Tom Tunguz
JUNE 11, 2014
image credit: Svjetlana Tepavcevic. Is it better to raise your startup’s seed round from only angel investors, or is it better to include a VC or two? Several founders on the precipice of launching their seed fundraising processes have asked me this question. It’s a very difficult one to answer hypothetically because there are many different variables to balance.
The Angel VC
JUNE 13, 2014
Uber's uber large funding round has been the talk of the day in the tech community in the last week. And it should be, since it doesn't happen very often that a four year old company raises $1.2B at a $17B valuation. In fact, according to this Bloomberg story , Uber's new valuation sets a record for investments into privately-held tech startups. When I first heard about Uber a few years ago, I didn't quite get it in the beginning.
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Neil Patel
JUNE 11, 2014
One thing that never changes is our desire to keep up with the news. These days, most people prefer to read their news online. According to Pew Research, 89% of Americans get at least some of their local news online. And, it’s not just consumers who are reading the news online. It’s just about everyone. While some SEOs assume press releases are merely an SEO tool, such couldn’t be further from the truth.
CloseSaaS
JUNE 9, 2014
We're happy to announce that we launched some additional reporting capabilities in Close. We replaced the old "Pipeline Report" (which simply broke down all your leads & opportunities by current status), with something much richer.
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Tom Tunguz
JUNE 12, 2014
Several weeks ago, I wrote a post about the Optimal Contract Value for a SaaS company. I wondered whether startups serving enterprises might be more or less valuable than those serving small-to-medium businesses (SMBs). Interestingly, the data showed there was no optimal customer value to build a publicly traded SaaS company. Having written that post, I began to wonder about other differences between different types of SaaS companies.
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Tom Tunguz
JUNE 8, 2014
For the past several years, early stage VCs have entered the seed market with vigor. VC’s entry has resulted five different important trends in the past five years: The total dollars entering the seed market has increased by 132%. The mean seed round size has increased by 114% to $1.4M. VCs’ typical seed investment has grown by 50%. Mega-seeds, those seed investments over $2M, have reached historic highs exceeding 80 instances in 2013.
CloseSaaS
JUNE 9, 2014
Here are five high-level things we've done at Closeto boost the activation rate of our trial users and turn them into hard core fans and customers:
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