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Investing and Venture Capital in 2023 With SaaStr Founder/CEO Jason Lemkin and Atrium Founder/CRO Pete Kazanjy (Pod 624 + Video)

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He believes more seasoned VCs will be more willing to take on new ventures, particularly if they are focused on early-stage investments. For folks who do seed up to early [Series] A…anyone who has been [investing] since 2015 or so –– they’re excited to invest now.”

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Startup Investment Trends in 2015

Tom Tunguz

In the last six months, VCs have invested more than $57B according to Mattermark data , which puts 2015 on pace to exceed 2000 as the year the most venture capital will be deployed, ever. Which sectors are benefitting from all these venture dollars?

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This is the Most Ridiculous Use of Money Management I've Ever Heard. What is Wrong with You?

Tom Tunguz

One of the tweets linked to a speech Stanley Druckenmiller gave in 2015 about Black Wednesday. When I started in venture capital, I didn’t realize this happened. I’ve been following many public market investors on Twitter over the past few weeks to understand how they view the vacillation of the public markets.

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From Uncertainty to +$400M: How Braze Found Opportunity in Headwinds with Braze’s Co-Founder & CEO Bill Magnuson (Podcast 671 + Video)

SaaStr

When I look at the purpose of venture capital, it’s not to burn a dollar five in order to grow a dollar of revenue,” says Magnuson. From 2011 to 2015, the only part of the mobile market that was making money was mobile gaming, but tricking children into buying fish food wasn’t a sustainable business. Blaze was founded in 2011.

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The Fastest Growing Areas of Startup Investment in 2015

Tom Tunguz

Each year, starting in mid-2012 through mid-2015, these sectors have grown their investment dollars by more than 145%, according to Mattermark data. Bitcoin is the fastest growing sector followed by photo sharing and physical storage (which includes moving and self storage companies). Email and dating’s decline are less obvious.

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SaaS Fundraising in 2017

Tom Tunguz

In other words, there was a concentration of capital in an increasingly small number of names. A year later, those trends have continued to converge, and SaaS valuations have resurged, reaching their highs of the 2014-2015 boom. In 2016, venture capitalists reduced their investment in staff companies by 1 ⁄ 3 , falling to $2.8

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5 Years and 300 SaaStr Podcasts with Harry Stebbings. A Look Back.

SaaStr

Harry originally had me on 20VC way back in 2015 here when I briefly worked at a Sand Hill venture capital firm. The whole team at SaaStr is blessed to work with Harry and I thought I’d share a few fun stories and learnings. I was more a blog/Quora kind of person back then.