Tom Tunguz

JULY 25, 2015

If there’s one notion that will define the decade early 2010s in startupland, it’s the Megaround, the investments of greater than $40M in private companies. Historically, startups needed to trade on public exchanges to access sums of money from $40M to several billion. But today, the private markets are providing this capital. These billions of dollars, which amount to about half of all venture investment, skew substantially towards consumer investments.

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CloseSaaS

JULY 28, 2015

Who’s running Foursquare’s sales operations? Eric Friedman, Global Senior Director, Sales and Revenue Operations. You can check out his reflections on five years of working at Foursquare, which makes for an insightful read.

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ReSci

JULY 29, 2015

Just three years ago, Homejoy had $38 million in the bank thanks to backers like Google Ventures and Redpoint Ventures. The startup, which facilitated on-demand cleaning services…. The post Homejoy’s $38M Lesson: Without Customer Retention, “Growth” is a Dirty Word appeared first on ReSci.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 29, 2015

Founded in 1998, Netsuite is worth about $7.7B, making it the sixth largest SaaS compay behind Salesforce, LinkedIn, Workday, ServiceNow and Splunk. Netsuite began developing ERP (enterprise resource planning) tools to help companies manage their finances, expenses and supply chain. Over time, Netsuite has added a few more product lines including ECommerce platform, CRM, business intelligence and a professional services management product.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 28, 2015

In response last week’s post on The Fastest Growing Areas of Startup Investment in 2015 , in which Bitcoin topped the list, I received many questions about the underlying dynamics of this startup segment. Which regions? Which stages? How much is going into Bitcoin companies. Using Crunchbase data, I analyzed BTC investment patterns over the past 4 years.

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CloseSaaS

JULY 27, 2015

Whenever I ride in an Uber (which happens often), I try to get to know the driver a bit. There are always phone calls to be made or emails to be answered, but you gotta know when to switch all that off. You’ll discover some amazing people and learn valuable lessons if you open yourself up to it.

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CloseSaaS

JULY 26, 2015

If you want to learn from some of the best and brightest in sales and marketing, reserve your (free) seat for The Digital Growth Summit - an online conference organized by Eric Siu of Growth Everywhere.

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CloseSaaS

JULY 29, 2015

When you’ve got a qualified prospect on the phone, there’s one thing you always want to do before you end the call: Initiate the next step!

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CloseSaaS

JULY 26, 2015

Want to learn how to close more deals by following up? How to systematically follow up at the right time, the right way?

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