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What Could the Venture Market Look Like in the Coronavirus Era

Tom Tunguz

What could happen to the fundraising market in the coronavirus era where organizers cancel events, the financial markets suffer from a bear market, and there is a lot of uncertainty? That grew to about $5B per quarter in 2007 and early 2008. Let’s break down the trends by series.

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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. Given this state of affairs, it’s a good time to take stock of the major trends in the startup market. Given this state of affairs, it’s a good time to take stock of the major trends in the startup market.

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5 Interesting Learnings from UserTesting at $160,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

So UserTesting is a case study on how great SaaS can be (innovating and creating a market leader, and driving it to $160m+ ARR) … and also hard SaaS can be. They’ve kept this fairly lean, considering how much larger enterprise clients likely would pay to deploy the product, and its trending down as a percent of revenue.

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23 Low Budget Online Marketing Strategies for Small Businesses

Neil Patel

This is on-trend with what we have seen in digital ad spend growth. Targeted Google and Facebook Ads have their place, but there are plenty of free ways to market online. I’m going to share a list of all the free tools and strategies that can help you compete with major conglomerates through content marketing.

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How Healthy is the SaaS IPO Market?

Tom Tunguz

After more than a decade of reinvention, I was curious how healthy the IPO market is for SaaS companies. By 2007 there were five IPOs and that number crested at nine in 2013 and 2014. The IPO market in the second half of 2015 was more challenging but still seven companies went public. In 2003, Salesforce kicked things off.

Marketing 101
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In The Early Days, You Won’t Have Enough Customers. But Your Mini-Brand Will Come to Your Rescue.

SaaStr

You can see our path there above from Google Trends. No real Mini-Brand until early 2007. If you do that, and the world doesn’t change from under you … you’ll get a Mini-Brand. Not in a day, but in time. And things will being to get scaleable from there. Launch on January 1, 2006.

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Clouded Judgement 9.29.23 - Rates Keep Going Up

Clouded Judgement

Every week I’ll provide updates on the latest trends in cloud software companies. ” messaging reverberates through the markets. Clearly the bond markets are saying something different than software valuations. The market is really putting on emphasis on the Fed’s commentary of higher for longer.

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