SaaStr
DECEMBER 14, 2023
Alison brings the perspective of all sides of a startup, from investing to SaaS to Cloud. Pursuing Two Different Segments: The Tale of Startups vs. Enterprise From a marketing perspective, the GTM marketing position and product market messaging differ between Google Workspace and Google Cloud.
SaaStr
APRIL 24, 2021
A lot of our SaaS older times don’t quite know what to make with a lot of B2B startups these days, let alone some public SaaS companies. So many startups these days are claiming they have “ARR” from revenue that … doesn’t recur. Well, if it were 2016, we’d say no. Well of course it does.
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SaaStr
MAY 6, 2022
Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure and even Google Cloud are on fire, adding insane amounts of revenue this year. January 2016, SaaS stocks were riding high. It was called 2016: * Everyone panicked * Seemed like multiples would never recover * LinkedIn sold to Microsoft for 7x ARR. Customers are buying more than ever. And then ….
FastSpring
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Since 2016, SaaS North has been recognized as THE Canadian hub for rapidly-scaling SaaS founders and their teams. It is the largest in-person event in the country—2,000+ attendees, 800+ companies, and 100+ speakers—along with features such as Betakit Keynote Stage, AWS Pitchfest, Workspaces Tradeshow.
SaaStr
JANUARY 26, 2023
While the data ends here, here’s what I can tell you I am seeing in growth rounds today: Very few growth rounds are happening at all When the do happen, they are for capital efficient startups growing > 50% at scale And … the peak valuation is about 15x. Even If It’s Awful for Series A-E Rounds. For the best ones.
The Angel VC
FEBRUARY 20, 2016
Starting a new company is always hard and most SaaS startups never get to $1-2 million in ARR. Whether starting an Internet startup has really become 10x cheaper depends on how exactly you phrase the question and is debatable. Update 03/11/2016: I wrote a followup post to the post above.]. Let me rephrase that.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 31, 2019
Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Retail was mentioned twice, that’s it, and AWS was mentioned 78 times, so it’s probably not surprising that they’re doing this. I think it’s a really staggering stat.
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