SaaStr

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Dear SaaStr: What Is The Average Time it Takes a VC to Make an Investment Decision? For hot seed and even Series A investments? 20 minutes into the first face-to-face meeting. The average VC basically makes the initial decision to tentatively invest very quickly — pending due diligence, confirming her theories are correct, and making sure what they think is the case actually is.

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Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

The Community Source licenses may be the future of open source software. With closed-source software, the code isn’t shared outside the company that wrote it. Open-source code is freely available to examine & use. Open-source companies like Elastic ($13b), Confluent ($10b), MongoDB ($33b) have been phenomenally successful. Along the way, many of them have changed their licenses to shield themselves from copycats.

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SaaStr

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

So 2023 was a strange year, with many of the biggest, public Cloud and SaaS leaders on a tear, from Microsoft to Cloudflare to Palantir, but so many startups and especially those in traditional B2B struggling to grow. So what’s the overall vibe check? We did a survey with 2,000+ respondents : The learnings? For some, sales is easier these days, at least a bit.

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Andreessen Horowitz

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

In early 2024, the notion of high fidelity, believable AI-generated video seemed a distant future to many. Yet, a mere few weeks into the year, OpenAI unveiled Sora, its new state of the art text-to-video model producing videos of up to 60 seconds. The output shattered expectations – even for other builders and researchers within generative AI – sparking widespread speculation and awe.

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Blulogix

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

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