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SaaStr
MARCH 14, 2023
Q: What are some common mistakes that investors make when evaluating potential startup investments (such as Seed or Series A)? A few I’ve made and watched others around me make: Invest in good traction with a pretty good but not great CEO. Investing when you aren’t sure.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 6, 2022
So we’re at the time of the year where I experience the Worst Part of Investing, multiple times. While not fun, it’s embedded into the business model of investing. A rough quarter or two at a key investment? Some investments just outgrow you.
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Andreessen Horowitz
MARCH 23, 2023
What had started as a party of 12 friends conversing quietly around the table quickly turned into picking Elon Musk’s brain on Mars, getting the Queen’s … The post Investing in Character.AI The first time I tried Character.AI , it completely hijacked my husband’s birthday dinner.
SaaStr
MARCH 14, 2023
Dear SaaStr: Will a VC Invest in a Venture That Is Or Can Be a Competitor To An Existing Investment? As a rough rule: the larger the check, the less likely a VC will invest in a direct competitor. Invest for example in Gong, Salesloft and Zoom in the early days?
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Andreessen Horowitz
MARCH 21, 2023
This is why we are excited to be partnering with CCP on a new project set … The post Investing in CCP Games appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Years before the first blockchain was created, the sci-fi space MMO EVE Online proved out many of the core principles that define web3 today.
Andreessen Horowitz
JANUARY 24, 2023
Cybersecurity practitioners no longer wonder if they … The post Investing in Cygnvs appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Cyber incidents have reached a crisis level over the past decade. In 2021, the U.S.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 25, 2021
Traditional VCs usually reserve another 1x-2x of their first check for later investments. If the synergies are real, they’ll happen irrespective of some token investment. An investment won’t create a partnership. New programs, or direct investments, may however.
Andreessen Horowitz
FEBRUARY 21, 2023
The way developers consume these … The post Investing in Replicate appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. It’s very rare to see a new building block emerge in computing.
Tom Tunguz
DECEMBER 26, 2022
A former venture capitalist, Mark Leonard started Constellation in 1995 with $15m of outside investment & a goal of buying vertical software companies with a moat & good unit economics.
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Andreessen Horowitz
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
We are thrilled to announce that a16z Games has led the Series Seed investment in Snapser , a games backend technology company poised to become the de facto platform for games studios.
Andreessen Horowitz
AUGUST 15, 2022
Structural shortages in available homes for sale push housing prices higher, while young … The post Investing in Flow appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Our nation has a housing crisis.
Andreessen Horowitz
JANUARY 19, 2023
In the early 2000s, the biggest open questions were social: how do you take a read-only interface and allow … The post Investing in PLAI Labs appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
SaaStr
AUGUST 25, 2021
Invest More There. Twilio’s NRR since 2019. Pretty consistent. A question so many of us had in the earlier days of SaaS was … will we max out all our bigger customers?
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Andreessen Horowitz
JANUARY 10, 2023
We’re thrilled to announce that Andreessen Horowitz is leading the seed investment in Seidr AB who are building the next generation of midcore cross-play games.
Andreessen Horowitz
MARCH 21, 2023
Over the past decade, AI models have gotten better and better at analyzing … The post Investing in Coactive appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
SaaStr
OCTOBER 11, 2020
My biggest mistakes in SaaS investing actually in the end haven’t been truly costly because, in the end, power laws mean your winners overwhelm your losers if you do it right. But still I have screwed up a number of investments. Investing when the CEO was a bit of a B.S.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
Dear SaaStr: What is the Process You Follow When Investing in an Up-and-Coming Startup? chance of investing. The single most important thing you can do is protect your “slots” so that you meet with startups there is at least some chance you might invest in.
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Andreessen Horowitz
MARCH 7, 2023
There is a moment of wonder in every great game that makes you sit back, take a breath, and really appreciate what it is that you’re experiencing: stepping out into the world of Zelda, overcoming Margit for the first time … The post Investing in Believer appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
Andreessen Horowitz
FEBRUARY 23, 2023
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SaaStr
MAY 17, 2022
Q: What are the most common mistakes people do while investing? My top mistakes in venture investing at least: Investing when I didn’t 100% believe in the CEO. No matter how interesting the metrics, even the product is, don’t invest if you don’t 100% believe in the CEO.
Andreessen Horowitz
JANUARY 24, 2023
We are thrilled to announce that a16z led the Series A investment in Voldex , a game studio that acquires, improves, and builds games on the massive user-generated content (UGC) platforms, Roblox and Minecraft.
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Andreessen Horowitz
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
So although as … The post Investing in MotherDuck appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Big data’s roots are in the hyperscalers.
Andreessen Horowitz
MAY 24, 2022
I was there as a part of a research project funded by the National Science Foundation, whose aim was to better understand the role of … The post Investing in Flowcarbon appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. When I was 22, I spent several months working in the field in South Africa.
SaaStr
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Dear SaaStr: How Does SaaStr Fund Decide What to Invest In? Let me give my investing process at least for SaaStr Fund : First, I try somehow to identify before a first meeting if there is a >=2.5% chance of investing. Second, I then look for reasons not to invest.
SaaStr
JANUARY 17, 2023
Dear SaaStr: What Happens When a VC Loses All Their Money on a Startup Investment? Statistically, every early-stage investor is going to see some % of her investment fail, and a large other % not really make much money.
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Andreessen Horowitz
JANUARY 26, 2023
Concepts like credit scores, APRs, retroactive interest, and collateral can be overwhelming for financial services experts, let alone … The post Investing in Method appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz
SaaStr
AUGUST 9, 2022
Investments I've made that didn't work out: – Momentum investment – CEO a bit of bulls**t artist – CEO good at sales but weak product team / CTO. My first investments ended up performing quite well. Investment #2, Algolia, is worth $2.2
Andreessen Horowitz
MAY 12, 2022
We at a16z started investing in bitcoin in 2013 , several years before we had a dedicated crypto fund. It’s hard to … The post Investing in Lightspark appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
Andreessen Horowitz
NOVEMBER 1, 2022
We can share massive files with a URL and access an unquantifiable amount of … The post Investing in Rewind appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. Today’s digital workplace moves faster than at any point in history.
Speaker: Peter Cowen, Managing Director, Sutton Capital Partners & Mark Mullen, Co-Founder, Bonfire Ventures
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Andreessen Horowitz
JULY 28, 2022
Web applications are becoming more and more real-time, and … The post Investing in Fly.io appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. We’re very excited to announce that we’re leading the series B for Fly.io. Fly is one of the fastest-growing core infrastructure companies we have ever seen.
Andreessen Horowitz
FEBRUARY 8, 2023
And yet, the way that organizations communicate with … The post Investing in Macro appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. In recent years, we’ve seen a renaissance in productivity software.
Andreessen Horowitz
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
George Evans Getting a formal learning disability diagnosis and proper early intervention can be the most impactful event in a person’s life, as it was … The post Investing in Marker Learning appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
SaaStr
NOVEMBER 30, 2022
Dear SaaStr: What Percentage of Total Incoming Deals Do VCs Invest In? A seed stage fund meeting a Series B investment opportunity is a waste of time. Of the ones that really meet all my criteria, and that I really want to do … maybe a third have gone to term sheet / investment.
Speaker: Peter Cowen, Managing Director, Sutton Capital Partners & Tim Draper, Founder, Draper Associates
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