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The Top 10 Pieces of Advice I’d Give to My Younger CEO Self

SaaStr

When we started EchoSign / Adobe Sign in 2005/2006, the web-based e-signature market was $1m in market size. Venture capital is incredibly important, and for many of us, a huge enabler of success. It was especially rough working in venture capital. redefined markets. You can do it that way, too. I still did OK.

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SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Amias Gerety Partner at QED on Fintech Beat (Podcast 685)

SaaStr

While the world of public tech stocks is defined by consumer-facing juggernauts like Facebook, Amazon, and Google, the world of venture capital is defined by the North Star of SaaS. Lemkin’s been a SaaS entrepreneur since 2005, and SaaS didn’t come into fashion until 2019. Let’s dive right in. But that wasn’t always the case.

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18 investors fueling Latin America’s SaaS superstars

SaaStock

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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The State of the Startup Fundraising Market in 2016

Tom Tunguz

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. That figure is up from 18% in 2005. Of the $42B invested in startups in 2015, 34% or about $14B was raised in series A and seed rounds.

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One Great Adventure After the Next

Tom Tunguz

I remember reading about Google’s Android acquisition in 2005 and wondering what would become of the technology; and then later at Google seeing some of the first versions of the G1, the first Android phone. Yesterday, Redpoint announced something amazing: Andy Rubin, the creator of Android is joining Redpoint.

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How Similar is the Fundraising Environment Today to 2000?

Tom Tunguz

Amazingly, each of the last four quarters of venture investment from Q3 2014 to Q2 2015, are in the top 10 all-time for venture capital investment. Unlike the dotcom era, this time series Bs and series Cs have remained constant in number, while series As have doubled since 2005.

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Reflections on the early days at Zendesk (part 1)

The Angel VC

I had always been a consumer Internet guy, having founded comparison shopping engine DealPilot.com back in 1997 and personalized homepage Pageflakes in 2005. The first date When I stumbled on Zendesk in 2008 I knew absolutely nothing about enterprise software, B2B or SaaS.

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