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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Sand Hill Road

Tom Tunguz

In the 2000s, when capital was scarcer, founders & VCs would derive round size by debating the quantum of money required to achieve Series B milestones. When capital is scarce, it’s rationed. In the 2010s, US venture capital grew 40x in 10 years. In 2021, employment costs per capital increased to roughly $200k.

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5 Interesting Learnings From Slack. As It Gets Ready to IPO.

SaaStr

That’s way, way up from just 22% of revenue from $100k+ deals in 2017. million funded by Slack and the balance funded by the venture capital funds who partner with Slack Fund.” He was granted an additional 3m shares in 2017 and 1.3m The S-1 is full of enterprise case studies, from Oracle to Fox to Splunk.

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Modern Infrastructure Companies in the Cloud: Lessons Learned Building a $2 Billion Database Company from Scratch with Neo4j’s CEO Emil Eifrem

SaaStr

When the cloud first began to take shape, the market couldn’t help but be incredibly fragmented: open-source code distributed itself across the online ecosystem, and tons of venture capital funding poured into a new wave of startups. .

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Howdy from Texas: A Recap of Altitude 2017

BetterCloud

Last month we hosted Altitude 2017, our annual customer summit, at Brazos Hall in Austin, Texas. To give you an idea how the two days went down, here are the top nine takeaways from Altitude 2017: 1. As a CIO at a venture capital firm, Uy is always thinking about how to help his firm’s startups find more cloud-first IT talent.

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Pitchbook & IVP: Top Tier SaaS Companies Usually Raise at 15x ARR. It Was 114x in 2021.

SaaStr

So there are a lot of rough and arm chair metrics for fundraising in SaaS in terms of valuations. So the minor point is maybe we’re just back to 2016-2017 in SaaS venture capital for Series A and later rounds. For the best ones. We’re never “going back” to how things were in late 2020 and 2021.

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The 18 Outstanding Speakers at SaaStock LatAm 2019

SaaStock

With an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management, Rodrigo Baer launched a successful career in consultancy and entrepreneurship, and today is among the top figures in venture capital for early-stage tech companies in Brazil. Then she joined Winning By Design in 2017 as Latin America Director. Rodrigo Dantas, CEO, Vindi.

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Bootstrappers: SaaS startups finding their own route to $1M+ ARR

Chart Mogul

The growing divide between SaaS and venture capital. I’m using SaaS seed rounds as a proxy metric. I believe competition is a major driving force, especially since venture capital is conspicuously copious.” In 2017, we’re seeing the emergence of a slightly evolved version of SaaS business.