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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 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.
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Andreessen Horowitz
JULY 27, 2021
Jackie Bona , … The post Investing in Valora appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz. cryptocurrencies & blockchains marketplaces mobile (& messaging) announcements consumer startups
SaaStr
JULY 19, 2021
Q: How do VCs and investors find companies to invest in? Later stage VCs (Series B/C/D/E, etc) have it somewhat easier — they track startups breaking out and just reach-out. They track every startup that gets funded. They track who else invest.
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SaaStr
APRIL 18, 2022
These platforms are used to trade shares in the largest, late-stage startups: Forge Global, which just SPAC’d / went public itself, found the clearing price for trades for top startups fell 10% in February and another 10% or so in March , after just starting to go down in January.
Andreessen Horowitz
JANUARY 19, 2022
In the summer of 2011, a masked intruder managed to open a locked door of Nicira, the startup I co-founded, walk directly to the desk of a well known engineer, passing many others on the way, grab a server, and … The post Investing in Ambient.ai
SaaStr
JANUARY 7, 2022
Everyone has slightly different data, but it helps answer a seeming conflict in the VC markets: Massive amounts of funding have flowed into startups … and yet … Why doesn’t it seem easier to raise seed funding for many startups?
Andreessen Horowitz
OCTOBER 27, 2021
In venture capital, conventional wisdom and decades of startup history tell us that founding companies in crowded spaces is extremely hard.
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.
Point Nine Land
JUNE 3, 2020
At the same time, tech companies are better off than any other industry, and, to answer the question posed in the headline, VCs are still investing (we’re one of them). startup technology venture-capital saas covid19
Andreessen Horowitz
JANUARY 24, 2021
He told me about a new startup he was building—a mobile-first social … The post Investing in Clubhouse appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.
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SaaStr
MARCH 31, 2020
With venture capital investments that fail, is the problem most often with the entrepreneur or was it a bad investment by the VC? The earlier stage you invest, the more often some of them just … don’t work out. Especially when you invest early.
SaaStr
JANUARY 13, 2021
One piece of “evidence” — a lot of fairly successful SaaS startups all sell at about the same point in time … about 5 years in. Making travel less literally painful is a high ROI investment, at least after you are at scale and have a few bucks in the bank.
SaaStr
JUNE 10, 2021
On other hand, too much time investing is a signal to others that the highest ROI of your time isn’t as a founder. That you might make more money, for less stress, investing in someone else’s company — than your own. CEOs you invest in want your time, and advice, which is great.
Baremetrics
OCTOBER 11, 2021
Once users are in a position to invest in such a service, your SaaS should be the first that comes to mind. If you’re asking yourself how much time, energy, and finances you should be investing into developing your content, look no further.
Casey Accidental
MARCH 29, 2022
A common issue leaders in product management, design, or engineering face is justifying investment in the “non-sexy” stuff. But I urge everyone I can in product to develop the intuition to support these initiatives without making teams jump through hoops to justify these investments.
Andreessen Horowitz
MARCH 9, 2021
We’ve written extensively about the unbundling trend: large, horizontal platforms like eBay or Craigslist getting challenged by startups that better serve the specific needs of a vertical on that incumbent platform. .
Tomasz Tunguz
MARCH 8, 2022
Startups create products. When a business is ready to scale, a startup ought to develop an organizational roadmap. The question for early-stage startups is how to start building this structure. Most startups begin either with a product marketer or a demand generation specialist.
Chart Mogul
AUGUST 20, 2020
Selling a startup can be an exhausting, overwhelming process, but the right preparation can make it much easier. 4x entrepreneur Andrew Gazdecki shares how you can better prepare yourself for your startup's acquisition, and make the journey a rewarding one.
SaaStr
JUNE 2, 2020
Do startup investors care about how employees are treated where they invest? Last week, I literally was on a back-door reference call for a $250m+ valuation investment (not a company where I am an investor) where a late-stage VC did not invest just for this reason.
Point Nine Land
MARCH 15, 2022
Athenian is Eiso’s third startup. Why we invested in Athenian was originally published in Point Nine Land on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 23, 2019
Q: Will VCs who invested in my startup be happy to exit with a 4-5x return after 4.5 So why isn’t 4x-5x good enough on any individual investment? If you put all the fund into 1 investment, then a 4x-5x return would be plenty.
OnStartups
JUNE 7, 2021
I’ve decided I’m going to invest $1 million in BitClout the blockchain-based, crypto-currency powered social network that is all the rage (at least within some circles). Example: I’ll be investing $100,000 in @bitswap (and here, I mean buying equity/shares in the startup).
SaaStr
MARCH 23, 2021
Battery Ventures’ data says while VC investment $$$ are on fire — they aren’t going into more startups. PE firms have enough capital to buy as many startups as all the public SaaS companies do. The post Battery Ventures: VC Investments Are Way Up.
Tomasz Tunguz
MARCH 13, 2022
Thanks to the many readers who wrote in to Guess the Startup on Friday. I had three goals for the Guess the Startup Post. After all, an investor looking to buy the best database investment will have to choose between Ethereum and Mongo (amongst others).
SaaStr
JULY 4, 2021
This was my first venture investment. One of the earliest posts I did on SaaStr was back in 2013 when I made my first venture investment, co-leading the seed round in Pipedrive. I also made a lot of mistakes on this investment I’ll share in another post.
SmartKarrot
MAY 17, 2022
While it is a major step to get up and start, the next question in line would be ‘what stage is the startup at?’. What stage is the startup at? Well, this is a question that most startup owners are asked, but how do you know what stage you are at? Stages of a startup.
SaaStr
JANUARY 23, 2022
We did an analysis of SaaS startups that had IPO’d and about 70% were new versions of something new, and 30% were truly new categories: So VCs like to do both. It used to be that you couldn’t make much money as a VC investing in the ultimate #2 or #3 in a space.
OnStartups
MARCH 24, 2021
An Odd Start To My Angel Investing. I did not plan to do another startup. I had done it for 10+ years and lived the notorious startup life. My conviction to not do startups lasted only a few.weeks. During classes (which I loved), I missed the startup life.
Tomasz Tunguz
SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
How much should a SaaS startup invest in sales and marketing at different stages of the business? Sales and marketing investment depends on many different factors including establishing product market fit, the business’s sales model (inside, field, freemium), and not least, cash balance and fundraising capacity. The chart above shows the sales and marketing investment of publicly traded software companies at different revenue levels.
SaaStr
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Yes, VCs themselves have to raise the money they invest. Manage existing investments. And startups that fail often take a fair amount of time and drama to wind down. Hint: Most of It Isn’t New Investments appeared first on SaaStr.
SaaStr
AUGUST 27, 2021
Folks want to start startups because they have a chance to look like this: The true definition of a tech startup is probably one that if it truly achieves product-market fit, can scale almost infinitely. The above example is of my third venture investment, Talkdesk.
SaaStr
MARCH 5, 2022
The life of a startup is not a smooth ride. Starting with his time as an investment banker and later working in SaaS, Yancey Spruill, CEO at DigitalOcean , watched venture capitalists invest in seemingly strong companies, only to sell them off.
SaaStr
JULY 22, 2019
Now, VCs have a benefit in that not every single investment has to be a unicorn. If you are early, and have no track record or even word-of-mouth … but if both Google and Facebook have bought your product and said you are the best-in-next-generation now … everyone will want to invest. The post How do VCs value startup? There is one common factor, that founders know, but often lose track of in their pitch: every VC, at any stage, is looking for outliers.
Tomasz Tunguz
APRIL 27, 2022
Reflecting on this question a founder posed this week, I remembered how we came to be here, the three eras of startup pricing: cash-flow, multiples, and discount-to-future-value. The art of startup pricing in a recipe. $5m Startups were priced first on forward-revenue multiple. But, these startups grow faster than the public companies so the market should give them the benefit of the doubt. Web3/crypto startups are often priced this way.
SaaStr
MAY 13, 2020
Why Do VCs Want To Own So Much When They Invest? To meet its own financial goals, a VC firm has to return 3x the amount it invests. But finding just one $500m startup is hard enough. The post Why Do VCs Want To Own So Much When They Invest?
Tomasz Tunguz
JULY 19, 2018
When a startup has established product market fit, the differentiator is clear. As the product team talks to customers, they are likely to hear feedback encouraging more investment in MMRs and neutralizers. The startup must invest in that differentiation to sustain their market lead. Defending differentiation, investing in it, and reinforcing the startup’s competitive advantage.
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