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Micro Startup Acquisition: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Selling Small Startups

Neil Patel

Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. For example, when Instagram bought Luma (its first acquisition), the tiny three-person team was part of the deal. Tiny Capital. Tiny Capital is a different breed in the micro acquisition space.

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Scaling Revenue via Indirect Channels and Platform Ecosystems with Stripe, Box and Slack (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

For those of you who did not clap, Stripe is a set of developer APIs that help businesses accept payments online and do all sorts of innovative things in moving money in the cloud. Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products. Thank you Ceci. I’m Vicki Lin.

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Who are Asia’s SaaS VCs?

SaaStock

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. BEENEXT is a Singapore-based VC investing in fintech, platforms, payments and SaaS businesses. Stage: Venture Capital.

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

SaaStr

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. They did it so that all of our payments could be managed out of Bill.com. It’s frustrating, but it’s true.

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The Road Now Taken: 4 SaaS Start-ups And Their Quest For Independent Growth

Outseta

By Geoff Roberts Last year Clement Vouillon of Point Nine Capital wrote an article entitled The Rise of the Non “VC compatible” SaaS Companies. It made the rounds in tech circles online. Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth.

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“The “Dos & Don’ts” of Building Winning SaaS Companies with G2 Crowd (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

I sell highly engineered complex pumps and I can’t sell them like a book online.” Dell was selling configural PCs online. And for me as I mentioned BigMachines is a very personal problem. We burned through $23 million in venture capital and only had 1 million in revenue to show for it.

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Seed Investing Today: What’s Changed, What Hasn’t with Aileen Lee and Jason Lemkin (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Personally, our team has been holding back a little bit. What I personally have seen in my little portfolio and the founders I work with is what I call the COVID beneficiaries. Look, okay, let’s say half your business sells to eCommerce, but 20% sells to live events. Are you more excited about eCommerce?