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Dear SaaStr: As a Founder, How Do You Deal With Stress In a Startup?

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Dear SaaStr: As a Founder, How Do You Deal With Stress In a Startup? Per the WSJ and Challenger, Grey, this year more CEOs have left their jobs than any year since 2002 when they started tracking. less stress image from here ) The post Dear SaaStr: As a Founder, How Do You Deal With Stress In a Startup? More than in 21+ years.

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Who Is Tooey Couremanche Founder and CEO of Procore

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Founding Procore In 2002, Couremanche founded Procore in Carpinteria, California. Company Growth and IPO Under his leadership, Procore grew from a small startup to a major player in construction technology. Early Career Before founding Procore, Couremanche worked in both the construction and technology sectors.

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Is a World Coming Where We Don’t Need VCs at All?

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2002-2019: Founders jealous of VCs, with their easy life, diversified. The Rise of 1000 Unicorns and 100 Decacorns, combined with the overnight changes to fundraising processes from Covid, have radically changed venture capital: Tiger alone is deploying $100 billion , mostly into Cloud startups, and very quickly. With many more coming.

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Bezos' Shareholder Letter in 2000

Tom Tunguz

Startups feel this way today. We’re a company that wants to be weighed, and over time, we will be—over the long term, all companies are. In the meantime, we have our heads down working to build a heavier and heavier company. Company performance exceeds employee expectations, yet the market values the company less than two quarters ago.

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The Four Key Trends of the Startup Acquisition Market

Tom Tunguz

The startup acquisition market is poised to have its best year in nearly a decade. If acquirers maintain the same pace from the first nine months of the year through Q4, more than 450 venture-backed startups will have been acquired, generating more than $25B in proceeds. The past four years have been great liquidity years for startups.

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Do Startups Require Less Capital to Succeed than 10 Years Ago?

Tom Tunguz

Last week, we analyzed the fund raising history of billion dollar SaaS companies and determined SaaS startups are raising nearly twice as much capital as 16 years ago before going public. Given that trend, I wondered if there is there any truth to the idea that startups today require less capital than before to succeed.

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Startup Best Practices 23 - Leveraging The Illusion of Explanatory Depth in Interviews

Tom Tunguz

This is the illusion of explanatory depth or IOED, which Rozenbilt and Keil described in 2002. So how does this illusion apply in the world of startups? Gimini rendered these drawings (on the right) to highlight incorrect most people’s understanding of a bicycles anatomy truly is.