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TAM is Great. But What Really Matters is That You Believe You Can Hit $100m ARR in 7 Years.

SaaStr

And the model said we’d need it … It also showed me that, barely, if you squinted, and the market grew just right … by 2013, there’d be $100m in ARR in our space. Worth hiring a sales team, raising some venture capital (even a modest amount). And so it is, although we didn’t capture 100% of it.

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The State of VC Funding in Europe: How to Raise Capital

SaaSOptics

The State of VC Funding in Europe: How to Raise Capital. So, you’ve decided on European venture capital to scale your SaaS. . Even after all that hard work, without capital to scale your idea, your progress could screech to a halt. Compared to the United States, venture capital in the EU is still very new. .

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SaaStr Podcasts for the Week with Keith Rabois and Jason Lemkin

SaaStr

I wrote–I looked a little while ago and I wrote an early SaaStr post in 2013. I rented a small office in downtown Palo Alto, and it was middle of 2013 when the last boards came down on a retail store. Jason Lemkin: It was boarded up until 2013. Jason Lemkin: 2013 had been boarded up. It’s near Wahlburgers.

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The Latest in VC Funding + Scaling SaaS: An AMA with SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin (Pod 581)

SaaStr

And my first investment ever in 2013, in the old, old days, was Pipedrive which ended up selling for well over a billion dollars cash during the peak. I believe you, it’s true, but venture capital is a weird niche thing that… Frankly, venture capital at any stage only wants to invest in folks that are already off to the races.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

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. In 2013, Thiago joined Resultados Digitais, one of the most renowned SaaS businesses in Latin America.

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

SaaStr

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. So they had an idea and fast forward 2013 the company went public. We were trying to go public in 2013.

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Are We Due for a SaaSacre?

Kellblog

in 2013) it can get well above 10x. Only in 2013 did it get close to these levels. Finally, to come back to valuation multiples, let’s look at a metric that’s new to me, growth-adjusted EV/R multiples. This is a cool metric. I like financial metrics that normalize things, built in [11].