Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Q&A
First off, the axiom that companies are bought, not sold, is mostly right. 95 times out of 100, you can’t wake up some morning and just go sell your start-up….
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Scale
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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Exit Strategy, Q&A
Q: After an acquisition, how long before severance packages are offered due to layoffs/downsizing? Layoffs and downsizing are less common in most tech acquisitions today. Why? Generally, most acquirers have decided its…
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Blog Posts, Exit, Exit Strategy, Fundraising
At least a few times a week, I am sent a deck or exec summary that includes an “Exit Strategy”. The slide sometimes references a nice acquisition by an adjacent…
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Scale
Q: When startup founders exit, how many start new companies? It’s pretty common. Many founders learn they aren’t “done” after all after selling. Sometimes it takes some time to see…
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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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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Scale
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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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Featured Podcasts, Featured Videos, Podcasts, Tech News, Videos
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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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Q&A
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
A reminder that as a start-up, if you aren’t growing at fairly fast rates … your comp is 5x ARR Also a tough realization for bridge rounds, etc. https://t.co/bL5o63pdsB —…
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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Fundraising, Scale
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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Blog Posts, Exit Strategy, Growth
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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