Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The end of the year is fast approaching. Time for some quantitative analysis of the content that readers liked the best this year. 2016 was a year of change for SaaS, and most of the story was the public market. Valuations there fell from their highs in 2014. More than $70B of public SaaS market cap was taken private by both other publics and also by private equity firms.

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Brian Balfour

DECEMBER 19, 2016

(You can download my Yearly Growth Goals Template that I used on our team at HubSpot at the bottom of this post.) We are nearing the year end and that probably means many teams are finalizing their growth goals for next year. Just the thought of the planning process is probably jacking up your stress levels. After all, setting yearly growth goals in fast-changing environments feels like shooting darts blindfolded.

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CloseSaaS

DECEMBER 21, 2016

This is a post by Brad Smith, a freelance marketing writer who gets sales. Kitchens are uncomfortable. They’re insufferably hot. Closed quarters. No windows or natural daylight.

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Tom Tunguz

DECEMBER 17, 2016

Australia, Canada, Israel, China, India. SaaS startups are thriving in these countries and many more. Next generation software companies hail from many different parts of the world, and some of them are worth billions of dollars. Shopify and Hootsuite in Canada. Atlassian in Australia. Xero in New Zealand, just to name a few. As these successful startups have boomed, how has the early stage fundraising market for them evolved?

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