The Angel VC

FEBRUARY 20, 2016

It could make seed and Series A investing harder because the percentage of seed and Series A funded SaaS startups that becomes really big would decrease - and VCs need large outcomes in order to make their business model work. Update 03/11/2016: I wrote a followup post to the post above.].

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OpenView Labs

JANUARY 29, 2020

I actually wrote about the phenomenon , which I called ‘The Slow Death of Freemium’, back in 2016. How to optimize your freemium model. Stories of ditching a freemium model. When is freemium the right strategy for your business? Is Freemium The Right Business Model? No business model is foolproof, of course.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

It was around that time about 12 years ago that Jeff Bezos launched AWS, and some of you may remember that, when he did this, Wall Street analysts were looking at him and saying, “Why would you take what’s already a very unprofitable business and drive it further into the red by investing in this AWS initiative?”

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Outseta

JANUARY 20, 2020

In this post I’m going to share the most important lessons about growing a SaaS business that I learned at Buildium—collectively, these things had an awful lot to do with the company being valued so highly. How the hell does that happen? Venture capital is a tool and a commitment, not an outcome.

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