years of venture capital investment. On average, 25% more early stage startups raise capital in the last five years compared to 1995-2000. That figure is up from 18% in 2005.

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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. in Internet companies in 1999 and 2000, respectively. Unprecedented since ?'99. In some ways less silly than '99 and in other ways more silly than in '99.” and $41.8B

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Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Despite the recent slowdown, venture capital investment in the biotech sector in the US ballooned to nearly $25 billion in 2022 from just under $4 billion in 2000. Pharma R&D investment likewise increased from $38 billion in 2000 to $83 billion by 2019.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 21, 2015

throughout those cycles, venture capital has flourished from a cottage industry into $100B per year asset class. VCs are on track to invest as much capital this year as during the height of the dot com era. From 2000 through 2009, the federal funds rate and venture investment paralleled each other.

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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

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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

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. We don’t see these IPOs today.

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Kellblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Flood of venture capital (VC). Venture capital continues to flow. 2018 was the first year since “the OB” (the original bubble) that we again reached 2000-era levels of VC financing. Upstarts can stand yet again on the shoulders of giants. seed, angel) and the later growth stage as well.

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SaaStr

JULY 17, 2020

I think it’s more overall more like 2000 to 2003 in Silicon Valley, but there’ll be some industries and some verticals that either aren’t affected as much or snap back very quickly. If 15 to 20% are COVID beneficiaries, can that absorb all the venture capital? Does venture capital even need to bother?

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Stage: Venture Capital, Angel. For its near 30 years of existence, JAFCO Asia has turned into one of the leading venture capital firms in APAC. Stage: Corporate Venture Capital. Stage: Venture Capital. Tencent Holdings Venture Fund. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed.

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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. How long can this last?

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Intercom, Inc.

DECEMBER 14, 2022

What the soon-to-be podcast host and venture capitalist calls to mind is a somewhat forgettable scene where Peter Thiel becomes Facebook’s first major investor. It was the first time Harry came across venture capital, and, he tells us, he was instantly hooked. There’s no right way to do venture. Delighted to have you.

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SaaStr

JULY 15, 2020

I think it’s more overall more like 2000 to 2003 in Silicon Valley, but there’ll be some industries and celebrated goals that either aren’t effected as much or snap back very quickly. If 15 to 20% are COVID beneficiaries, can that absorb all the ventured capital? Does venture capital even need to bother?

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Outseta

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Pile on the growth expectations that come with the amount of venture capital that’s been poured into this space (Intercom and Drift alone have raised a collective $347M to date), and next thing you know live chat tools are being presented as something new. LiveChat Software has 21,000 customers and was founded back in 2002.

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

And then there was this big ERP dying, which was shot after the first ecommerce new academy scene was going down for 2000 2001. What what do you think the danger is of being too focused on those types of venture capital type ideas. And I love that very much. And and you can see it like 2006 Up to now still still going.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Jason Lemkin: Maybe it’s because you didn’t raise 11 rounds of venture capital, which we’ll touch into and bang your chest on TechCrunch every week with another huge round or maybe it’s because I wasn’t a marketer by training, right and I just grabbed an app here or there. Jason Lemkin: With their list.

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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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SaaStr

APRIL 18, 2019

” And actually Chris today 17 years later he’s actually still running that business at Oracle, but a lot of our other families so he joined us at the BigMachines in 2000 to run our European business. Tim Handorf you can see there, joined me at BigMachines in 2000. He’s still with us today, now running ThreeKit.

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SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Byron Deeter Byron is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners , one of the leading venture capital firms in the SaaS industry. Mamoon Hamid Founder and General Partner at Social+Capital Partnership, an early-stage venture capital firm. Scott Maxwell Scott has been a Venture Capitalist since 2000.

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SaaSHolic

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Byron Deeter Byron is a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners , one of the leading venture capital firms in the SaaS industry. Mamoon Hamid Founder and General Partner at Social+Capital Partnership, an early-stage venture capital firm. Scott Maxwell Scott has been a Venture Capitalist since 2000.

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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. To date, Amit has raised $68 million 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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Chart Mogul

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

How to Raise Venture Capital with Poor Customer Retention by Mark Roberge, Stage 2 Capital However, if a startup’s customer retention is off the mark, even significantly, they can still position the company as an attractive investment. A $2000 ACV? But many employees are afraid to ask for a simple explanation.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. And how do you hack it? This episode is sponsored by Outgrow. Jason Lemkin: Crazy.

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Outseta

MAY 8, 2020

Likewise, a company that’s generating 2000 leads per month might be much better off focusing their sales team’s efforts on just 200 of the very best leads—but your VP of Marketing’s performance is being assessed against a lead quota.

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Kellblog

MARCH 30, 2019

This helps reduce the chance of firing a perfectly good VP of sales when the underlying problem is product, pricing, or competition. [2] 2] And that’s why they make high-priced consultants – a shameless plug for my new Dave Kellogg Consulting business. [3] 3] See Ovid’s version, the one I was raised on. [4]

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

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. Maybe they’re bootstrapping and have no interest in venture capital. That capital is returned to us with some return. Excellent, great.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

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. Maybe they’re bootstrapping and have no interest in venture capital. That capital is returned to us with some return. Excellent, great.

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SaaSOptics

AUGUST 16, 2018

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. Maybe they’re bootstrapping and have no interest in venture capital. That capital is returned to us with some return. Excellent, great.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

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. We actually almost went public.

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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: And if you’re billing monthly, it’s almost impossible to recuperate that. It’s really an existential challenge.

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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. Today, that timeframe is no longer realistic.

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