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Massive Acquisitions in Software Startups

Tom Tunguz

What drives the acquisition market of startups? X 2019 23.4% - 2020 61.1% It’s the big deals. In the last decade, the total number of venture backed software M&A by count has remained relatively constant. The black line shows the linear trend across US venture backed companies with disclosed values of $50m or more.

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What makes a startup a huge success?

SaaStr

Q: What makes a startup a huge success? That’s a wrap on Q4 2019 Earnings: $331M revenue, growing 62% Y/Y… and for FY 2019 – a huge milestone for the company crossing the billion mark at $1.1B! The post What makes a startup a huge success? My definition of “success” has changed over time. It was great.

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Just How Troubled is the Bay Area Startup Scene?

Tom Tunguz

There’s a prevailing narrative that the health of the Bay Area startup ecosystem faces challenges. San Francisco’s share of startup rounds by count has fallen from its perch ten years ago. In 2021, San Francisco Bay Area startups raised $126b. In 2019, US startups raised $126.4b.

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The Great AI Reset: It’s Time to Refound Your Start-Up. Now.

SaaStr

Is your B2B startup now part of the past … because it was founded before 2023? VCs especially are obsessed with AI-native startups. We’re seeing a classic diffusion of innovation curve: the AI-native startups of 2023 were the innovators. No one’s coming to save you. It’s not too late. We are early.

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Design Hacks for Non-Designers: Ask Expert Laura Klein

Speaker: Laura Klein, Principal at Users Know and Author of UX for Lean Startups

Laura—principal of Users Know and author of Build Better Products and UX for Lean Startups—has over 20 years of experience helping companies innovate responsibly and improve their product development processes. August 20, 2019 12:30 PM PDT, 3:30 PM EDT, 8:30 BST How to differentiate between necessary and nice-to-have features.

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Inflation and Deflation in Web2 and Web3 Startups

Tom Tunguz

Before a startup is founded, no stock exists. The startup can inflate share count by creating shares. By the time it’s public, more than 100m shares exist across hundreds of shareholders (employees, institutional investors, retail investors). Conversely, the company can deflate share count by buying shares and destroying them.

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Predictions for 2019

Tom Tunguz

Here are some predictions for 2019 and a review of my thoughts for 2018, many of which were wrong. This will force startups to move up-the-stack into the platform and application tiers. Startups begin to siphon off important but underserved segments of SaaS incumbent’s customer bases. Looking forward to a great 2019.

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4 Competencies of a Successful Sales Team

Speaker: Collin Stewart, Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Predictable Revenue

Join Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Predictable Revenue Collin Stewart to learn how to use this formula to fast-track your startups’ growth journey. October 29, 2019 11:00 AM PDT, 2:00 PM EDT, 7:00 PM BST.