TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

These events aren’t just a chance to review the latest cohort of hopeful entrepreneurs — they also showcase the technology, products and services that will compete for VC and consumer attention over the next few years. The opportunity that the company sees has really forced us to reallocate resources and strategy,” said Brown.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Choosing a mythical TAM won’t put dollar signs in investors’ eyes, as unrealistic numbers reflect unrealistic expectations, a red flag for any VC. Investor’s advice during a downturn: Don’t panic. ” Investor’s advice during a downturn: Don’t panic. 6 key metrics that can help SaaS startups outlast this downturn.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Sure, we built SaaS products before the term even existed but at 31 it was hard to delineate reality from what all of the monied people around us were telling us what we were worth. Between 2006–2008 I sold both companies that I had started and became a VC. THE VC VALUATION GOD Valuation obsession wasn’t restricted to startups.

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AsiaTechDaily

MARCH 28, 2023

“Founders should also evaluate which VC is able to add-value to their growth, rather than just focusing on the amount of money the investor has to offer,” Lou told AsiaTechDaily. Indelible Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in B2B SaaS startups that can scale internationally. billion in 2022 to US$ 883.34

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

I’ve worked at early-stage startups where we relied on our best guesses to shape product pipelines and develop marketing strategies. In this seven-step guide, you’ll find strategies and tactics for identifying key members and influencers, streamlining the communication process, and creating “a little FOMO.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Similarly, “everyone needs 18-24 months of runway” is a nice motto, but when it takes three times longer to raise a round than it used to, it may no longer be useful advice. The rules of VC are changing: Here’s what founders should be considering in the new era. Thanks very much for reading TC+ this week, Walter Thompson.

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TechCrunch

JULY 20, 2021

Twitter Spaces: SaaS marketing with MKT1 founders Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich. London for a Twitter Spaces conversation with Emily Kramer and Kathleen Estreich , founders of MKT1, a partnership that advises SaaS startups. AngelList Venture’s Avlok Kohli on rolling funds and the busy state of VC. Image Credits: MKT1.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2022

2023 VC predictions: Finding an exit from the ‘messy middle’. Looking ahead to 2023, Tarczynski foresees an environment where “the VC landscape has started to bifurcate,” as “slow M&A activity and no IPOs” and “good companies in ‘safe’ industries” temper investor expectations.

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TechCrunch

MAY 9, 2023

Now that seemingly every VC has turned their attention to the category he told TechCrunch he’s glad he’s been in it for so long and therefore will not make some of the mistakes newer entrants will. “You see a lot of folks who would have been decent SaaS founders, trying to be decent AI founders. .”

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2022

The other SaaS solutions in the childcare space have gone after the providers first and that’s been really hard and challenging because it’s a very fragmented market and it’s really hard to get traction,” Mauskopf said. It’s time for the VC community to stop overlooking the childcare industry.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2023

I shy away from sharing hot takes, but here’s one: With contagion contained, the VC community feels good about writing smallish checks for pre-revenue startups, but Series A and up? There’s plenty of tactical advice here, and much more to come. Más o menos.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2022

Her advice skips straight past basic best practices to explain alignment and partnership strategies, recommendations for nurturing community, and other PLG tactics. Cloud providers’ default retention policies are not enough: You better back your SaaS up. Image Credits: Eoneren (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

For this survey, we interviewed the following Amsterdam-focused investors: • Janneke Niessen, partner, CapitalT VC. Janneke Niessen, partner, CapitalT VC. Digital health, education, B2B SaaS. We look at digital health, education and SaaS and they all thrive in this climate. Stefan van Duin , partner, Borski Fund.

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David Teten VC

AUGUST 19, 2019

Does the traditional VC financing model make sense for all companies? VC Josh Kopelman makes the analogy of jet fuel vs. motorcycle fuel. VCs sell jet fuel which works well for jets; motorcycles are more common but need a different type of fuel. . Absolutely not. So what is Revenue Based Investing?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Dear Sophie: Any advice for living my dreams in Silicon Valley? Any advice? Dear Sophie: Any advice for living my dreams in Silicon Valley? Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets. ” Heavily VC-backed salad chain Sweetgreen heads toward public markets.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

The co-founder explained that startups may appear to have a community — aka, can get a community of people to come and talk about your product — but that doesn’t mean that they have an embedded community as part of the company’s strategy. What about newcomers or people who are looking for more basic advice?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 15, 2021

But I was surprised to find myself editing an interview Alex Wilhelm conducted with Plaid CEO Zach Perret the next day in which the executive said growing the company on its own is “once again” the correct strategy. 5 consumer hardware VCs share their 2021 investment strategies. Allen Miller, VC, Oak HC/FT.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

AUGUST 16, 2023

What advice would you give your past self? I posed a question to twenty-one other founders, across many different industries from media to finance, from SaaS to urban farming. 2) I wish I had better understood the VC model and incentive structure when fundraising. I recently caught up with a friend who’d founded a company.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Startups/VC. Artisanal Ventures raises $62M : Looking to invest in the competitive B2B SaaS startup market, Artisanal Ventures’ first fund is “backed by more than 50 founders and senior executives,” which could provide it with some leverage for its portfolio companies inside major companies. Here’s why.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

This is why investors really like SaaS software companies where you have recurring revenue and your largest customer accounts for < 5% of your revenue and your renewals rates are > 90%. But this strategy great depends on point 3. The reason is that no VC wants to see the venture debt provider get burned if you become bankrupt.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

What advice are you giving your portfolio companies entering 2021? They have executed against a strategy while many of their supposed peers have done very irrational deals, impaired shareholder value, etc. From retail to SaaS to research, there’s a lot of inroads to investing in cannabis. It’s going to be fun!

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Startups and VC. Haje reports that Human Impact Capital is a new $50 million fund investing in social impact startups, and Mike notes that Paris-based VC Satgana completes the first close of its €30 million fund to back climate tech startups. So you cut your SaaS bill…Now what’s next? monetization.”

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

Here’s some candid advice for late-stage startup workers: Full TechCrunch+ articles are only available to members. Hoping for the best is not a strategy, and your employers will say whatever they need to keep you focused and productive. How we pivoted our deep tech startup to become a SaaS company.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 25, 2010

“Yes&# was given to me by one of my favorite angel investor / seed VC’s to work with – John Greathouse of Rincon Venture Partners and author of the blog InfoChachkie that you should check out because it is filled with great info from a guy who has been a very successful operator. .

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David Teten VC

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . I’m very interested in the tech stack of private equity/VC firms , both to improve the efficiency of Versatile VC and also as a focus area for our investing.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Beyond the big names and vital topics on the Disrupt stage, don’t miss these smaller, interactive gatherings that pack a lot of advice, insight and value — with plenty of time to get answers to your pressing questions. Getting to Yes and What Happens Next: An Unfiltered Chat with a Top VC , with Mayfield. Breakout Sessions. 3:30 p.m.:

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

Most experienced VCs won’t push you to give up founder control at this stage of the business nor should they. With small amounts of money invested (sub $3 million) the risks are reasonably low for most VCs and the consequences of bad decisions or decisions a VC has limited say in is tolerable. Startup Advice'

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FundersClub

JULY 13, 2017

" Medha Agarwal of Redpoint Ventures gives advice to machine learning founders on how to position their companies in “ A ttention all machine learning founders: Why do you need ML for your business? " Founder and Operator Thoughts.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

This article contains strategic, actionable advice for implementing a GSDD program alongside the lessons the team learned as they identified problems with the experiment. acquisitions and future strategy). But it seems there’s no slowing the thrust of VC investment in China. That is something we value a lot.”.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

The World Wide Web was now being rolled out everywhere and every project was considering its Intranet strategy. I wanted to do business projects and I got in touch with a guy from the strategy consulting practice in the telecoms & high-tech practice in London. That increasingly strategy projects needed geeks. ” or.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

After talking to marketing leaders for a year, here’s my advice for CEOs. In a TechCrunch+ guest post, she covers the “downward pressure on the efficiency of marketing dollars” and shares several strategies that are producing results — as well as some “crazy” ideas “that seemed ridiculous at the time.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Those were the early days of SaaS and you might remember that even Salesforce.com has major outage problems. I have written about how to do a demo before (even though this was in the context of a VC pitch much of it applies). Tags: Startup Advice. So we thought we were just managing our economic risks.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

Among the trends they identified are startups in B2B, business automation processes, e-commerce, AI, SaaS and COVID-19-related solutions, as well as “smart” everything: factories, cities, offices, etc. The advice is to “be frugal to accommodate to the new situation and roll on.”. elíková , partner, Nation1.vc. Lukáš Kone?ný

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

JANUARY 4, 2024

The head VC guy seems a little bit… weird. Early-stage VCs and investors have one objective, finding hero startups in the sea of zero ones, the ones that will eventually turn into a zero-dollar valuation sooner or later. A great VC will identify the teams that are capable of creating a hero in the future, and bet on them.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Our ongoing search for the best startup growth marketers is yielding results: reporter Anna Heim interviewed SaaS and early-stage startup marketing consultant Lucy Heskins to learn more about the mistakes her clients are most likely to make before they seek her help. India poised for record VC year as unicorns head for decisive IPOs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

I know that this advice won’t apply to every possible startup – but I think it applies to many. Initially as a systems designer and programmer and post MBA as a strategy consultant. It soaked up all of our development resources and didn’t allow us to focus on what we felt our company strategy was.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2023

As one VC put it: “It’s bad.” Plus, they were gracious enough to share some of the advice they’re giving to their portfolio companies. Currently, the Fintech Index comprises 55 companies across B2B SAAS, payments, banking, wealth and asset management, lending, insurance and proptech. After hitting a peak of $1.3

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