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Going Big in Venture Capital

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years ago in the first few months of SaaStr.com, in November 2012. Some may even be more than just 1%-3% of the committed capital pic.twitter.com/hqca4dfVxY. And let’s assume Leone and Sequoia put in 70% of the capital. Now, to a small fund, or a new VC, I’d think a $14m loss would just be awful.

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SaaStr Podcast #394 with Sunil Dhaliwal and Jason Lemkin

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394: Where is Venture Capital today? Sunil Dhaliwal: I was at one of the biggest firms around and I think we had a $200 million fund and people were like, I can’t believe we’re running $200 million in venture capital. The first is: It’s the best proxy for AWS growth in the private markets.

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Key Lessons from a $5B SaaS Category Leader (Video + Transcript)

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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. Responses was acquired by Oracle, Neolane was acquired by Adobe all in 2012 and 2013. My name’s Doug Pepper.

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