Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

…or why this software investor has a crush on hardware It’s hard to find a VC who doesn’t love software, and for good reason. Software is also a lovely thing to scale. It’s not very surprising then that we’ve built, invested in, and bought a ton of software over the last few decades. But what about hardware?

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 14, 2013

With more than 80% of venture capital investments occurring in enterprise and with the public markets disproportionately rewarding SaaS companies with huge enterprise value-to-revenue multiples ( median is 7.6 ), it’s no surprise that interest Software-as-a-Service is booming.

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OPEXEngine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The Horizontal SaaS business makes software for use across all industries; the Vertical SaaS business makes software for a specific industry. Both new and existing SaaS companies moved into developing industry-specific software, giving rise to Vertical SaaS companies. Horizontal SaaS Companies.

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Andreessen Horowitz

OCTOBER 4, 2023

However, if a company has backing from a venture capital firm, we would recommend that they meet with their venture firms first to review the firm’s existing relationships and/or to get recommendations for lenders based on the company’s stage and preference. For corporate debt, normal venture counsel (e.g.,

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Felix will share insights on how he founded Collibra in Belgium, successfully relocated the company headquarters to New York City, and raised $233 million total in venture capital to become a unicorn company. So, you just raised your series E one of the European software unicorns, congrats on that. Join us at SaaStr Annual 2020.

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Kellblog

JANUARY 5, 2020

I’d argue it’s not – the markets have changed structurally such that companies are staying private far longer and thus living off venture capital (and/or growth-stage private equity) in ways not previously seen. The interesting question here is whether mean reversion is relevant. digital transformation, security, disruption).

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Kellblog

JANUARY 3, 2022

That Europeans don’t want software in your category? Maybe, to pick a trivial example, Europeans don’t want to buy your compliance software because it’s weak on supporting European regulations [4]. During those same 7 years our archrival (a company called Relational Software) grew from $30M to $1B.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2020

That happens in venture capital, and that’s happening right now. Every venture capitalist is stress testing his or her own portfolio. When uncertainty passes, VC funds have plenty of dry capital to put to work. This is the US Venture Capital Market. I think you could say we’re generally on pause.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In order to execute on this mission, founders can bootstrap their company, raise outside money ( venture capital is the most popular), or use a combination of both to help build their business. Security/Compliance: Early-stage startups are likely not going to be SOC certified.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

The tokenization of traditional financial instruments such as stock, bonds, loans, private equity and venture capital investments will become increasingly common. 2018 already paved the way for a number of tokenized fund launches such as Blockchain Capital and SPiCE VC. on how we engage with their software (e.g.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 10, 2020

I think one thing about RJ Metrics that maybe goes on that list of mistakes is that even though we founded the company in 2008, the next thing that happened the day after we founded the company was the Lehman Brothers collapsed and the venture capital market was non-existent. The business ran for four years completely bootstrapped.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

It had all been enterprise software, no SaaS. In enterprise software, it’s all about contracts, long term contracts. Just as an example, at Battery we invested in a company called Bright Tree, which is outside of Atlanta, which makes software for the home health care market. I said, I got this. How hard can it be?

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Point Nine Land

MARCH 7, 2019

Contract reviews with big clients, compliance matters, any type of changes of law, tax audits, dealing with advisors, etc. From my own experience of joining the finance department of a startup in year 10 with ca. Not sure what your subsidiary structure etc. are usually also things such a person could take care of instead of the founders.

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? So HubSpot became a software platform that companies would use to transform the way they market from outbound to inbound.

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SmartKarrot

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It is a sign of development, showing that the business has effectively transitioned from an R&D organization dependent on venture capital to an autonomous, long-lasting enterprise. . But as more business companies choose the SaaS (Software as a Service) path, now is a fantastic time to enter this industry. .

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SaaStr

MARCH 8, 2019

We were both in business school, and my aha was I was spending some time at a local venture capital firm helping with them just thinking about how do we grow these companies, saying, “What’s the plan? So HubSpot became a software platform that companies would use to transform the way they market from outbound to inbound.

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Intercom, Inc.

AUGUST 1, 2019

Michael and his team created a lucrative reward system for startups , which they were able to do through group purchasing (taking advantage of a vertical that allowed them to buy software packages). They understood technology, and they had a unique respect for regulatory and compliance. Michael: I was really aligned.

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