Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The WSJ published a recent chart of the 49 startups with billion dollar valuations. According to their research, there have never been as many privately held companies with such high valuations ever. The absolute number of these massively valuable companies alone is amazing. Ten years ago, most of them would have gone public by now. But what other insights can we tease from the data about these very special businesses?

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CloseSaaS

OCTOBER 9, 2014

If you're a founder, or managing a team, you're probably overwhelmed by requests from people who rely on you for feedback, comments, input and approval. Every day, there's a new barrage of emails in your inbox, requiring you to respond, so that somebody else is able to do their job.

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The Angel VC

OCTOBER 5, 2014

Some time ago my friend (and co-investor in Clio , Jobber and Unbounce ) Boris Wertz wrote a great blog post about "the only 2 ways to build a $100 million business". I'd like to expand on the topic and suggest that there are five ways to build a $100 million Internet company. This doesn't mean that I disagree with Boris' article. I think our views are pretty similar, and for the most part "my" five ways are just a slightly different and more granular look at Boris' two ways.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Yesterday, I attended an event held by the IT team of a major bank. When the data analytics team took the stage, I listened with great interest as the chief of the group described their internal struggles with data and the areas where startups might help them achieve their goals. He articulated his team’s needs and goals in a very concise way by bucketing his users into three personas.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 7, 2014

I started working in venture capital three months before Lehman imploded. After the bankruptcy, the fundraising market contracted as investors internalized the new normal of the public markets. Over the past six years, the fundraising markets flipped from quite bearish to mildly bullish to extremely bullish. Or at least, that’s the way it feels to me.

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CloseSaaS

OCTOBER 7, 2014

When you’re preparing a sales presentation, you’re going to want to demonstrate the value your prospects get out of choosing you, all the benefits they’ll reap, and make a case why you’re the right choice for them.

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CloseSaaS

OCTOBER 6, 2014

If you’re ever again going to walk into an important and tough, challenging interview, you should listen to the story of how three nutcases (aka the Close founding team) made it through the worlds’ most prestigious startup accelerator interview.

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CloseSaaS

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Colin Nederkoorn (CEO of Customer.io) and I did a webinar on automating personal, well-timed emails to close more deals.

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Tom Tunguz

OCTOBER 5, 2014

The market for startups raising capital has changed dramatically over the past few years. Round sizes have ballooned: startups raise 50%+ larger rounds than a few years ago. The looming Series A crunch never occurred. Instead, we’ve seen the bifurcation of the Series B market. Series Bs are the spring of hope for some startups who raise megarounds and the winter of despair for others who must compete for increasingly scarce Series B dollars.

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