Tom Tunguz

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Chinese startups raise nearly half of all venture capital dollars and nearly 100 are valued at $1B. More of it measures the physical world because the Chinese internet blossomed first on mobile in a wave called O2O, online to offline. One started with PCs and laptops, the other with mobile phones.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 22, 2017

The surge of venture capital in the last five years worsens this predicament. Mobile app distribution. Whether it’s Facebook ads, LinkedIn ads, Google search engine marketing and retargeting, email marketing, or outbound calling, all of these channels bear some hallmarks of saturation. These three points are all true.

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The SaaS Garage

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

[link] Contact Loyalty Prime: Anja Zschoernig | Head of Marketing | anja.zschoernig@loyaltyprime.com About Hi inov Founded in 2012 by Pierre-Henri Dentressangle (Chairman) and Valérie Gombart (CEO), Hi inov SAS is managing €170 million of capital from corporates and entrepreneurs. link] Contact BayBG: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de

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Tom Tunguz

JUNE 20, 2016

This is counterintuitive considering the broader venture capital backdrop of near record venture investment in software. The promise of mobile remains only somewhat fulfilled. Perhaps there a substantial delay between when the business is founded and when it appears in Crunchbase. Machine learning in SaaS is nascent.

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User Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2023

According to venture capital firm Sequoia , the standard DAU/MAU ratio is 10-20%, with only a handful of companies having over 50%. The DAU, WAU, and MAU metrics will enable you to better understand active users for your SaaS or mobile apps. To calculate DAU, divide your monthly active users by the number of days in the month.

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Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

Moreso, it also speaks to your specific business goals as a startup, which could include scaling your business, finding a foothold into new markets, or securing venture capital funding, and the role that compliance plays in it all.

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Scytale

JANUARY 23, 2024

Moreso, it also speaks to your specific business goals as a startup, which could include scaling your business, finding a foothold into new markets, or securing venture capital funding, and the role that compliance plays in it all.

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The SaaS Garage

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

With its venture capital and shareholding investments, which it provides in the form of equity capital and mezzanine financing, it enables SMEs to implement innovation and growth projects, manage corporate succession and optimise their capital structure. link] BayBG Contact: josef.krumbachner@baybg.de.

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Neil Patel

JANUARY 21, 2021

Even Silicon Valley has jumped in on the hype, valuing the social media app at $100 million and receiving a reported $12 million investment from venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz. Created in May 2020 by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth, the app has caught the attention of venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz and celebrities.

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OpenView Labs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

.” Brian Rothenberg, who’s currently a Partner at the early-stage venture capital firm Defy, joined Blake for this episode and agreed with the basketball analogy. “Often in marketing teams, the only levers might be email or maybe notifications from mobile, but it’s so much more expansive than that.

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Tom Tunguz

APRIL 7, 2014

Today, I’m probably about the same speed as I was in my QWERTY days, but typing speed isn’t a competitive advantage in venture capital, so I think it’s fine. About a year later, I changed the layout on my mobile phone to Dvorak too, purely for consistency. But now Qwerty seems foreign.

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Tom Tunguz

JULY 20, 2014

In 2008, when I started working at Redpoint I knew very little about how the venture business worked, and before I started at the firm, I wanted to prepare by learning as much as I could about the industry. Unfortunately, not much was written about venture capital at the time. Ann Winblad, Hummer Winblad.

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ChurnZero

DECEMBER 14, 2023

So, while a customer might have scheduled a haircut through the Squire app on a mobile phone, they’d still have to stop somewhere to withdraw cash to pay for their haircut. “We Yet the fact is they’ve been in business since 2015 and didn’t get their first round of institutional funding – venture capital – until 2019.

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Tom Tunguz

MAY 2, 2015

Enabled by web and mobile app distribution, the bottoms up software business acquires individual users, small teams and eventually departments. First, not all these companies raised money because they needed it, so venture capital raised isn’t a pure proxy for cash burn.

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SaaStr

MARCH 28, 2024

Base10 is a research-driven venture capital firm investing in technology companies automating the largest sectors of the Real Economy and founders who believe purpose is key to profits. Before Base10, Luci came from McKinsey & Company, where she helped establish the firm’s Institute for Black Economic Mobility.

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Neil Patel

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Hike Labs was founded in 2014, and by 2015, Pinterest had swooped in and acquired the San Francisco-based mobile publishing startup. Tiny Capital. Tiny Capital is a different breed in the micro acquisition space. Unlike some of the other tools mentioned above, it’s a traditional venture capital firm, with a twist.

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Neil Patel

APRIL 6, 2021

Google leads the world in mobile and digital ad revenue. For example, let’s say you need an investment from a venture capital firm to start a new business. The specialty exams include search, display, mobile, video, and shopping ads. Does Google AdWords Certification Really Matter? In 2017, they generated $73.8

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SaaStr

JULY 27, 2019

. #4: “Microsoft’s ‘Blow Out’ Fourth Quarter Beats Analyst Projections By $1 Billion” Even being #2 in Cloud platforms, even without a mobile strategy, even with Windows in slow decline … Microsoft is still worth $1 trillion and growing. Cloud is Huge. and Europe). #6: appeared first on SaaStr.

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ProfitWell

MARCH 19, 2019

You probably know less is more when it comes to ads and that most people are consuming content through their mobile device. I'd like to reach people who are interested in venture capitalism and entrepreneurship -- people who might be familiar with the basic concepts but want to watch something fresh, with a new perspective.

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SaaStock

MARCH 1, 2019

SAIF Partners is one of the top private equity firms that provides growth capital financing for Asia businesses. The areas of interest are IT, mobile, consumer products and services, healthcare, cleantech, and financial services, among others. Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed.

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The Angel VC

JANUARY 3, 2014

4) Prioritize "mobile" Mobile is eating the world. More about this in my recent post about OKRs.

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Point Nine Land

JANUARY 17, 2019

At the same time, many of the most important web and mobile technologies have reached maturity. The tokenization of traditional financial instruments such as stock, bonds, loans, private equity and venture capital investments will become increasingly common. These are great customers for startups. machine learning in particular?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 31, 2019

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. All right, so the answer is there are actually 61 a cloud unicorns, and we’ll flash them up. How long can this last?

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SaaStr

OCTOBER 22, 2021

It was born in the age of mobile, and from the moment it launched, everyone I knew started to use it to track their own expenses. Founder-CEO Dave Barrett is famous for his views on the pros and cons of venture capital (see his talk from 2017 SaaStr Annual below) and he bought out most of Redpoint’s shares for $43m in 2018.

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Intercom, Inc.

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

There were like five or six operating systems for mobile phones. I mean, big venture capital firms like Sequoia and Floodgate, General Catalyst, all these guys have caught onto this and will actually tell their portfolio companies to think this way or to get the book or to talk to us.

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Sales Hacker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In order to execute on this mission, founders can bootstrap their company, raise outside money ( venture capital is the most popular), or use a combination of both to help build their business. App downloads (if they have a mobile app). Additional growth signals to look out for: Recent leadership hires. Intent surges.

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SaaStr

MARCH 19, 2019

Then also went into venture capital where I invested in API first products. Back in, this is a long time ago, but when I joined Box one of the things that we were thinking about is do we give a free version of Box to every mobile device in the Android ecosystem. It is not an enterprise integration. That was a big decision.

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Point Nine Land

JUNE 22, 2023

Here I’m thinking about: Clean energy production EVs and mobility Agriculture and food security Techbio and data-driven healthcare Safe and efficient manufacturing Defense and collective security Space These are all hard problems to solve, and it’s unlikely that we’ll have them squared away come 2030.

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Chargify

AUGUST 6, 2019

Most notably, $5 million in VC funding from General Catalyst in 2007, $12 million in VC funding from Matrix Partners in 2008 and $16 million in VC funding from Scale Venture Partners in 2009. Venture capital allowed HubSpot to prioritize expansion over profitability, helping them achieve explosive growth. .

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FastSpring

MARCH 10, 2023

What what do you think the danger is of being too focused on those types of venture capital type ideas. You’re much more focused on building a company that’s, that’s profitable. And and you can see it like 2006 Up to now still still going.

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Point Nine Land

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Fit.ly ( data ) is a mobile fitness app that charges end consumers $10 per month, making the company a mice hunter.??? A mouse hunter, a rabbit hunter, and an elephant hunter Let’s look at three fictional companies and the LTV estimates produced by the different approaches: Fit.ly

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SmartKarrot

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

She is an active speaker on startups, venture capital, inbound marketing, remote work, and spacetech. David Skok is a serial entrepreneur who founded four companies and is a venture partner at Matrix Partners. He focuses on cloud, mobility, SaaS, and marketing automation. A Y Combinator Alum, she is an investor as well.

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ChurnZero

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Categories include the Software as a Service award, Most Promising Start-Up, and “Best in Mobile” Cloud Solution. ChurnZero is headquartered in Arlington, VA and is backed by leading angles and venture capital firms such as Baird Capital, Grotech Ventures and Middleland Capital.

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SaaStr

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

We made in-app purchases available for all of our customers, and we are the only mobile app that you can run an end-to-end incident and response on, which is really important when we’re talking about supporting distributed teams. They said, “That was my only joy in life.”

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SaaStr

APRIL 10, 2020

324: Join SaaStr CEO Jason Lemkin and Bessemer Venture Partners Partner Byron Deeter for a deep dive on what’s going on in Venture Capital and Cloud. This podcast is an excerpt from Jason and Byron’s webinar “Bridging the Gap: The Current State of Venture Capital and Cloud.”

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ChurnZero

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Mobile Posse. ChurnZero is headquartered in Arlington, VA and is backed by leading angles and venture capital firms such as Baird Capital, Grotech Ventures and Middleland Capital. LookingGlass™ Cyber Solutions. Two Six Labs. Cognosante. Microsoft Corp. Customer Value Partners (CVP). WeDoIT LLC. Peraton. .

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SmartKarrot

JUNE 22, 2022

Unicorn is a venture capital jargon that is used to refer to the startups whose valuation has touched 1 billion dollars. Aileen Lee, the founder of Cowboy Ventures, coined the term as she referred to the 39 startups that touched the billion-dollar valuation. But what exactly is a unicorn startup? Like what you are reading?

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