SaaStr
MAY 1, 2020
As for Navin, under his leadership Mayfield has raised over $2.2Bn in new funds and he has backed some of the best of the last decade including Poshmark, Lyft, Hashicorp, CloudGenix and more. Harry Stebbings: As for Navin, under his leadership Mayfield has raised over $2.2 Are you ready to dive in? Navin Chaddha: Absolutely.
Kellblog
JULY 25, 2020
To me, this all suggests that in these frothy times, the balance of growth and profit (which is what Rule of 40 measures) matters less than other factors, such as growth, leadership, scarcity value and hype, among others. 3] Per the footer, since Salesforce’s June, 2004 IPO. [4] 1] Comps = comparables. [2] See here for more. [5]
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Kellblog
JANUARY 3, 2022
With experienced leadership. While I go into considerable depth in this post , I think the simple answer is that Ingres never really understood either the stakes of the game it was playing or the power of increasing returns in software market leadership. In the US, at perhaps smaller companies but in your same target market.
SaaStr
JULY 17, 2020
Just before 9/11 occurred, we’d hit a USP domestic travel record and it took three years until May 2004 to get back to the level. If 15 to 20% are COVID beneficiaries, can that absorb all the venture capital? Does venture capital even need to bother? And then there’s going to be others that take years.
Chargify
AUGUST 6, 2019
Brian Halligan and Dharmesh Shash met in 2004 when they were both graduate students at MIT. Brian, who was helping venture-backed startups with marketing, noticed that people had gotten really good at ignoring intrusive advertising. So, they chose to focus on growing fast and achieving industry leadership in their space.
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. All right, so the answer is there are actually 61 a cloud unicorns, and we’ll flash them up. How long can this last?
SaaStr
JANUARY 10, 2020
I think one thing about RJ Metrics that maybe goes on that list of mistakes is that even though we founded the company in 2008, the next thing that happened the day after we founded the company was the Lehman Brothers collapsed and the venture capital market was non-existent. The business ran for four years completely bootstrapped.
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