Tomasz Tunguz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Profitability or net income margin has become the most important correlate to public software company valuations. But public companies are less profitable today than a year ago. Surprisingly, PLG companies’ profitability has suffered more than sales-led businesses. Across every quartile, public software & infrastructure companies have seen a 5 percentage point drop in net income since Covid.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Suzanne Xie. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Suzanne Xie is the business lead for B2B payments at Stripe and a former SaaS founder. It’s an unprecedented time to be in SaaS. Long term, the sector’s prospects are strong. The SaaS market could grow almost 10% every year to 2027 — and I think that’s a conservative estimate. In a recent Stripe survey, 63% of B2B recurring revenue businesses said they were confident of their growth in 2023.

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Gust

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Convertible notes are a great tool for venture financing. They are primarily used for early-stage financings, but they are also a good solution for a bridge round when a company isn’t quite ready for the next equity financing round. The actual mechanics of converting convertible notes (in other words – calculating conversion shares) is not a simple task and requires great care.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Cacheflow , a startup building tools for the software sales closing process, announced this morning that it closed $10 million in new capital. Cacheflow CEO and co-founder Sarika Garg told TechCrunch that the new capital doubled her company’s valuation, added prior lead investor Glenn Solomon (GGV) to its board and brought new investor Crystal Huang (GV) on as a board observer.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Welcome to another edition of our newsletter! You’ll receive practical startup advice straight to your inbox every week. In this week’s edition, we discuss What startups can learn from trillion-dollar companies. The key pillars to starting a business. Let’s do this. Building a 15-person or a 1.5 million-person company? Read this Amazon grew from 1 to 1.5 million employees.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Richard Liew talks to Tim Crown, Chair at Blackpearl Group (NZX: BPG) and Chair and Cofounder at NASDAQ listed Insight Enterprises (NASDAQ: NSIT) about Blackpearl’s recent listing on the NZX, and Insight Enterprises journey from a $USD2000 startup to $USD10B in annual revenues. Wellington born technology company Blackpearl Group listed on the NZX Main Board under the ticker BPG on Friday 2 December.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Coordinating people, projects and their various locations, has become a headache for companies in the post-pandemic world of remote and hybrid working. There is expensive office space to maintain, logistics to figure out which employees are going to actually be in, and who’s working remotely each day. Let’s face it, earlier, hot-desk management software – if it was ever used – is no longer up to the task.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In just 10 simple steps, everyone has the ability to make at least $100 a day Continue reading on Entrepreneur's Handbook ».

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Fintech was hot in 2021, but looking back on it … maybe too hot? The sector exploded last year, seeing record investment — $132 billion globally, according to CB Insights — with many startups reaching lofty valuations, including Stripe at $95 billion, Klarna at $45 billion and Plaid at $13 billion. While these companies have very real customer bases and products, it is not hard to imagine that at least some of these valuations were propped up by hype.

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GCUC

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Coworking Megatrends 2023 First and foremost, go back and read what I wrote last year because, quite frankly, it’s dead on. Give it a skim and come. Read More.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Kellie Capote. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Kellie Capote is chief customer officer at Gainsight , where she leads the entire post-sales organization, including customer success management, support, professional services and the CS Ops & Scale teams. An old maxim among courtroom litigators states that you should only ask a question of a witness when you already know how they will answer.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It would be nice to say that we’ll miss SPACs. But as blank-check companies fade from our view, we have to say we really won’t. Many companies that went public via a SPAC, or special purpose acquisition company, have seen their valuations implode post-combination. The resulting public-market mess meant that regular investors, not merely the more sophisticated professional investing cohort, took a bath.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

DECEMBER 6, 2022

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Online grocery delivery, a booming business at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, has definitely come down to earth with the shifts in the economy, public health and technology investing. Oda , one of the bigger players in online grocery delivery in Europe with operations in its home market of Norway as well as Finland and Germany, today announced that it had raised 1.5 billion Norwegian crowns in equity (about $151 million at today’s rates) — a big round, but executed under tough

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 6, 2022

YAVNE, Israel and NORTHAMPTON, Mass., Dec. 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Highcon (TASE: HICN) today announced a $8M investment by Sealed Air Corporation (NYSE: SEE) in the context of a strategic collaboration between the two companies. The scope of the strategic collaboration includes the following components: Read more here. The post [Highcon in PR Newswire] Highcon and SEE announce strategic collaboration appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In 2018, appliance conglomerate Bosch created a startup, Security and Safety Things (or “SAST” for short), whose stated mission was to develop a platform to help developers create software for AI-equipped cameras. SAST was to host a moderated, vetted “app store” for internet-connected cameras that would allow developers to build software on an open standard — software mainly focused on security and “business intelligence” use cases.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Innovation is one of the most defining attributes of today’s society. But behind the scenes of the devices, apps, vehicles and other “miraculous” products we seem to take for granted is a universe of research and development that goes into every innovative new product. Read more here. The post [Air EV in Forbes] Developing a product and ramping it up appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

It’s tough in the current economic climate to hire and retain engineers focused on system admin, DevOps and network architecture. In a recent Gartner survey , IT executives cited talent shortages as the top barrier to adopting emerging technologies. Unfortunately for execs, at the same time recruiting is posing a major challenge, IT infrastructure is becoming more costly to maintain.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Recently global investment platform OurCrowd announced that it had topped $2 billion in capital commitments on its platform. OurCrowd is based in Israel but caters to a global market of both investors and private firms in need of growth capital. When the milestone was announced, OurCrowd founder and CEO Jon Medved said their investment platform continues to grow in the number of new users and portfolio companies.

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Andreessen Horowitz

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In a market full of bears, we are bulls when it comes to consumer health companies. In our last piece, we made the bold claim that a consumer health tech company will become the biggest company in the world … The post Consumer Health: Areas of Opportunity appeared first on Andreessen Horowitz.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The growing demand for AI, particularly generative AI (i.e., AI that generates images, text and more), is supercharging the AI inferencing chip market. Read more here. The post [NeuReality in TechCrunch] NeuReality lands $35M to bring AI accelerator chips to market appeared first on OurCrowd Blog.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Osome is a corporate “super app” that helps business owners with administrative tasks like payroll, accounting and tax reporting. The company announced today it has raised a $25 million Series B from Illuminate Financial, AFG Partners and Winter Capital. This brings Osome’s total raised since it was founded in 2017 to $51 million. The company says revenues have doubled since its Series A announced in June 2021.

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Feedough

DECEMBER 6, 2022

In a usual consumer market, companies manufacture their own branded. Read more. The post What Is Private Label? How Does It Work? appeared first on Feedough.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Tea , an open source unified package manager for software developers, today announced it has added another $8.9 million in seed funding to its coffer as it builds on recent momentum that has seen some 16,000 developers authenticate their software packages with Tea. Tea is the brainchild of Max Howell , creator of popular open source package manager Homebrew , and Timothy Lewis.

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