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What Could the Venture Market Look Like in the Coronavirus Era

Tom Tunguz

That grew to about $5B per quarter in 2007 and early 2008. Let’s break down the trends by series. Then the investing velocity fell by half to $2.9B, $2.7B, and $2.3B in the quarters following the crash. The market bounced back to similar levels once in Q2 2010, but needed eight quarters to return to its previous volumes.

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The Most Popular Startup Domain Suffixes -.com,co,gg - Which is Best for Your Business?

Tom Tunguz

Down from 89% in 2007, the.com designation adorns the addresses of 64% of startups founded in 2020. Aside from highlighting some of the trends in startup domain name preferences, this post has another motivation. In fact, it has changed significantly as the chart above shows. Click to enlarge the image. killing Hemingway softly).

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

SaaStr

While hardly the only vendor doing automated product insights, UserTesting has been doing it for quite a while (founded way back in 2007) and doing it well, with over 2,100 customers including many tech leaders. Stuck with per-seat pricing from 2007-2020, but added flex pricing in Q4′ 2020 — and quickly went to 20% of revenue.

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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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The Four Key Trends of the Startup Acquisition Market

Tom Tunguz

Given this state of affairs, it’s a good time to take stock of the major trends in the startup market. 2014 will reach about $25B, placing third behind the amounts set in 2000, $92B, and 2007, $33B. I’ve observed four: The total number of startup acquisitions has remained relatively constant over the past 14 years.

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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. Pretty crazy to think about - growth adjusted multiples are near pre-covid all time highs (excluding 2020-2021 period) even though rates are as high as they’ve been since 2007 (and double what they were on average from 2010-2020).

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How Healthy is the SaaS IPO Market?

Tom Tunguz

By 2007 there were five IPOs and that number crested at nine in 2013 and 2014. Like any other sector, SaaS IPOs are affected by broader macro trends, and we’re likely seeing some of that in the number of offerings declining over the past 24 – 36 months. The chart above plots the number of SaaS IPOs.

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