SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Today Carman is Founder and Managing Partner of Click Ventures, the globally renowned Hong Kong venture capital firm. After five years at Ernst & Young in New York, she served as Vice President at Citigroup in the Big Apple. Morgan, and Deutsche Bank. in 2015, she made a move to the other side and left banking.

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SaaStr

MARCH 7, 2021

That was great and created freedom from venture capital and many other benefits. At $8m in ARR, if you have $2m of cash in the bank, you get real nervous investing much more than $500k-$750k, $1m max. It’s subtle, but in SaaS I’ve learned you under-invest if you have < 50% of your ARR in the bank.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Jason Lemkin: I think I noticed a pattern, and I wrote it up a couple of years ago and refreshed it, and then I’ll add a new anecdote. And I get a call on my phone from our bank, Citibank, Greg, my banker, for years through 2008, like, “Greg, how you doing? Citibank’s the largest bank in the world?”

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SaaSHolic

MAY 5, 2023

Vitor Torres shared his journey in founding Contabilizei and how they integrated accounting with banking solutions to provide a full-stack experience for their customers. The cost of capital has gone up, and digital markets have returned to normal market sizes, leading to a new environment of lower valuations and less money in the market.

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Outseta

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Venture capital is not inherently bad or the manifestation of greed and commitments to impossible-to-deliver growth. Perhaps worse yet, long tenured employees of the company began leaving, saying the new focus on growth “didn’t feel Wistia.” At the end of the day, “We broke pretty much everything,” says CEO Chris Savage.

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Sales Hacker

JANUARY 21, 2020

Angus Davis: Foundation Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm. Although our firm is based in Silicon Valley, I’m based on the East Coast so I spend a lot of time working with founders in New York City, Boston, and London. We were part of the office of the CTO. And that was not a success.

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