Tom Tunguz

APRIL 16, 2023

In The Figures that Will Move the Venture Capital Market in the Next 3-5 Years , I wrote about the correlation between interest rates & venture capital investing. In the past two years, the correlation has grown stronger from -0.46 correlation to -0.51. The correlation is strong enough to build a simple prediction of early stage venture capital activity in 2023.

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Venture Capital Government Marketing Banking 306

SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

So there’s a strategy exercise I like to go through with startups I’ve invested in that are past $20m-$30m ARR or so: Who would you buy with 10% of your market cap? I.e., who would give 10% of your company away to buy? It turns out this is an important threshold. The SEC generally defines this as “material”. It’s also enough of your company that everyone will suffer a lot of dilution, and enough that you can’t do more than a handful of these deals ever.

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Marketing Acquisition Startup Scaling 296

Sparktoro

APRIL 16, 2023

Customer acquisition costs (CAC) have increased significantly over the past decade. This is true for both B2B and B2C companies, with CAC across both industries being up about 70%, according to subscription software company ProfitWell. In other words, it’s becoming a lot more expensive to acquire customers. What to do?

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SaaStr

APRIL 16, 2023

Each week, we round up our most popular content so you can catch up on anything you may have missed. Check out this week’s top blog posts, podcasts, and videos: Top Blog Posts This Week: Is the Employer-Employee Social Contract in Tech … Now Broken? Your Marketing Site Really Should Be Even Better Than Your Product Dear SaaStr: How Much Of My Startup Do I Need To Sell In Each Venture Round?

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Sales Hacker

APRIL 16, 2023

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