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The Rising Stakes in SaaS

Tom Tunguz

Segmentation - focus on SMB, Mid-Market, or Enterprise, to play where competition isn’t present. I believe competition is a major driving force, especially since venture capital is conspicuously copious. Trades market size for better product market fit. SaaS company formation has fallen by 44% in the last 3 years.

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The Five Characteristics of An Ideal SaaS Company

Tom Tunguz

With more than 80% of venture capital investments occurring in enterprise and with the public markets disproportionately rewarding SaaS companies with huge enterprise value-to-revenue multiples ( median is 7.6 ), it’s no surprise that interest Software-as-a-Service is booming. Not every company has ML expertise.

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State of the Cloud 2019: Europa Edition with Alex Ferrara, Bessemer Venture Partners (Video + Transcript)

SaaStr

Before I joined the venture capital industry many years ago, I was a software developer, and I worked for a startup around the 2000 time period. Now, I’m a venture capital investor. Contrast that with companies that might also sell into the SMB segment of the market where the ASPs, the average deal sizes are lower.

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Kellblog's 10 Predictions for 2020

Kellblog

I’d argue it’s not – the markets have changed structurally such that companies are staying private far longer and thus living off venture capital (and/or growth-stage private equity) in ways not previously seen. The interesting question here is whether mean reversion is relevant.

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Point Nine Capital 2019 Team Predictions

Point Nine Land

machine learning in particular?—?are The tokenization of traditional financial instruments such as stock, bonds, loans, private equity and venture capital investments will become increasingly common. 2018 already paved the way for a number of tokenized fund launches such as Blockchain Capital and SPiCE VC.