SaaStr

JANUARY 2, 2023

So I’ve been investing since 2013, and have done fairly well. The goal for SaaStr Fund is to invest in 2-4 of the very top seed / late seed startups from $10k-$150k in MRR. The goal for SaaStr Fund is to invest in 2-4 of the very top seed / late seed startups from $10k-$150k in MRR. So we’re behind.

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SaaStock

MARCH 26, 2019

We had a closer look at who the young upstarts of Latin America are in search of the most exciting Latin American SaaS startups. With them in mind, we have created our Startup Program , tailored especially for SaaS startups. Here are the most exciting Latin American SaaS startups that we cannot wait to meet in less than a month.

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SaaStr

JUNE 18, 2023

SaaStr 666: Scaling a SaaS Startup to $1B+ ARR: Insights from UiPath’s CEO and Founder Daniel Dines  2. SaaStr 663: 9 Things I Wish I Would Have Told My 2013 Self: Lessons Learned from 9 Years with Heap’s Former CTO, Dan Robinson                                   Top Videos This Week: 1.

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SaaStr

MAY 28, 2023

SaaStr 663: 9 Things I Wish I Would Have Told My 2013 Self: Lessons Learned from 9 Years with Heap’s Former CTO, Dan Robinson   3. SaaStr 660: CRO Confidential: 3 Secrets For Early-Stage Startups To Acquire Customers With CoSell.io Co-Founder & Co-CEO Brendon Cassidy  5.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 22, 2018

And in 2013, the Series B median surpassed the 2009 Series C median. The truth is - in today’s market - the median startup is doing that already. In 2009, the median post Series C startup counted $20.8M In 2018, a post-Series B startup would have received $26.7M Seed rounds have not surpassed 2009 Series A levels.

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SaaStr

APRIL 19, 2024

How do you reverse-engineer your first million as a SaaS startup founder? He’s invested in startups as a VC since 2013 and has 10x his fund. His first million came from a startup making implantable batteries from nanomaterials that sold for $50M after 12.5

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2023

Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: The Three Valuation Lows in SaaS: 2013, 2016, and 2022 5 Interesting Learnings from Doximity at $450,000,000 in ARR Is Cold Calling Dead? Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

a16z crypto is a venture capital fund that has been investing in crypto and web3 startups — across all stages — since 2013.

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 21, 2024

a16z crypto is a venture capital fund that has been investing in crypto and web3 startups — across all stages — since 2013.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 15, 2017

The article pointed to the seeming collapse in the amount of venture capital raised by San Francisco startups relative to other regions. Note, the levels still exceed 2010-2013. The startups raising hundreds of millions or billions might bias the data, I thought. Now it’s the Valley startups’ turn to raise.

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SaaStr

JUNE 11, 2023

SaaStr 663: 9 Things I Wish I Would Have Told My 2013 Self: Lessons Learned from 9 Years with Heap’s Former CTO, Dan Robinson  4. SaaStr 660: CRO Confidential: 3 Secrets For Early-Stage Startups To Acquire Customers With CoSell.io

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SaaStr

JUNE 4, 2023

SaaStr 663: 9 Things I Wish I Would Have Told My 2013 Self: Lessons Learned from 9 Years with Heap’s Former CTO, Dan Robinson  4. CRO Confidential: 3 Secrets For Early-Stage Startups To Acquire Customers with CoSell.io’s Co-Founder Brendon Cassidy 4.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The problem with selling your startup is the long exit time. Who wants to wait almost a decade to buy a startup when the face of tech is evolving at such a rapid pace? Micro startup acquisitions. But before we dive into that, we need to look into what micro startup acquisitions are and why you need to sit up and take notice.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 29, 2023

1/ Want the best startup VP Sales candidates in the world? Zenefits was the hottest/fastest growing startup from 2013-2016. Though I think they are riskier. Either way, I’d pass on Been There, Done That. Here’s how to get the list of them. First, some context. We were valued at 4.5B

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The Angel VC

APRIL 10, 2013

[Update 12/20/2013: I have extended the dashboard to include multiple pricing tiers and annual subscription plans. Over the last few years I've helped quite a lot of SaaS startups to create or fine-tune their KPI dashboards. ] Over the last few years I've helped quite a lot of SaaS startups to create or fine-tune their KPI dashboards.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2016

What is your SaaS startup worth in an acquisition? What is your SaaS startup worth in an acquisition? In 2013, acquirers paid the highest multiples for premium companies at more than 8x. 2013 was a banner year, followed by a steep drop in 2015 and a slight recovery in 2016 at 11.5x.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 7, 2014

It would seem hardware startups are booming. Second, there seems to be a growing number of hardware startups bubbling in incubators like Lemnos Labs and Highway1. Before 2013, there were very few hardware seed rounds exceeding $1M, but in 2013, 56% of seed stage hardware companies that raised rounds, raised more than $1M.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 9, 2013

Not constrained to large competitors, startups like FitBit and Jawbone launched competing (and nearly identical) products within weeks of each other: the FitBit Flex and the Jawbone Up Even newer segments like gesture control of TVs or GoPro self-recording cameras are addressed by six competitors, many of them white-label.

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SaaStr

JULY 4, 2021

One of the earliest posts I did on SaaStr was back in 2013 when I made my first venture investment, co-leading the seed round in Pipedrive. From 2013: I was asked on Quora why I recently invested in Pipedrive. SaaStr Podcast #174: Timo Rein, Founder & CEO @ Pipedrive Discusses How To Make It Big In The US As A Non-US SaaS Startup.

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SaaStr

JULY 7, 2021

rates them on 3-Year Growth – a slightly strange metric for start-ups at all different stages), for SaaS and SaaS-ish startups: [note, the higher they are on the list, the faster they are growing on a % basis YoY]. #7 Where it Went: IPO’d in 2013, hit $250m ARR by 2016, a cquired for $1.8b in 2011 GAAP revenue. 78 Marketo.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

a16z crypto is a venture capital fund that has been investing in crypto and web3 startups — across all stages — since 2013.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 10, 2016

For all the talk about late stage rounds, megarounds and unicorns, early stage startups are benefitting disproportionately from near-record years of venture capital investment. Of the $42B invested in startups in 2015, 34% or about $14B was raised in series A and seed rounds. Perhaps the strong IPO year in 2013 enticed investors.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 11, 2022

Launched in 2013, it has over 2000 employees and more than 60M active users. Just-in-time learning is a must-have trait for startups. Canva started building collaborative design in 2013 and shipped it in 2020. Canva hit $1B in ARR at the end of last year. Practice just-in-time learning. Learning is a constant journey.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 23, 2014

This data is Crunchbase data filtered for the largest 20 or so sectors from 2010-2013. The hardware startup movement has been catapulted by the success of crowdfunding, and the quantified self movement has amassed some tremendous momentum as well. The Android startups which raised seeds in 2011 and 2012 raised As in 2013.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

The median 2013 VC-backed tech IPO burned $33M and the average company burned $76M. The chart above shows the net income/burn rate of 2013 tech IPO by years since founding. In addition to the capital invested to become public, a startup must have cash on its balance sheet at IPO. On average, these now-public names kept 1.1

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Back then, in 2011, Lyft was a small Series-A startup called Zimride with under 50 employees. Lyft is one of many companies that began as a small startup but quickly rose to a multibillion-dollar company. The total addressable market continues to grow and is ripe for selling to, but very few startups reach unicorn status.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 19, 2014

Each year the National Venture Capital Association and Thomson Reuters release data characterizing the state of the startup market. I’ve analyzed the 2013 data and there are three important trends I observed. All in all, the startup exit market is quite healthy. Let me explain the phrase material startup acquisition.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Naming your startup can be one of the hardest things to do when starting a company. Last and perhaps most importantly, investors need to like it because the first letter of startup’s name has meaningful impact on how easily the company will be able to raise money. Startups with the letter A garner 50% larger investments.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 4, 2015

To calculate the data, I filtered all the startups who had been acquired for undisclosed amounts and raised less than $6.5M (the sum of the average seed round in 2014 and the median series A ). Year 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014. Startups are raising less and less before being acquired. Acquihires 59 64 67 68 61.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 9, 2014

See an updated version of this post: Trends in the Startup Acquisition Market in 2015. The venture-backed startup IPO market has remained strong over the past five quarters, with 20 or more IPOs in each of those quarters. I was curious how the strength of the IPO market has impacted the acquisition market.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 20, 2014

The number of Series As has grown by 31% annually for the past 5 years, reaching more than 831 Series As in 2013, up from 284 in 2009. At the moment, Series Bs are the hardest rounds to raise for startups. Before 2013, the Series B market was basically flat. In short, no founder should be concerned about the Series A market.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Seed, Series A, Series B and Later Stage startups employ 1M people, up from 650,000 just six months ago, according to Mattermark’s data sources. Mattermark’s employment statistics proxy the startup formation rate. At the DEMO conference, Danielle Morrill, the founder and CEO of Mattermark presented an impressive statistic.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 10, 2015

The rate at which startups are raising follow-on rounds is decreasing, and has decreased steadily from 2003 through 2013. Between 2003 and 2006, post-Series A startups raised series Bs about 57% of the time. Ultimately, this data implies that there is plenty of Series A capital available for startups. standard series A.

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Tom Tunguz

JANUARY 2, 2016

Startups building analytics products command roughly 10% of both seed and series A dollars. Cloud computing, which encompasses the infrastructure products used by developers to build services, has remained flat at 4% over the past five years despite some recent declines in 2013 and 2014. of the market in 2010 to more than 7.5%

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SaaStr

APRIL 2, 2023

Mistake: On the other hand… not betting on the team that got me there “Everything will be fine once we get a new head of [X]” -every startup CEO ever (also me, frequently) When you launch a company, the initial team is usually whoever you can get. To run a startup, you have to make bets. For this one deal, we just need to do X.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 23, 2018

In other words, investors are concentrating capital in fewer startups. Consequently, this smaller number of startups has substantially longer runway, fueling a longer gestation period to series A. In 2011, the median startup raised a $0.5M Today, the median startup raises a $1.5M seed and a $3M Series A 9 months later.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

One of the selling points of joining a startup over a big company is the additional ownership and impact that execs feel which is why including them makes sense. There is nothing more fulfilling than the startup journey and the same should be the case for board meetings too! Ajay Agarwal is a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures.

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