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Dear SaaStr: What Happens After You Raise Venture Capital for the First Time?

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Q: Dear SaaStr: What Happens and Changes After You Raise Venture Capital for the First Time? A few thoughts if you haven’t raised venture capital before: 1. And get them detailed Board packs and metrics at least 3 days before each Board meeting. Share everything, at least, share all metrics and data.

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How Venture Capital Has Changed Since Covid-19

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Q: How is Venture Capital difference since Covid-19? The ones with good, but not great, metrics. SaaStr New New Venture 2020. The post How Venture Capital Has Changed Since Covid-19 appeared first on SaaStr. At first — and only briefly — things slowed way back.

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The Secrets to Working with VC Associates, Scouts, Syndicates….and the True Gate Keepers to Venture Capital with Coelius Capital Managing Partner Zach Coelius and GGV Capital Investor Tiffany Luck (Pod 589 + Video)

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During an enlightening session at SaaStr Europa 2022, Zach Coelius (Managing Partner at Coelius Capital) and Tiffany Luck (Investor at GGV Capital) share the secrets and lesser-known players in the world of venture capital. Additionally, be ready to show off some specific metrics to a VC associate. VC Associates.

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How do venture capital firms determine when and how to help stalled or stuck portfolio companies?

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Q: How do venture capital firms determine when and how to help stalled or stuck portfolio companies? No fake metrics. The post How do venture capital firms determine when and how to help stalled or stuck portfolio companies? It is a super interesting topic more should be written about. VCs expect some tough times.

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Talking Burn: Appearance on the Metric Stack Podcast on Cash Conversion Score and Related Metrics

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I have to say it was a combination of luck and foresight that I started talking with Allan Wille and Lauren Thibodeau about capital efficiency as a potential topic for their Metric Stack podcast many months ago. Because now, as the episode is coming out , capital efficiency is the hot topic of the day.

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The New Normal: 700 Employees at $200,000,000 in ARR

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Almost Everyone’s Gotten Radically More Efficient in SaaS That’s a good metric to think about at scale now. Venture capital is there to bridge the gap, and let you hire more to go faster. The average public SaaS company now has hit $300,000 in revenue per employee or so on average. This starts to get tough.

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How hard is it to raise venture capital? If you have solid traction and a great team, are your chances significantly higher than 0.05% and will you find at least one investor if you keep hustling?

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Q: How hard is it to raise venture capital? The overall odds of raising venture capital may be 0.05%. >50% of each YC batch does, or can raise capital. They have the right teams, the right metrics, and the right traction. The post How hard is it to raise venture capital? 100% of the time.