SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Today Carman is Founder and Managing Partner of Click Ventures, the globally renowned Hong Kong venture capital firm. She has been featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Asia in Finance and Venture Capital for 2018. Since 2008, she has been on the SAP team. The reason? Maxine Ryan. Hande Cilingir.

VP of Engineering

The Angel VC

MAY 17, 2017

Had I seen a SaaS startup with this growth curve in my first 2-3 years of SaaS investing (in 2008-2010) I probably would have asked “where do I have to sign?”. Not yet convinced that you shouldn’t raise venture capital? :) Let us know ! I’ll keep you posted.) And chances are that it would have been a good investment.

Business Model

SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

One of those was 2008/2009 when 5 funds were started. 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. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed.

Venture Capital

SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

Stage: Venture Capital, Angel. For its near 30 years of existence, JAFCO Asia has turned into one of the leading venture capital firms in APAC. Stage: Corporate Venture Capital. Stage: Venture Capital. Tencent Holdings Venture Fund. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed.

SaaS Payments

The Angel VC

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

The first date When I stumbled on Zendesk in 2008 I knew absolutely nothing about enterprise software, B2B or SaaS. Today the “consumerization of the enterprise” has become mainstream, but in 2008 it wasn’t. Yesterday I posted a brief review of Mikkel’s excellent book “Startupland”.

Scale

SaaStock

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil. However, her path changed in 2008 when she took on a new challenge: an MBA in Business and Management.

Technical Review

Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The top quartile seed rounds have expanded by 44% in 8 years, and by 75% since 2008. The expansion in seed investments spans the top 3 states for venture capital (CA, MA, and NY), which collectively account for 70% of seed investment dollars raised. as much in aggregate as they did in 2008. Capital is plentiful.

Venture Capital

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

I mean, most of you weren’t founders in 2008, 2009, that… It was so bad in 2008 or nine, I can’t remember what, I’m sitting at an early SaaS corporate banking event at Pebble Beach on a beautiful day having wine with investment bankers or VCs. Where am I going to wire out half of my 8 million a venture capital?

Outsourcing Services

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

[link] Contact Hi inov: Wolfgang Krause | Managing Partner | w.krause@hiinov.com About BayBG Venture Capital With its venture capital team, BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, Munich, invests in Series A financing rounds and subsequent tech start-ups. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

Generative AI

Tom Tunguz

MAY 2, 2015

First, not all these companies raised money because they needed it, so venture capital raised isn’t a pure proxy for cash burn. Second, the cyclicality of the venture market has a greater impact on total dollars raised. and $8.9M, both of which occurred in 2008, would likely have been substantially larger today.

Startup

Tom Tunguz

JULY 20, 2014

In 2008, when I started working at Redpoint I knew very little about how the venture business worked, and before I started at the firm, I wanted to prepare by learning as much as I could about the industry. Unfortunately, not much was written about venture capital at the time.

Interviewing

Tom Tunguz

JUNE 13, 2015

Sometimes, financial discipline in startups is imposed by financial markets, like in 2008 when the total amount of venture capital investment plummeted after Lehman imploded. It’s what enables businesses to build exceptional go to market models, weather difficult times, and ultimately succeed.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

JUNE 19, 2020

Christoph co-founded Point Nine Capital in 2011. In 2008 he became an angel investor and discovered Zendesk, Clio, FreeAgent – and his love for SaaS. We’re an early stage venture capital firm focused primarily on B2B SaaS and B2B marketplaces. This podcast is sponsored by Guru.

Development Team Review

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

From that point on, we built a product and we launched it in February of 2008 out of a back of a coffee shop with one employee. So we launched the company in February of 2008. We launched the company in 2008. We saw this opportunity to grow faster, but we needed capital. We might have stumbled onto something here.

Scale

Kellblog

JULY 25, 2020

2008) it can get well below 5x. 2008, 2015) it’s not outrageous to think that multiples could drop towards the middle or bottom of that range, i.e., closer to 5 than 10 [6]. Looking at the blue line, you can see that while it’s pretty volatile, eyeballing it, I’d say it normally runs in the range between 5x and 10x.

Technical Review

The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

[link] Contact Hi inov: Wolfgang Krause | Managing Partner | w.krause@hiinov.com About BayBG Venture Capital With its venture capital team, BayBG Bayerische Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH, Munich, invests in Series A financing rounds and subsequent tech start-ups. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

Generative AI

Mucker Capital

JUNE 15, 2020

All told, over 40 million jobs have been shed since mid-March, more than quadruple the number that occurred during the 2008 financial crisis. Nor will most have access to venture capital or, for that matter, be a good fit for it. But the dynamics of the venture capital world are largely beside the point.

Venture Capital

Mucker Capital

MAY 6, 2020

When investors make available capital, it's possible to mitigate some of that risk by extending runway – in some cases, almost indefinitely. But markets are cyclical, and in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak, the venture capital landscape has changed. As an entrepreneur, there’s nothing you can do to control market conditions.

Startup

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Ilir Sela: It was around 2008, 2009, I started getting a lot of these family and friends that were asking for some help in terms of websites and online ordering. Our job is to continue to shift and help these small businesses transition their business from an offline business to a digital one. The Magnitude of an American Staple.

Scale

Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

2008: 317 customers. 2008: 42 employees. Of course, it’s important to note that HubSpot raised a significant amount of capital in their first five years. Of course, it’s important to note that HubSpot raised a significant amount of capital in their first five years. 2007: 48 customers. 2009: 1,150 customers.

Payment Features

Sales Hacker

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

I was young and dumb and didn’t know I probably shouldn’t start something like that right after the 2008 crisis. I started my career actually in venture capital, specifically in SAS venture capital. Tell us a little bit about the history of the firm and then from there we can segue into your background?

Scale

ProfitWell

MAY 18, 2020

It launched November 2008 with only $30,000 in the bank. million in funding from venture capital firms and now has a market cap of $17.1 Twilio , cloud communications platform, also found success after launching in the midst of a financial crisis. Later the company went on to attract $263.8

Data

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

I was on a board with John Doerr a while ago, you know, the legend of venture capital, he modeled 6% dilution a year. And for all intents and purposes, the founders alone maintained almost the majority of the company, put together the rest of the employee board, the team owned the majority of this company, right?

Acquisition

Point Nine Land

OCTOBER 22, 2019

In 2008 when [practice management] products came out, many in the legal profession had never even heard of the cloud and, among those who had, the general consensus was that using the cloud was certainly dangerous, perhaps irresponsible, and maybe even heretical,” explained legal journalist Robert Ambrogi in a recent article.

Technical Review

Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. Wistia Funding History $650,000 from angel investors in 2008 $775,000 from angel investors in 2010 $17.3M TWO ESTABLISHED COMPANIES CHANGE COURSE. in debt to buy out their investors.

CTO Hire

Outseta

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Pile on the growth expectations that come with the amount of venture capital that’s been poured into this space (Intercom and Drift alone have raised a collective $347M to date), and next thing you know live chat tools are being presented as something new. SnapEngage was founded in 2008, and Olark was founded in 2009.

Software Review

SaaStr

JULY 22, 2020

A discussion about venture capital and the effects Covid-19 has had on in the industry. Join Nicole Quinn, General Partner at Lightspeed Ventures, Ann Miura-Ko, Founding Partner at Floodgate, and Alex Konrad, Senior Editor at Forbes as they talk about what they have seen in the industry lately and how they are moving forward.

Venture Capital

SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

How does a startup that launched during the financial crisis in 2008 become a unicorn company in 2019? Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

OCTOBER 3, 2019

I’ve been in venture capital for about 20 years, made my first SaaS investment about 18 years ago and have really been focused on this space for a long time. I work at a firm called Shasta Ventures. And so we funded it in 2006 that full product didn’t come out until 2008. My name’s Doug Pepper.

SaaS

SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

Well, the 2008 economic insecurity, we passed the $700 billion stimulus called TARP. That happens in venture capital, and that’s happening right now. Every venture capitalist is stress testing his or her own portfolio. When uncertainty passes, VC funds have plenty of dry capital to put to work.

Technical Review

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

To date Gainsight have raised over $156m from some of the world’s best VCs in the form of Lightspeed, Bessemer, Insight Venture Partners, Battery Ventures and Salesforce Ventures. We actually almost went public. Nick Mehta: So you’re totally right and I think that’s interesting because there’s two sides to it.

Sales Hiring

FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

Like the iPhone is 2008. But I mean, if you go back to 2006 2007 2008 like that, yeah, that was just not a thing that people did. So the iPhone as we know it today was not even the iPhone of 2008 and the iPhone of 2008 was revolutionary. So take me back, like how did how did this project start? Like the way that we do it.

Consulting

ProfitWell

JULY 15, 2019

When it launched as the first cloud-based notes app during the recession in 2008, its founders didn't raise much venture capital. Evernote's lack of focus. Evernote was another product that spread like wildfire in the mid-2000s.

Pricing

SaaStr

JULY 29, 2020

Michelle : During the economic downturn right after the financial crisis in 2008. At this point, I’ve raised a billion dollars between a venture capital and then now we’re a public company. Michelle Zatelyn | COO + Co-Founder @ Cloudflare. And so we started to work on this in 2009. I really did not enjoy it.

Sales Hiring

SaaStr

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

David Skok: You asked a great question there and it’s sort of a problem that I helped create because I was one of the very first people back in 2008 that wrote about unit economics and got everybody excited about the importance of them and why they should be thinking about them. Jason Lemkin: [crosstalk 00:16:03] behind the paywall.

Scale

SaaStr

MAY 1, 2020

Navin Chaddha: I joined the venture capital business as an entrepreneur in residence in 2004 to work on my fourth company and one thing led to the other and I became a venture capitalist.

B2C

SaaStr

JUNE 7, 2019

To date, Amit has raised $68m in funding for Gong from the likes of Norwest, Battery Ventures, Cisco Investments, and Wing Venture Capital, just to name a few. To date, Amit has raised $68 million in funding for Gong from the likes of Norwest, Battery Ventures, Cisco Investments, and Wing Venture Capital, just to name a few.

Outsourced Development