Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Last week, David Heinemeier Hansson explained why his company, Basecamp, is leaving the cloud. They will manage their own servers to reduce the $3m annual AWS bill by 60%. Setting aside the technical questions around such a migration for a paragraph or two, this move will improve Basecamp’s efficiency materially. For a hypothetical startup, a 60% reduction in infrastructure costs boosts sales efficiency by 11% & net income margin by at least 12%.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Dear SaaStr: What Are Some Common Misconceptions About Venture Capitalists? My learnings, from sort of the inside: That they are (mostly) successful. Most VC partners don’t return 1x in cash what they invest. It’s hard! Most VCs you will meet are not successes, at least, not yet. And even if the VC firm is a success (and many firms aren’t), returns are often driven by just 1 or 2 of the partners in each firm.

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The Daily Egg

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Every website can benefit from increased traffic, as more visitors to your pages lead to more leads, sales, and conversions. But wanting. The post What is Increasing Website Traffic All About? The Complete Guide appeared first on The Daily Egg.

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2022

So we’ve talked quite a bit about how SaaS revenues are the best ever, but the public markets are way down. Down 75% from their peak. And so are IPOs. While we all can sort of sense it — the breakneck pace of IPOs in late 2020 and 2021 are clearly behind us — it can be hard to quanitfy. Axios and Renaissance Capital have the latest data.

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The Daily Egg

OCTOBER 22, 2022

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