Tom Tunguz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

I’ve been searching for a great history of the venture capital industry since before I joined Redpoint. Creative Capital. Nicholas traces the history of the venture capital industry back to whaling. They were called venture capitalists back then, but they serve the same role. Done Deals.

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SaaStock

MARCH 8, 2019

Today Carman is Founder and Managing Partner of Click Ventures, the globally renowned Hong Kong venture capital firm. She is also an active tech investor in Asia, complementing the financing with business development insights. And then she studied software development at Fullstack Academy. The reason? Jessica Liu.

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SaaStr

AUGUST 31, 2023

Navigating Corporate Venture Capital: Strategic Benefits for Early-Stage Founders with Erin Yang, VP and Chief Technologist Workday Savannah Greene, Principle @ Workday #2: How Expensify Grew to 10M Users Through Word of Mouth Joanie Wang, Director of Marketing and Brand #3. The Most Popular 2023 Annual Braindates So Far: #1.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Where Venture Capital Really is Right Now, With Accel, Iconiq Growth, and Salesforce Ventures at G2 Reach. SaaStr 615: Where Venture Capital Really is Right Now, With Accel, Iconiq Growth, and Salesforce Ventures at G2 Reach.   . MongoDB and HashiCorp have raced to record quarters.

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SaaStr

JUNE 6, 2024

To me this is a shining example of the type of extremely high leverage outcomes made possible by Corporate Venture Capital if you genuinely work to partner with your portfolio companies. Peter is a founder twice over, and most recently ran strategy and business development for Very Good Security.

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SaaStr

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Teleport (www.goteleport.com) — Teleport provides identity-based infrastructure access that gives developers material productivity gains without compromising security. She also developed Bessemer’s Cash Conversion Score and authors the annual Cloud 100 Benchmarks Reports.

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SaaStr

JULY 21, 2022

VC State of the Market with SaaStr’s CEO and Cowboy Ventures. Jason Lemkin, Founder & CEO @ SaaStr and Aileen Lee, Founder & Managing Partner @ Cowboy Ventures sit down to discuss the current state of venture capital. Scaling Revenue in 2022: What’s the Same and What’s Different?

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2024

Base10 is a research-driven venture capital firm investing in technology companies automating the largest sectors of the Real Economy and founders who believe purpose is key to profits. Investors with true differentiation are going to be the ones to win. #5. What’s different about your fund / how you invest and support founders?

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

They developed the Open Source predecessor to their company. This conversation was candid as ever and Jason debunked the ease that startups and venture capital are often portrayed with. There are founders who strategically figure out what they’re going to build from Day 1. That’s very strategic.

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2023

We also see the top private equity firms registering early, and the list of publicly traded companies sending Corporate Development teams is at least 2Xing year over year. From the Founding Partners, Managing Directors and big name SaaS VCs who grace the stage.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

The VC Fresco Capital is based in three key locations: Palo Alto, Hong Kong and Tokyo. It provides funding internationally to remarkable companies with strong human capital. Fresco Capital focuses on businesses developing new solutions in the enterprise, education, infrastructure, healthcare, consumer goods and entertainment.

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Clouded Judgement

AUGUST 30, 2024

Simultaneously, venture markets have expanded dramatically, contributing to this overcrowding. In a world without venture capital (or other sources of external financing for startups), each company would have to grow solely based on the merits of their product and sales. Creating transformative leaps is not easy.

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SaaStr

JANUARY 25, 2024

We were very early in developing a thesis around SaaS-enabled marketplaces and BC was a construction tech investment that came in via cold inbound and was started by first time founders. Before heading to Silicon Valley for Google, he worked for DoubleClick, in venture capital and as a strategy consultant.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 10, 2022

From a venture capital perspective, there’s now a premium on driving efficient growth rather than growth at any cost. . “Sales and marketing alignment is a terrific place to figure out and improve efficient growth.” . Beyond that, it models a specific way of working together for the entire company to adopt. Deliver one narrative.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 16, 2021

it excludes ecosystem funds raised by cryptocos to develop their ecosystems. It’s too early in the development of the ecosystem for most businesses to concentrate on customer acquisition funnel optimization. Plus the $38b of venture capital invested in crypto year-to-date doesn’t ask many questions.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

What are the best-kept secrets about venture capital? How do I start my own venture capital fund with this money? We’ll either outsource the web development to get a beta version running for users or make a non-working prototype to present to investors. Have you ever cold emailed the CEO of a big company?

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The Angel VC

MAY 17, 2017

The driver behind this development is what my colleague Clément Vouillon has described as “The Rise of Non ‘VC compatible’ SaaS Companies” , that is the fact that compared to some years ago there are now many more SaaS companies that get to $1M, $5M, maybe even $10M in ARR. As Clément said, this is not about good or bad.

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Tom Tunguz

NOVEMBER 4, 2017

Initial Coin Offerings, a fundraising mechanism for companies using cryptocurrencies as a mechanism to buy their service, seem to be upending the world of venture capital. Recently, I’ve been wondering how prevalent ICOs are and whether they could potentially be a substitute for venture capital. Tezos raised $232M.

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SaaStr

MAY 27, 2021

For the past 10 years, I’ve been a sales advisor for the portfolio companies of early stage venture capital firm True Ventures. Ideally, this is a mid-level digital marketer or content creator who can help develop a library of assets that can inspire and educate potential customers. . By Lars Nilsson.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 27, 2013

Though the industry is called venture capital, the goal of a VC isn’t to maximize every risk. Technology risk - Does the company have to develop a new technology that may not reach fruition, or may take much longer than expected? Here are the major risks that I typically review when a startup pitches.

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SaaStock

JANUARY 30, 2019

It is a venture capital firm based in Brazil and Silicon Valley. Its partners boast diverse venture experience and have previously invested in more than 70 companies. The VC firm focuses on ensuring entrepreneurs the right conditions for developing a winning business. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed. Stage: Seed.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Emil Eifrem, founder and CEO of graph database management system Neo4j , has dedicated years to developing his insights into how cloud infrastructure has grown — and where it’s heading. However, these developments have also set the stage for a world in which any company, of any size, can potentially access any kind of technology.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 22, 2017

The surge of venture capital in the last five years worsens this predicament. If no entrant in a particular category has established product market fit, and budget exists, there must exist an opportunity for a new startup to develop the right product. These three points are all true. I will add another. Inside sales models.

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 18, 2015

Developers chose the GPL family of licenses in 42% of projects compared to 20% for the MIT license and 16% for Apache. However, looking at the chart above, we can see that Apache projects raise a disproportionate amount of capital, compared to their share of open-source projects. License Share. GPL Family 42%. Apache 16%.

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2019

3: Microsoft Invests $1 BIllion in OpenAI to Develop AI Technologies on Azure. 5. “Exclusive: How Sequoia Became India’s Biggest Venture Capital Firm” The big VC firms are just as competitive and aggressive in India, and in some cases, China and in the U.S. And ask them if it could happen to you.

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SaaStr

APRIL 11, 2023

Silicon Valley Bank specialized in venture capital-backed startups, primarily in tech. Understandably, the collapse of a venture bank where companies could lose billions of dollars was staggering. Wait And See DiTargiani has worked in sales and business development roles in Silicon Valley for a long time.

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SaaStr

JULY 29, 2019

These are the Best of Times in SaaS, and by all means, if you are able to raise venture capital, and need it, raise it. But I see two big regrets in venture capital, and they are somewhat confusingly at different ends of the fundraising spectrum. Hire a head of business development early. Unnecessary Dilution.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 21, 2017

Thousands if not tens of thousands of pages have been written about the marketer, sales developer, inside account executive and customer success play. Feature optimization - develop a product with 20% of the features but 80% of the value, and use a simplified product to challenge the competition. In addition, the playbook is known.

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OPEXEngine

JANUARY 28, 2020

Is RBF simply an alternative to venture capital funding? Companies can use RBF instead of working with VCs, but often, RBF is highly complementary to venture capital funding. Those who eventually seek venture capital funding very often find that VCs are then more receptive.

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SaaStr

JUNE 30, 2023

When I look at the purpose of venture capital, it’s not to burn a dollar five in order to grow a dollar of revenue,” says Magnuson. It’s to give you the opportunity to already be building for the market while it’s still developing.” Those things develop more slowly, and they’re often the most sticky.

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SaaStr

MARCH 22, 2023

Silicon Valley-based venture capital companies might tell you to build productivity models around hiring salespeople and scaling your organization that way, but it’s not the way. Develop tactics to inform the strategy you’ll bring to help customers start the journey and facilitate their process and progress along the way.

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Sales Hacker

MAY 9, 2025

Many venture capital firms shifted their investments almost entirely into AI startups. A quick use of Wayback Machine for the top 100 SaaS brands will show you just how pervasive it was. The optics were that if AI wasnt integral to your roadmap and marketing, you were losing relevance.

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Kellblog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Without singing his praises to excess, let’s just say that there aren’t many people in the world who have founded an enterprise software company, took it to $1B+ in revenues, then co-founded a second company ( Dashlane ), turned that company into a unicorn, and followed all that with a highly successful second career in venture capital.

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SaaStr

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

What are the key inflection points of company development? Why does Steve believe that you should involve customers very early in the process of developing your narrative? 6: NEA General Partner Chetan Puttagunta on Why Open Source Is The Only Way To Get In Front of Today’s Developers. Episode No.

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Mucker Capital

OCTOBER 24, 2019

A world where even developers can spout mindless business-speak like a McKinsey and Co. If venture capital is only about finding brands and checking boxes, Silicon Valley has to be the easiest place in the world to be a VC. 2015: Getting Past the Catch-22 of Venture Capital. consultant. 2016: Blue Collar VC.

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Tom Tunguz

MARCH 8, 2025

The company went public in 2010, three years after competitor Blackstone did, which is captured in the book King of Capital. We don’t often think of venture firms as businesses like this, but there’s no reason to believe that the evolution of the venture capital industry won’t mirror private equity.

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SaaStr

MARCH 15, 2021

Yes, you can get to $100m in revenues without $100m in venture capital. #6. Ask Your Developer here : The post Top 10 SaaStr Videos of the Week: Tomasz Tunguz, Demostack, State of the Cloud, Snowflake and More! And grab a FREE copy of Jeff Lawson’s, CEO of Twilio, latest book on us. appeared first on SaaStr.

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