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Why Do Some People Consider Venture Capital a “Young Person’s Game”?

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At least from very early-stage investing. It doesn’t take that long in venture to make a decent salary. Procore was founded in 2003. Finally close own fund in 2003, after 12 months. Invest in seed round of Procore in 2003. Finally, today, that investment is worth a lot. Say 5% of $3,000,000,000.

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Doubling Down: Satya Patel, Partner at Homebrew

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What’s your most recent disclosed investment? Our most recent disclosed investment is in Pika.art, a company redesigning the entire video-making and editing experience utilizing AI. What’s your sweet spot for investing — check size, stage, type of deal? What’s your pulse check on the venture markets right now, today?

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

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According to Mike Laven, CEO of Currencycloud, the one thing necessary for any company to succeed in China – or in any of the Asian countries – is to get local investment. SAIF Partners is one of the top private equity firms that provides growth capital financing for Asia businesses. SaaS Investments: Goodera, and others.

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The 18 Awesome Women of SaaS in Asia

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Today Carman is Founder and Managing Partner of Click Ventures, the globally renowned Hong Kong venture capital firm. Before getting into the investment world, she started and sold two successful companies in edutainment, and made a prominent name in the tech field around the world. Diane Mensah. Maxine Ryan.

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Keith Rabois and Jason Lemkin

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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. I mean, including IAA and now four investments over the last month, let’s say. I think by segment. crosstalk 00:11:49].

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Decacorns & Unicorns in 2020: Founders Fund Keith Rabois and SaaStr’s Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

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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. I mean, including IAA and now four investments over the last month, let’s say. I think by segment. crosstalk 00:11:49].

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

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And so once I had the idea I convinced my father to invest and become a customer. He was investing in internet companies. And by 2003 we were almost out of business. We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it. He and I went to MIT together.