Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Scale
Q: What are the primary reasons for corporate mergers? There are a lot of nuances here, but the simple reason for most really big acquisitions is a BigCo has fallen behind….
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HubSpot raised 5 rounds of private funding, followed by an IPO. Not a single one of our pitches made any mention of an "exit strategy". There is a very simple…
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In today’s SaaStr podcast the team at Bessemer Venture Partners unveils the 2021 state of the cloud. Listen in as Byron Deeter, Elliott Robinson and Mary D’Onofrio share the latest trends and predictions for the cloud marketplace.
Blog Posts, Exit, Exit Strategy, Fundraising, Leadership
Let’s take a look at a few recent $1B+ “exits”, i.e. sales in SaaS: Pipedrive acquired by Vista for $1.5B Thoma Bravo acquires Sophos for $3.8B Insight Partners buys Veam…
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Leadership, Marketing
There’s a common bit of advice we entrepreneurs and execs always get: worry less about the competition, and more just about growing your own business. It’s good, sound advice. But…
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Q: What are advantages and disadvantages of mergers? There are a lot of subtle pros and cons and issues, but for most Big Tech Companies, the pro to buying a…
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After a newly minted $1.1B valuation, Kyle Porter, CEO at SalesLoft talks about the twists and turns along the way to building a SaaS unicorn.
Blog Posts, Exit, Exit Strategy, Scale
So as you’ve seen, acquisitions have picked up in SaaS. Slack was acquired for $27B — that’s 27x its $1B in ARR. Zoom and Shopify trade at even higher multiples:…
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Let’s take a look at 3 recent transactions and valuations in SaaS around $1.5 billion – $2 billion: Coupa acquired Llamasoft for $1.5 billion, 18 years after founding, at $100m…
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18 years to $100m ARR and unicorn exit You want it to be faster, but sometimes, it just takes longer Stay with it https://t.co/8EAqHBQy6S — Jason ✨BeKind✨ Lemkin ⚫️ (@jasonlk)…
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It used to be there could maybe be one $1B+ player in a space Let’s see in workspace collaboration: – Wrike, $2.2B (new!)– Clickup, $1B– Asana, $6B– https://t.co/vwnFotwKzN, $2.7B– Atlassian,…
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Q: Why do many startup owners sell their firm and move on instead of planning on making it a big player like Google, Microsoft, etc.? I remember not long ago…
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End of an era. I am sad today https://t.co/oBGDoYcClM — Rashmi Sinha (@rashmi) August 11, 2020 Money matters. Money is part of why we do this, maybe more in the…
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Q: Which merger and acquisition trends, if any, do you expect to unfold in the next 12 months? I expect more mega-mergers: $2b-$10b+ deals. Why? These are the Best of…
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Q: Who will acquire Zoom: Amazon, Oracle, Adobe, or IBM? Zoom currently has a $74b market cap. To acquire a successful public company, you have to pay a “premium”, i.e….
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